Portal:Paleontology/On this day/January 15
- 1798 - Samuel Stutchbury was born in London, England.
- 1902 - Alpheus Hyatt died in Massachusetts, USA.
- 1932 - Rajko Pavlovec was born in Ljubljana, Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
- 1955 - Clive Finlayson was born in Gibraltar.
- 1979 - Yang Zhongjian died.
- 1983 - Armin Öpik died in Canberra, Australia.
- 2004 - Stoycho Vassilev Breskovski died in Sofia, Bulgaria at age 69.
- 2014 - Florian Witzmann and others reported evidence for spondyloarthropathy in the backbone of a Late Triassic phytosaur from Halberstadt, Germany.