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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 15th of July 1099 | EVENT | First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final assault of a difficult siege. |
| 15th of July 1149 | EVENT | The reconstructed Church of the Holy Sepulchre is consecrated in Jerusalem. |
| 15th of July 1207 | EVENT | King John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop Stephen Langton. |
| 15th of July 1240 | EVENT | Swedish-Novgorodian Wars: a Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva. |
| 15th of July 1381 | EVENT | John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, is hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of King Richard II of England. |
| 15th of July 1685 | EVENT | Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth is executed at Tower Hill, England after his defeat at the Battle of Sedgemoor on 6 July 1685. |
| 15th of July 1741 | EVENT | Alexei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska. |
| 15th of July 1789 | EVENT | Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette, is named by acclamation colonel-general of the new National Guard of Paris. |
| 15th of July 1799 | EVENT | The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-Francois Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign. |
| 15th of July 1806 | EVENT | Pike expedition: United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Bellefontaine near St. Louis, Missouri, to explore the west. |
| 15th of July 1815 | EVENT | Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon. |
| 15th of July 1823 | EVENT | A fire destroys the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome. |
| 15th of July 1838 | EVENT | Ralph Waldo Emerson delivers the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The Protestant community reacts with outrage. |
| 15th of July 1870 | EVENT | Reconstruction era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union. |
| 15th of July 1870 | EVENT | Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the North-West Territories are established from these vast territories. |
| 15th of July 1888 | EVENT | The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts killing approximately 500 people, in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. |
| 15th of July 1916 | EVENT | In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing). |
| 15th of July 1918 | EVENT | World War I: the Second Battle of the Marne begins near the River Marne with a German attack. |
| 15th of July 1920 | EVENT | The Polish Parliament establishes Silesian Voivodeship before the Polish-German plebiscite. |
| 15th of July 1927 | EVENT | Massacre of July 15, 1927: 89 protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna. |
| 15th of July 1929 | EVENT | First weekly radio broadcast of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir radio show, Music and the Spoken Word. |
| 15th of July 1934 | EVENT | Continental Airlines commences operations. |
| 15th of July 1954 | EVENT | First flight of the Boeing 367-80, prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series. |
| 15th of July 1955 | EVENT | Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others. |
| 15th of July 1959 | EVENT | The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history. |
| 15th of July 1974 | EVENT | In Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek Junta-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d'etat, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president. |
| 15th of July 1979 | EVENT | U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his so-called "malaise" speech, where he characterizes the greatest threat to the country as "this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation" but in which he never uses the word malaise |
| 15th of July 1983 | EVENT | A terrorist attack is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA at the Paris-Orly Airport in Paris; it leaves 8 people dead and 55 injured. |
| 15th of July 1996 | EVENT | A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport. |
| 15th of July 1997 | EVENT | In Miami, Florida, serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan guns down Gianni Versace outside his home. |
| 15th of July 2002 | EVENT | Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan hands down the death sentence to British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life terms to three others suspected of murdering Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. |
| 15th of July 2002 | EVENT | "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and to possession of explosives during the commission of a felony. |
| 15th of July 2003 | EVENT | AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape Communications Corporation. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day. |
| 15th of July 1273 | BIRTHDAY | Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and religious leader (d. 1352) |
| 15th of July 1353 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir the Bold, Russian prince (d. 1410) |
| 15th of July 1471 | BIRTHDAY | Eskender, Emperor of Ethiopia (d. 1494) |
| 15th of July 1553 | BIRTHDAY | Archduke Ernest of Austria (d. 1595) |
| 15th of July 1573 | BIRTHDAY | Inigo Jones, English architect (d. 1652) |
| 15th of July 1606 | BIRTHDAY | Rembrandt, Dutch painter (d. 1669) |
| 15th of July 1631 | BIRTHDAY | Jens Juel, Danish diplomat (d. 1700) |
| 15th of July 1704 | BIRTHDAY | August Gottlieb Spangenberg, German religious leader (d. 1792) |
| 15th of July 1737 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Louise-Marie of France, daughter of King Louis XV of France (d. 1787) |
| 15th of July 1779 | BIRTHDAY | Clement Clarke Moore, American educator, author, and poet (d. 1863) |
