15 September: today's birthdays

• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Nigerian writer of Igbo decent. She wrote Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun
• Jacques Becker - French film director and screenwriter
• Josh Charles - American actor
  
• Agatha Christie - Pen name of English writer Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller. She created the fictional character Hercule Poirot, a Belgian detective
• Aly Cissokho - French soccer player of Senegalese descent
• François de La Rochefoucauld - French writer and philosopher. He wrote Memoirs and Maximes
• Fernando De la Rúa - Argentine politician
• Porfirio Díaz - Mexican politician
• Anne Geddes - Australian photographer. She is best known for her images about newborn babies
• Tommy Lee Jones - American actor and film director
• Emmerson Mnangagwa - Zimbabwean politician, born Emmerson Dambudziko Garwe Mnangagwa. He is currently serving as the President of Zimbabwe
• Johan Neeskens - Dutch soccer player
• Oliver Stone - American film director and screenwriter. He won an Oscar for Writing Adapted Screenplay and two Oscars for Best Director