December 15 Events in History
| 1997 | San Francisco 49ers retire Joe Montana's #16 |
| 1996 | Dottie Pepper and Juli Inkster win LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches |
| 1996 | Jim Colbert and Bob Murphy wins Diner's Club Senior PGA Golf Matches |
| 1996 | Tom Lehman and Duffy Waldoff wins Diner's Club PGA Golf Matches |
| 1995 | Playboy goes back on sale after 36 year ban in Ireland |
| 1994 | Tuna Christmas opens at Booth Theater New York City for 20 performances |
| 1994 | John Bruton becomes Ireland's premier |
| 1994 | Liberia militia kills 48 inhabitants of Monrovia |
| 1993 | C-130 flies into a Philippines hill and explodes, 16 killed |
| 1993 | Haitian premier Robert Malval resigns |
| 1993 | John Williams final appearance as conductor of Boston Pops |
| 1993 | Lee Aspen resigns as Secretary of Defense |
| 1993 | Y-12 crashes at Phonesavanh, Laos: 18 killed |
| 1993 | British premier Major/Irish premier Reynolds signs Downing Street Declaration concerning Northern Ireland self determination |
| 1992 | Arthur Ashe is named Sports Illustrated Sportman of Year |
| 1992 | WNew AM (1130) New York City resigns air, replaced by WBBR |
| 1991 | Nick and Nora closes at Marquis Theater New York City after 9 performances |
| 1991 | Deb Richard wins JBP Cup LPGA Match Play Golf Championship |
| 1990 | Rocker Rod Stewart marries super model Rachel Hunter |
| 1988 | Lori Davis of Long Island sues Mike Tyson for grabbing her buttocks |
| 1987 | Les Miserables opens at Shubert Theatre, Boston |
| 1986 | 150 killed during race riot in Karachi |
| 1986 | CIA director William Casey suffers a cerebral seizure |
| 1986 | Carnegie Hall reopens after a $50 million facelift |
| 1985 | Sylvester Stallone and Brigitte Nielson wed |
| 1984 | U.S.S.R. launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet |
| 1983 | 3 Kansas City Royals suspended due to cocaine usage |
| 1983 | Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via El Paso, Kelly AFB |
| 1983 | Last 80 U.S. combat soldiers in Grenada withdrew |
| 1983 | Wendy Wasserstein's "Isn't It Romantic," premieres in New York City |
| 1982 | Bill Parcells becomes 12th head coach of New York Giants |
| 1982 | Roy Williams, Teamsters president, and 4 others convicted of bribery |
| 1982 | Sao Tome and Principe constitution approved |
| 1982 | Spain reopens border with Gibraltar |
| 1981 | 4th Emmy Sports Award presentation |
| 1981 | NASA launches Intelsat V |
| 1980 | New York Yankee Dave Winfield becomes highest-paid player, 10 years $15M |
| 1980 | Premier Queddei troops conquers Chad capital N'djamena |
| 1980 | ZBZ Sangha registered after 5 years of administrative hassles in Warsaw |
| 1979 | Deposed Shah of Iran leaves U.S. for Panama |
| 1979 | World Court in Hague rules Iran should relase all U.S. hostages |
| 1978 | Saint Maarten Patriotic Movement (SPM) forms under W James |
| 1978 | Test Cricket debut of Malcolm Marshall, vs. India at Bangalore |
| 1976 | Argo Merchant tanker off Massachusetts' SE coast, spills 7.6 m gallons of crude when ship ran aground |
| 1976 | Jamaica premier Manley wins elections |
| 1974 | A's Catfish Hunter is ruled a free agent (later signs with Yankees) |
| 1973 | American Psychiatric Association declares homosexuality is not mental illness |
| 1973 | Golf Resort (Disney Inn) opens |
| 1973 | Pirates of Caribbean ride opens at Disneyland |
