Famous People Born on December 15
Famous people born on December 15 include L. L. Zamenhof (1859), Henri Becquerel (1852) and Gustave Eiffel (1832).
MORE FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
L. L. Zamenhof
Creator of Esperanto (1859–1917)
Henri Becquerel
French physicist (1852–1908)
Gustave Eiffel
French civil engineer (1832–1923)
Oscar Niemeyer
Brazilian architect (1907–2012)
Lucius Verus
Roman emperor from 161 to 169
Freeman Dyson
British theoretical physicist and mathematician (1923–2020)
Keylor Navas
Costa Rican footballer (born 1986)
Maurice Wilkins
New Zealand-born British biophysicist (1916–2004)
Niels Ryberg Finsen
Faroese physician and Nobel laureate (1860–1904)
J. Paul Getty
American industrialist (1892–1976)
Roman Pavlyuchenko
Russian footballer (born 1981)
Tim Conway
American actor and comedian (1933–2019)
Jesse Lingard
English footballer (born 1992)
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Austrian-born visual artist (1928–2000)
Don Johnson
American actor (born 1949)
DIED ON THIS DAY
Johannes Vermeer
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Sitting Bull
Lakota leader who defeated Custer at Little Bighorn
Walt Disney
Created Mickey Mouse, Disney empire
MORE FAMOUS DEATHS
Wolfgang Pauli
Austrian physicist (1900–1958)
Vallabhbhai Patel
Indian independence activist (1875–1950)
Christopher Hitchens
British and American author and journalist (1949–2011)
Selim II
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1566 to 1574
Joan Fontaine
British-American actress (1917–2013)
Basil II
Byzantine emperor from 976 to 1025
Alp Arslan
Sultan of the Seljuk Empire from 1063 to 1072
Charles Laughton
British actor (1899–1962)
Glenn Miller
American big band musician (1904–1944)
Blake Edwards
American filmmaker (1922–2010)
Sources
- December 15 — Wikipedia. Births and deaths on this date
- Johannes Vermeer — Wikipedia
- Sitting Bull — Wikipedia
- Walt Disney — Wikipedia
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation. Birth years under More famous deaths