List of Famous people born on August 15th
Wojciech Janowski
Wojciech Janowski is a Polish-born Monegasque former businessman, diplomat, and philanthropist. In 2018, he was sentenced to life in prison for ordering the murder of his mother-in-law, Hélène Pastor.
Sérgio Hondjakoff
Sérgio Francisco Hondjakoff Mendonça is a Brazilian American actor and singer. He gained prominence for the role of Artur Malta, the Cabeção, for 6 seasons in Malhação.
Juan Gil Navarro
Juan Manuel Gil Navarro is an Argentine actor, screenwriter, television producer and film director.
Maryse Joissains-Masini
Maryse Joissains-Masini, also known as Maryse Charton, is the mayor of Aix-en-Provence. She was also a member of the National Assembly of France. in which she represented the Bouches-du-Rhône department, and is a member of The Republicans party.
Peng Ming-min
Peng Ming-min is a noted democracy activist, advocate of Taiwan independence, and politician. Arrested for sedition in 1964 for printing a manifesto advocating democracy in his native Taiwan, he escaped to Sweden, before taking a post as a university teacher in the United States. After 22 years in exile he returned to become the Democratic Progressive Party's first presidential candidate in Taiwan's first direct presidential election in 1996.
Shirley Kwan
Shirley Kwan, Kwan Suk'E, or Kwan Suk Yee is an influential Cantopop singer from Hong Kong. Kwan first shot to fame in 1989 with the hit, "Happy Are Those in Love" (難得有情人) and was widely popular throughout the early to mid-1990s. She is noted for her distinct, whispery vocal style and known equally for singing mainstream ballads and more alternative songs.
Diego Cristiano Evaristo
Diego Cristiano Evaristo, known as Diego Pituca or simply Pituca, is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Japanese club Kashima Antlers. Mainly a defensive midfielder, he can also play as a left back.
Jean-Pierre Clamadieu
Jean-Pierre Clamadieu is a French businessman.
Marcel Schiller
Marcel Schillerr is a German handballer who plays for Frisch Auf Göppingen and the Germany national team.
Kazumi Yamashita
Kazumi Yamashita is a Japanese manga artist. Although she writes primarily older shōjo manga, she is best known for The Life of Genius Professor Yanagizawa, which was published in the seinen magazine Morning, and for which she received the 2003 Kodansha Manga Award for general manga.