| 1973 | Sandy Hawley becomes 1st jockey to win 500 races in 1 year |
| 1973 | Tennessee beats Temple 11-6 in low scoring NCAA basketball game |
| 1973 | U.S. Psychiatrist say homosexuals are not mentally ill |
| 1971 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1970 | Ferryboat capsized in Korean Strait drowning 261 |
| 1970 | S Korean ferry Namyong-Ho sinks in Strait of Korea, 308 killed |
| 1970 | Soviet Venera 7 is 1st spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus) |
| 1969 | Plastic Ono Band, play their only concert at London's Lyceum Ballroom |
| 1969 | San Francisco Fire Department replaces leather helmets with plastic ones |
| 1967 | Beatles release "Christmas Time is Here Again" |
| 1967 | Joe Garagiola joins Today Show panel |
| 1967 | Silver Bay bridge (Oh-WV) collapes during afternoon rush hour, 34 die |
| 1966 | Joyful Noise opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 12 performances |
| 1966 | Audouin Dollfus discovers 10th satellite of Saturn, Janus |
| 1966 | John W Mecom, Jr. becomes 1st owner of New Orlean Saints |
| 1965 | 3rd cyclone of year kills another 15,000 at mouths of Ganges River |
| 1965 | Bangladesh windstorm kills 10,000 |
| 1965 | D Heneker and J Taylor's musical "Charlie Girl," premieres in London |
| 1965 | Gemini 6 launched; makes 1st rendezvous in space (with Gemini 7) |
| 1965 | Queen Juliana opens Zeeland Bridge to Oosterschelde |
| 1965 | William Eckert replaces Ford Frick as 4th commissioner of baseball |
| 1964 | 1st time 4 people in space |
| 1964 | American Radio Relay League (organization for hams) founded |
| 1964 | Canada adopts maple leaf flag |
| 1962 | Vaughn Meader's "1st Family," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 12 weeks |
| 1961 | Adolf Eichmann convicted of crimes against humanity in Israel |
| 1961 | Equal access rule, political parties get TV broadcasting time |
| 1961 | John F. Kennedy visits Puerto Rico |
| 1961 | L J Suenens appointed archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels |
| 1960 | King Boudouin of Belgium marries dona Fabiola de Mora y Aragon |
| 1959 | Everly Brothers record "Let It Be Me" |
| 1956 | Emergency crisis in North Ireland proclaimed after IRA strikes |
| 1956 | KGW TV channel 8 in Portland, OR (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1956 | WRAL TV channel 5 in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1954 | Fordham University scraps football team for financial reasons |
| 1954 | Netherlands Antilles becomes co-equal part of Kingdom of Netherlands |
| 1953 | WJHG TV channel 7 in Panama City, Florida (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | Two's Company opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 90 performances |
| 1952 | Christine Jorgenson is 1st person to undergo a sex-change operation |
| 1952 | KHON TV channel 2 in Honolulu, HI (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Orientales Ecclesias |
| 1950 | Ezzard Charles KOs Nick Barone to retain heavyweight boxing title |
| 1950 | New York City's Port Authority opens |
| 1949 | Albert Camus' "Les Justes" premieres in Paris |
| 1948 | Former state department official Alger Hiss indicted in New York City for perjury |
| 1946 | Chicago Bears beat New York Giants 24-14 in NFL championship game |
| 1946 | Giants Filchock and Hapes suspended by NFL, didn't report bribe attempt |
