December 15th All Events |
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| December 15th, 2037 (December 15 2037) | Birth | Nero, Roman Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (died in 68) | Claudian Quotes |
| December 15th, 2007 (December 15 2007) | Death | John Berg (actor), American actor (born in 1949) | |
| December 15th, 2007 (December 15 2007) | Death | Julia Carson, U.S. Congresswoman from Indiana (born in 1938) | |
| December 15th, 2006 (December 15 2006) | Event | First flight of the F-35 Lightning II. | |
| December 15th, 2006 (December 15 2006) | Death | Clay Regazzoni, Swiss Formula One driver (born in 1939) | |
| December 15th, 2005 (December 15 2005) | Event | Latvia amends its constitution to eliminate possibility of same-sex couples being entitled to marry. | |
| December 15th, 2005 (December 15 2005) | Event | Argentina s president Nestor Kirchner announces the early repayment of its external debt to the IMF. | |
| December 15th, 2005 (December 15 2005) | Event | Introduction of the F-22 Raptor into USAF active service. | |
| December 15th, 2005 (December 15 2005) | Event | The 2005 Atlantic Power Outage began. | |
| December 15th, 2005 (December 15 2005) | Death | Heinrich Gross, Austrian physician (born in 1914) | |
| December 15th, 2005 (December 15 2005) | Death | Stan Leonard, Canadian golfer (born in 1915) | |
| December 15th, 2005 (December 15 2005) | Death | William Proxmire, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (born in 1915) | |
| December 15th, 2005 (December 15 2005) | Death | Darrell Russell, American football player (born in 1976) | |
| December 15th, 2004 (December 15 2004) | Death | Pauline Gore, mother of Al Gore (born in 1912) | |
| December 15th, 2003 (December 15 2003) | Death | George Fisher, American political cartoonist (born in 1923) | |
| December 15th, 2003 (December 15 2003) | Death | Keith Magnuson, Canadian ice hockey player (born in 1947) | |
| December 15th, 2001 (December 15 2001) | Event | The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 to fortify it, without fixing its famous lean. | |
| December 15th, 2001 (December 15 2001) | Death | Russ Haas, American professional wrestler (born in 1974) | |
| December 15th, 2001 (December 15 2001) | Death | Rufus Thomas, American musician (born in 1917) | |
| December 15th, 1997 (December 15 1997) | Event | A chartered Tupolev TU-154 from Tajikistan crashes in the desert near Sharja, United Arab Emirates airport killing 85. | |
| December 15th, 1995 (December 15 1995) | Event | The European Communities Court of Justice hands down the "Bosman ruling", giving EU footballers the right to a free transfer at the end of their contracts, with the provision that they are transferring from one UEFA Federation to another. | |
| December 15th, 1994 (December 15 1994) | Event | Palau becomes a member of the UN. | |
| December 15th, 1993 (December 15 1993) | Event | History of Northern Ireland: The Downing Street Declaration is issued by British Prime Minister John Major and Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds. | John Major Quotes |
| December 15th, 1991 (December 15 1991) | Birth | Eunice Cho, American actress | |
| December 15th, 1991 (December 15 1991) | Death | Vasily Grigoryevich Zaitsev, Soviet sniper (born in 1915) | |
| December 15th, 1989 (December 15 1989) | Death | Arnold Moss, American actor (born in 1910) | |
| December 15th, 1989 (December 15 1989) | Death | Edward Underdown, English actor (born in 1908) | |
| December 15th, 1986 (December 15 1986) | Birth | Snejana Onopka, Ukrainian supermodel | |
| December 15th, 1984 (December 15 1984) | Birth | Joshua Third, British Guitarist in The Horrors. | |
| December 15th, 1984 (December 15 1984) | Birth | Martin Skrtel Slovakian Footballer | |
| December 15th, 1984 (December 15 1984) | Death | Lennard Pearce, English actor (born in 1915) | |
| December 15th, 1984 (December 15 1984) | Death | Jan Peerce, American tenor (born in 1904) | |
| December 15th, 1983 (December 15 1983) | Birth | Rene Goguen (Rene Dupree), Canadian professional wrestler | |
| December 15th, 1983 (December 15 1983) | Birth | Ronnie Radke, American singer (Escape the Fate) | |
| December 15th, 1983 (December 15 1983) | Birth | Wang Hao, Chinese table tennis player | An Wang Quotes |
| December 15th, 1982 (December 15 1982) | Birth | Charlie Cox, English actor | |
| December 15th, 1982 (December 15 1982) | Birth | Borja Garcia, Spanish racing driver | |
