May 15

Doppelgängers (9) | Birthdays (6) | Events (2) | Passed (1)

May 15, 2002

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If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.
- Nikola Tesla


9 Doppelgängers Today

I track 9,188 doppelgängers out of 21,283 people in my custom software, specializing in look alikes who were born in the same week in history. Similar looking public figures are always born within a few days of each other. This is a phenommenon seen across all of documented history.

Born in 1948 and 1949


Born on May 15, 1949

Frank L. Culbertson Jr.

Only U.S. citizen not on Earth when the September 11 attacks occurred.

Born on May 20, 1948

James Staley

American banker and the former group chief executive of Barclays

Born within 4 days in 1911


Born on May 11, 1911
(1911 - 1977)

Robert P. McCulloch

Purchased The London Bridge and moved it to Arizona

Born on May 15, 1911
(1911 - 1994)

Leo Fuchs

Polish-born American actor

Born within 5 days in 1963


Born on May 10, 1963

Lisa M Nowak

Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut

Born on May 15, 1963

Kristen Vigard

American actress and singer

Born within 3 days in 1918


Born on May 18, 1918

Roland 'Monty' Burton

British pilot who won the 1953 London to Christchurch air Race

Born on May 15, 1918
(1918 - 1978)

Charles D. Tandy

Chairman of the board, president, and chief executive officer of the Tandy Corporation

Born within 4 days in 1967


Born on May 19, 1967

Geraldine Somerville

Irish-British actress

Born on May 15, 1967

Kim Cheatle

American former law enforcement officer who served as the 27th director of the United States Secret Service from 2022 until 2024

Born in 1899


Born on May 5, 1899
(1899 - 1982)

Freeman Gosden

American radio comedian, actor and pioneer in the development of the situation comedy form

Born on May 15, 1899

Jean Etienne Valluy

French general

Born within 1 day in 1956


Born on May 14, 1956

Gillian Bradshaw

American sci-fi author (Hawk of May)

Born on May 15, 1956

Alice Miller

American golfer (Nabisco Dinah Shore 1985)

Born within 7 days in 1902


Born on May 8, 1902
(1902 - 1910)

André Michel Lwoff

French microbiologist and Nobel laureate of Russian-Polish origin

Born on May 15, 1902
(1902 - 1976)

Richard J. Daley

American politician who served as the Mayor of Chicago

Born within 2 days in 1792


Born on May 13, 1792
(1792 - 1878)

Pope Pius IX

Head of the Catholic Church from 1846 to 1878, the longest verified papal reign

Born on May 15, 1792
(1792 - 1868)

James Mayer de Rothschild

German-French banker and the founder of the French branch of the prominent Rothschild family


6 Birthdays Today

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Joseph Wiseman

Joseph Wiseman

  (1918 — 2009)
Canadian-American theatre, film, and television actor who starred as the villain Julius No in the first James Bond film, Dr. No, in 1962

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Princess Vilma Lwoff-Parlaghy

Princess Vilma Lwoff-Parlaghy

  (1863 — 1923)
Proficient painter painter of European royalty and nobility and spymaster

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Maurice Feltin

Maurice Feltin

  (1883 — 1975)
French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Paris from 1949 to 1966, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1953 by Pope Pius XII

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L. Frank Baum

L. Frank Baum

  (1856 — 1919)
American author best known for his children's books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its sequels

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Klemens von Metternich

Klemens von Metternich

  (1773 — 1859)
conservative Austrian statesman and the Austrian Empire's foreign minister

His Most Serene Highness Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Prince of Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein (often known simply as Klemens von Metternich) was a prominent Austrian statesman and diplomat who played a leading role in European affairs during the ear

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Jewel McAvany

Jewel McAvany

  born on May 15, 1953.
Inaugural Miss Teenage Canada in 1969


2 Events
On This Day

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National Woman Suffrage Association forms in New York, founded by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

National Woman Suffrage Association forms in New York, founded by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

It happened on May 15, 1869


Featuring: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

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Joseph Smith claims to have received the Aaronic Priesthood from John the Baptist.

Joseph Smith claims to have received the Aaronic Priesthood from John the Baptist.

It happened on May 15, 1829


Featuring: Joseph Smith.

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1 People Who
Passed On This Day

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Urbano Monte

Urbano Monte

  (1544 — 1613)
Italian geographer and cartographer.

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