15 April: today's birthdays

• Alice Braga - Brazilian actress
  
• Jedaias Capucho Neves - Brazilian soccer player
• Leonardo da Vinci - Italian painter, engineer and scientist. Considered a polymath, a "universal genius", his most famous works are Mona Lisa, The last Supper, The Vitruvian Man, and Lady with an Ermine
• Georges Descrières - French actor
• Émile Durkheim - French sociologist and philosopher, considered the father of Sociology
• Luke Evans - English actor
  
• David Hamilton - English photographer
• Henry James - American writer
  
• Bruno Le Maire - French politician 
• Jean Moréas - Greek-born French poet, writer and art critic
• Miguel Ángel Oca - Spanish water polo player
• Emma Thompson - English actress and screenwriter. She was married to Irish actor and film director Kenneth Branagh
• Tomas Tranströmer - Swedish writer, poet and translator, Nobel Prize in Literature in 2011
• Emma Watson - English actress born in France
• Max Wertheimer - Czech psychologist
• Benjamin Zephaniah - English writer and poet