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Didier Claude Deschamps, popularly known as Dédé, is a French professional football manager and former player who was most recently the head coach of the France national team from 2012 to 2026.
Famous Birthdays on October 15
1968 — Didier Deschamps
French footballer and manager
October 15 has 235 recorded notable births across history, from 70 BC to 2005. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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- 1994 The United States, under the Clinton administration, returns Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to the island. Source
- 1965 Vietnam War: A draft card is burned during an anti-war rally by the Catholic Worker Movement, resulting in the first arrest under a new law. Source
- 2003 China launches Shenzhou 5, its first crewed space mission. Source
- 1910 Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft. Source
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Plagued by health problems for most of his life, he resigned from the university in 1879.
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Paul-Michel Foucault was a French historian of ideas and philosopher, who was also an author, literary critic, political activist, and teacher.
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Ginuwine began his career as a member of the musical collective Swing Mob in the early 1990s.
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Larry Miller's better known roles include Lou Bonaparte in Mad About You (1993–1998), Pointy-haired Boss in Dilbert (1999–2000), Edwin Poole in Boston Legal (2004–2008), Mr.
More major people born on October 15
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1844
Friedrich Nietzsche
German composer, poet, and philosopher (died 1900)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher and writer who started his career as a classical philologist and turned to philosophy early in his academic career.
1926
Michel Foucault
French historian and philosopher (died 1984)
Paul-Michel Foucault was a French historian of ideas and philosopher, who was also an author, literary critic, political activist, and teacher.
1970
Ginuwine
American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
Elgin Baylor Lumpkin, better known by his stage name Ginuwine, is an American R&B singer. He began his career as a member of the musical collective Swing Mob in the early 1990s.
1953
Larry Miller
American actor and comedian
Lawrence John Miller is an American comedian, actor, voice actor, podcaster, and columnist. He is primarily regarded as a character actor, with The A.V.
1917
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
American historian and critic (died 2007)
Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. was an American historian, social critic, and public intellectual. The son of the influential historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr.
1972
Fred Hoiberg
American basketball player and coach
Fredrick Kristian Hoiberg is an American college basketball coach and former player. He has served as the men's head basketball coach at the University of Nebraska since 2019.
1989
Blaine Gabbert
American football player
Blaine Williamson Gabbert is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons.
1943
Stanley Fischer
American and Israeli economist (died 2025)
Stanley Fischer was an American and Israeli economist who served as the 20th vice chair of the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2017. Fischer previously served as the 8th governor of the Bank of Israel from 2005 to 2013.
1991
Brock Nelson
American ice hockey player
Brock Christian Nelson is an American professional ice hockey player who is a center for the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League (NHL).
1785
José Miguel Carrera
Chilean general and politician (died 1821)
José Miguel Carrera Verdugo was a Chilean general, formerly Spanish military, member of the prominent Carrera family, and considered one of the founders of independent Chile.
1906
Victoria Spivey
American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1976)
Victoria Regina Spivey, sometimes known as Queen Victoria, was an American blues singer, songwriter, and record company founder.
1836
James Tissot
French painter and illustrator (died 1902)
Jacques Joseph Tissot, better known as James Tissot, was a French painter, illustrator, and caricaturist.
1899
Adolf Brudes
Polish-German racing driver (died 1986)
Adolf Brudes von Breslau was a Formula One driver from Germany and a member of German nobility. He started racing motorcycles in 1919.
1980
Tom Boonen
Belgian cyclist
Tom Boonen is a Belgian former road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional between 2002 and 2017 for the U.S.
1944
Haim Saban
Israeli-American businessman, co-founded Saban Entertainment
Haim Saban is an Israeli and American media proprietor, investor, musical composer and producer of records, film, and television.
1900
Mervyn LeRoy
American actor, director, and producer (died 1987)
Mervyn LeRoy was an American film director and producer. During the 1930s, he was one of the two great practitioners of economical and effective film directing at Warner Brothers studios, the other being his colleague…
1981
Elena Dementieva
Russian tennis player
Elena Viacheslavovna Dementieva is a Russian former professional tennis player. She was ranked world No. 3 in women's singles and world No. 5 in women's doubles by the WTA.
1965
Nasser El Sonbaty
German bodybuilder and trainer (died 2013)
Nasser El Sonbaty was an IFBB professional bodybuilder. He represented FR Yugoslavia at competitions. Born in Stuttgart, Sonbaty began bodybuilding in 1983. His first appearance in the Mr.
1935
Willie O'Ree
Canadian ice hockey player, first black player in the National Hockey League (NHL)
William Eldon O'Ree is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player from Fredericton, New Brunswick.