Awards & Winners

Award Winners

Birthday : August 15

Check all the award winners born on August 15.
BirthDate
Winner
15-August-1990

Nyusha (Russia)

Anna Shurochkina is an actress and film score composer.
15-August-1990

Jennifer Lawrence (United States of America)

Jennifer Shrader Lawrence is an American actress. Her first major role was as a lead cast member...
15-August-1989

Jack Connolly (United States of America)

Jack Connolly is an American ice hockey player who is currently playing for Färjestad BK in...
15-August-1989

Masaki Okada (Japan)

Masaki Okada is a Japanese actor. He is best known for his roles as Sekime Kyogo in the drama...
15-August-1989

Joe Jonas (United States of America)

Joseph Adam "Joe" Jonas is an American pop singer, musician, actor, and dancer. He was a member...
15-August-1985

Ayan Mukerji (India)

Ayan Mukerji born in Kolkata, West Bengal is an Indian film director and actor who made his...
15-August-1983

Ruben Onsu (Indonesia)

Ruben Onsu is an Indonesian actor and presenter.
15-August-1980

Natalie Press (England)

Natalie Press is an English actress nominated for a Best Actress Bafta for her role in the 2010...
15-August-1979

Andy Signore (United States of America)

Andy Signore is a film/TV director and producer, a writer, screenwriter, actor and film editor.
15-August-1978

Kerri Walsh Jennings (United States of America)

Kerri Lee Walsh Jennings is an American professional beach volleyball player. Walsh Jennings and...
15-August-1978

Adel Tawil (Germany)

Adel Tawil, is a German singer, songwriter and producer. Besides his solo career, he is part of...
15-August-1976

Robert Macfarlane (England)

Robert Macfarlane, is a British author, often writing about the landscape and nature. He was...
15-August-1975

K. M. Beenamol (India)

Kalayathumkuzhi Mathews Beenamol, popularly known as K M Beenamol is an international athlete...
15-August-1975

Brendan Morrison (Canada)

Brendan Morrison is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre and is currently a free agent...
15-August-1974

Natasha Henstridge (Canada)

Natasha T. Henstridge is a Canadian actress and former fashion model. In 1995, she came to...
15-August-1974

Cao Yu (China)

Cao Yu is a cinematographer.
15-August-1970

Anthony Anderson (United States of America)

Anthony Anderson is an American actor and writer. He has starred in his own sitcom, All About...
15-August-1970

Ben Silverman (United States of America)

Benjamin Noah "Ben" Silverman is the founder and CEO of the entertainment production company...
15-August-1969

Todd Perry (United States of America)

Todd Perry works is a visual effects supervisor, visual effects artist, film editor,...
15-August-1969

Kimberley Kates (United States of America)

Kimberley Kates is an American actress and film producer.
15-August-1968

Yeong-ja Lee (South Korea)

Yeong-ja Lee is a comedian and television presenter.
15-August-1968

Debra Messing (United States of America)

Debra Lynn Messing is an American actress. She is known for her television roles in Will &...
15-August-1966

Raju Shrestha (India)

Raju Shrestha is an actor.
15-August-1965

Shaji Kailas (India)

Shaji Kailas is a Malayalam film director. He is known for his hard-hitting action films.
15-August-1964

Michael Berresse (United States of America)

Michael Berresse is an American actor, dancer, choreographer, and director. The son of artist...
15-August-1964

Melinda Gates (United States of America)

Melinda French Gates, wife of billionaire Bill Gates, is the co-founder and co-chairman of Bill...
15-August-1964

Srihari (India)

Sreehari was an actor and film producer.
15-August-1964

Arjun Sarja (India)

Arjun Sarja is an Indian film actor and director. He has primarily acted in Tamil and Kannada...
15-August-1963

Alejandro González Iñárritu (Mexico)

Alejando G. Iñárritu is a film director.
15-August-1962

Tom Colicchio (United States of America)

