People born on April 15

Leonhard Euler

Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)

Nikita Khrushchev

First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964

Kim Il-sung

Founder of North Korea and General Secretary of the Workers' Party from 1948 to 1994

Emma Watson

English actress and activist (born 1990)

Émile Durkheim

French sociologist

Alla Pugacheva

Soviet-Russian singer, composer, and actress

Tomas Tranströmer

Swedish poet, psychologist and translator (1931-2015)

Henry James

American and British writer (1843–1916)

Philippe of Belgium

King of the Belgians since 2013

Urban VIII

Pope of the Catholic Church from 1623 to 1644

Johannes Stark

German physicist (1874-1957)

Richard von Weizsäcker

President of Germany from 1984 to 1994

Emma Thompson

British actress and screenwriter (born 1959)

Catherine I of Russia

Empress of Russia from 1725 to 1727

Claudia Cardinale

French-Italian actress