List of Famous people who born in 1915

Torcuato Fernández-Miranda

Torcuato Fernández-Miranda y Hevia
First Name Torcuato
Born on November 10, 1915
Died on June 19, 1980 (aged 64)
Born in Spain, Asturias

Torcuato Fernández-Miranda y Hevia, 1st Duke of Fernández-Miranda was a Spanish lawyer and politician who played important roles in both the Spanish State of Francisco Franco and in the Spanish transition to democracy.

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Ethel Rosenberg

First Name Ethel
Born on September 28, 1915
Died on June 19, 1953 (aged 37)
Spy

Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg were American citizens who were convicted of spying on behalf of the Soviet Union. The couple was accused of providing top-secret information about radar, sonar, jet propulsion engines, and valuable nuclear weapon designs; at that time the United States was the only country in the world with nuclear weapons. Convicted of espionage in 1951, they were executed by the federal government of the United States in 1953 in the Sing Sing correctional facility in Ossining, New York, becoming the first American civilians to be executed for such charges and the first to suffer that penalty during peacetime.

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Gary Merrill

First Name Gary
Last Name Merrill
Born on August 2, 1915
Died on March 5, 1990 (aged 74)
Height 173 cm | 5'8

Gary Fred Merrill was an American film and television actor whose credits included more than 50 feature films, a half-dozen mostly short-lived TV series, and dozens of television guest appearances. Merrill starred in All About Eve and married his co-star Bette Davis.

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Zero Mostel

Samuel Joel Mostel
First Name Zero
Last Name Mostel
Born on February 28, 1915
Died on September 8, 1977 (aged 62)
Height 180 cm | 5'11

Samuel Joel "Zero" Mostel was an American actor, singer and comedian of stage and screen, best known for his portrayal of comic characters such as Tevye on stage in Fiddler on the Roof, Pseudolus on stage and on screen in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and Max Bialystock in the original film version of Mel Brooks' The Producers (1967). Mostel was a student of Don Richardson, and he used an acting technique based on muscle memory. He was blacklisted during the 1950s; his testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee was well publicized. Mostel later starred in the Hollywood Blacklist drama film The Front (1976) alongside Woody Allen, for which Mostel was nominated for the British Academy Film Award for Best Supporting Actor.

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Nicky Barr

First Name Nicky
Born on December 10, 1915
Died on June 12, 2006 (aged 90)

Andrew William "Nicky" Barr, was a member of the Australian national rugby union team, who became a fighter ace in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) during World War II. He was credited with 12 aerial victories, all scored flying the Curtiss P-40 fighter. Born in New Zealand, Barr was raised in Victoria and first represented the state in rugby in 1936. Selected to play for Australia in the United Kingdom in 1939, he had just arrived in England when the tour was cancelled following the outbreak of war. He joined the RAAF in 1940 and was posted to North Africa with No. 3 Squadron in September 1941. The squadron's highest-scoring ace, he attained his first three victories in the P-40 Tomahawk and the remainder in the P-40 Kittyhawk.

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Najeeb Halaby

First Name Najeeb
Last Name Halaby
Born on November 19, 1915
Died on July 2, 2003 (aged 87)

Najeeb Elias "Jeeb" Halaby, Jr. was an American businessman, government official, celebrated aviator, and the father of Queen Noor of Jordan. He is known for making the first transcontinental jet flight in U.S. history and for his service as CEO and chairman of Pan American World Airways from 1969 to 1972.

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Grace Lee Boggs

First Name Grace
Last Name Boggs
Born on June 27, 1915
Died on October 5, 2015 (aged 100)

Grace Lee Boggs was an American author, social activist, philosopher, and feminist. She is known for her years of political collaboration with C. L. R. James and Raya Dunayevskaya in the 1940s and 1950s. In the 1960s she and James Boggs, her husband of some forty years, took their own political direction. By 1998, she had written four books, including an autobiography. In 2011, still active at the age of 95, she wrote a fifth book, The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century, with Scott Kurashige and published by the University of California Press. She is regarded as a key figure in the Asian American Movement.

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Seán Ó hEinirí

First Name Seán
Last Name HEinirí
Born on January 1, 1915
Died on July 26, 1998 (aged 83)

Seán Ó hEinirí, known in English as John Henry, was an Irish seanchaí and a native of Cill Ghallagáin, County Mayo. He is believed to have been the last known monolingual Irish speaker.

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William L. Scott

First Name William
Last Name Scott
Born on July 1, 1915
Died on February 14, 1997 (aged 81)

William Lloyd Scott was an American Republican politician from the Commonwealth of Virginia. He served in both the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate, and was Virginia's first post-Reconstruction Republican Senator.

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Girdhari Lal Dogra

First Name Girdhari
Born on July 17, 1915
Died on November 27, 1987 (aged 72)

Girdhari Lal was a member of the Lok Sabha a senior Congress leader from Jammu and Kashmir, a member of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly. Dogra served twice as Member of Parliament and six times as Member of the Legislative Assembly. He served as Finance minister of the state for 26 years. He was also known as "The People’s man".

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