diff --git a/docs/changes.txt b/docs/changes.txt
index d822b9852f..865271b1e8 100644
--- a/docs/changes.txt
+++ b/docs/changes.txt
@@ -576,6 +576,7 @@ All (GUI):
 - Add wxPropertyGridPageState::GetColumnFullWidth() (Teodor Petrov).
 - wxRTC: extracted XML utilities into a separate class for potential reuse.
 - wxPropertyGrid: improve composite flags handling (Jens Lody).
+- Don't crash laying out wxGridBagSizer with only hidden elements (briceandre).
 
 wxGTK:
 
diff --git a/src/common/gbsizer.cpp b/src/common/gbsizer.cpp
index 1a1dda0928..88a6394175 100644
--- a/src/common/gbsizer.cpp
+++ b/src/common/gbsizer.cpp
@@ -505,7 +505,11 @@ wxSize wxGridBagSizer::CalcMin()
 
 void wxGridBagSizer::RecalcSizes()
 {
-    if (m_children.GetCount() == 0)
+    // We can't lay out our elements if we don't have at least a single row and
+    // a single column. Notice that this may happen even if we have some
+    // children but all of them are hidden, so checking for m_children being
+    // non-empty is not enough, see #15475.
+    if ( m_rowHeights.empty() || m_colWidths.empty() )
         return;
 
     wxPoint pt( GetPosition() );