| 1945 | John J "Cardinal" O'Connor, ordained as a priest |
| 1944 | Hizbu'allah (Arm forces for Allah) forms |
| 1944 | U.S. Congress gives General Eisenhower his 5th star |
| 1944 | U.S. troops lands on Mindoro |
| 1942 | Massachusetts issues 1st U.S. vehicular license plate tabs |
| 1941 | Gas/electrical use restricted in Holland |
| 1941 | German submarine U-127 sinks |
| 1941 | North Africa: allied assault up Italians Gazala-posing |
| 1941 | USS Swordfish becomes 1st U.S. submarine to sink a Japanese ship |
| 1939 | Gone With the Wind premieres in Atlanta |
| 1939 | 1st commercial manufacture of nylon yarn, Seaford, Delaware |
| 1939 | Snip departs for 1st flight to Paramaribo/Curacao |
| 1938 | Groundbreaking begins for Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C. |
| 1936 | KVL-AM in Seattle Washington changes call letters to KEEN (now KING) |
| 1935 | Detroit Lions win NFL championship |
| 1935 | Max Euwe becomes world champ chess beating Alexander Aljechin |
| 1934 | Fokker F18 Snip flies to Netherlands West Indies |
| 1933 | Baseball owners agree to ban Sunday doubleheaders until after June 15 |
| 1930 | Don Bradman takes his 1st Test Cricket wicket (Ivan Barrow, WI, lbw) |
| 1929 | Walter Mittelholzer flies as 1st about the Kilimanjaro |
| 1927 | Ed Hickman kidnaps child he later beheads |
| 1926 | Facist national symbol elevated in Italy |
| 1925 | 1st hockey game at Madison Square Garden, Mont Candiens 3, New York Americans 1 |
| 1925 | 1st road with a depressed trough (Texas) opens to traffic |
| 1922 | IVVV (association) peace congress on war forms in Hague |
| 1919 | Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Aria da Capo," premieres in New York City |
| 1919 | Fiume (Rijeka) declares it's Independence |
| 1918 | American Jewish Congress holds it's 1st meeting |
| 1917 | Moldavian Republic declares independence from Russia |
| 1916 | French defeat Germans in WW I Battle of Verdun |
| 1914 | Battle of Lodz ends; Russians retreat toward Moscow |
| 1914 | British fleet forfeits chance to destroy German fleet in North Sea |
| 1914 | Swedish troops over run Belgrade in Austria-Hungary |
| 1909 | Thomas J Lynch becomes president of baseball's National League |
| 1899 | Battle at Colenso, South Africa (Boers-British army) |
| 1893 | Dvoraks "From the New World" premieres at Carnegie Hall New York City |
| 1891 | James Naismith invents basketball (Canada) |
| 1877 | Thomas Edison patents phonograph |
| 1874 | 1st reigning king to visit U.S. (of Hawaii) received by President Grant |
| 1864 | Battle of Nashville, TN |
| 1864 | Raid on Stoneman: Abingdon and Glade Springs, VA |
| 1863 | Skirmish at Bean's Station, Tennessee (Knoxville Campaign) |
| 1859 | GR Kirchoff describes chemical composition of Sun |
| 1854 | 1st street-cleaning machine in U.S. 1st used in Philadelphia |
| 1836 | Patent Office burns in Wash, DC |
| 1820 | 1st General pharmacopoeia in U.S. published, Boston |
| 1815 | Rossini gets assignment for Il barbiere di Siviglia |
| 1811 | Earthquake hits New Madrid, Missouri |
| 1810 | 1st Irish magazine in U.S., Shamrock, is published |
| 1794 | Revolutionary Tribunal abolished in France |
| 1792 | 1st life insurance policy issued in U.S. in Philadelphia |
| 1791 | 1st U.S. law school established at University of Pennsylvania |