| December 15th, 1982 (December 15 1982) | Birth | George O. Gore II, American actor | |
| December 15th, 1981 (December 15 1981) | Birth | Najoua Belyzel, French singer | |
| December 15th, 1981 (December 15 1981) | Birth | Brendan Fletcher, Canadian actor | |
| December 15th, 1981 (December 15 1981) | Birth | Andy Gonzalez, Puerto Rican baseball player | |
| December 15th, 1981 (December 15 1981) | Birth | Thomas Herrion, American football player (died in 2005) | |
| December 15th, 1981 (December 15 1981) | Birth | Creighton Lovelace, American Baptist minister | |
| December 15th, 1981 (December 15 1981) | Birth | Roman Pavlyuchenko, Russian football player | |
| December 15th, 1980 (December 15 1980) | Birth | Sergio Pizzorno, English guitarist (Kasabian) | |
| December 15th, 1979 (December 15 1979) | Birth | Adam Brody, American actor | |
| December 15th, 1979 (December 15 1979) | Birth | Eric Young, Canadian professional wrestler | |
| December 15th, 1978 (December 15 1978) | Event | President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will recognize the People s Republic of China and cutoff all relations with Taiwan | Jimmy Carter Quotes |
| December 15th, 1978 (December 15 1978) | Birth | Mark Jansen, Dutch guitarist (Epica) | |
| December 15th, 1978 (December 15 1978) | Birth | Jerome McDougle, American football player | |
| December 15th, 1978 (December 15 1978) | Death | Chill Wills, American actor (born in 1903) | |
| December 15th, 1977 (December 15 1977) | Death | Wilfred Kitching, the 7th General of The Salvation Army (born in 1893) | |
| December 15th, 1976 (December 15 1976) | Event | Samoa becomes a member of the UN. | |
| December 15th, 1976 (December 15 1976) | Birth | Baichung Bhutia, Indian footballer | |
| December 15th, 1976 (December 15 1976) | Birth | Aaron Miles, American baseball player | |
| December 15th, 1976 (December 15 1976) | Birth | Elix Skipper, American professional wrestler | |
| December 15th, 1974 (December 15 1974) | Death | Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-born screenwriter and film producer (born in 1902) | |
| December 15th, 1973 (December 15 1973) | Event | John Paul Getty III, grandson of J. Paul Getty, American billionaire is found alive near Naples, Italy, after being kidnapped by an Italian gang on July 10, 1973 | |
| December 15th, 1973 (December 15 1973) | Birth | Surya Bonaly, French-born American figure skater | |
| December 15th, 1973 (December 15 1973) | Birth | Ryu Seung-wan, South Korean actor and director | |
| December 15th, 1972 (December 15 1972) | Birth | Rodney Harrison, American football player | |
| December 15th, 1972 (December 15 1972) | Birth | Stuart Townsend, Irish actor | |
| December 15th, 1971 (December 15 1971) | Death | Paul Pierre Levy, French mathematician (born in 1886) | |
| December 15th, 1970 (December 15 1970) | Event | Illinois State Constitution is adopted at a special election. | |
| December 15th, 1970 (December 15 1970) | Event | South Korean ferry Namyong Ho capsized off Korean Strait, 308 killed. | |
| December 15th, 1970 (December 15 1970) | Birth | Frankie Dettori, Italian jockey | |
| December 15th, 1970 (December 15 1970) | Birth | Michael Shanks, Canadian actor | |
| December 15th, 1969 (December 15 1969) | Birth | Chantal Petitclerc, Canadian wheelchair athlete | |
| December 15th, 1968 (December 15 1968) | Birth | Javid Hussain, Indian film producer | |
| December 15th, 1968 (December 15 1968) | Birth | Osama Ali Maher, Swedish politician | |
| December 15th, 1968 (December 15 1968) | Birth | Garrett Wang, American actor | An Wang Quotes |
| December 15th, 1968 (December 15 1968) | Death | Antonio Barrette, Canadian politician, premier of Quebec (born in 1899) | |
| December 15th, 1968 (December 15 1968) | Death | Jess Willard, American boxer (born in 1881) | |
| December 15th, 1967 (December 15 1967) | Event | The Silver Bridge collapses, killing 46 people. | |
| December 15th, 1967 (December 15 1967) | Birth | David Howells, English footballer | |
| December 15th, 1967 (December 15 1967) | Birth | Mo Vaughn, American baseball player | |
| December 15th, 1966 (December 15 1966) | Birth | Manos Papayiannis, Greek fashion model and actor | |
| December 15th, 1966 (December 15 1966) | Death | Walt Disney, American animator (born in 1901) | Walt Disney Quotes |
