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Eva Longoria guest-starred on the Hulu mystery comedy-drama series Only Murders in the Building (2024), earning her a third Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series.
Famous Birthdays on March 15
1975 — Eva Longoria
American actress
March 15 has 189 recorded notable births across history, from 1493 to 2005. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Major events on March 15
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- 1564 Mughal Emperor Akbar abolishes the jizya tax on non-Muslim subjects. Source
- 1990 Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first and only President of the Soviet Union. Source
- 1991 Cold War: The Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany comes into effect, granting full sovereignty to the Federal Republic of Germany. Source
- 1919 Ukrainian War of Independence: The Kontrrazvedka is established as the counterintelligence division of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine. Source
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Ginsburg was the first Jewish woman and the second woman to serve on the Court, after Sandra Day O'Connor.
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For her performance in Coven, she was nominated again for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie.
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The first overall selection in the 1977 Major League Baseball draft and a six-time All-Star, Baines led the AL in slugging percentage in 1984.
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Known as "Mister Country", he was one of the genre's most successful male artists during the 1950s, scoring 30 top-10 Billboard hits.
More major people born on March 15
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1933
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
American lawyer and judge (died 2020)
Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020.
1953
Frances Conroy
American actress
Frances Hardman Conroy is an American actress. She is best known for playing Ruth Fisher on the television series Six Feet Under (2001–2005), for which she won a Golden Globe and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and…
1959
Harold Baines
American baseball player
Harold Douglas Baines is an American former designated hitter and right fielder in Major League Baseball who played for five American League (AL) teams from 1980 to 2001, and is best known for his three stints with the…
1927
Carl Smith
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2010)
Carl Milton Smith was an American country singer. Known as "Mister Country", he was one of the genre's most successful male artists during the 1950s, scoring 30 top-10 Billboard hits.
1493
Anne de Montmorency
French captain and diplomat (died 1567)
Anne de Montmorency, duc de Montmorency was a French noble, governor, royal favourite and Constable of France during the mid to late Italian Wars and early French Wars of Religion. He served under five French kings.
1979
Kyle Mills
New Zealand cricketer
Kyle David Mills is a New Zealand cricket coach and former international cricketer who is the former bowling coach of the Kolkata Knight Riders.
1986
Jannik Hansen
Danish ice hockey player
Jannik Hansen is a Danish former professional ice hockey player.
1854
Emil von Behring
German physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1917)
Emil von Behring, was a German physiologist. In 1901, he received the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his work on serum therapy, especially its application against diphtheria, by which he has opened a…
1830
Paul Heyse
German author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1914)
Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse was a German writer and translator.
1879
Benjamin R. Jacobs
American biochemist (died 1963)
Benjamin Ricardo Jacobs was born at the American Consulate in Lima, Peru, to Rosa Mulet Jacobs of Valparaíso, Chile, a French-Chilean, and Washington Michael Jacobs of South Carolina in the United States.
1983
Ben Hilfenhaus
Australian cricketer
Benjamin William Hilfenhaus is an Australian former professional cricketer who played for Tasmania in Australian domestic cricket and for the Australia national cricket team.
1907
Zarah Leander
Swedish actress and singer (died 1981)
Zarah Leander was a Swedish singer and actress whose greatest success was in Nazi Germany between 1936 and 1943, when she was contracted to work for the state-owned Universum Film AG (UFA).
1988
James Reimer
Canadian ice hockey player
James Reimer is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who is currently an unrestricted free agent. He most recently played for the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League (NHL).
1943
Sly Stone
American musician and record producer (died 2025)
Sylvester Stewart, better known by his stage name Sly Stone, was an American musician, songwriter and record producer.
1928
Bob Wilber
American clarinetist and saxophonist (died 2019)
Robert Sage Wilber was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, and band leader.
1957
Joaquim de Almeida
Portuguese-American actor
Joaquim António Portugal Baptista de Almeida is a Portuguese actor.
1809
Joseph Jenkins Roberts
American-Liberian historian and politician, 1st President of Liberia (died 1876)
Joseph Jenkins Roberts was an African American merchant who emigrated to Liberia in 1829, where he became a politician.
1977
Brian Tee
Japanese-American actor
Jae-Beom Takata , known professionally as Brian Tee, is a Japanese-born American actor. Born in Okinawa, Tee immigrated with his family to California when he was 2 years old.
1916
Harry James
American trumpet player, bandleader, and actor (died 1983)
Harry Haag James was an American musician who is best known as a trumpet-playing band leader who led a big band to great commercial success from 1939 to 1946.