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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
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37 - Nero, Roman emperor (d. 68)
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130 - Lucius Verus, Roman emperor (d. 169)
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1242 - Prince Munetaka, Shogun of Japan (d. 1274)
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1802 - János Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician
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1832 - Gustave Eiffel, civil engineer (d. 1923)
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1852 - Antoine Henri Becquerel, French physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1903 (d. 1908)
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1859 - L. L. Zamenhof, initiator of Esperanto (d. 1917)
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1860 - Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish physician (d. 1904)
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1861 - Charles Duryea, automobile pioneer (d. 1938)
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1888 - Maxwell Anderson, writer (d. 1959)
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1892 - J. Paul Getty, oil tycoon (d. 1976)
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1899 - Harold Abrahams, British athlete (d. 1978)
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1907 - Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect
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1910 - John Hammond, musician (d. 1987)
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1912 - Ray Eames, American designer (d. 1988)
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1912 - Stan Kenton, musician (d. 1979)
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1916 - Buddy Cole, pianist (d. 1964)
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1918 - Jeff Chandler, actor (d. 1961)
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1922 - Alan Freed, disc jockey (d. 1965)
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1923 - Freeman Dyson, physicist
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1928 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, painter and graphic artist (d. 2000)
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1933 - Tim Conway, actor, comedian
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1938 - Michael Bogdanov , film director and theatre manager
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1938 - Billy Shaw, Pro Football Hall of Famer
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1939 - Cindy Birdsong, singer, member of the Supremes
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1942 - Dave Clark, musician ("Dave Clark Five")
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1949 - Don Johnson, actor (Miami Vice)
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1952 - Cassandra Harris Australian actress (d. 1991)
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1955 - Paul Simonon, musician
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1961 - Karin Resetarits, Austrian journalist and politician
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1968 - Javid Hussain, film producer
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1969 - Rick Law, illustrator, producer
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1973 - Surya Bonaly, figure skater
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1976 - Baichung Bhutia, football player
Deaths
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1025 - Basil II, Byzantine emperor (b. 958)
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1072 - Alp Arslan, Seljuk sultan (b. 1029)
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1263 - King Haakon IV of Norway (b. 1204)
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1683 - Izaak Walton, writer (b. 1593)
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1792 - Joseph Martin Kraus, composer (b. 1756)
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1816 - Charles Stanhope , engineer, inventor of the calculator
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1872 - Mary Anne Evans, wife of Benjamin Disraeli (b. 1792)
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1890 - Sitting Bull, Sioux nation leader (b. c.1831)
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1943 - Fats Waller, musician (b. 1904)
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1944 - Glenn Miller, bandleader (presumed date) (b. 1904)
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1958 - Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, physicist (b. 1900)
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1966 - Walt Disney, animator, cartoonist (b. 1901)
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1968 - Jess Willard, boxer
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1970 - Michael Shanks, Canadian actor.
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1975 - Anatole Litvak, writer
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1984 - Jan Peerce, American tenor (b. 1904)
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1991 - Vasily Zaitsev, Soviet sniper, World War II hero.
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2001 - Rufus Thomas, musician (b. 1917)
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2003 - Johnny Cunningham , Scottish musician, member of Silly Wizard
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2003 - George Fisher, American political cartoonist
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2003 - Keith Magnuson , National Hockey League player (car accident)
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2004 - Chiang Fang-liang, the widow of Chiang Ching-kuo and the First Lady of the Republic of China on Taiwan from 1978 to 1988.
Holidays and observances
External links
December 14 - December 16 - November 15 - January 15 -- listing of all days
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