| 1791 | Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gave its approval |
| 1745 | Battle at Kesseldorf: Prussia beats Saksen and Austria |
| 1688 | Lord Delamere sides with King James II |
| 1680 | Tax revolt on Terschelling due to tax on cereal |
| 1667 | Brandenburg declares himself neutral in Devolutie War |
| 1664 | English colonizing Connecticut |
| 1660 | Philippines: Andres Malongs rebels plunders Bagnotan |
| 1640 | Duke of Braganca crowned King Johan IV of Portugal |
| 1612 | Simon Marius, is 1st to observe Andromeda galaxy through a telescope |
| 1593 | State of Holland grants patent on windmill with crankshaft |
| 1586 | Laevinus Torrentius, becomes bishop of Antwerp |
| 1582 | Leidse university names Rembert Dodoens professor of botany/medicine |
| 1582 | Spanish Netherlands/Denmark/Norway adopt Gregorian calendar |
| 1569 | Westmoreland flees to Scotland |
| 1488 | Bartholomeus Diaz returns to Portugal after sailing round Cape of Good Hope |
| 1124 | Chancellor Haimeric selects pope (Lamberto becomes Honorius II) |
| 687 | St. Sergius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Conon |
December 15th Birthdays in History
| 1985 | Sheeba Reiter, Florida, illegitimate daughter of Jackie Mason |
| 1979 | Adam Brody, American Actor |
| 1978 | Henrietta Nagyova, Nove Zamky Slovakia, tennis star, ITF/Cali-COL |
| 1977 | Catherine Fox, 400m freestyle relay, 1996 Olympics gold |
| 1977 | Larissa Fontaine, born in Chicago, Illinois, gymnast alternate for 1996 Olympics |
| 1974 | Jeffrey van der Stone, soccer player, RKC |
| 1973 | Geoff Stewart, Australian rower 1996 Olympics |
| 1973 | Mike Cherry, quarterback for the New York Giants |
| 1973 | Mirko Ludemann, Weiwasser GER, NHL defenseman, Team Germany, Colorado |
| 1973 | Tammy Melinda Pearman, Brooklyn Ny, soccer forward/defender 1996 Olympics |
| 1972 | Rodney Harrison, NFL safety for the San Diego Chargers |
| 1972 | Stanislav Jasecko, Spisska Nova Ves, hockey defenseman, Team Slovakia |
| 1972 | Stuart Townsend, Irish Actor |
| 1971 | Boudewijk Pahlplatz, soccer player, FC Twente, PSV |
| 1971 | Chris Maumalanga, NFL defensive tackle, Chicago Bears, Az Cardinals |
| 1971 | Eric Bjornson, NFL tight end for the Dallas Cowboys |
| 1971 | Ken Alexander, WLAF linebacker, Barcelona Dragons |
| 1970 | Damon Thomas, NFL wide receiver for the Buffalo Bills |
| 1970 | Lawrence Funderburke, NBA forward for the Sacramento Kings |
| 1970 | Mitchell Butler, NBA guard, Washington Bullets, Cleveland Cavaliers |
| 1969 | Dan Williams, NFL defensive end, Denver Broncos, Kansas City Chiefs |
| 1969 | Sean Briscombe, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, diver 1996 Olympics |
| 1969 | Wayne Simmons, linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs |
| 1968 | Garrett Wang, actor, Star Trek Voyager |
| 1967 | Chris Gioskos, CFL tackle for the Toronto Argonauts |
| 1967 | Christine Larsen, New Westminster BC, synchro swimmer, Silver Medal 1996 Olympics |
| 1967 | Frank Hartley, NFL tight end, Cleveland Browns, San Diego Chargers |
| 1967 | Keith Askins, NBA guard and forward for the Miami Heat |
| 1967 | Mo Vaughn, Norwalk Conn, infielder, Boston Red Sox, MVP-1995 |
| 1966 | Carl Hooper, cricketer, WI off-spin all-rounder |
| 1965 | Kimberly Donley, Aurora, Illinois, playmate, Mar, 1993 |
| 1965 | Walter Reeves, NFL tight end for the Cleveland Browns |