| 15th of July 1796 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Bulfinch, American mythologist (d. 1867) |
| 15th of July 1799 | BIRTHDAY | Reuben Chapman, American lawyer and politician (d. 1882) |
| 15th of July 1808 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Edward Manning, English Catholic archbishop and cardinal (d. 1892) |
| 15th of July 1812 | BIRTHDAY | James Hope-Scott, English barrister (d. 1873) |
| 15th of July 1837 | BIRTHDAY | Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, German-born Queen consort of Portugal, wife of King Peter V of Portugal (d. 1859) |
| 15th of July 1848 | BIRTHDAY | Vilfredo Pareto, Italian economist and sociologist (d. 1923) |
| 15th of July 1850 | BIRTHDAY | Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, Italian-born American Catholic nun and saint (d. 1917) |
| 15th of July 1851 | BIRTHDAY | Eduardo Gutierrez, Argentinian writer (d. 1889) |
| 15th of July 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Marie Tempest, English singer and actress (d. 1942) |
| 15th of July 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian mathematician (d. 1945) |
| 15th of July 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, Russian publisher and politician (d. 1922) |
| 15th of July 1871 | BIRTHDAY | Kunikida Doppo, Japanese writer (d. 1908) |
| 15th of July 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Benjamin, German literary critic and writer (d. 1940) |
| 15th of July 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Rauch, American football player and coach (d. 1970) |
| 15th of July 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Tadeusz Sendzimir, Polish-American engineer and inventor (d. 1989) |
| 15th of July 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Lemass, Irish politician, 3rd Taoiseach (d. 1971) |
| 15th of July 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Rey, Belgian politician, 2nd President of the European Commission (d. 1983) |
| 15th of July 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Kumaraswami Kamaraj, Indian politician (d. 1975) |
| 15th of July 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Rudolf Arnheim, German-born American author and psychologist (d. 2007) |
| 15th of July 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Dorothy Fields, American librettist and lyricist (d. 1974) |
| 15th of July 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Rudolf Uhlenhaut, England-born German automotive engineer and test driver (Mercedes Benz) (d. 1989) |
| 15th of July 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Shackleton, English explorer (d. 1994) |
| 15th of July 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Cowboy Copas, American country singer (d. 1963) |
| 15th of July 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Abraham Sutzkever, Russian Yiddish poet (d. 2010) |
| 15th of July 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Akhtar Hameed Khan, Pakistani social scientist, pioneer of microcredit in developing countries (d. 1999) |
| 15th of July 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Howard Vernon, Swiss actor (d. 1996) |
| 15th of July 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Hammond Innes, English writer (d. 1998) |
| 15th of July 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Ghiorso, American nuclear scientist (d.2010) |
| 15th of July 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Bertram N. Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2003) |
| 15th of July 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Joan Roberts, American actress |
| 15th of July 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Iris Murdoch, Irish writer (d. 1999) |
| 15th of July 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Henri Colpi, French film director (d. 2006) |
| 15th of July 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Bruce Merrifield, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2006) |
| 15th of July 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Leon M. Lederman, American physicist, Nobel laureate |
| 15th of July 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Philip Carey, American actor (d. 2009) |
| 15th of July 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentine dictator (d. 2003) |
| 15th of July 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Driss Chraibi, Moroccan novelist (d. 2007) |
| 15th of July 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Nan Martin, American actress (d. 2010) |
| 15th of July 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Woese, American microbiologist |
| 15th of July 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Bebey, Cameroonian-born French musician and novelist (d. 2001) |
| 15th of July 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Anthony, American tenor |
| 15th of July 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Derrida, French philosopher (d. 2004) |
| 15th of July 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Smale, American mathematician |
| 15th of July 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Garneau, French-Canadian sports journalist |
| 15th of July 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Clive Cussler, American novelist |
| 15th of July 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Litzenberger, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 15th of July 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Paulo Moura, Brazilian clarinetist and saxophonist (d. 2010) |
| 15th of July 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Julian Bream, English guitarist and lutenist |
| 15th of July 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Guido Crepax, Italian comics artist (d. 2003) |