| December 15th, 1965 (December 15 1965) | Event | Gemini program: Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford, is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Four orbits later, it achieved the first space rendezvous with Gemini 7. | |
| December 15th, 1963 (December 15 1963) | Birth | Andrew Luster, Max Factor heir | |
| December 15th, 1963 (December 15 1963) | Birth | Helen Slater, American actress | |
| December 15th, 1962 (December 15 1962) | Death | Charles Laughton, English actor (born in 1899) | |
| December 15th, 1961 (December 15 1961) | Event | In Jerusalem, Adolph Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people and membership of an outlawed organization. | |
| December 15th, 1961 (December 15 1961) | Birth | Karin Resetarits, Austrian journalist | |
| December 15th, 1960 (December 15 1960) | Event | King Baudouin of Belgium marries Fabiola Fernanda Maria de las Victorias Antonia Adelaida de Mora y Aragon in Brussels. | |
| December 15th, 1960 (December 15 1960) | Event | Richard Paul Pavlick is arrested for attempting to blow up and assassinate the U.S. President-Elect, John F. Kennedy only four days earlier. | John F. Kennedy Quotes |
| December 15th, 1960 (December 15 1960) | Birth | Walter Werzowa, Austrian composer | |
| December 15th, 1958 (December 15 1958) | Birth | Eddy Annys, Belgian high jumper | |
| December 15th, 1958 (December 15 1958) | Death | Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born American physicist, Nobel laureate (born in 1900) | Wolfgang Pauli Quotes |
| December 15th, 1957 (December 15 1957) | Birth | Mario Marois, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| December 15th, 1957 (December 15 1957) | Birth | Mike McAlary, American journalist (died in 1998) | |
| December 15th, 1957 (December 15 1957) | Birth | Yuuichi Nagashima, Japanese voice actor | |
| December 15th, 1957 (December 15 1957) | Birth | Laura Molina, American artist, musician and actress | |
| December 15th, 1955 (December 15 1955) | Birth | Paul Simonon, English bassist (The Clash) | Paul Simon Quotes |
| December 15th, 1953 (December 15 1953) | Birth | J. M. DeMatteis, American comic book writer | |
| December 15th, 1952 (December 15 1952) | Birth | Allan Simonsen, Danish footballer | |
| December 15th, 1952 (December 15 1952) | Birth | Julie Taymor, American director | |
| December 15th, 1950 (December 15 1950) | Death | Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian political leader, Iron Man of India (born in 1875) | |
| December 15th, 1949 (December 15 1949) | Birth | Don Johnson, American actor | |
| December 15th, 1948 (December 15 1948) | Birth | Melanie Chartoff, American actress | |
| December 15th, 1948 (December 15 1948) | Birth | Cassandra Harris, Australian actress (died in 1991) | |
| December 15th, 1947 (December 15 1947) | Death | Arthur Machen, Welsh author (born in 1863) | |
| December 15th, 1946 (December 15 1946) | Birth | Art Howe, American baseball player and manager | |
| December 15th, 1945 (December 15 1945) | Event | Occupation of Japan: General Douglas MacArthur orders that Shinto be abolished as state religion of Japan. | Douglas MacArthur Quotes |
| December 15th, 1945 (December 15 1945) | Birth | Thaao Penghlis, Australian actor | |
| December 15th, 1944 (December 15 1944) | Birth | Jim Leyland, American baseball manager | |
| December 15th, 1944 (December 15 1944) | Birth | Chico Mendes, Brazilian campaigner (died in 1988) | |
| December 15th, 1944 (December 15 1944) | Death | Glenn Miller, American musician (later declared dead on this date, exact date of death unknown) (born in 1904) | |
| December 15th, 1943 (December 15 1943) | Birth | Kathleen Blanco, American politician | |
| December 15th, 1943 (December 15 1943) | Birth | Lucien den Arend, Dutch artist | |
| December 15th, 1943 (December 15 1943) | Death | Fats Waller, American musician (born in 1904) | |
| December 15th, 1942 (December 15 1942) | Event | The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse begins during the Guadalcanal campaign. | |
| December 15th, 1942 (December 15 1942) | Birth | Dave Clark, English musician (The Dave Clark Five) | |
| December 15th, 1941 (December 15 1941) | Event | Annihilation of Jews in Kharkiv, Ukraine: at temperatures of -15 degrees C below zero near the Rogan works, 8 km away from Kharkiv in "Drobitsky Ravine" (Drobitsky Yar), over 15 000 Jews are shot. | |
| December 15th, 1941 (December 15 1941) | Event | The American Federation of Labor adopts a no-strike policy in war industries. | |
