January 15: Today's Notable Birthdays

With Whom Do You Share Your Birthday?

Is January 15th your birthday? Was someone special to you born on January 15th? With whom will you choose to celebrate this excellent occasion?

If today is your birthday, then you are in excellent company.

January 15th was the birth date of several notable (or even notorious) individuals. Here they are:

January 15th Birthdays: Famous Artists

French dancer and choreographer (Giselle) Jean Coralli was born on January 15, 1779.

Dorothy Hardy, British painter (Dangerous Competitor, The Favourite Comes to Grief, The Grey Leads, Spill at the Water Jump and We'll Go A-Jumping Today), was born on January 15.

Irish film director Reginald Ingram Montgomery (Rex Ingram) Hitchcock (The Arab, Ben Hur, Broken Fetters, Chalice of Sorrow, The Conquering Power, The Flower of Doom, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Garden of Allah, The Great Problem, Hearts are Trump, The Magician, The Prisoner of Zenda, The Reward of Life, His Robe of Honour, Scaramouche, The Three Passions, Turn to the Right, Under Crimson Skies and Where the Pavement Ends) was born on January 15, 1892. Rex Ingram married actresses Doris Pawn and Alice Terry.

American painter Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Cactus, Famous Names, Horse Sense, Indian Tree, I See Red: Chief Sleepy Eye War Shirt, Red Sky, Tree of Life, War Shirt and Wisdom/Knowledge) was born on January 15, 1940.

January 15th Birthdays: Famous Athletes

American professional basketball player Ernest (Ernie) DiGregorio (Buffalo Braves, Kentucky Colonels and Los Angeles Clippers) was born on January 15, 1951.

Michele Granger, American softball player and Olympic gold medalist (1996), was born on January 15, 1970.

Stephen Joseph (Steve) Gromek, American professional baseball player (Cleveland Indians and Detroit Tigers), was born on January 15, 1920.

Matthew Thomas (Big Daddy) Holliday, American professional baseball player (Colorado Rockies and Oakland Athletics), was born on January 15, 1980.

American professional basketball player Nathaniel (Nate) Hawthorne (Los Angeles Lakers and Phoenix Suns) was born on January 15, 1951.