On This Day — December 15
4026 noted people were born and 1985 died on December 15 in our archive, including Antoine Henri Becquerel, August Davidov and Constantin Cândea.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on December 15
Antoine Henri Becquerel
1852 – 1908
August Davidov
1823 – 1885
Constantin Cândea
1887 – 1971
Freeman Dyson
1923 – 2020
James Jurin
1684 – 1750
Nick Jennings
b. 1966
Adnan Badran
b. 1935
Anna Balletbò i Puig
1943 – 2025
Annalena Baerbock
b. 1980
Avel·lí Corma Canós
b. 1951
Carl Wilhelm Boeck
1808 – 1875
Cecelia Condit
b. 1947
Chris Quigg
b. 1944
Eli Yablonovitch
b. 1946
Ernst Hirsch Ballin
b. 1950
Francis Maseres
1731 – 1824
Frank W. J. Olver
1924 – 2013
Gaston Floquet
1847 – 1920
Geoffrey West
b. 1940
Henri Maspero
1883 – 1945
John Caird
1820 – 1898
John Meurig Thomas
1932 – 2020
Klaus Hänsch
1938 – 2026
Leon Marchlewski
1869 – 1946
Mark Canning
b. 1954
Maurice Wilkins
1916 – 2004
Michèle Lamont
b. 1957
Niels Ryberg Finsen
1860 – 1904
Noel Hush
1924 – 2019
Peter Andreas Munch
1810 – 1863
Peter Coleman
1928 – 2019
Pierre de Nolhac
1859 – 1936
Pieter Geyl
1887 – 1966
Princess Dina bint Abdul-Hamid Hashem
1929 – 2019
Raül Garrigasait
b. 1979
René Chamussy
1936 – 2016
Robert M. Solovay
b. 1938
Sir John Woodroffe
1865 – 1936
Stanislaw Shushkievich
1934 – 2022
Sylvester James Gates
b. 1950
T. N. Seshan
1932 – 2019
Thomas Fortin
1853 – 1933
Víctor Andrés Belaúnde
1883 – 1966
Walter S. Huxford
1892 – 1958
Wenceslaus Johann Gustav Karsten
1732 – 1787
Yu Kuizhi
b. 1961
Abdul Karim al-Kabariti
b. 1949
Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed
1934 – 2012
Akhmetzhan Yessimov
b. 1950
Albert Memmi
1920 – 2020
Algernon Percy, 4th Duke of Northumberland
1792 – 1865
Anatole Abragam
1914 – 2011
Andrew S. Oldham
b. 1978
Anton Stres
b. 1942
Antonio Iturmendi Bañales
1903 – 1976
Asbjørn Herteig
1919 – 2006
Aspy Engineer
1912 – 2002
Auguste-Emmanuel Vaucorbeil
1821 – 1884
Ayesha Hazarika
b. 1975
Benjamin Magalong
b. 1960
Bernard L. Austin
1902 – 1979
Boris Gryzlov
b. 1950
Bruno Amable
b. 1961
Byeon Yeong-tae
1892 – 1969
Chantal Petitclerc
b. 1969
Charles Augustus Young
1834 – 1908
Chinedum Osuji
b. 1976
Clarisa Hardy
b. 1945
Clement Robertson
1890 – 1917
Cyma Zarghami
b. 1962
Daria Dugina
1992 – 2022
David de Rothschild
b. 1942
Dawid Pilchowski
1735 – 1803
Debora Shuger
b. 1953
Detlef Weigel
b. 1961
Diet Sayler
b. 1939
Dipesh Chakrabarty
b. 1948
Donna Brazile
b. 1959
Edna O'Brien
1930 – 2024
Eduardo A. Roca
1921 – 2019
Elizabeth Broun
b. 1946
Emajuddin Ahamed
1933 – 2020
Ernst Friedrich August Rietschel
1804 – 1861
Erwin Ortner
b. 1947
Eslanda Goode Robeson
1895 – 1965
Eszter Hargittai
b. 1973
Ewa Bartnik
b. 1949
Ferenc Farkas
1905 – 2000
François Labourie
b. 1960
Fritz Erler
1868 – 1940
Gavin J. Wright
b. 1973
Ge Jianxiong
b. 1945
George Whelan Anderson, Jr.
