List of Famous people born on June 15th
Pua Khein-Seng
Pua Khein-Seng, claims to be one of the inventors of the USB flash drive. In an interview with Malaysian newspaper The Star, the CEO of Phison Electronics Corp based in Taiwan claims to have incorporated the world's first single chip USB flash drive. He is regarded as "father of pendrive" in Malaysia. Raised in Sekinchan, Selangor, Malaysia, Pua received his undergraduate education in electrical control engineering at the National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan and has since then resided in Taiwan.
Julia Fischer
Julia Fischer is a German classical violinist and pianist. She teaches at the Munich University of Music and Performing Arts and performs up to 60 times per year.
Jérôme Champagne
Jérôme Champagne is a former French diplomat who served from 1983 to 1998, and then became a consultant in international football, serving as an executive at FIFA from 1999 to 2010.
Bernie Shaw
Bernard "Bernie" Shaw is a Canadian-English singer, and since 1986, the lead vocalist of British rock band Uriah Heep.
Anna Sophie of Anhalt
Anna Sophie of Anhalt was by birth a member of the House of Ascania and princess of Anhalt. After her marriage, she became Countess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt.
Takayama Hikokurō
Takayama Hikokurō was a Japanese samurai and historian, and one of the early proponents of the sonnō jōi movement which became highly influential during the Bakumatsu period in the events leading to them Meiji restoration. He was later known as one of "Three Excelling Men of the Kansei Period". His Dharma name was Shōin Ihaku Koji (松陰以白居士).
André Tosel
André Tosel was a French Marxist philosopher and academic administrator. He taught Philosophy at the University of Franche-Comté and Pantheon-Sorbonne University until he became a full professor of philosophy at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis. He served as its vice president from 1992 to 1998, and as the director of its Center for the History of Ideas from 1998 to 2003. He was the author of several books about Marxism and Marxist theorists.
Ümit Erdim
Ümit Erdim is a Turkish actor.
François Michelin
François Michelin was a French heir and businessman. He was the chief executive officer (CEO) of Michelin from 1955 to 1999. Under his leadership, a family business founded by his grandfather became the leading global tire manufacturer, dominating the market in Europe and the US. A practising Roman Catholic, he was idiosyncratically non-hierarchical and conducted business from his hometown of Clermont-Ferrand in the rural Auvergne.
Álvaro Colom
Álvaro Colom Caballeros is a Guatemalan politician who was the President of Guatemala from 2008 to 2012, as well as leader of the social-democratic National Unity of Hope (UNE).