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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2021
December 15 is the 349th day of the
year (350th in leap years) in
the Gregorian calendar.
16 days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
533 Vandalic War: Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer, at the Battle of Tricamarum. ·
687 Pope Sergius I is elected. ·
1025 Constantine VIII becomes sole emperor of
the Byzantine Empire,
63 years after being crowned co-emperor. ·
1161 JinSong wars:
Military officers conspire against the emperor Wanyan Liang of the Jin dynasty after
a military defeat at the Battle of Caishi, and assassinate the
emperor at his camp. ·
1167 Sicilian Chancellor Stephen du Perche moves
the royal court to Messina to prevent
a rebellion. ·
1256 Mongol forces under Hulagu enter and dismantle the Nizari Ismaili (Assassin)
stronghold at Alamut Castle (in
present-day Iran) as part of their
offensive on Islamic southwest Asia. ·
1270 The Nizari Ismaili garrison
of Gerdkuh, Persia surrender after 17 years to
the Mongols.[1] ·
1467 Stephen III of
Moldavia defeats Matthias Corvinus of
Hungary, with the latter being injured thrice, at the Battle of Baia. ·
1651 Castle Cornet in Guernsey, the last stronghold which had
supported the King in the Third English
Civil War, surrenders. ·
1778 American
Revolutionary War: British and
French fleets clash in the Battle of St. Lucia. ·
1791 The United
States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia
General Assembly. ·
1864 American Civil War: Battle of Nashville:
The Union's Army of the
Cumberland routs and destroys the Confederacy's Army of Tennessee,
ending its effectiveness as a combat unit. ·
1890 Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed on Standing
Rock Indian Reservation, leading to the Wounded Knee
Massacre. ·
1905 The Pushkin House is established in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to preserve the
cultural heritage of Alexander Pushkin. ·
1906 The London Underground's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens. ·
1914 World War I: The Serbian Army recaptures Belgrade from the invading Austro-Hungarian
Army. ·
1914 A gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hōjō coal mine,
in Kyushu, Japan, kills 687. ·
1917 World War I:
An armistice between Russia and the Central Powers is
signed. ·
1933 The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States
Constitution officially becomes effective, repealing
the Eighteenth Amendment that prohibited the
sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol. ·
1939 Gone with the
Wind (highest inflation adjusted grossing film) receives
its premiere at Loew's Grand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. ·
1941 The Holocaust in
Ukraine: German troops
murder over 15,000 Jews at Drobytsky Yar, a ravine southeast of the
city of Kharkiv. ·
1942 World War II: The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the
Sea Horse begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign. ·
1943 World War II:
The Battle of Arawe begins
during the New Britain campaign. ·
1944 World War II: a
single-engine UC-64A Norseman aeroplane
carrying United
States Army Air Forces Major Glenn Miller is lost in a flight over
the English Channel. ·
1945 Occupation of Japan/Shinto Directive: General Douglas MacArthur orders
that Shinto be abolished as the state
religion of Japan. ·
1960 Richard Pavlick is
arrested for plotting to assassinate U.S.
President-Elect John F. Kennedy. ·
1960 King Mahendra of Nepal suspends
the country's constitution, dissolves parliament, dismisses the cabinet, and
imposes direct rule. ·
1961 Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death
after being found guilty by an Israeli court of
15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes
against the Jewish people, and membership of an outlawed organization. ·
1965 Project Gemini: Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford,
is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Four orbits later, it achieves the
first space rendezvous,
with Gemini 7. ·
1970 Soviet
spacecraft Venera 7 successfully
lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing
on another planet. ·
1973 John Paul Getty III,
grandson of American billionaire J. Paul Getty, is found alive near Naples, Italy, after being kidnapped by an