| 15th of July 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Harrison Birtwistle, English composer |
| 15th of July 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Risto Jarva, Finnish filmmaker (d. 1977) |
| 15th of July 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Kercheval, American actor |
| 15th of July 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Donn Clendenon, American baseball player (d. 2005) |
| 15th of July 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Karras, American football player and actor |
| 15th of July 1936 | BIRTHDAY | George Voinovich, American politician |
| 15th of July 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Goldwater Jr., American politician |
| 15th of July 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Ernie Barnes, American painter and football player (d. 2009) |
| 15th of July 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Wayne, American actor |
| 15th of July 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Anibal Cavaco Silva, Portuguese politician |
| 15th of July 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Ronald Gene Simmons, American mass-murderer (d. 1990) |
| 15th of July 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Denis Heroux, French-Canadian film director and producer |
| 15th of July 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Mil Mascaras, Mexican professional wrestler and actor |
| 15th of July 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Irish astrophysicist |
| 15th of July 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Millie Jackson, American singer |
| 15th of July 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Jan-Michael Vincent, American actor |
| 15th of July 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Jurgen Mollemann, German politician (d. 2003) |
| 15th of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Linda Ronstadt, American singer |
| 15th of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Hassanal Bolkiah, 29th Sultan of Brunei |
| 15th of July 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Banks, British guitarist (Yes) |
| 15th of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Alicia Bridges, American singer |
| 15th of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Artimus Pyle, American drummer (Lynyrd Skynyrd) |
| 15th of July 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Trevor Horn, British music producer |
| 15th of July 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Bildt, Swedish politician |
| 15th of July 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Barnett, Australian politician |
| 15th of July 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Arianna Huffington, Greek-born American newspaper columnist |
| 15th of July 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Jesse Ventura, American professional wrestler and politician |
| 15th of July 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Celia Imrie, British actress |
| 15th of July 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Judy McGrath, American television executive |
| 15th of July 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Thunders, American guitarist, singer and songwriter (New York Dolls, The Heartbreakers) (d. 1991) |
| 15th of July 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Terry O'Quinn, American actor |
| 15th of July 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haitian politician and Head of State |
| 15th of July 1953 | BIRTHDAY | John Denham, British politician |
| 15th of July 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Tarak Dhiab, Tunisian footballer |
| 15th of July 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Mario Kempes, Argentine footballer |
| 15th of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Curtis, British singer and songwriter (Joy Division) (d. 1980) |
| 15th of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Marky Ramone, American drummer (Ramones, Richard Hell & the Voidoids) |
| 15th of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Melrose, Canadian hockey coach and commentator |
| 15th of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Wayne Taylor, South African race car driver |
| 15th of July 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Satriani, American guitarist |
| 15th of July 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Heale, English footballer |
| 15th of July 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Mac Thornberry, American politician |
| 15th of July 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Vincent Lindon, French actor |
| 15th of July 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Shep Pettibone, American record producer |
| 15th of July 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Alexis, American supermodel and actress |
| 15th of July 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Willie Aames, American actor |
| 15th of July 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Lolita Davidovich, Canadian actress |
| 15th of July 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Christophe Grange, French writer and screenwriter |
| 15th of July 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Ritter, American UN weapons inspector |
| 15th of July 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Forest Whitaker, American actor |
| 15th of July 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Brown, American darts player |
| 15th of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Thomas, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 15th of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Brigitte Nielsen, Danish-born actress |
| 15th of July 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Eleftherios Fotiadis, Greek footballer |