| December 15th, 1940 (December 15 1940) | Birth | Nick Buoniconti, American football player | |
| December 15th, 1939 (December 15 1939) | Event | Gone with the Wind premiered at Loew s Grand Theater in Atlanta, GA, USA. | |
| December 15th, 1939 (December 15 1939) | Birth | Cindy Birdsong, American singer (The Supremes) | |
| December 15th, 1938 (December 15 1938) | Birth | Billy Shaw, American football player | |
| December 15th, 1933 (December 15 1933) | Birth | Bapu, Indian cartoonist, designer and film director | |
| December 15th, 1933 (December 15 1933) | Birth | Tim Conway, American actor and comedian | |
| December 15th, 1933 (December 15 1933) | Birth | Donald Woods, South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist (died in 2001) | |
| December 15th, 1932 (December 15 1932) | Birth | Jesse Belvin, American musician (died in 1960) | |
| December 15th, 1930 (December 15 1930) | Birth | Edna O Brien, Irish novelist and short story writer | |
| December 15th, 1929 (December 15 1929) | Birth | Barry Harris, American bebop jazz pianist | |
| December 15th, 1928 (December 15 1928) | Birth | Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist (died in 2000) | Friedensreich Hundertwasser Quotes |
| December 15th, 1928 (December 15 1928) | Birth | Jerry Wallace, American singer | |
| December 15th, 1925 (December 15 1925) | Birth | Sam Pollock, Canadian ice hockey general manager | |
| December 15th, 1925 (December 15 1925) | Birth | Kasey Rogers, American actress (died in 2006) | |
| December 15th, 1923 (December 15 1923) | Birth | Freeman Dyson, English-born American physicist | Freeman Dyson Quotes |
| December 15th, 1923 (December 15 1923) | Birth | Uziel Gal, Israeli firearm designer (died in 2002) | |
| December 15th, 1923 (December 15 1923) | Birth | Valentin Varennikov, Russian general and statesman | |
| December 15th, 1921 (December 15 1921) | Birth | Alan Freed, American disc jockey (died in 1965) | |
| December 15th, 1920 (December 15 1920) | Birth | Kurt Schaffenberger, American comics artist (died in 2002) | Ric Berger Quotes |
| December 15th, 1919 (December 15 1919) | Birth | Max Yasgur, owner of the Woodstock Festival site (died in 1973) | |
| December 15th, 1918 (December 15 1918) | Birth | Jeff Chandler, American actor (died in 1961) | |
| December 15th, 1917 (December 15 1917) | Event | World War I: An armistice is reached between the new Bolshevik government and the Central Powers. | |
| December 15th, 1917 (December 15 1917) | Birth | Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee, linguist and writer of Pakistan (died in 2005) | |
| December 15th, 1916 (December 15 1916) | Birth | Buddy Cole, American pianist (died in 1964) | |
| December 15th, 1916 (December 15 1916) | Birth | Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-born physicist, Nobel laureate (died in 2004) | |
| December 15th, 1915 (December 15 1915) | Event | World War I: Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig replaces John French, 1st Earl of Ypres as Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force. | |
| December 15th, 1914 (December 15 1914) | Event | World War I: The Serbian Army recaptures Belgrade from the invading Austro-Hungarian Army. | |
| December 15th, 1914 (December 15 1914) | Event | Gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hojyo coal mine, Kyushu, Japan, 687 killedied in This accident is the worst coal mine disaster in Japanese history. | |
| December 15th, 1913 (December 15 1913) | Event | Nicaragua becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. | |
| December 15th, 1913 (December 15 1913) | Birth | Roger Gaudry, French Canadian chemist, businessman and corporate director (died in 2001) | |
| December 15th, 1913 (December 15 1913) | Birth | Muriel Rukeyser, American poet (died in 1980) | |
| December 15th, 1912 (December 15 1912) | Birth | Ray Eames, American designer (died in 1988) | |
| December 15th, 1911 (December 15 1911) | Birth | Stan Kenton, American musician (died in 1979) | |
| December 15th, 1910 (December 15 1910) | Birth | John H. Hammond, American musician (died in 1987) | |
| December 15th, 1907 (December 15 1907) | Birth | Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect | Oscar Niemeyer Quotes |
| December 15th, 1902 (December 15 1902) | Birth | Robert F. Bradford, 57th Governor of Massachusetts (died in 1983) | |
| December 15th, 1899 (December 15 1899) | Birth | Harold Abrahams, English sprinter (died in 1978) | Abraham Quotes |
