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December 15
December 15 is the 349th day of the year (350th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 16 days remaining.
Events:
Births:
- 37 - Nero, Roman emperor (+ 68)
- 130 - Lucius Verus, Roman emperor (+ 169)
- 1613 - La Rochefoucauld[?], writer (+ 1680)
- 1832 - Gustave Eiffel, civil engineer (+ 1923)
- 1852 - Antoine Henri Becquerel, physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1903 (+ 1908)
- 1859 - L. L. Zamenhof, initiator of Esperanto
- 1861 - Charles Duryea[?], automobile pioneer (+ 1938)
- 1888 - Maxwell Anderson[?], writer (+ 1959)
- 1892 - J. Paul Getty, oil tycoon (+ 1976)
- 1910 - John Hammond[?], musician
- 1912 - Ray Eames, American designer (+ 1988)
- 1912 - Stan Kenton[?], musician (+ 1979)
- 1916 - Buddy Cole, pianist (+ 1964)
- 1918 - Jeff Chandler, actor (+ 1961)
- 1922 - Alan Freed, disc jockey (+ 1965)
- 1923 - Freeman Dyson, physicist
- 1928 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, painter and graphic artist (+ 2000)
- 1933 - Tim Conway[?], actor, comedian
- 1938 - Michael Bogdanov[?], film director and theatre manager
- 1942 - Dave Clark[?], musician ("Dave Clark Five")
- 1959 - Don Johnson, actor
Deaths:
- 1025 - Basil II, Byzantine emperor
- 1072 - Alp Arslan, Seljuk sultan
- 1263 - King Haakon IV of Norway
- 1816 - Charles Stanhope[?], engineer, inventor of the calculator
- 1890 - Sitting Bull, Sioux nation leader
- 1943 - Fats Waller, musician
- 1944 - Glenn Miller, bandleader (presumed date)
- 1958 - Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, physicist
- 1966 - Walt Disney, animator, cartoonist
- 1968 - Jess Willard[?], boxer
- 1975 - Anatole Litvak[?], writer
Holidays and Observances:
See Also:
December 14 - December 16 - November 15 - January 15 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July,
August, September, October, November, December
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