| 1964 | Carlton Bailey, NFL linebacker, Green Bay Packers, Carolina Panthers |
| 1964 | Jerry Ball, NFL defensive tackle, Oakland Raiders, Minnesota Vikings |
| 1963 | Asif Karim, cricketer, slow left-arm bowler for Kenya 1996 World Cup |
| 1963 | David Wingate, NBA guard and forward, Seattle Supersonics |
| 1963 | Helen Slater, New York City, actress, Supergirl, Billie Jean, Ruthless People |
| 1961 | Annie Pujol, Perpignan, French TV hostess, Roue de la Fortune |
| 1961 | Reginald Hudlin, director, House Party |
| 1960 | Don Franklin, actor, Seaquest 2032, Noah Dixon-The Young Riders |
| 1960 | Doug Phelps, Leachville Ar, singer, Kentucky Headhunters-Davy Crockett |
| 1959 | Greg Matthews, cricketer, NSW and Australia off-spin all rounder Yeah yeah |
| 1959 | Heidi Bohay, Somerset, New Jersey, actress, Megan-Hotel |
| 1959 | Rashid Khan, cricketer, 4 Tests for Pakistan 1982-85 |
| 1959 | Donna Brazile, American Politician |
| 1955 | Melanie Chartoff, West Haven, Connecticut, actress, Fridays, Parker Lewis |
| 1955 | Paul Simonon, English pop bassist, Clash-Havana 3 AM |
| 1954 | Alex Cox, born in Bebington, Mereyside, England, screenwriter, film director, independent film producer, actor, author, directed film 'Repo Man', wrote book '10,000 Ways to Die' |
| 1954 | Justin Ross, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Sinatra, Chorus Line, Fan, Quick Change |
| 1954 | Mark Warner, American Politician |
| 1951 | Joe Jordan, Scottish soccer star |
| 1951 | Ken Knox, rock vocalist, Chairmen of the Board |
| 1950 | Ernst Hirsch Ballin, Dutch minister of Justice, 198?-94 |
| 1949 | Don Johnson, born in Flatt Creek, Missouri, actor, Miami Vice, Harrad Experiment |
| 1949 | Ton [Teunis] Sijbrands, Dutch world checkers champion |
| 1948 | David Gwillim, Plymouth England, actor, Island at Top of the World |
| 1946 | Carmine Appice, musician, Have You Heard, Keep on Rolling |
| 1946 | Harry Ray, Hackensack, New Jersey, rock vocalist, Ray, Goodman, Brown |
| 1945 | Thaao Penghlis, actor, Mission Impossible, Tony-Days of Our Life |
| 1944 | Stan Bahnsen, pitcher, New York Yankee, 1968 AL Rookie-of-year |
| 1943 | Mihaly Hesz, Hungary, 1K kayak, Gold Medal 1968 Olympics |
| 1942 | Dave Clark, born in London, England, rock drummer, Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over |
| 1942 | Kathleen Blanco, American Politician |
| 1941 | Austin Savage, Welsh hockey player |
| 1941 | Geoffrey Davies, English actor, Doctor at Sea, Doctor on the Go |
| 1940 | Nick Buoniconti, NFL linebacker for the Miami Dolphins/sportscaster, NBC |
| 1939 | Cindy Birdsong, Camden, New Jersey, rock vocalist, Labelle-Rainbow, Supremes |
| 1939 | Nicolaus A. Huber, composer |
| 1938 | Dennis RB Madide, South African Internal minister of Transkei |
| 1937 | John [Thomas] Sladek, U.S., sci-fi author, Tik-Tok, Bugs |
| 1937 | Karen Morrow, Chic, actress, Aunt Minerva-Tabitha, Jim Nabors Hour |
| 1933 | Jesse Belvin, Texarkana Arkansas, rock vocalist, Mr Easy |
| 1933 | Tim Conway, born in Willoughby, Ohio, comic, McHale's Navy, Carol Burnett Show |
| 1932 | Edna O'Brien, born in Ireland, writer, Fanatic of Heart, Casualties of Peace |
| 1932 | Igor Stuhec, born in Slovenia, composer, studied under Hanns Jelinek at Vienna Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, wrote orchestral works applying textural techniques, and two operas |