| 15th of July 1965 | BIRTHDAY | David Miliband, British politician |
| 15th of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Irene Jacob, French-born Swiss actress |
| 15th of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Bonham, English drummer (Bonham), son of John Bonham |
| 15th of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Dimitris P. Kraniotis, Greek poet |
| 15th of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Savage, co-host of the television series MythBusters |
| 15th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Griffin, American comedian |
| 15th of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Stan Kirsch, American actor |
| 15th of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Danijela, Croatian singer |
| 15th of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Foley, American actor |
| 15th of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Beth Ostrosky, American model |
| 15th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Buju Banton, Jamaican dancehall reggae artist |
| 15th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | John Dolmayan, Lebanese-born American drummer (System of a Down) |
| 15th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Austin Green, American actor |
| 15th of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Kris Holm, Canadian mountain unicycling pioneer |
| 15th of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Taylor, Australian comedian (The Chaser) |
| 15th of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Chot Ulep, Filipino bassist and songwriter |
| 15th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Pepper, Australian basketball player |
| 15th of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Kara Drew (Cherry), American pro wrestler |
| 15th of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Jones, American rapper |
| 15th of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Diane Kruger, German actress and former fashion model |
| 15th of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Kitana Baker, American model |
| 15th of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Faraz Anwar, Pakistani guitarist (Mizraab) |
| 15th of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Nel, South African cricketer |
| 15th of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | John St. Clair, American football player |
| 15th of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Toro, American guitarist (My Chemical Romance) |
| 15th of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Lana Parrilla, American actress |
| 15th of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Miguel Olivo, Dominican baseball player |
| 15th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Laura Benanti, American musical theatre actress |
| 15th of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Frei, Swiss footballer |
| 15th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Reggie Abercrombie, American baseball player |
| 15th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Cheechoo, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 15th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Kelli Martin, American fashion designer |
| 15th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Jasper Paakkonen, Finnish actor and film producer |
| 15th of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Zambidis, Greek kickboxer |
| 15th of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Perez, Spanish cyclist |
| 15th of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Neemia Tialata, New Zealand All Black rugby player |
| 15th of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Nelson Merlo, Brazilian racing driver |
| 15th of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Boyd, Scottish photographer |
| 15th of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Vice Cooler, American singer-songwriter (Hawnay Troof, Xbxrx) |
| 15th of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Angelo Siniscalchi, Italian footballer |
| 15th of July 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Tyler Kennedy, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 15th of July 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Tristan Wilds, American actor |
| 15th of July 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Zach Bogosian, American ice hockey player |
| 15th of July 1990 | BIRTHDAY | J.B. Gaynor, American actor |
| 15th of July 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Derrick Favors, American basketball player |
| 15th of July 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Koharu Kusumi, Japanese singer (Morning Musume) |
| 15th of July 1085 | DEATH | Robert Guiscard, Norman adventurer (Born c. 1015) |
| 15th of July 1262 | DEATH | Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (Born 1222) |
| 15th of July 1274 | DEATH | Bonaventure, Italian theologian and saint (Born 1221) |
| 15th of July 1291 | DEATH | Rudolph I of Germany, King of the Romans (Born 1218) |
| 15th of July 1381 | DEATH | John Ball, English priest (Born 1338) |
| 15th of July 1406 | DEATH | Duke William of Austria (Born c. 1370) |
| 15th of July 1410 | DEATH | Ulrich von Jungingen, German Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (killed in battle) (Born 1360) |
| 15th of July 1521 | DEATH | Juan Ponce de Leon, Spanish explorer (Born 1458) |
| 15th of July 1544 | DEATH | Rene of Chalon, Dutch Prince of the House of Orange (Born 1519) |
| 15th of July 1571 | DEATH | Shimazu Takahisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (Born 1514) |
| 15th of July 1609 | DEATH | Annibale Carracci, Italian painter (Born 1560) |
| 15th of July 1614 | DEATH | Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantome, French historian and biographer (Born c. 1540) |
