List of Famous people who born in 1915

Pat Buttram

First Name Pat
Last Name Buttram
Born on June 19, 1915
Died on January 8, 1994 (aged 78)

Maxwell Emmett Buttram, professionally known as Pat Buttram, was an American character actor, known for playing the sidekick of Gene Autry and for playing the character of Mr. Haney in the television series Green Acres. He had a distinctive voice that, in his own words, "never quite made it through puberty."

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Howard E. Skipper

First Name Howard
Last Name Skipper
Born on November 21, 1915
Died on January 2, 2006 (aged 90)

Howard Earle Skipper was a noted American oncologist. He grew up in Sebring, Florida and received his science degrees from the University of Florida.

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A. K. Hangal

First Name A.
Last Name Hangal
Born on August 15, 1915
Died on August 26, 2012 (aged 97)
Born in Pakistan, Punjab

Avtar Kishan Hangal, popularly known as A. K. Hangal, was an Indian freedom fighter from 1929 to 1947 and also stage actor from 1936 to 1965 and later became a character actor in Hindi language films from 1966 to 2005. His most notable roles are as Ram Shastri in Aaina (1977), as the Inder Sen in Shaukeen, as Bipinlal Pandey in Namak Haraam, as Imaam Saa'b in Sholay, as Anokhelal in Manzil and the antagonist in Prem Bandhan and the 16 films he did with Rajesh Khanna. He has acted in around 225 Hindi films in a career spanning from 1966 to 2005.

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Leslie H. Martinson

First Name Leslie
Last Name Martinson
Born on January 16, 1915
Died on September 3, 2016 (aged 101)

Leslie Herbert Martinson was an American television and film director.

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Rolf Friedemann Pauls

First Name Rolf
Last Name Pauls
Born on August 26, 1915
Died on May 4, 2002 (aged 86)

Rolf Friedemann Pauls was a German diplomat. He was the first ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Israel, from 1965 to 1968, and was German Ambassador to the United States from 1968 to 1973.

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Peter Medawar

First Name Peter
Last Name Medawar
Born on February 28, 1915
Died on October 2, 1987 (aged 72)

Sir Peter Brian Medawar was a British biologist and writer, whose works on graft rejection and the discovery of acquired immune tolerance were fundamental to the medical practice of tissue and organ transplants. For his scientific works he is regarded as the "father of transplantation". He is remembered for his wit both in person and in popular writings. Famous zoologists such as Richard Dawkins referred to him as "the wittiest of all scientific writers", and Stephen Jay Gould as "the cleverest man I have ever known".

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Robert Henry Lee

First Name Robert
Last Name Lee
Born on January 1, 1915
Died on January 1, 2007 (aged 92)
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Danny Tuijnman

First Name Danny
Born on April 16, 1915
Died on April 25, 1992 (aged 77)

Daniël Sebastiaan "Dany" Tuijnman was a Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).

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Henry Morgan

First Name Henry
Last Name Morgan
Born on March 31, 1915
Died on May 19, 1994 (aged 79)

Henry Morgan was an American humorist. He first became familiar to radio audiences in the 1930s and 1940s as a barbed but often self-deprecating satirist; in the 1950s and later, he was a regular and cantankerous panelist on the game show I've Got a Secret as well as other game and talk shows. Morgan was a second cousin of Broadway lyricist and librettist Alan Jay Lerner.

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Peter Limbourg

First Name Peter
Last Name Limbourg
Born on April 18, 1915
Died on December 28, 2015 (aged 100)
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