Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/August 15

1769 - Napoleon Bonaparte, (pictured) Emperor of the French (d. 1821)
1771 - Sir Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet (d. 1832)
1875 - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, English composer (d. 1912)
1878 - Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1928)
1879 - Ethel Barrymore, American actress (d. 1959)
1892 - Louis, 7th duc de Broglie, French physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1987)
1924 - Robert Bolt, English playwright and Oscar-winning screenwriter (d. 1995)
1945 - Begum Khaleda Zia, Bangladeshi politician
1950 - The Princess Anne, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom
1972 - Ben Affleck, American actor