Thomas Patrick "Tom" Colicchio is an American celebrity chef. He co-founded the Gramercy Tavern...
15-August-1962

David Zayas (United States of America, Puerto Rico)

David Zayas is a Puerto Rican actor. He is most known for his roles as Angel Batista on...
15-August-1962

Susan Fales-Hill (Italy)

Susan Fales-Hill is a television producer, screenwriter and actress.
15-August-1961

Leone Pompucci (Italy)

Leone Pompucci is a screenwriter, film director and television director.
15-August-1961

Susan Hay

Susan Hay is a weather anchor for Global Toronto. She has been with Global since May 1989 and...
15-August-1961

Anwar Jamal (India)

Anwar Jamal is an Indian documentary filmmaker, based in New Delhi. He has been awarded the...
15-August-1961

Suhasini Mani Ratnam (India)

Suhasini Maniratnam is an Indian film actress known for her works in South Indian Cinema. She...
15-August-1960

Jonathan Kim (South Korea)

Jonathan H. Kim has produced five of the top 50 highest grossing Korean films of all time...
15-August-1958

Nagathihalli Chandrashekar (India)

Nagathihalli Chandrashekhar is an Indian director, actor, screen writer and a lyricist who...
15-August-1957

Željko Ivanek (United States of America, Socialist Republic of Slovenia)

Željko Ivanek is a Slovenian-born American actor of Croat descent, known for his role as Ray...
15-August-1955

Robert Jan van Pelt (Netherlands)

Robert Jan van Pelt is an author, architectural historian, professor at the University of...
15-August-1955

Ewa Wencel (Poland)

Ewa Wencel is an actress.
15-August-1954

Mary Jo Salter (United States of America)

Mary Jo Salter is an American poet, a co-editor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry and a...
15-August-1954

Stieg Larsson (Sweden)

Karl Stig-Erland "Stieg" Larsson was a Swedish journalist and writer. He is best known for...
15-August-1953

Sydney J. Bartholomew Jr. (United States of America)

Sydney J. Bartholomew Jr. is a film production designer.
15-August-1951

Cecilia Pérez Grovas (Mexico)

Cecilia Pérez Grovas is a screenwriter.
15-August-1950

Anne, Princess Royal (United Kingdom)

Anne, Princess Royal KG KT GCVO QSO GCL is the second child and only daughter of Elizabeth II...
15-August-1950

Tess Harper (United States of America)

Tess Harper is an American actress.
15-August-1949

Richard Deacon (United Kingdom)

Richard Deacon CBE is a British abstract sculptor, and a winner of the Turner Prize.
15-August-1949

Robert Kirshner (United States of America)

Robert Kirshner is the Clowes Professor of Science in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for...
15-August-1948

Selami Åžahin (Turkey)

Selami Åžahin is a composer.
15-August-1948

Denise Chavez (United States of America)

Denise Elia Chavez is an American author, playwright, and stage director. She was born to an...
15-August-1948

Patsy Gallant (Canada)

Patsy Gallant is a Canadian pop singer and musical theater actress. Of Acadian ancestry, she has...
15-August-1947

Mário Barroso (Portugal)

Mário Barroso is a Portuguese film director, actor and cinematographer born in Lisbon.
15-August-1947

Raakhee (India)

Raakhee Majumdar is an Indian film actress, who has primarily appeared in Hindi films, as well...
15-August-1946

Carol Oditz (United States of America)

Carol Oditz is a costume designer.
15-August-1946

Jimmy Webb (United States of America)

James Layne "Jimmy" Webb is an American songwriter, composer, and singer. He has written...
15-August-1946

Michael Brewster (United States of America)

Michael Brewster is a 1988 Guggenheim fellow in Creative Arts.
15-August-1945

Frances Temple (United States of America)

Frances Temple was a primary school teacher, a writer of award-winning children's stories and...
15-August-1944

Jacques Bufnoir (France)

Jacques Bufnoir is a film art director, production designer and set decorator.
15-August-1944

