Historical Events on October 15.

1. Global Handwashing Day & World Students’ Day

2. 1917, 15th October: In World War I, Dutch dancer Harry was shot dead near Paris for spying for Germany.

3. 1932, 15th October: The Tata Company airplane made its first flight. After the acquisition by the Government of India, this company is called Air India.

4. 1964, 15th October: The retirement of Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev shocked the whole world.

5. 1968, 15th October: Hargovind Khurana was awarded the Nobel Prize.

6. 1973, 15th October: Henry Kissinger and Lee Duck were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

7. 1984, 15th October: Archbishop Desmond Tutu was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

8. 1993, 15th October: Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Nelson Mandela, leader of the African National Congress, and FW de Klerk, President of South Africa.

9. 1997, 15th October: Arundhati Roy was selected for Britain’s most prestigious Booker Prize for her novel ‘The God of Small Things‘.

10. 1999, 15th October: Geet Sethi from India won the World Fred Davis Award.

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on October 15.

1. 1542: Akbar the Great, third Mughal emperor.

2. 1608: Evangelista Torricelli, Italian mathematician and physicist and inventor of the barometer.

3. 1881: P. G. Wodehouse, English writer.

4. 1908: J. K. Galbraith, Canadian-American economist.

5. 1920: Mario Puzo, American author.

6. 1926: Narayan Gangaram Surve, Indian poet.

7. 1931: APJ Abdul Kalam, Scientist, and 11th President of India.

8. 1934: N. Ramani, Indian musician, Carnatic style flutist.

9. 1949: Pranoy Roy, an Indian journalist, and founder of NDTV.

10. 1955: Kulbur Bhaur, Indian field hockey player.

11. 1957: Mira Nair, an American filmmaker, and director of Indian descent.

12. 1969: Sanjeev Abhyankar, Indian classical singer. 

Death Anniversaries of famous people on October 15.

1. 1564: Andreas Vesalius, a 16th-century Flemish anatomist, physician, Remembers as the father of Modern autonomy.

2. 1789: Ramchandra Vishwanath Ramshastri Prabhune, Peshwa judge (India).

3. 1918: Sai Baba, an Indian Guru and Saint of Shirdi, Maharashtra, India.

4. 1930: Herbert Dow, Canadian born American chemist, founder of the Dow Chemical Company.

5. 1946: Hermann Goering, the military leader of the German Nazi.

6. 1961: Suryakant Tripathi Nirala, Indian-Hindi writer.

7. 1972: Nirmal Kumar Bose, a leading Indian anthropologist.

8. 2012: Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodia’s first Prime Minister.

9. 2018: Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, philanthropist, owner of the Seattle Seahawks.

10. 2020: Bhanu Athaiya, an Indian costume designer.