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Nicknamed "Dame Time", he played college basketball for Weber State and earned third-team All-American honors in 2012.
Famous Birthdays on July 15
1990 — Damian Lillard
American basketball player
July 15 has 262 recorded notable births across history, from 980 to 2008. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Major events on July 15
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- 2006 Twitter, later one of the largest social media platforms in the world, is launched. Source
- 1975 Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was the last launch of both an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets. Source
- 1955 Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others. Source
- 1920 Aftermath of World War I: The Parliament of Poland establishes Silesian Voivodeship before the Polish-German plebiscite. Source
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Marky Ramone replaced drummer Tommy Ramone in the Ramones in 1978 and played with the band from 1978 to 1983 and 1987 to 1996: their longest-serving drummer.
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Tristan Paul Mack Wilds is an American actor, singer-songwriter, and record producer.
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Navy and Air Force veteran, was convicted in two trials, sentenced to death, waived all appeals, and was executed by lethal injection in 1990 — the first person executed by that method in Arkansas.
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Vivian Juanita Malone Jones was the first black student to graduate from the University of Alabama, in 1965.
More major people born on July 15
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1952
Marky Ramone
American drummer and songwriter
Marc Steven Bell, better known as Marky Ramone, is an American drummer. He began playing in hard rock bands in the New York City area, notably Dust and Estus.
1989
Tristan Wilds
American actor and singer-songwriter
Tristan Paul Mack Wilds is an American actor, singer-songwriter, and record producer.
1940
Ronald Gene Simmons
American sergeant and convicted murderer (died 1990)
Ronald Gene Simmons Sr. was an American spree killer and former military serviceman who perpetrated an attack that killed 16 people, including 14 members of his own family, over a week in December 1987 in Arkansas.
1942
Vivian Malone Jones
American civil rights activist (died 2005)
Vivian Juanita Malone Jones was the first black student to graduate from the University of Alabama, in 1965.
1573
Inigo Jones
English architect, designed the Queen's House (died 1652)
Inigo Jones was an English architect who was the first significant architect in England in the early modern era and the first to employ Vitruvian rules of Proportion (architecture) and symmetry in his buildings.
1956
Ashoke Sen
Indian theoretical physicist and string theorist
Ashoke Sen FRS is an Indian theoretical physicist and ICTS-Infosys Madhava Chair Professor at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bangalore.
1989
Anthony Randolph
American basketball player
Anthony Erwin Randolph Jr. is an American and naturalized Slovenian former professional basketball player. He represented the senior Slovenian national basketball team, winning the 2017 EuroBasket with them.
1918
Brenda Milner
English-Canadian neuropsychologist and academic
Brenda Milner is a British-Canadian neuropsychologist who has contributed extensively to the research literature on various topics in the field of clinical neuropsychology.
1905
Dorothy Fields
American songwriter (died 1974)
Dorothy Fields was an American librettist and lyricist. She wrote more than 400 songs for Broadway musicals and films.
1887
Wharton Esherick
American sculptor (died 1970)
Wharton Esherick was an American artist and designer. An artistic polymath, he worked in a wide variety of art media including painting, printmaking, and sculpture.
1817
Sir John Fowler
1st Baronet, English engineer, designed the Forth Bridge (died 1898)
Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, KCMG, LLD, FRSE was an English civil engineer specialising in the construction of railways and railway infrastructure.
1919
Fritz Langanke
German lieutenant (died 2012)
The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and its variants were the highest awards in the military and paramilitary forces of Nazi Germany during World War II.
1858
Emmeline Pankhurst
English political activist and suffragist (died 1928)
Emmeline Pankhurst was a British political activist who organised the British suffragette movement and helped women to win the right to vote in Great Britain and Ireland in 1918, partially due to her role in the White…
1934
Harrison Birtwistle
English composer and academic (died 2022)
Sir Harrison Birtwistle was an English composer of contemporary classical music best known for his operas, often based on mythological subjects.
1939
Aníbal Cavaco Silva
Portuguese economist and politician, 19th President of the Portuguese Republic
Aníbal António Cavaco Silva is a Portuguese economist and politician who served as the president of Portugal from 2006 to 2016, and as prime minister of Portugal, from 1985 to 1995.
1976
Gabriel Iglesias
Mexican-American comedian and voice actor
Gabriel Jesús Iglesias, nicknamed Fluffy, is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He has produced a number of stand-up specials for television outlets such as Comedy Central and Netflix, including I'm Not Fat...
1848
Vilfredo Pareto
Italian economist and sociologist (died 1923)
Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto was an Italian polymath, whose areas of interest included sociology, civil engineering, economics, political science, and philosophy.
1977
Lana Parrilla
American actress
Lana Parrilla is an American actress. She was a regular cast member in the fifth season of the ABC sitcom Spin City (2000–2001) and in the fourth season of 24 (2005), and starred in Boomtown (2002–2003), Windfall…
1953
Sultanah Haminah
Malaysian royal consort
Che Puan Besar Hajah Haminah binti Haji Hamidun, formerly known as Sultanah Haminah is the former Sultanah of Kedah and the widow of Sultan Abdul Halim Mua'dzam Shah.