Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/January 15
Births
[edit]- 1412 - Saint Joan of Arc (d. 1431)
- 1622 - Molière, French playwright (d. 1673)
- 1816 - Marie LaFarge, French murderer (d. 1852)
- 1906 - Aristotle Onassis, Greek businessman (d. 1975)
- 1929 - Martin Luther King Jr., American civil rights leader, Nobel laureate (d. 1968) (pictured)
Deaths
[edit]- 1683 - Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (b. 1609)
- 1919 - Rosa Luxemburg, German politician (b. 1870)
- 1947 - Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, (b. 1924)
- 1987 - Ray Bolger, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1904)
- 1988 - Seán MacBride, Irish statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1904)