Linda Ellerbee (United States of America)

Linda Ellerbee is an American journalist who is most known for several jobs at NBC News,...
15-August-1944

William R. Keylor (United States of America)

William R. Keylor is a 1976 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
15-August-1943

Hanna Schwarz (Germany)

Hanna Schwarz, is a German mezzo-soprano and contralto singer in opera and concert. In 1976 she...
15-August-1943

María Rojo (Mexico)

María de Lourdes Rojo e Incháustegui, commonly known as María Rojo, is a Mexican actress and...
15-August-1942

Paul E. Johnson (United States of America)

Paul E. Johnson is an American historian and professor emeritus at University of South Carolina.
15-August-1942

Krista Stadler (Austria)

Krista Stadler is an actress.
15-August-1941

Tom Lowenstein (United Kingdom)

Tom Lowenstein is a 1979 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
15-August-1941

Don Rich (United States of America)

Donald Eugene Ulrich, best known by the stage name Don Rich was a country musician who helped...
15-August-1938

Janusz Zajdel (Poland)

Janusz Andrzej Zajdel was a prominent Polish science fiction author, second in popularity in...
15-August-1937

Ella Mitchell (United States of America)

Ella Mitchell is a African-American soul singer and actress. Mitchell is best known for playing...
15-August-1935

Vernon Jordan Jr. (United States of America)

Vernon Eulion Jordan, Jr. is an African-American lawyer, business executive and civil rights...
15-August-1935

Jim Dale (England)

Jim Dale, MBE is an English-American actor, voice artist, and singer-songwriter. He is best...
15-August-1935

Asunción Lavrín (Cuba)

Asunción Lavrin is an award-winning historian and author with more than 100 publications on...
15-August-1934

Marc Hanrez (Belgium, France)

Marc Hanrez is a 1972 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
15-August-1933

Mike Seeger (United States of America)

Mike Seeger was an American folk musician and folklorist. He was a distinctive singer and an...
15-August-1933

Stanley Milgram (United States of America)

Stanley Milgram was an American social psychologist. He conducted various studies and published...
15-August-1932

Robert L. Forward (United States of America)

Robert L. Forward was an American physicist and science fiction writer. His literary work was...
15-August-1931

Mikael Tariverdiev (Soviet Union, Russia)

Mikael Tariverdiev was a prominent Soviet composer of Armenian descent. He headed the Composers'...
15-August-1931

Richard F. Heck (United States of America, Philippines)

Richard Fred Heck is an American chemist noted for the discovery and development of the Heck...
15-August-1928

Nicolas Roeg (United Kingdom)

Nicolas Jack Roeg CBE BSC is an English film director and cinematographer. Early in his career...
15-August-1928

Paul Resika (United States of America)

Paul Resika is an American painter, was born and raised in New York City. Resika began...
15-August-1928

Frank S. Ham (United States of America)

Frank S. Ham is a 1971 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences.
15-August-1928

Manfredo Perdigão do Carmo (Brazil)

Manfredo Perdigão do Carmo is a 1965 Guggenheim Fellow in Natural Sciences.
15-August-1927

William Jencks (United States of America)

William Platt Jencks was an American biochemist. He was noted particularly for his work on...
15-August-1926

John Silber (United States of America)

John Robert Silber was an American academician and former candidate for public office. From 1971...
15-August-1925

Mike Connors (United States of America)

Mike Connors is an American actor best known for playing detective Joe Mannix in the CBS...
15-August-1925

Oscar Peterson (Canada)

Oscar Emmanuel Peterson, CC, CQ, OOnt was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer. He was called...
15-August-1925

Münir Özkul (Turkey)

Münir Özkul is a retired Turkish cinema and theatre actor. He has been awarded the title of...
15-August-1924

M. S. Reddy (India)

M.S. Reddy is a film producer.
15-August-1924

Jo Benkow

Jo Benkow was a Norwegian politician and writer, notable for being an important person in the...
15-August-1924