1906 – 1992
Godert van der Capellen
1778 – 1848
Gustave Eiffel
1832 – 1923
Harold Abrahams
1899 – 1978
Heneage Finch
1580 – 1631
Henk Jan Ormel
b. 1955
Ingo Schulze
b. 1962
Ion Nonna Otescu
1888 – 1940
Irena Grudzińska-Gross
b. 1946
Isabel Crook
1915 – 2023
Jack Halberstam
b. 1961
James Hugh Ryan
1886 – 1948
James Macdonnell
1884 – 1973
Jan Bosschaert
b. 1957
Janice M. Morse
b. 1945
Javier Salto
b. 1955
Jay Lovestone
1897 – 1990
Jean-François Pierre Peyron
1744 – 1814
Jerzy Dziewulski
1943 – 2025
Jesse Keyes
b. 1971
Johann Ernst Gerhard
1621 – 1668
John R. Allen
b. 1953
John Stewart-Murray, 8th Duke of Atholl
1871 – 1942
Jon Ola Norbom
1923 – 2020
Josef Hoffmann
1870 – 1956
Joseph Barrell
1869 – 1919
Joseph Lyu
b. 1956
Juan Carlos Wasmosy
b. 1938
János Bolyai
1802 – 1860
Kamal Jafarov
b. 1989
Karl-Günther von Hase
1917 – 2021
Kasit Piromya
b. 1944
Katherine Bennell-Pegg
b. 1984
Kenzō Tsujimoto
b. 1940
Kristofer Leirdal
1915 – 2010
Kurt Schuschnigg
1897 – 1977
L. L. Zamenhof
1859 – 1917
Lauren Boebert
b. 1986
Lee Jung-jae
b. 1972
Leonid Pitamic
1885 – 1971
Magdolna Csath
b. 1943
Manuel Medina
b. 1935
Maxwell Anderson
1888 – 1959
Michael Gregory
b. 1945
Miguel Arraes
1916 – 2005
Mikhail Volpin
1902 – 1988
Miles Dempsey
1896 – 1969
Minnie Lou Bradley
1931 – 2025
Mirosław Baka
b. 1963
Nawaf Salam
b. 1953
Niaz Ahmad Chaudhry
b. 1949
Nina Alisova
1915 – 1996
Noboru Tsujihara
b. 1945
Norman Anil Kumar Browne
b. 1951
Oliver Heald
b. 1954
Olivier Pastré
b. 1950
Oscar Niemeyer
1907 – 2012
Otto Donner
1835 – 1909
Pascal Bruckner
b. 1948
Patrice Simon
b. 1969
Patricia S. Cowings
b. 1948
Paul Schmitthenner
1884 – 1972
Pavel Fitin
1907 – 1971
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud
1861 – 1944
Peter Kolosimo
1922 – 1984
Peter Schmidhuber
1931 – 2020
R. James Long
b. 1938
Ralph T. O'Neal
1933 – 2019
Rangin Dadfar Spanta
b. 1954
Ray Eames
1912 – 1988
Richard Crossman
1907 – 1974
Richard McBride
1870 – 1917
Rina Schenfeld
b. 1938
Robert E. Kramek
1939 – 2016
Roger Gaudry
1913 – 2001
Rómulo O'Farrill
1917 – 2006
Sahib Singh Sokhey
1887 – 1971
Salchak Toka
1901 – 1973
Samuel Jaskilka
1919 – 2012
Samuel Roberts
1827 – 1913
Sergei Yutkevich
1904 – 1985
Shukuru Kawambwa
b. 1957
Siarhei Navumchyk
b. 1961
Solomon Gaon
1912 – 1994
Stefan Mladenov
1880 – 1963
Stepan Kalinin
1890 – 1975
Stephan Weil
b. 1958
Steve Chadwick
b. 1948
Sven Ljungberg
1913 – 2010
Tam Yiu-chung
b. 1949
Tamsin A. Mather
b. 1976
Tasso Jereissati
b. 1948
Terry A. Davis
1969 – 2018
Thomas Kingo
1634 – 1703
Thomas Trenchard, 2nd Viscount Trenchard
1923 – 1987
Valentin Alberti
1635 – 1697
Valentin Varennikov
1923 – 2009
Valentin Yumashev
b. 1957
Valeriano Gómez Sánchez
b. 1957
Walther Davisson
1885 – 1973
Wang Jian
1961 – 2018
Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip
1713 – 1802
Wes Watkins
1938 – 2025
William Bullock Clark
1860 – 1917
William Fitzjames Oldham
1854 – 1937
William Henry Power
1842 – 1916
William John Mitchell
1944 – 2010
Yury Prokhorov
1929 – 2013
… and 3,826 more
Died on December 15
Ernest Marsden
1889 – 1970
Eric Drummond, 16th Earl of Perth
