What are the important events that happened on August 15? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

August 15: Facts & Myths About This Day

August 15 is the 227^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 138 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 2, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,755,216,000 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectaicosaheptagon’ day.

Leo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 186 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,620 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

August 15 Historical Events

• 1483 –
  Pope Sixtus IV consecrates the Sistine Chapel.
• 1537 –
  Asunción, Paraguay, is founded.
• 1549 –
  Jesuit priest Saint Francis Xavier comes ashore at Kagoshima (Traditional Japanese date: July 22, 1549).
• 1599 –
  Nine Years War: Battle of Curlew Pass – Irish forces led by Hugh Roe O'Donnell successfully ambush English forces, led by Sir Conyers Clifford, sent to relieve Collooney Castle.
• 1760 –
  Seven Years’ War: Battle of Liegnitz – Frederick the Great’s victory over the Austrians under Ernst von Laudon.
• 1914 –
  A male servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright sets fire to the living quarters of the architect’s Wisconsin home, Taliesin, murders seven people and burns the living quarters to the ground.
• 1963 –
  Execution of Henry John Burnett, the last man to be hanged in Scotland.
• 1975 –
  Bangladesh’s founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is killed along with most members of his family during a military coup.
• 2005 –
  Israel’s unilateral disengagement plan to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from four settlements in the northern West Bank begins.
• 2007 –
  An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1,090.

Who were born on August 15?

• 1195 –
  Anthony of Padua, Portuguese saint (d. 1231)
• 1859 –
  Charles Comiskey, American baseball owner (d. 1931)
• 1860 –
  Florence Harding, American First Lady (d. 1924)
• 1872 –
  Sri Aurobindo, Indian writer and philosopher (d. 1950)
• 1946 –
  Jimmy Webb, American musician and composer
• 1947 –
  Raakhee Gulzar, Indian actress
• 1957 –
  Željko Ivanek, Slovenian-American actor
• 1958 –
  Laurie Bembenek, American convicted murderer and fugitive (d. 2010)
• 1974 –
  Natasha Henstridge, Canadian actress
• 1975 –
  Kara Wolters, American basketball player

Who died on August 15?

• 1621 –
  John Barclay, Scottish writer (b. 1582)
• 1880 –
  Adelaide Neilson, English actress (b. 1848)
• 1917 –
  Thomas J. Higgins, American Union Army soldier (b. 1831)
• 1951 –
  Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist (b. 1882)
• 1962 –
  Lei Feng, Chinese revolutionary (b. 1940)
• 1971 –
  Paul Lukas, Hungarian-born actor (b. 1887)
• 1999 –
  Sir Hugh Casson, British architect and artist (b. 1910)
• 2005 –
  Bendapudi Venkata Satyanarayana, Indian dermatologist (b. 1927)
• 2006 –
  Te Atairangikaahu, Māori queen (b. 1931)
• 2008 –
  Vic Toweel, South African boxer (b. 1929)