List of Famous people born on September 15th
Salah Abdeslam
Salah Abdeslam is a Belgium-born French national. He is suspected of being the only surviving member of the group directly involved in the attacks in Paris on 13 November 2015 through providing logistical support for the assailants, driving them to their target locations, and having some involvement in the manufacture of the explosives used.
Ayako Moriya
Ayako Moriya , formerly Princess Ayako of Takamado , is a former member of the Imperial House of Japan and the daughter of Norihito, Prince Takamado and Hisako, Princess Takamado. She is the youngest of the couple's three daughters. She married Kei Moriya, a commoner, on 29 October 2018. As part of her marriage to a commoner, she gave up her imperial title and left the Japanese Imperial Family, as required by law.
Queen Letizia of Spain
Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano is Queen of Spain, the wife of King Felipe VI. She came from a middle-class family and worked as a journalist for ABC and EFE before becoming a news anchor at CNN+ and Televisión Española. In 2004, she married Felipe, then Prince of Asturias and heir apparent to the Spanish throne. Their daughters, Leonor and Sofía, were born in 2005 and 2007 respectively. As Princess of Asturias, Letizia represented her father-in-law, King Juan Carlos, in Spain and abroad. On her father-in-law's abdication in June 2014, Felipe and Letizia became king and queen.
Murat Yakin
Murat Yakin is a Swiss football coach and former Switzerland national team player. He is currently the manager of FC Schaffhausen.
Tommy Lee Jones
Tommy Lee Jones is an American actor and film director. He has received four Academy Award nominations, winning the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance as U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard in the 1993 thriller film The Fugitive.
Hirohiko Izumida
Hirohiko Izumida is a Japanese politician and the governor of Niigata Prefecture since October 25, 2004.
Eric Johnson
Eric Maxwell Johnson is a former American football tight end in the National Football League. He was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in the seventh round of the 2001 NFL Draft. He played college football at Yale.
Sabine Dittmar
Sabine Dittmar is a German physician and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria since 2013.
Jessye Norman
Jessye Norman was an American opera singer and recitalist. She was able to perform dramatic soprano roles, but refused to be limited to that voice type. She was a commanding presence on operatic, concert and recital stages, associated with roles including Beethoven's Leonore, Wagner's Sieglinde and Kundry, Cassandre and Didon by Berlioz and Bartók's Judith. The New York Times music critic Edward Rothstein described her voice as a "grand mansion of sound", and wrote that "it has enormous dimensions, reaching backward and upward. It opens onto unexpected vistas. It contains sunlit rooms, narrow passageways, cavernous halls."
Jolin Tsai
Jolin Tsai is a Taiwanese singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, and businesswoman. Tsai is known for frequently reinventing both her music and image, and she is cited as a huge role of popularizing dance-pop as mainstream popular music in Greater China. She maintains her autonomy within the recording industry, and her musical productions have received widespread critical acclaim. Referred to as the "Queen of C-Pop", she has achieved popularity in Chinese-speaking world by releasing a series of successful albums.