Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/November 15
Births
[edit]- 1708 - William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1778) (pictured)
- 1731 - William Cowper, English poet (d. 1800)
- 1738 - William Herschel, German-born astronomer (d. 1822)
- 1887 - Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter (d. 1986)
- 1891 - Erwin Rommel, German field marshal (d. 1944)
- 1929 - Ed Asner, American actor (d. 2021)
Deaths
[edit]- 1630 - Johannes Kepler, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1571)
- 1919 - Alfred Werner, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
- 1954 - Lionel Barrymore, American actor (b. 1878)
- 1958 - Tyrone Power, American actor (b. 1914)
- 1978 - Margaret Mead, American anthropologist (b. 1901)