Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/May 15

Births

• 1856 – L. Frank Baum, American author (d. 1919) (pictured)
• 1890 – Katherine Anne Porter, American author (d. 1980)
• 1891 – Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian writer (d. 1940)
• 1909 – James Mason, English actor (d. 1984)
• 1926 – Anthony Shaffer, English playwright (d. 2001)
• 1926 – Peter Shaffer, English playwright (d. 2016)

Deaths

• 1886 – Emily Dickinson, American poet (b. 1830)
• 1924 – Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1852)
• 1948 – Father Edward Flanagan, American priest and founder of Boys Town (b. 1886)
• 1967 – Edward Hopper, American painter (b. 1882)