List of Famous people born on October 15th

Benigna Cardoso da Silva was a Brazilian Catholic child. In her childhood she was adopted following the deaths of her parents, and was noted for aiding in household chores and attending Mass on a regular basis. But she was better known for having been murdered after rejecting the sexual advances of Raimundo Alves Riberio, who was around her age, in order to protect herself as being chaste as she desired. She defended herself even to the point of Riberio killing her, using a machete that he carried on his person.

Lee Dong-hae, referred to as Donghae, is a South Korean singer, songwriter, composer and actor. He became a trainee under SM Entertainment after winning a prize at SM's Youth Best Contest in 2001. After four years of training, Donghae debuted as a member of boy group Super Junior in November 2005. Since then, he has risen to prominence due to the group's success on the Asian music scene and further participated in the group's project groups Super Junior-M, Super Junior-D&E. He is one of the first four Korean artists to appear on Chinese postage stamps.

Hasan Ali Toptaş is a prominent Turkish novelist and short story writer. His first short story book Bir Gülüşün Kimliği was published in 1987. An important Turkish scholar, Yıldız Ecevit nicknames him "a postmodern modernist" and calls him "a Kafka in Turkish literature", in her work Türk Romanında Postmodernist Açılımlar.

Takeshi Morishima is a Japanese former professional wrestler.

Guillermo Moreno is an Argentine MSE owner and politician. He served from 2005 to 2013 as Secretary of Comunication and Domestic Trade, a position to which he was appointed by President Néstor Kirchner and in which he remained under the presidency of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner until his resignation, in November 2013. His classical training in economic theory and practice makes him an ideal technical-political expert, when the Argentine economy undertakes in search of the twin surpluses. He was found guilty in March 2014 of abuse of authority and was economic attaché at the Argentinian embassy in Rome.

Benjamin Trinks is a German actor and a voice actor.

Kōichi Shiota is a Japanese politician currently serving as the governor of Kagoshima Prefecture.

Franck Thilliez is a French writer. Thilliez was a computer engineer for a decade before he began writing. His book La Chambre des morts was made into a film.

Christopher Frederick Andrews is an English-German singer-songwriter whose musical career started in the late 1950s.

Andreas Ivanschitz is an Austrian retired footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.