Famous people born on 15 May

• Mikhail BulgakovRussian author · 1891–1940
  48 yrs
• Madeleine AlbrightUnited States Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001 · 1937–2022
  84 yrs
• Klemens von MetternichAustrian diplomat, foreign minister and Chancellor · 1773–1859
  86 yrs
• Paul SamuelsonAmerican economist · 1915–2009
  94 yrs
• Élie MetchnikoffRussian-French immunologist, embryologist, biologist · 1845–1916
  71 yrs
• Arthur SchnitzlerAustrian writer · 1862–1931
  69 yrs
• L. Frank BaumAmerican author of children's books · 1856–1919
  62 yrs
• Max FrischSwiss playwrighter and novelist · 1911–1991
  79 yrs
• Viktor Vasnetsov ↗Russian artist · 1848–1926
  78 yrs
• James Mason ↗British actor · 1909–1984
  75 yrs
• Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban ↗French military engineer · 1633–1707
  73 yrs
• Ulrich Beck ↗German sociologist & scholar · 1944–2015
  70 yrs
• Pavlo Skoropadsky ↗Ukrainian general · 1873–1945
  71 yrs
• Joseph Cotten ↗American actor · 1905–1994
  88 yrs
• Mary Wortley Montagu ↗Noblewoman; writer and poet from England, editor · 1689–1762
  73 yrs
• Katherine Anne Porter ↗American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist · 1890–1980
  90 yrs
• Williamina Fleming ↗Astronoma escocesa · 1857–1911
  54 yrs
• Luis Monti ↗Argentine and Italian footballer · 1901–1983
  82 yrs
• Mireille Darc ↗French actress and director · 1938–2017
  79 yrs
• Ellen Axson Wilson ↗First Lady of the United States from 1913 to 1914 · 1860–1914
  54 yrs
• Eugenia Charles ↗Prime Minister of Dominica · 1919–2005
  86 yrs
• Arletty ↗French actress · 1898–1992
  94 yrs
• Peter Shaffer ↗English playwright and screenwriter · 1926–2016
  90 yrs
• Maria Reiche ↗Peruvian archaeologist, mathematician and technical translator · 1903–1998
  95 yrs

Only people with a known day of birth are listed, and only people who have died. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.

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