Italian gang on July 10. ·
1973 The American
Psychiatric Association votes 130 to remove homosexuality from its official list
of psychiatric disorders,
the DSM-II. ·
1978 U.S.
President Jimmy Carter announces
that the United States will recognize
the People's Republic of China and sever
diplomatic relations with Taiwan. ·
1981 A suicide car
bombing targeting the Iraqi embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, levels the embassy and
kills 61 people, including Iraq's ambassador to Lebanon. The attack is
considered the first modern suicide bombing. ·
1989 Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant
on Civil and Political Rights relating the abolition
of capital punishment is adopted. ·
1993 The Troubles: The Downing Street
Declaration is issued by British Prime
Minister John Major and
Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds. ·
1997 Tajikistan
Airlines Flight 3183 crashes in the desert near Sharjah, United Arab Emirates,
killing 85. ·
2000 The third
reactor at the Chernobyl
Nuclear Power Plant is shut down. ·
2001 The Leaning Tower of
Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 spent to
stabilize it, without fixing its famous lean. ·
2005 Introduction of
the Lockheed
Martin F-22 Raptor into USAF active
service. ·
2010 A boat carrying
90 asylum seekers crashes
into rocks off the coast of Christmas Island, Australia, killing 48
people. ·
2013 The South Sudanese
Civil War begins when opposition leaders Dr. Riek Machar, Pagan Amum and Rebecca Nyandeng vote to boycott the
meeting of the National Liberation Council at Nyakuron. ·
2014 A gunman
takes 18 hostages inside
a cafι in Martin Place for
16 hours in Sydney. Monis and two hostages are killed when police raid the
cafι the following morning. ·
2017 A 6.5Mw earthquake strikes
the Indonesian island of Java in the city
of Tasikmalaya,
resulting in four deaths. Births[edit]
·
AD 37 Nero,
Roman emperor (d. 68) ·
130 Lucius Verus, Roman emperor (d. 169) ·
1242 Prince Munetaka, Japanese shōgun (d.
1274) ·
1447 Albert IV,
Duke of Bavaria (d. 1508) ·
1567 Christoph Demantius,
German composer, poet, and theorist (d. 1643) ·
1610 David Teniers
the Younger, Flemish painter (d. 1690) ·
1657 Michel Richard
Delalande, French organist and composer (d. 1726) ·
1686 Jean-Joseph Fiocco,
Flemish violinist and composer (d. 1746) ·
1710 Francesco Zahra, Maltese painter (d. 1773) ·
1789 Carlos Soublette, Venezuelan general and
politician, 11th President of
Venezuela (d. 1870) ·
1832 Gustave Eiffel, French architect and
engineer, co-designed the Eiffel Tower (d. 1923) ·
1837 E. W. Bullinger, English minister, scholar,
and theologian (d. 1913) ·
1852 Henri Becquerel, French physicist and
chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1908) ·
1859 L. L. Zamenhof, Polish linguist and ophthalmologist,
created Esperanto (d.
1917) ·
1860 Niels Ryberg Finsen,
Faroese-Danish physician and educator, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1904) ·
1860 Abner Powell, American baseball player and
manager (d. 1953) ·
1861 Charles Duryea, American engineer and
businessman, co-founded the Duryea Motor
Wagon Company (d. 1938) ·
1861 Pehr Evind
Svinhufvud, Finnish lawyer, judge, and politician, 3rd President of Finland (d.
1944) ·
1863 Arthur Dehon Little,
American chemist and engineer (d. 1935) ·
1869 Leon Marchlewski, Polish chemist and
academic (d. 1946) ·
1875 Emilio Jacinto, Filipino journalist and
activist (d. 1899) ·
1878 Hans Carossa, German author and poet (d.
1956) ·
1885 Leonid Pitamic, Slovenian lawyer,
philosopher, and academic (d. 1971) ·
1886 Wanda
Krahelska-Filipowicz, Polish politician and resistance fighter (d.
