List of Famous people born on April 15th
Gervas Pierrepont, 6th Earl Manvers
Gervas Evelyn Pierrepont, 6th Earl Manvers, MC, JP, known as Gervas Pierrepont until 1940, was a British nobleman, soldier, landowner and member of the House of Lords.
Sigurd Ottovich Schmidt
Sigurd Ottovich Schmidt was a Russian historian, ethnographer and teacher.
Maurício Peixoto
Maurício Matos Peixoto,, was a Brazilian engineer and mathematician. He pioneered the studies on structural stability, and was the author of Peixoto's theorem.
John Wallop, 1st Earl of Portsmouth
John Wallop, 1st Earl of Portsmouth, of Hurstbourne Park, near Whitchurch and Farleigh Wallop, Hampshire, known as John Wallop, 1st Viscount Lymington from 1720 to 1743, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1715 to 1720, when he vacated his seat on being raised to the peerage as Viscount Lymington and Baron Wallop.
Fruit Chan
Fruit Chan Gor is a Hong Kong Second Wave screenwriter, filmmaker and producer, who is best known for his style of film reflecting the everyday life of Hong Kong people. He is well known for using amateur actors in his films. He became a household name after the success of the 1997 film Made in Hong Kong, which earned many local and international awards. Chan was deeply influenced by the era of sixties film in Japan, for the reason that they were not afraid to produce realistic movies that addressed society's problems. In particular, the Japanese director Nagisa Oshima was someone who Chan looked up to and thought of when directing Made in Hong Kong.