Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/April 15

Births

• 1452 - Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance Roman Catholic polymath (d. 1519) (pictured)
• 1707 - Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician (d. 1783)
• 1741 - Charles Willson Peale, American painter, soldier and naturalist (d. 1827)
• 1843 - Henry James, American author (d. 1916)
• 1889 - Thomas Hart Benton, American muralist (d. 1975)
• 1912 - Kim Il-sung, President of North Korea (d. 1994)

Deaths

• 1764 - Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XIV of France (b. 1721)
• 1865 - Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (b. 1809)
• 1912 - Victims of the RMS Titanic including:
  • John Jacob Astor, American businessman (b. 1864)
  • Captain Edward Smith (b. 1850)
  • Thomas Andrews, British businessman and shipbuilder (b. 1873)
• 1980 - Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (b. 1905)
• 1990 - Greta Garbo, Swedish actress (b. 1905)