1876 – 1951
Federigo Zuccari
1783 – 1817
Frank Spedding
1902 – 1984
Gabriel Péri
1902 – 1941
George W. Taylor
1901 – 1972
Gustave Lanson
1857 – 1934
Helmar Frank
1933 – 2013
Hilde Bruch
1904 – 1984
João Tamagnini Barbosa
1883 – 1948
Julián Marías
1914 – 2005
Komninos Pyromaglou
1899 – 1980
Louis-Benjamin Francoeur
1773 – 1849
Luis Suárez Fernández
1924 – 2024
Martin Schanz
1842 – 1914
Paul Pierre Lévy
1886 – 1971
Peter Borovsky
1863 – 1932
Philippe Moureaux
1939 – 2018
Vasil Zlatarski
1866 – 1935
Vladimir Babichev
1939 – 2010
Wolfgang Pauli
1900 – 1958
Z. W. Birnbaum
1903 – 2000
bell hooks
1952 – 2021
Angus Campbell
1910 – 1980
Anthony Wayne
1745 – 1796
Basil Mackenzie, 2nd Baron Amulree
1900 – 1983
Benjamin Keene
1697 – 1757
Boris Chichibabin
1923 – 1994
Carl Joachim Hambro
1885 – 1964
Carlos P. Romulo
1899 – 1985
Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope
1753 – 1816
Chuck Peddle
1937 – 2019
Clem Jones
1918 – 2007
Clement Armitage
1881 – 1973
Corneliu Șumuleanu
1869 – 1937
Danylo Zabolotny
1866 – 1929
Erik Samuelson
1893 – 1964
Faik Konitza
1875 – 1942
Fayez al-Tarawneh
1949 – 2021
Friedrich Trendelenburg
1844 – 1924
Georg Adam Struve
1619 – 1692
Giuseppe Dossetti
1913 – 1996
Grete Mostny
1914 – 1991
H. E. Stokke
1900 – 1977
Heinz Wolff
1928 – 2017
Heorhii Afanasiev
1848 – 1925
Hinrich Johannes Rink
1819 – 1893
Ivan Batakliev
1891 – 1973
Jacques Brunet
1901 – 1990
Jacques Gruber
1870 – 1936
James L. Tuck
1910 – 1980
Janusz Pasierb
1929 – 1993
Joan Fontaine
1917 – 2013
John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland
1759 – 1841
John Howson
1816 – 1885
John Pratt, 4th Marquess Camden
1872 – 1943
Joseph Martin Kraus
1756 – 1792
Julia Carson
1938 – 2007
Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna
1417 – 1467
Karol Šmidke
1897 – 1952
Keith Arbuthnott, 15th Viscount of Arbuthnott
1897 – 1966
Lucien Musset
1922 – 2004
Ludwig Schlesinger
1864 – 1933
Miroslav Katětov
1918 – 1995
Nahum Slouschz
1872 – 1966
Paul Daimler
1869 – 1945
Penaia Ganilau
1918 – 1993
Philip Syng Physick
1768 – 1837
Pierre Massé
1898 – 1987
Pierre-Marie-Alexis Millardet
1838 – 1902
Randall L. Gibson
1832 – 1892
Richard Glazebrook
1854 – 1935
Richard Webster, 1st Viscount Alverstone
1842 – 1915
Rocco Scotellaro
1923 – 1953
Rudolph Cleveringa
1894 – 1980
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
1875 – 1950
Saufatu Sopoanga
1952 – 2020
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam
1900 – 1985
Sherman P. Lloyd
1914 – 1979
Shigeyoshi Inoue
1889 – 1975
Siegfried Flügge
1912 – 1997
Sir Richard Powell, 1st Baronet
1842 – 1925
Steven J. Ostro
1946 – 2008
Stig Lindström
1904 – 1975
Sudhir Chakravarty
1934 – 2020
Sven Delblanc
1931 – 1992
Tim Brighouse
1940 – 2023
Ungku Abdul Aziz
1922 – 2020
Valery Chkalov
1904 – 1938
Wilfred Kitching
1893 – 1977
William Des Vœux
1834 – 1909
William Lumley
1769 – 1850
William Proxmire
1915 – 2005
Yevgeny Tyazhelnikov
1928 – 2020
Yusif Mammadaliyev
1905 – 1961
Achmad Soebardjo Djojoadisoerjo
1896 – 1978
Adam Stanisław Grabowski
1698 – 1766
Adam Łomnicki
1935 – 2021
