Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/January 15

Births

 * 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

 * 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)