Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/August 15

Births

 * 1769 - Napoleon Bonaparte, (pictured) Emperor of the French (d. 1821)
 * 1771 - Sir Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet (d. 1832)
 * 1875 - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, English composer (d. 1912)
 * 1878 - Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1928)
 * 1879 - Ethel Barrymore, American actress (d. 1959)
 * 1892 - Louis, 7th duc de Broglie, French physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1987)
 * 1924 - Robert Bolt, English playwright and Oscar-winning screenwriter (d. 1995)
 * 1945 - Begum Khaleda Zia, Bangladeshi politician
 * 1950 - The Princess Anne, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom
 * 1972 - Ben Affleck, American actor

Deaths

 * 423 - Flavius Honorius, Western Roman Emperor (b. 384)
 * 1057 - King Macbeth of Scotland
 * 1945 - Korechika Anami, Japanese War Minister (b. 1887)
 * 1967 - René Magritte, Belgian painter (b. 1898)
 * 2001 - Richard Chelimo, Kenyan athlete (b. 1972)