May 15

Events

 * 1501 - First modern-style music publishing house founded by Ottaviano Petrucci
 * 2001 - completes satellite system

Births

 * 1567 – (baptism) Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer (d. 1643)
 * 1912 –, American composer (d. 2003)
 * 1918 –, American country music singer (d. 2008)
 * 1923 –, English composer (d. 2003)
 * 1937 –, American musician
 * 1938 –, American singer
 * 1941 –, American musician
 * 1945 –, Swedish singer
 * 1947 –, Australian musician, singer/songwriter, and record producer (co-founding member of Little River Band)
 * 1948 –, English musician and record producer
 * 1953 –, English composer
 * 1959 –, English singer and songwriter (The Sisters of Mercy)
 * 1961 –, American musician
 * 1966 –, English musician (Saint Etienne)
 * 1968 –, American musician
 * 1969 –, Syrian singer
 * 1970 –, Welsh Musician
 * 1974 –, American musician
 * 1975 –, Swedish Musician
 * 1982 –, American dancer, singer and actress (The Pussycat Dolls)
 * 1983 –, American guitarist (Avril Lavigne)
 * 1995 –, Belarusian singer