| December 15th, 1896 (December 15 1896) | Birth | Betty Smith, American author (died in 1972) | |
| December 15th, 1892 (December 15 1892) | Birth | J. Paul Getty, American oil tycoon (died in 1976) | |
| December 15th, 1891 (December 15 1891) | Event | James Naismith introduces the first version of basketball, with thirteen rules, a peach basket nailed to either end of his school s gymnasium, and two teams of nine players. | James Smith Quotes |
| December 15th, 1890 (December 15 1890) | Death | Sitting Bull, Sioux nation leader (born in circa 1831) | |
| December 15th, 1888 (December 15 1888) | Birth | Maxwell Anderson, American writer (died in 1959) | |
| December 15th, 1878 (December 15 1878) | Birth | Hans Carossa, German writer (died in 1956) | |
| December 15th, 1875 (December 15 1875) | Birth | Emilio Jacinto, Filipino poet and revolutionary (died in 1899) | |
| December 15th, 1868 (December 15 1868) | Event | Shogunate rebels found Ezo Republic in Hokkaido. | |
| December 15th, 1864 (December 15 1864) | Event | In the Battle of Nashville, Union forces under George H. Thomas almost completely destroy the Army of Tennessee under John B. Hood. | Thomas Hood Quotes |
| December 15th, 1863 (December 15 1863) | Event | Romania is using for the first time a mountain railway (from Anina to Oravita). | |
| December 15th, 1861 (December 15 1861) | Birth | Charles Duryea, American automobile pioneer (died in 1938) | |
| December 15th, 1860 (December 15 1860) | Birth | Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish physician, Nobel laureate (died in 1904) | |
| December 15th, 1860 (December 15 1860) | Birth | Abner Powell, American baseball player (died in 1953) | |
| December 15th, 1859 (December 15 1859) | Birth | L. L. Zamenhof, Polish initiator of Esperanto (died in 1917) | |
| December 15th, 1855 (December 15 1855) | Death | Jacques Charles Francois Sturm, French mathematician (born in 1803) | |
| December 15th, 1852 (December 15 1852) | Birth | Henri Becquerel, French physicist, Nobel laureate (died in 1908) | |
| December 15th, 1832 (December 15 1832) | Birth | Gustave Eiffel, French engineer and architect (Eiffel tower) (died in 1923) | |
| December 15th, 1792 (December 15 1792) | Death | Joseph Martin Kraus, Swedish composer (born in 1756) | Jose Marti Quotes |
| December 15th, 1791 (December 15 1791) | Event | The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia legislature. | |
| December 15th, 1753 (December 15 1753) | Death | Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect (born in 1694) | |
| December 15th, 1715 (December 15 1715) | Death | George Hickes, English minister and scholar (born in 1642) | |
| December 15th, 1688 (December 15 1688) | Death | Gaspar Fagel, Dutch statesman (born in 1634) | |
| December 15th, 1683 (December 15 1683) | Death | Izaak Walton, English writer (born in 1593) | |
| December 15th, 1675 (December 15 1675) | Death | Johannes Vermeer, Dutch painter (born in 1632) | |
| December 15th, 1673 (December 15 1673) | Death | Margaret Cavendish, English writer (born in 1623) | |
| December 15th, 1621 (December 15 1621) | Death | Charles de Luynes, Constable of France (born in 1578) | |
| December 15th, 1598 (December 15 1598) | Death | Philips van Marnix, lord of Sint-Aldegonde, Dutch writer and statesman (born in 1538) | |
| December 15th, 1467 (December 15 1467) | Event | Stephen III of Moldavia defeats Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, with the latter being injured thrice, at the Battle of Baia. | |
| December 15th, 1263 (December 15 1263) | Death | King Haakon IV of Norway (born in 1204) | |
| December 15th, 1256 (December 15 1256) | Event | Hulagu Khan captures and destroys the Hashshashin stronghold at Alamut in present-day Iran as part of the Mongol offensive on Islamic southwest Asia. | |
| December 15th, 1230 (December 15 1230) | Death | King Otakar I of Bohemia | |
| December 15th, 1167 (December 15 1167) | Event | Sicilian chancellor Stephen du Perche moves the royal court to Messina to prevent a rebellion. | |
| December 15th, 1072 (December 15 1072) | Death | Alp Arslan, Turkish sultan in Persia (born in 1029) | Alp Arslan Quotes |
| December 15th, 1025 (December 15 1025) | Death | Basil II, Byzantine Emperor (born in 958) | |
| December 15th, 0533 (December 15 0533) | Event | Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer, at the Battle of Ticameron. | |
