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July 15

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2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt

10 years ago

Born this day

1606

Rembrandt

Died aged 63

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1309th

Siege of Constantinople

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Famous births27

1606 · 420 yrs

Rembrandt

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), known mononymously as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. He is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of Western art.

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ArtDied aged 63

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1848 · 178 yrs

Vilfredo Pareto

Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto (Italian:; born Wilfried Fritz Pareto; 15 July 1848 – 19 August 1923) was an Italian polymath, whose areas of interest included sociology, civil engineering, economics, political science, and philosophy.

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ScienceDied aged 75

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1853 · 173 yrs

Vladimir Korolenko

Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko (Russian: Влади́мир Галактио́нович Короле́нко, Ukrainian: Володи́мир Галактіо́нович Короле́нко, romanized: Volodymyr Halaktionovych Korolenko; 27 July 1853 – 25 December 1921) was a Russian writer, journalist and humanitarian of Ukrainian origin.

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LiteratureDied aged 68

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1858 · 168 yrs

Emmeline Pankhurst

Emmeline Pankhurst (née Goulden; 15 July 1858 – 14 June 1928) was a British political activist who organised the British suffragette movement and helped women to win the right to vote in Great Britain and Ireland in 1918, partially due to her role in the White Feather Campaign.

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PoliticsDied aged 69

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1892 · 134 yrs

Walter Benjamin

Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin ( BEN-yə-min; German:; 15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, media theorist, and essayist.

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PhilosophyWould be 134

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1917 · 109 yrs

Nur Muhammad Taraki

Nur Muhammad Taraki (Pashto: نور محمد ترکی‎; 14 July 1917 – 9 October 1979) was an Afghan communist politician, revolutionary, journalist and writer.

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MilitaryWould be 109

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1918 · 108 yrs

Bertram Brockhouse

Bertram Neville Brockhouse, (July 15, 1918 – October 13, 2003) was a Canadian physicist.

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1919 · 107 yrs

Iris Murdoch

Dame Jean Iris Murdoch ( MUR-dok; 15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious.

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1922 · 104 yrs

Leon M. Lederman

Leon Max Lederman (July 15, 1922 – October 3, 2018) was an American experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988, along with Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger, for research on neutrinos.

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ScienceWould be 104

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1926 · 100 yrs

Leopoldo Galtieri

Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri Castelli (15 July 1926 – 12 January 2003) was an Argentine military officer who served as the de facto President of Argentina from December 1981 to June 1982.

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MilitaryWould be 100

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1930 · 96 yrs

Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida (French:; born Jackie Élie Derrida; 15 July 1930 – 9 October 2004) was a French philosopher.

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PhilosophyWould be 96

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1933 · 93 yrs

John Hopfield

John Joseph Hopfield (born July 15, 1933) is an American physicist and emeritus professor of Princeton University, most widely known for his study of associative neural networks in 1982. He is known for the development of the Hopfield network.

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ScienceAge 93

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Famous deaths17

AD 998 · 1028 yrs

Abu al-Wafa Buzjani

Abū al-Wafāʾ Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ismāʿīl ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Būzjānī (Persian: ابو الوفاء بوژگانی, Arabic: ابو الوفاء بوزجانی; 10 June 940 – 15 July 998) was a Persian mathematician and astronomer who worked in Baghdad.

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ScienceDied aged 58

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1291 · 735 yrs

Rudolph I of Germany

Rudolf of Habsburg (1 May 1218 – 15 July 1291) was a German nobleman and the first member of the House of Habsburg to become King of the Romans, reigning from 1273 until his death.

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RoyaltyDied aged 73

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1841 · 185 yrs

Mikhail Lermontov

Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov ( LAIR-mən-tof, US also -⁠tawf; Russian: Михаи́л Ю́рьевич Ле́рмонтов, IPA:; 15 October 1814 – 27 July 1841) was a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death in 1837 and the greatest…

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LiteratureDied aged 26

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1857 · 169 yrs

Carl Czerny

Carl Czerny (German:; 21 February 1791 – 15 July 1857) was an Austrian composer, music educator, and pianist of Czech origin. His music spanned the late Classical and early Romantic eras.

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MusicDied aged 66

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1873 · 153 yrs

Fyodor Tyutchev

Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev (Russian: Фёдор Ива́нович Тю́тчев, IPA:; 5 December 1803 – 27 July 1873) was a Russian poet and diplomat.

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LiteratureDied aged 69

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1885 · 141 yrs

Rosalía de Castro

María Rosalía Rita de Castro (Galician pronunciation:; 23 February 1837 – 15 July 1885) was a Galician poet and novelist, considered one of the most important figures of the 19th-century Spanish literature and modern lyricism.

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LiteratureDied aged 48

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1890 · 136 yrs

Gottfried Keller

Gottfried Keller (19 July 1819 – 15 July 1890) was a Swiss poet and writer of German literature.

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LiteratureDied aged 70

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1904 · 122 yrs

Anton Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Russian: Антон Павлович Чехов; 29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright, short story writer, and physician.

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LiteratureDied aged 44

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1919 · 107 yrs

Emil Fischer

Hermann Emil Louis Fischer (German:; 9 October 1852 – 15 July 1919) was a German chemist and 1902 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He discovered the Fischer esterification.

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ScienceDied aged 66

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1929 · 97 yrs

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal (German:; 1 February 1874 – 15 July 1929) was an Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist.

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LiteratureDied aged 55

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1939 · 87 yrs

Eugen Bleuler

Paul Eugen Bleuler ( BLOY-lər; Swiss Standard German:; 30 April 1857 – 15 July 1939) was a Swiss psychiatrist and eugenicist most notable for his influence on modern concepts of mental illness.

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ScienceDied aged 82

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1940 · 86 yrs

Robert Wadlow

Robert Pershing Wadlow (February 22, 1918 – July 15, 1940), also known as the Alton Giant and the Giant of Illinois, was an American man known for being the tallest person in recorded history for whom there is irrefutable evidence. Wadlow was born and raised in Alton, Illinois, a small city near St.

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Events5

AD 717 · 1309 yrs

Siege of Constantinople

In 717–718, Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, was besieged by the Muslim Arabs of the Umayyad Caliphate. The campaign marked the culmination of twenty years of attacks and progressive Arab occupation of the Byzantine borderlands, while Byzantine strength was sapped by prolonged internal turmoil.

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War

1410 · 616 yrs

Battle of Grunwald

The Battle of Grunwald, also known as the (First) Battle of Tannenberg or the Battle of Žalgiris, was fought on 15 July 1410 during the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War.

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War

1975 · 51 yrs

Apollo–Soyuz

Apollo–Soyuz was the first crewed international space mission, conducted jointly by the United States and the Soviet Union in July 1975. Millions watched on television as an American Apollo spacecraft docked with a Soviet Soyuz capsule.

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Space

2016 · 10 yrs

2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt

On 15 July 2016 evening, an attempted military coup occurred in Turkey, orchestrated by a faction within the Turkish Armed Forces of 8,500 soldiers and military cadets, identifying themselves as the "Peace at Home Council".

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War

2018 · 8 yrs

2018 FIFA World Cup Final

The final match of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, the 21st edition of FIFA's competition for national football teams, was played at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia, on 15 July 2018, and was contested by France and Croatia.

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