| 1931 | Evald Schorm, Prague Czechoslovakia, director, Courage for Every Day |
| 1930 | Alim-ud-Din, cricketer, Pakistani batsman in 25 Tests 1954-62 |
| 1929 | Keith Andrew, cricketer, England wicket-keeper in 2 Tests 1954-63 |
| 1928 | Jimmy Nelson, born in Chicago, Illinois, ventriloguist, Nestles, Farfel |
| 1928 | Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian Architect |
| 1924 | Ida Haendel, Polish violinist and author, Woman with Violin |
| 1923 | Freeman Dyson, American Physicist |
| 1922 | Alan Freed, Penn, DJ, accepted payola/introduced term "rock-n-roll" |
| 1921 | Bobby Todd, U.S. comic/actor, Original Sin |
| 1919 | Ake Seyffarth, 10K speed skater, Gold Medal 1948 Olympics |
| 1918 | Jeff Chandler, Ira Grossel, Brooklyn, actor, Broken Arrow |
| 1916 | Maurice Wilkins, England, physicist, worked with DNA, Nobel 1962 |
| 1915 | Jose Toribio Merino Castro, admiral |
| 1914 | Ernie Toshack, cricket pace bowler, Aussie left-arm post-WWII |
| 1913 | Muriel Rukeyser, U.S., poet, 1977 Shelley Memorial Award |
| 1913 | Rik Jacobs, Flemish stage manager |
| 1907 | Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilians architect, Brasilia |
| 1906 | Betty Smith, novelist, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| 1905 | Ferenc Farkas, composer |
| 1904 | Kermit Bloomgarden, producer, Diary of Anne Frank, Music Man |
| 1904 | William Hitzig, Austria, Maxwell physician |
| 1900 | Francesco Messina, sculptor |
| 1899 | Frank Vosper, born in London, England, actor, Man Who Knew Too Much |
| 1898 | Fernando Remacha, composer |
| 1896 | Carl Ferdinand Cori, U.S. bio-chemist |
| 1896 | George B Cressey, U.S. geographer, Asia's Lands and Peoples |
| 1896 | Margaret Bannerman, born in Toronto, Ontario, actress, Elopement |
| 1896 | Paul R Citroen, Dutch sculptor |
| 1892 | David Guion, composer |
| 1892 | J Paul Getty, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, oil magnate, Getty Oil |
| 1892 | Jose Maria Castro, composer |
| 1892 | J. Paul Getty, American Businessman |
| 1888 | Artturi A. Leinonen, Finnish journalist and writer, Kati, politician |
| 1888 | Jan Greshoff, Dutch poet/author/journalist, Bric Brac |
| 1888 | Maxwell Anderson, U.S., dramatist, Winter Set, High Tor |
| 1887 | Pieter C A Geyl, historian, History of the Dutch Tribe |
| 1882 | Helena Rubinstein, U.S. cosmetic manufacturer |
| 1881 | James Schneider, New York, actor, Keystone Kops |
| 1879 | Hugo W. C. Bordewijk, Dutch lawyer |
| 1879 | Rudolf von Laban, Czechoslovakian/German choreographer, modern dance |
| 1878 | Hans Carossa, writer |
| 1876 | Ferdinand Hardekopf, writer |
| 1875 | Friedrich Niggli, composer |
| 1873 | Pongrac Kacsoh, composer |
| 1870 | Josef Hoffmann, Austrian architect |
| 1863 | Arthur D Little, U.S., chemist, patented rayon |
| 1863 | Paul [Prudent] Painleve, French mathematician/minister/premier |
| 1861 | Charles Edgar Duryea, inventor, 1st auto built and operated in U.S. |
| 1860 | Niels Ryberg Finsen, Denmark, physician/phototherapist, Nobel 1903 |
| 1859 | Ludwik L Zamenhof, Russian Poland, physician/linguist, Esperanto |
| 1857 | Eugeniusz Pankiewicz, composer |
| 1853 | Jean B A Kessler, director of oil on Dutch Indies |
| 1852 | Antoine Henri Becquerel, discovered radioactivity, Nobel 1903 |
| 1852 | Tewfik Pasja, khedive, viceroy, of Egypt |
