The Birthday Gazette

Born on November 15

November 15 birthdays & history

If you were born on November 15, you share a birthday with Gerhart Hauptmann, William Herschel and Erwin Rommel. November 15 babies are Scorpio, with topaz as their birthstone and the chrysanthemum as their birth flower. November 15 is the 320th day of the year in leap years (319th in other years).

Famous people born on November 15

  • 1862Gerhart Hauptmann, German novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1738William Herschel, German-English astronomer and composer
  • 1891Erwin Rommel, German field marshal
  • 1887Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter and educator
  • 1929Ed Asner, American actor, singer, and producer
  • 1993Paulo Dybala, Argentine footballer
  • 1907Claus von Stauffenberg, German colonel
  • 1945Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Norwegian-Swedish singer
  • 1986Sania Mirza, Indian tennis player
  • 1874August Krogh, Danish zoologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate

What happened on November 15

  • 1760The chapel of the newly constructed Castellania in Valletta, Malta, was consecrated.
  • 1806Pike Expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike spots a mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It is later named Pikes Peak in his honor.
  • 1859Sponsored by Greek businessman Evangelos Zappas, the first modern revival of the Olympic Games took place in Athens.
  • 1884The Berlin Conference of 1884–1885 met on 15 November 1884, and after an adjournment concluded on 26 February 1885, with the signature of a General Act, regulating the European colonisation and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period.
  • 1920The first assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, Switzerland.
  • 1920The Free City of Danzig is established.
  • 1933Thailand holds its first election.
  • 1955The first part of the Saint Petersburg Metro is opened.
  • 1965Craig Breedlove sets a land speed record of 600.601 mph (966.574 km/h) in his car, the Spirit of America, at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.
  • 1968The Cleveland Transit System becomes the first transit system in the western hemisphere to provide direct rapid transit service from a city's downtown to its major airport.
  • 1988The Soviet spacecraft Buran, a reusable vehicle built in response to NASA's Space Shuttle program, was launched, uncrewed, on its only flight.
  • 2012Xi Jinping replaced Hu Jintao as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, succeeding as the paramount leader of China.

Also observed on November 15

  • America Recycles Day (United States)
  • Day of the German-speaking Community of Belgium (German-speaking Community of Belgium)
  • Independence Day, unilaterally declared in 1988. (Palestine)
  • King's Feast (Belgium)
  • National Tree Planting Day (Sri Lanka)
  • Peace Day (Ivory Coast)

Questions, answered

What star sign is November 15?

People born on November 15 are Scorpio. Their birthstone is topaz and their birth flower is the chrysanthemum.

Which famous people were born on November 15?

Gerhart Hauptmann (1862), William Herschel (1738), Erwin Rommel (1891), Georgia O'Keeffe (1887), Ed Asner (1929), Paulo Dybala (1993) were all born on November 15.

What happened on November 15 in history?

Among other things: in 1968, The Cleveland Transit System becomes the first transit system in the western hemisphere to provide direct rapid transit service from a city's downtown to its major airport; in 1988, The Soviet spacecraft Buran, a reusable vehicle built in response to NASA's Space Shuttle program, was launched, uncrewed, on its only flight; in 2012, Xi Jinping replaced Hu Jintao as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, succeeding as the paramount leader of China.

Can I get a newspaper front page from November 15?

Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any November 15 birth year, with their name in the headline, events, famous birthdays and typical US prices. The preview is free and the print files cost $9.

Events, birthdays and observances are adapted from Wikipedia contributors, “November 15”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.