15 November: today's birthdays

• James Graham Ballard - English novelist,  short story writer, and essayist. His literary genre is Science fiction. He is best-known as J. G. Ballard
• J. G. Ballard - James Graham Ballard, English novelist,  short story writer, and essayist. His literary genre is Science fiction and transgressive fiction
• Daniel Barenboim - Argentine-Israeli pianist and conductor
• André Chastel - French art historian. He was an expert on Italian Renaissance
• Éder Citadin Martins - Brazilian-born Italian professional footballer
• Petula Clark - English singer, composer, and actress. She was the singer of 1960s hit Downtown
• Anna-Élisabeth de Noailles - French writer and poet of Romanian descent
• Sofia Goggia - Italian alpine ski racer
• Gerhart Hauptmann - German dramatist and novelist, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912. He wrote The Weavers and The Rats
• William Herschel - German-born English astronomer, physicist and musician
• W. H. Hodgson - William Hope Hodgson, English writer. He wrote the novels The Night Land and The House on the Borderland 
• William Hope Hodgson - English writer, best-known as W. H. Hodgson. He wrote the novels The Night Land and The House on the Borderland 
• Chad Kroeger - Canadian singer and guitarist. He is married to Canadian singer and songwriter Avril Lavigne
• Aleksander Kwaśniewski - Polish politician
• Georgia O'Keeffe - American painter, born Georgia Totto O'Keeffe, best-known for her paintings of flowers and enlarged blossoms
• François Ozon - French film director and screenwriter. He graduated in History of film
• Luke Rhinehart - American writer, born George Powers Cockcroft. He wrote The Dice Man 
• Shailene Woodley - American actress, born Shailene Diann Woodley