Ahmed Rajabli
1898 – 1963
Akira Ohgi
1935 – 2005
Albin Csáky
1841 – 1912
Aleksey Shcherbatov
1776 – 1848
Alexander Kruber
1871 – 1941
Alexandrine Gibb
1891 – 1958
Alfred Bird
1811 – 1878
Alfred E. Montgomery
1891 – 1961
Alfred Young
1873 – 1940
Alfred Zerbel
1904 – 1987
Alfredo Lagmay
1919 – 2005
Andrzej Zahorski
1923 – 1995
Anne Cobbe
1920 – 1971
Anne Emmanuel de Croÿ
1743 – 1803
Anne-Cath. Vestly
1920 – 2008
Anthony Enahoro
1923 – 2010
Antonio Barrette
1899 – 1968
Archduke Sigismund of Austria
1826 – 1891
Arthur de la Mare
1914 – 1994
Athol Murray
1892 – 1975
Benjamin Stillingfleet
1702 – 1771
Bernard J. D. Irwin
1830 – 1917
Blake Edwards
1922 – 2010
Bob Brookmeyer
1929 – 2011
Bohdan Smoleń
1947 – 2016
Bohumil Říha
1907 – 1987
Boris Korenblum
1923 – 2011
C. D. B. Bryan
1936 – 2009
Calvin S. Brice
1845 – 1898
Carlo Caracciolo
1925 – 2008
Carlos Pinto Coelho
1944 – 2010
Carola of Vasa
1833 – 1907
Caroline Cellier
1945 – 2020
Charles Edmund Boyle
1836 – 1888
Charles Emory Patton
1859 – 1937
Charles Laughton
1899 – 1962
Charles Louis Dieudonné Grandjean
1768 – 1828
Charles Theodore Williams
1838 – 1912
Charles d'Albert de Luynes
1578 – 1621
Charles Émile Troisier
1844 – 1919
Chiang Peng-chien
1940 – 2000
Christopher Hitchens
1949 – 2011
Clarence Dennis Coughlin
1883 – 1946
Clinton Jencks
1918 – 2005
Cornelius P. Van Ness
1782 – 1852
Craig Sager
1951 – 2016
Crawford Vaughan
1874 – 1947
Darlanne Fluegel
1953 – 2017
David Fortune Landale
1905 – 1970
David Higgins
1789 – 1873
David S. Lewis
1917 – 2003
Dinesh Chandra Gorai
1934 – 2024
Donald Fowler
1935 – 2020
Donald Metcalf
1929 – 2014
Eduard Kaufmann
1860 – 1931
Ellen Van Volkenburg
1882 – 1978
Elliot Schewel
1924 – 2019
Emerson Harrington
1864 – 1945
Erich Walter Sternberg
1891 – 1974
Erik af Wetterstedt
1736 – 1822
Ernest Florman
1862 – 1952
Ernst Boepple
1887 – 1950
Eryue He
1945 – 2018
Fats Waller
1904 – 1943
Ferdinand II of Portugal
1816 – 1885
Folco de Baroncelli
1869 – 1943
Friedrich Prym
1841 – 1915
Frédéric Febvre
1833 – 1916
Gage Earle Freeman
1820 – 1903
Georg Friedrich Grotefend
1775 – 1853
George Cayley
1773 – 1857
George Cotton
1821 – 1892
George Montague Harper
1865 – 1922
George Washington Donaghey
1856 – 1937
George White
1872 – 1953
George Windle Read, Jr.
1900 – 1974
Gilbert Talbot
1607 – 1695
Gioacchino Failla
1891 – 1961
Giuseppe Bossi
1777 – 1815
Glenn Miller
1904 – 1944
Guy Marchand
1937 – 2023
Harry Hershfield
1885 – 1974
Harry Zvi Tabor
1917 – 2015
Hassib Ben Ammar
1924 – 2008
Herbert Richmond
1871 – 1946
Honoré Théodoric d'Albert de Luynes
1802 – 1867
Hopkin Maddock
1881 – 1921
Hugh Annesley, 5th Earl Annesley
1831 – 1908
I.D. Swami
1929 – 2019
Ivan Kulikov
1875 – 1941
Ivo Lapenna
1909 – 1987
Jacob Hersleb Darre
1757 – 1841
Jacques Goddet
1905 – 2000
James Alphonsus Hamill
1877 – 1941
James Bowker
1901 – 1983
James Compton, 3rd Earl of Northampton
1622 – 1681
James Inglis
1845 – 1908
James M. Quigley
1918 – 2011
Jan Peerce
1904 – 1984
Jean de Viguerie
1935 – 2019
Jean van den Bosch
1910 – 1985
Jerónimo Bautista Lanuza
1533 – 1624
… and 1,785 more