Notable Birthdays for August 15
Published in History & Quotes
Those born on this date include:
- French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte in 1769
- Scottish novelist Walter Scott in 1771
- longtime Chicago White Sox owner Charles Comiskey in 1859
- British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor in 1875
- actor Ethel Barrymore in 1879
- chef Julia Child in 1912
- conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly in 1924
- actor Mike Connors in 1925
- actor Jim Dale in 1935 (age 82)
- civil rights leader Vernon Jordan Jr. in 1935 (age 82)
- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer in 1938 (age 79)
- journalist Linda Ellerbee in 1944 (age 73)
- football Hall of Fame member/players' union leader Gene Upshaw in 1945
- songwriter Jimmy Webb in 1946 (age 71)
- Britain's Princess Anne in 1950 (age 67)
- Swedish writer Stieg Larsson (the Millennium Trilogy) in 1954
- chef Tom Colicchio in 1962 (age 55)
- actor Debi Mazar in 1964 (age 53)
- actor Debra Messing in 1968 (age 49)
- actor Anthony Anderson in 1970 (age 47)
- actor Ben Affleck in 1972 (age 45)
- Olympic beach volleyball champion Kerri Walsh Jennings in 1978 (age 39)
- actor Emily Kinney in 1985 (age 32)
- pop singer Joe Jonas in 1989 (age 28)
- actor Jennifer Lawrence in 1990 (age 27).
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