Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/March 15

Births

 * 1767 - Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States (d. 1845) (pictured)
 * 1779 - Lord Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, (d. 1848)
 * 1813 - John Snow, English physician (d. 1858)
 * 1932 - Alan Bean, American astronaut (d. 2018)

Deaths

 * 44 BC - Julius Caesar (b. 100 BC)
 * 493 - Odoacer, King of Italy (murdered) (b. 435)
 * 1937 - H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (b. 1890)
 * 1998 - Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician and writer (b. 1903)
 * 2003 - Dame Thora Hird, British actress (b. 1911)