List of Famous people born on August 15th
Natalie Press
Natalie Press Is an English actress. She is known for her award-winning performance in the 2004 film My Summer of Love and a number of short and feature-length independent films, including Wasp (2003), which won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. In 2008, her performance in Fifty Dead Men Walking earned her a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female. In 2010, she was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for her work in the three-hour BBC miniseries Five Daughters.
Craig MacTavish
Craig MacTavish is a Canadian professional ice hockey executive and former player. He played centre for 17 seasons in the National Hockey League with the Boston Bruins, Edmonton Oilers, New York Rangers, Philadelphia Flyers and St. Louis Blues, winning the Stanley Cup four times. He is the last NHL player to not wear a helmet during games.
Silvan Zurbriggen
Silvan Zurbriggen is a retired Swiss World Cup alpine ski racer who competed primarily in downhill and combined, and occasionally in super-G. In 2012, he stopped competing in slalom due to poor results.
Adrián Mora
Adrián Mora Barraza is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Liga MX club Juárez on loan from Toluca.
Enver Mamedov
Enver Nazim oglu Mammadov, is a former Soviet diplomat and a mass media manager. During his career, spent mostly in Russia and the West, he was primarily known under the Russianized form of his name, Enver Nazimovich Mamedov, or just Enver Mamedov.
Victor Polishchuk
Victor Stepanovych Polishchuk is a prominent Ukrainian businessman in retail electronics, and owner of the electronics retailer Technopolis. In 2013, Polishchuck purchased Eldorado, another electronics retailer, and stated that the two companies would be merged under the Eldorado brand. Polishchuck also owns the "Gulliver" retail and office center in Kiev, and has been involved in real estate development.
William Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill
William Arthur Waldegrave, Baron Waldegrave of North Hill, PC is a British Conservative politician who served in the Cabinet from 1990 until 1997, and is a life member of the Tory Reform Group. He is now a life peer in the House of Lords. Since 8 February 2009, Lord Waldegrave has been the Provost of Eton College. Additionally, he was inaugurated as Chancellor of the University of Reading on 9 December 2016.
Masaya Takatsuka
Masaya Takatsuka is a Japanese voice actor. He is married to voice actress Keiko Nemoto.
Midori Shintani
Midori Shintani is a female Japanese judo wrestler. Shintani won a gold medal at the women's open category of the 2005 World Judo Championships in Cairo.
Mykhailo Havryliuk
Mykhailo Vitaliyovych Havryliuk is a Ukrainian public figure. He participated in the Euromaidan protests and was tortured by Berkut officers in January 2014. In October 2014, he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada during the Ukrainian parliamentary election, as a candidate of People's Front, by winning the situated in Irpin with 19.43% of the votes. In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, this time as a self-nominated candidate again in electoral district 95, he failed to regain his parliamentary seat. 512 people voted for him, thus he gained 0.56% of the (2019) votes of the district.