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

July 15: Facts & Myths About This Day

July 15 is the 196^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 169 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

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

When this day started, 29,208,960 minutes 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 ‘hectaenneacontahexagon’ day.

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

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 217 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 4,589 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

July 15 Historical Events

• 1381 –
  John Ball, a leader in the Peasants’ Revolt, is hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of King Richard II of England.
• 1410 –
  Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War: Battle of Grunwald – the allied forces of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeat the army of the Teutonic Order.
• 1806 –
  Pike expedition: United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Bellefontaine near St. Louis, Missouri, to explore the west.
• 1815 –
  Napoleonic Wars: Napoléon Bonaparte surrenders aboard HMS Bellerophon.
• 1910 –
  In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer’s disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
• 1954 –
  First flight of the Boeing 367-80, prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series.
• 1955 –
  Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
• 1983 –
  A terrorist attack is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA at the Paris-Orly Airport in Paris; it leaves 8 people dead and 55 injured.
• 1985 –
  The Nintendo Entertainment System, the best-selling game console of its time, is released in Japan.
• 2002 –
  Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan hands down the death sentence to British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life terms to three others suspected of murdering Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

Who were born on July 15?

• 1906 –
  Rudolf Uhlenhaut, England-born German automotive engineer and test driver (Mercedes Benz) (d. 1989)
• 1921 –
  Henri Colpi, French film director (d. 2006)
• 1926 –
  Driss Chraïbi, Moroccan novelist (d. 2007)
• 1945 –
  Jürgen Möllemann, German politician (d. 2003)
• 1946 –
  Hassanal Bolkiah, 29th Sultan of Brunei
• 1973 –
  John Dolmayan, Lebanese-born American drummer (System of a Down)
• 1980 –
  Reggie Abercrombie, American baseball player
• 1983 –
  Nelson Merlo, Brazilian racing driver
• 1984 –
  Angelo Siniscalchi, Italian footballer
• 1986 –
  Tyler Kennedy, Canadian ice hockey player

Who died on July 15?

• 1262 –
  Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (b. 1222)
• 1655 –
  Girolamo Rainaldi, Italian architect (b. 1570)
• 1767 –
  Michael Bruce, Scottish poet (b. 1746)
• 1839 –
  Winthrop Mackworth Praed, English poet (b. 1802)
• 1844 –
  Claude Charles Fauriel, French historian (b. 1772)
• 1857 –
  Carl Czerny, Austrian composer (b. 1791)
• 1961 –
  John E. Brownlee, Canadian politician (b. 1884)
• 1990 –
  Margaret Lockwood, British actress (b. 1916)
• 1992 –
  Chingiz Mustafayev, Azerbaijani journalist (b. 1960)
• 1997 –
  Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (b. 1946)