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, 487,560 hours 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

• 982 –
  Holy Roman Emperor Otto II is defeated by the Saracens in the battle of Capo Colonna, in Calabria
• 1511 –
  Afonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Malacca, the capital of the Sultanate of Malacca.
• 1540 –
  Arequipa, Peru, is founded.
• 1695 –
  French forces end the Bombardment of Brussels, leaving a third of the buildings in the city in ruins.
• 1843 –
  Tivoli Gardens, one of the oldest still intact amusement parks in the world, opens in Copenhagen, Denmark.
• 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.
• 1944 –
  World War II: Operation Dragoon – Allied forces land in southern France.
• 1952 –
  A flash flood drenches the town of Lynmouth, England, killing 34 people.
• 1999 –
  Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria; some 29 people are killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco.
• 2005 –
  Israel’s unilateral disengagement plan to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from four settlements in the northern West Bank begins.

Who were born on August 15?

• 1171 –
  King Alfonso IX of Leon (d. 1230)
• 1432 –
  Luigi Pulci, Italian poet (d. 1484)
• 1769 –
  Napoleon Bonaparte, Corsican-born French military officer and Emperor of France (d. 1821)
• 1798 –
  Sangolli Rayanna, a prominent freedom fighter from Karnataka, India (d. 1831)
• 1919 –
  Dina Wadia, only child of Pakistan’s founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah and his wife Rattanbai Petit
• 1919 –
  Huntz Hall, American actor (d. 1999)
• 1950 –
  Tom Kelly, American baseball manager
• 1951 –
  Ranjan Gunatilleke, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1956 –
  Lorraine Desmarais, French-Canadian jazz pianist and composer
• 1963 –
  Valery Levaneuski, entrepreneur, politician, former political prisoner

Who died on August 15?

• 423 –
  Flavius Honorius, Roman Emperor (b. 384)
• 1852 –
  Johan Gadolin, Finnish scientist (b. 1760)
• 1859 –
  Nathaniel Claiborne, American politician (b. 1777)
• 1935 –
  Will Rogers, American humorist and actor (b. 1879)
• 1936 –
  Grazia Deledda, Italian writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1871)
• 1953 –
  Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (b. 1875)
• 1990 –
  Viktor Tsoi, Russian musician (b. 1962)
• 2004 –
  Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1916)
• 2005 –
  Bendapudi Venkata Satyanarayana, Indian dermatologist (b. 1927)
• 2007 –
  Richard Bradshaw, British opera conductor, (b. 1944)