| 1848 | Edwin Howland Blashfield, decorated the dome of Library of Congress |
| 1842 | Henry Gadsby, composer |
| 1836 | Edmond Picard, French/Belgian lawyer/writer, La forge Roussel |
| 1832 | Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, French engineer, Eiffel tower |
| 1830 | Francesco D'Arcais, composer |
| 1823 | Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke, composer |
| 1822 | Edward Stephen, composer |
| 1821 | Auguste Emmanuel Vaucorbeil, composer |
| 1812 | Isidor Dannstrom, composer |
| 1803 | August Freyer, composer |
| 1802 | Janos Bolyai, Romania, mathematician, non-Euclidean geometry |
| 1793 | Henry Charles Carey, Philadelphia, economist, Principles of Poli Economy |
| 1787 | Charles Cowden Clarke, English editor/Shakespearean critic |
| 1778 | Godert AGP baron van der Capellen, Dutch Governor-General, Dutch-Indies |
| 1765 | Philippe-Jacques Pfeffinger, composer |
| 1735 | Cesare Beccaria-Bonesana, Italian lawyer |
| 1667 | Ludwig Ernst, composer |
| 1657 | Michel-Richard Delalande, composer |
| 1648 | Gregory King, English statistician, Natural and Political Observations |
| 1610 | David Teniers II, Flemish courtpainter, Theatrum Pictorium |
| 1574 | Samuel Besler, composer |
| 1567 | Christoph Demantius, composer |
| 1534 | Lucas Osiander, composer |
| 37 | Nero Claudius Augustus Germanicus, 5th emperor of Rome, 54-68 |
| December 15th Deaths in History |
| 2005 | William Proxmire, Senator-D-Wisconsin, 1957 - 1989, Golden Fleece Awards, died of Alzheimer's disease |
| 1997 | Lillian Disney, widow of Walt Disney, dies at 98 |
| 1997 | Pananayiotis Taki Vatikiotis, middle east scholar, dies at 69 |
| 1996 | Gerald Moverley, priest, dies at 74 |
| 1996 | Guiseppe Dossetti, politician/priest, dies at 83 |
| 1996 | Laurens jan van der Post, explorer/conservationist, dies at 90 |
| 1996 | Tristan Keuris, composer, taught composition in Utrecht, Amsterdam, works include 'Saxophone Quartet Concerto', dies in Amsterdam, Holland |
| 1995 | James Geoffrey Cutcliffe Hepburn, tap-dancer/socialist, dies at 88 |
| 1995 | Manuel Gutierrez Mellado, Prime Minister of Defense of Spain 1977 - 1981, dies at 83 |
| 1994 | Hans de Jong, musician/conductor (Amsterdams Vrouwenkoor), dies at 86 |
| 1994 | Harry Tobias, songwriter, dies at 99 |
| 1994 | Henry Phelps Brown, historian/economist, dies at 88 |
| 1994 | Mollie Doreen Phillips, British figure skater (Eur-bronze-33), dies at 87 |
| 1993 | Kakuei Tanaka, Prime Minister of Japan 1972 - 1974, dies |
| 1992 | Fre [Frederik] Meis, Dutch MP (CPN), dies at 71 |
| 1991 | Horatio Luro, U.S. horse trainer (Northern Dancer), dies at 90 |
| 1991 | Ray Smith, British actor (And Then You Die), dies at 55 |
| 1990 | Betty Warren actress (Passport to Pimlico), dies |
| 1990 | Jean Paige, actress (Captain Blood, Black Beauty), dies |
| 1990 | Ed Parker, American Athlete |
| 1989 | Arnold Moss, actor (Gambit), dies at 79 |
| 1985 | Carlos P. Romulo, Filipino Politician |
| 1984 | Avon Long, actor (Roots: Next Generation), dies at 74 |
| 1984 | Jan Peerce, Perelmuth, operatic tenor, dies at 80 following a stroke |
| 1979 | Bern Hoffman, actor (Major Dell Conway), dies at 66 |
| 1978 | Chill Wills, actor (Frontier Circus, Rounders), dies at 75 |
| 1975 | Mukhtar Ashrafi, composer, dies at 63 |
| 1974 | Erich Walter Sternberg, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1974 | Harry Hershfield, cartoonist (Can You Top This?), dies at 89 |
