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December 15 is the 349th day of the year (350th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 16 days remaining.
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Births 37 - Nero , Roman emperor (d. 68 )130 - Lucius Verus , Roman emperor (d. 169 )1802 - János Bolyai , Hungarian mathematician1832 - Gustave Eiffel , civil engineer (d. 1923 )1852 - Antoine Henri Becquerel, physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1903 (d. 1908 )1859 - L. L. Zamenhof , initiator of Esperanto (d. 1917 )1860 - Niels Ryberg Finsen , Danish physician (d. 1904 )1861 - Charles Duryea , automobile pioneer (d. 1938 )1888 - Maxwell Anderson , writer (d. 1959 )1892 - J. Paul Getty , oil tycoon (d. 1976 )1899 - Harold Abrahams , British athlete (d. 1978 )1907 - Oscar Niemeyer , Brazilian architect 1910 - John Hammond , musician (d. 1987 )1912 - Ray Eames , American designer (d. 1988 )1912 - Stan Kenton , musician (d. 1979 )1916 - Buddy Cole , pianist (d. 1964 )1918 - Jeff Chandler , actor (d. 1961 )1922 - Alan Freed , disc jockey (d. 1965 )1923 - Freeman Dyson , physicist1928 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser , painter and graphic artist (d. 2000 )1933 - Tim Conway , actor, comedian1938 - Michael Bogdanov, film director and theatre manager1938 - Billy Shaw , Pro Football Hall of Famer 1939 - Cindy Birdsong , singer, member of the Supremes 1942 - Dave Clark , musician ("Dave Clark Five ")1949 - Don Johnson , actor (Miami Vice 1952 - Cassandra Harris Australian actress (d. 1991 )1955 - Paul Simonon , musician1968 - Javid Hussain , film producer1969 - Rick Law , illustrator, producer1973 - Surya Bonaly , figure skater 1976 - Baichung Bhutia , football player
Deaths 1025 - Basil II , Byzantine emperor (b. 958 )1072 - Alp Arslan , Seljuk sultan (b. 1029 )1263 - King Haakon IV of Norway (b. 1204 )1683 - Izaak Walton , writer (b. 1593 )1792 - Joseph Martin Kraus , composer (b. 1756 )1816 - Charles Stanhope, engineer, inventor of the calculator1872 - Mary Anne Evans , wife of Benjamin Disraeli (b. 1792 )1890 - Sitting Bull , Sioux nation leader (b. c.1831 )1943 - Fats Waller , musician (b. 1904 )1944 - Glenn Miller , bandleader (presumed date) (b. 1904 )1958 - Wolfgang Ernst Pauli , physicist (b. 1900 )1966 - Walt Disney , animator, cartoonist (b. 1901 )1968 - Jess Willard , boxer 1975 - Anatole Litvak, writer1984 - Jan Peerce , American tenor (b. 1904 )1991 - Vasily Zaitsev , Soviet sniper, World War II hero.2001 - Rufus Thomas , musician (b. 1917 )2003 - Johnny Cunningham, Scottish musician, member of Silly Wizard 2003 - George Fisher , American political cartoonist2003 - Keith Magnuson, National Hockey League player (car accident)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 December 14 - December 16 - November 15 - January 15 -- listing of all days
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December - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (397 words)
December is the twelfth and last month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. December was also the tenth month in the Roman calendar until a monthless winter period was divided between January and February . December in the Northern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent to June in the Southern Hemisphere and vise versa.
December 15 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (871 words)
December 15 is the 349th day of the year (350th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar. 1961 - 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 14 - December 16 - November 15 - January 15 -- listing of all days
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