| 15th of July 1655 | DEATH | Girolamo Rainaldi, Italian architect (Born 1570) |
| 15th of July 1685 | DEATH | James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of King Charles II of England (Born 1649) |
| 15th of July 1750 | DEATH | Vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman (Born 1686) |
| 15th of July 1765 | DEATH | Charles-Andre van Loo, French painter (Born 1705) |
| 15th of July 1767 | DEATH | Michael Bruce, Scottish poet (Born 1746) |
| 15th of July 1789 | DEATH | Jacques Duphly, French composer (Born 1715) |
| 15th of July 1828 | DEATH | Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (Born 1741) |
| 15th of July 1839 | DEATH | Winthrop Mackworth Praed, English poet (Born 1802) |
| 15th of July 1844 | DEATH | Claude Charles Fauriel, French historian (Born 1772) |
| 15th of July 1857 | DEATH | Carl Czerny, Austrian composer (Born 1791) |
| 15th of July 1871 | DEATH | Tad Lincoln, son of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln (Born 1858) |
| 15th of July 1885 | DEATH | Rosalia de Castro, Spanish writer and poet (Born 1837) |
| 15th of July 1890 | DEATH | Gottfried Keller, Swiss writer (Born 1819) |
| 15th of July 1898 | DEATH | Jean-Baptiste Salpointe, French-born American Catholic prelate, the first Bishop of Arizona and the second Archbishop of Santa Fe (d. 1825) |
| 15th of July 1904 | DEATH | Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (Born 1860) |
| 15th of July 1919 | DEATH | Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1852) |
| 15th of July 1929 | DEATH | Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian writer (Born 1874) |
| 15th of July 1930 | DEATH | Rudolph Schildkraut, Istanbul born American actor (Born 1930) |
| 15th of July 1930 | DEATH | Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist and composer (Born 1845) |
| 15th of July 1931 | DEATH | Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian economist (Born 1868) |
| 15th of July 1932 | DEATH | Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven, South African politician and writer (Born 1873) |
| 15th of July 1933 | DEATH | Freddie Keppard, American Jazz cornetist (Born 1890) |
| 15th of July 1933 | DEATH | Irving Babbitt, American literary critic (Born 1865) |
| 15th of July 1940 | DEATH | Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist (Born 1857) |
| 15th of July 1940 | DEATH | Robert Wadlow, American; at 8 ft. 11.1 in, the tallest person ever known (Born 1918) |
| 15th of July 1942 | DEATH | Wenceslao Vinzons, Filipino politician and resistance leader (bayoneted to death) (Born 1910) |
| 15th of July 1944 | DEATH | Marie-Victorin, French Canadian De La Salle Christian Brother and botanist (Born 1885) |
| 15th of July 1946 | DEATH | Razor Smith, English cricketer (Born 1877) |
| 15th of July 1947 | DEATH | Walter Donaldson, American songwriter (Born 1893) |
| 15th of July 1948 | DEATH | John J. Pershing, U.S. general (Born 1860) |
| 15th of July 1953 | DEATH | Geevarghese Mar Ivanios, Indian Christian Bishop, founder of the Order of the Imitation of Christ (Born 1882) |
| 15th of July 1957 | DEATH | James M. Cox, American politician (Born 1870) |
| 15th of July 1957 | DEATH | Vasily Maklakov, Russian orator and liberal politician (Born 1869) |
| 15th of July 1958 | DEATH | Julia Lennon, English mother of John Lennon (Born 1914) |
| 15th of July 1959 | DEATH | Ernest Bloch, Swiss composer (Born 1880) |
| 15th of July 1959 | DEATH | Vance Palmer, Australian novelist, dramatist, essayist and critic (Born 1885) |
| 15th of July 1960 | DEATH | Lawrence Tibbett, American opera singer and actor (Born 1896) |
| 15th of July 1960 | DEATH | Set Persson, Swedish Communist politician (Born 1897) |
| 15th of July 1961 | DEATH | John E. Brownlee, Canadian politician (Born 1884) |
| 15th of July 1965 | DEATH | Francis Cherry, American politician (Born 1908) |
| 15th of July 1974 | DEATH | Christine Chubbuck, American television news reporter (Born 1944) |
| 15th of July 1979 | DEATH | Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, Mexican politician, 29th President of Mexico (Born 1911) |
| 15th of July 1982 | DEATH | Bill Justis, American trumpet and saxophone player and producer (Born 1926) |
| 15th of July 1986 | DEATH | Billy Haughton, American harness driver and trainer (Born 1923) |
| 15th of July 1989 | DEATH | Laurie Cunningham, English footballer (Born 1956) |
| 15th of July 1990 | DEATH | Margaret Lockwood, British actress (Born 1916) |
| 15th of July 1991 | DEATH | Bert Convy, American actor (Born 1933) |
| 15th of July 1992 | DEATH | Chingiz Mustafayev, Azerbaijani journalist (Born 1960) |
| 15th of July 1992 | DEATH | Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (Born 1922) |
| 15th of July 1993 | DEATH | David Brian, American actor (Born 1914) |
| 15th of July 1993 | DEATH | Bobby Kent, American murder victim (Born 1973) |
| 15th of July 1996 | DEATH | Dana Hill, American actress (Born 1964) |
| 15th of July 1997 | DEATH | Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (Born 1946) |
| 15th of July 2000 | DEATH | Louis Quilico, Canadian baritone (Born 1925) |
| 15th of July 2003 | DEATH | Roberto Bolano, Chilean writer (Born 1953) |
| 15th of July 2003 | DEATH | Tex Schramm, American football team president and general manager (Born 1920) |
| 15th of July 2006 | DEATH | Robert H. Brooks, American founder of Hooters of America (Born 1937) |
| 15th of July 2008 | DEATH | Gyorgy Kolonics, Hungarian canoeist (Born 1972) |
| 15th of July 2008 | DEATH | Karl Unterkircher, Italian mountaineer (Born 1970) |
| 15th of July 2009 | DEATH | Natalya Estemirova, Russian activist (Born 1958) |
| 15th of July 2010 | DEATH | James E. Akins, American diplomat and advisor to Richard Nixon (Born 1926) |