Robert Bolt (England)

Robert Oxton Bolt, CBE was an English playwright and a two-time Oscar-winning screenwriter,...
15-August-1923

Donald Bertram McIntyre

Donald Bertram McIntyre is a 1969 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
15-August-1923

Anwar G. Chejne (Lebanon)

Anwar G. Chejne was a 1979 Guggenheim Fellow in Humanities.
15-August-1922

Leonard Baskin (United States of America)

Leonard Baskin is a writer and illustrator.
15-August-1921

Bob Banner (United States of America)

Robert James Banner, Jr. was an American producer, writer and director. From 1967 to 1972 he...
15-August-1915

Brinton Turkle (United States of America)

Brinton Turkle is a writer and illustrator.
15-August-1915

Ismat Chughtai (India)

Ismat Chughtai was an eminent Indian writer in Urdu, known for her indomitable spirit and a...
15-August-1912

Julia Child (United States of America)

Julia Carolyn Child was an American chef, author, and television personality. She is recognized...
15-August-1912

Wendy Hiller (England)

Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller DBE was an English film and stage actress, who enjoyed a varied...
15-August-1909

Austin Burton Edwards (Australia)

Austin Burton Edwards was an Australian geologist, winner of the Clarke Medal in 1960. Edwards...
15-August-1906

Clayton Rawson (United States of America)

Clayton Rawson was an American mystery writer, editor, and amateur magician. His four novels...
15-August-1906

Loyal Griggs (United States of America)

Loyal Griggs, A.S.C., was an American cinematographer. Griggs joined the staff of Paramount...
15-August-1905

E. K. Brown (Canada)

E.K. Brown is an award-winning author.
15-August-1904

Bil Baird (United States of America)

William Britton Baird, professional name Bil Baird, but often referred to as Bill Baird, was an...
15-August-1903

Jerome Cady (United States of America)

Jerome Cady was a Hollywood screenwriter. What promised to be a lucrative and successful career...
15-August-1903

Ellsworth Hoagland (United States of America)

Ellsworth Hoagland was a film and television editor.
15-August-1901

Ned Washington (United States of America)

Ned Washington was an American lyricist.
15-August-1901

John B. Goodman (United States of America)

John B. Goodman was an American art director. He won an Academy Award and was nominated for...
15-August-1900

Jack Tworkov (United States of America)

Jack Tworkov was a Polish-born American abstract expressionist painter.
15-August-1899

Aristodimos Kaldis

Aristodimos Kaldis was an artist and left-wing activist in New York. It is impossible to think...
15-August-1896

Gerty Cori (United States of America)

Gerty Theresa Cori was an American biochemist who became the third woman—and first American...
15-August-1892

Louis de Broglie (France)

Louis-Victor-Pierre-Raymond, 7th duc de Broglie, was a French physicist who made groundbreaking...
15-August-1892

George Mullin (United States of America, Canada)

George Harry Mullin VC MM, was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most...
15-August-1892

William Gosling (United Kingdom)

Major William Gosling VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most...
15-August-1890

Frederick Henry Johnson (United Kingdom)

Frederick Henry Johnson VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most...
15-August-1887

Paul W. Merrill (United States of America)

Paul Willard Merrill was an American astronomer whose specialty was spectroscopy. He was the...
15-August-1886

Francis Yeats-Brown (United Kingdom)

Major Francis Charles Claypon Yeats-Brown, DFC was an officer in the British Indian army and the...
15-August-1885

Edna Ferber (United States of America)

Edna Ferber was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels were...
15-August-1881

Charles Howard-Bury (United Kingdom)

Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury DSO, DL, JP was a British soldier, explorer,...
15-August-1879

Ethel Barrymore (United States of America)

Ethel Barrymore was an American actress and a member of the Barrymore family of actors.
15-August-1875

Robert Bartlett

Captain Robert "Bob" Abram Bartlett was a Newfoundland navigator and Arctic explorer of the late...