| 1973 | Orest Alexandrovich Evlahkov, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1972 | Edward Earle, actor (Charlie Chan-Meeting at Midnight), dies at 90 |
| 1972 | Herbert Eimert, German composer (Glockenspiel), dies at 75 |
| 1968 | Jess Willard, Heavyweight boxing champ (1915-19), dies at 86 |
| 1966 | Walt Disney, animator, dies at 65, put in suspended animation |
| 1962 | Charles Laughton, English actor (Hunchback of Notre Dame), dies at 63 |
| 1961 | William "Dummy" Hoy, professional baseball player, dies at 99 |
| 1953 | Kishio Hirao, composer, dies at 46 |
| 1951 | Eric Drummond, 1st Secretary-General League of Nations (1919-33), dies at 75 |
| 1950 | Robert Muller-Hartmann, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1947 | Arthur Machen, Welsh Author, dies |
| 1946 | Conrad Haebler, historian (Hundert Kalenderinkunabeln), dies at 89 |
| 1946 | Gordon Frederic Norton, composer, dies at 77 |
| 1946 | Josiah Bailey, American Politician |
| 1944 | Glenn Miller, U.S. band leader/jazz composer, dies at 40 |
| 1943 | Thomas W. "Fats" Waller, jazz pianist, dies at 39 in Kansas City Missouri |
| 1943 | Fats Waller, American Musician |
| 1934 | Maggis Lena Walker, 1st U.S. (black) woman to head a bank, dies at 69 |
| 1909 | Francisco Tarrega y Eixea, composer, dies at 57 |
| 1901 | Elias Alvares Lobo, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1896 | John GR Acquoy, Dutch theologist/church historian, dies at 67 |
| 1892 | Charles Balmer, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1890 | Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa-Sioux chief (Little Big Horn), killed by US |
| 1889 | Ferdinand II A F A, king of Portugal, dies at 73 |
| 1880 | Carlo Boncompagni di Mombello, Italian minister of Justice, dies at 76 |
| 1861 | Gualtiero Sanelli, composer, dies at 45 |
| 1839 | Matthijs I van Bree, Flemish court-painter, dies at 66 |
| 1831 | Paul R Cantzlaar, Governor of Saba/Curaeao/Dutch-West Indies, dies at 60 |
| 1822 | Ferenc Verseghy, composer, dies at 65 |
| 1817 | Maria Walewska [Leszczinska], lover of emperor Napoleon I, dies |
| 1816 | Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowitz, composer, dies at 44 |
| 1796 | Anthony Wayne, American Soldier |
| 1792 | Joseph Martin Kraus, composer, dies at 36 |
| 1779 | Manuel Jeronimo Romero de Avila, composer, dies at 62 |
| 1715 | George Hickes, English linguist (Old German Philology), dies at 73 |
| 1712 | Sidney 1st earl of Godolphine, English minister of Finance, dies at 67 |
| 1699 | Henrik A van Reede tot Drakenstein, Dutch botanist, dies at about 63 |
| 1688 | Gaspar Fagel, lawyer/Netherlands grand pensionary (1672-88), dies at 54 |
| 1675 | John Vermeer, Dutch painter (Love Letter), dies at 43 |
| 1626 | Adriaen de Vries, Dutch sculptor/painter, dies at about 70 |
| 1621 | Charles d'albert duke of Luynes/Prime Minister of France, dies at 43 |
| 1598 | Philip van Marnix, Flemish ruler of St. Aldegonde/poet, dies at 58 |
| 1576 | Joachim Hopperus, Hoppers, Frisian lawyer/politician, dies at 53 |
| 1515 | Alfonso de Albuquerque, viceroy of Portuguese Indies, dies |
| 1230 | Ottokar I, king of Bohemia (1197-1230), dies |
| 1025 | Basilius II, the Bulgarendoder, Byzantine emperor (976-1025), dies |
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