1968)[2] ·
1888 Maxwell Anderson, American journalist and
playwright (d. 1959) ·
1890 Harry
Babcock, American pole vaulter (d. 1965) ·
1891 A.P. Carter, American country
singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1960) ·
1892 J. Paul Getty, American-English businessman
and art collector, founded Getty Oil (d. 1976) ·
1894 Vibert Douglas, Canadian astrophysicist and
astronomer (d. 1988) ·
1894 Josef Imbach,
Swiss sprinter (d. 1964) ·
1896 Betty Smith, American author and playwright
(d. 1972) ·
1899 Harold Abrahams, English sprinter, lawyer,
and journalist (d. 1978) ·
1902 Robert F. Bradford,
American lawyer and politician, 57th Governor of
Massachusetts (d. 1983) ·
1903 Tamanishiki San'emon,
Japanese sumo wrestler, the 32nd Yokozuna (d. 1938) ·
1907 Gordon Douglas,
American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1993) ·
1907 Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect,
designed the United
Nations Headquarters and the Cathedral of
Brasνlia (d. 2012) ·
1908 Swami
Ranganathananda, Indian monk, scholar, and author (d. 2005) ·
1909 Sattar Bahlulzade,
Azerbaijani-Russian painter (d. 1974) ·
1909 Eliza Atkins Gleason,
African American librarian (d. 2009)[3] ·
1910 John Hammond,
American record producer and critic (d. 1987) ·
1911 Nicholas P. Dallis,
American psychiatrist and illustrator (d. 1991) ·
1911 Stan Kenton, American pianist and composer
(d. 1979) ·
1913 Roger Gaudry, Canadian chemist and
businessman (d. 2001) ·
1913 Muriel Rukeyser, American poet, academic,
and activist (d. 1980) ·
1915 Eila Campbell, English geographer and
cartographer (d. 1994)[4] ·
1916 Miguel Arraes, Brazilian lawyer and
politician, Governor of
Pernambuco (d. 2005) ·
1916 Buddy Cole,
American pianist and conductor (d. 1964) ·
1916 Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-English
physicist and biologist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 2004) ·
1917 Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee,
Indian-Pakistani linguist and lexicographer (d. 2005) ·
1918 Jeff Chandler,
American actor (d. 1961) ·
1918 Chihiro Iwasaki, Japanese painter and
illustrator (d. 1974) ·
1919 Max Yasgur, American dairy farmer and host
of the Woodstock Music & Art Fair (d.
1973) ·
1920 Gamal al-Banna, Egyptian author and scholar
(d. 2013) ·
1920 Kurt Schaffenberger,
German-American sergeant and illustrator (d. 2002) ·
1921 Alan Freed, American radio host (d. 1965) ·
1923 Pierre Cossette, American producer and
manager (d. 2009) ·
1923 Freeman Dyson, English-American physicist
and mathematician (d. 2020)[5] ·
1923 Uziel Gal, German-Israeli engineer, designed
the Uzi gun (d. 2002) ·
1923 Valentin Varennikov,
Russian general and politician (d. 2009) ·
1924 Frank W. J. Olver,
English-American mathematician and academic (d. 2013) ·
1924 Ruhi Sarıalp, Turkish triple jumper and
educator (d. 2001) ·
1925 Kasey Rogers, American actress and author
(d. 2006) ·
1928 Ernest Ashworth, American singer-songwriter
(d. 2009) ·
1928 Ida Haendel, Polish-English violinist and
educator ·
1928 Friedensreich
Hundertwasser, Austrian-New Zealand painter and architect (d.
2000) ·
1930 Edna O'Brien, Irish novelist, playwright,
poet and short story writer ·
1931 Klaus Rifbjerg, Danish author and poet (d.
2015) ·
1932 Jesse Belvin, American singer-songwriter and
pianist (d. 1960) ·
1932 John Meurig Thomas,
Welsh chemist and academic[6] ·
1933 Bapu,
Indian director and screenwriter (d. 2014) ·
1933 Tim Conway, American comedian, actor,
producer, and screenwriter (d. 2019) ·
1933 Donald Woods, South African journalist and
activist (d. 2001) ·
1936 Joe D'Amato, Italian director and producer
(d. 1999) ·
1938 Michael Bogdanov, Welsh director and
screenwriter (d. 2017) ·
1938 Bob Foster,
American boxer and police officer (d. 2015) ·
1938 Billy Shaw, American football player ·
1939 Cindy Birdsong, American singer-songwriter ·
1940 Nick Buoniconti, American football player
and sportscaster (d. 2019) ·
1942 Kathleen Blanco, American educator and
politician, 54th Governor of
Louisiana (d. 2019) ·
1942 Dave Clark,
English drummer, songwriter, and producer ·
1943 Lucien den Arend, Dutch sculptor ·
1944 Jim Leyland, American baseball player and
manager ·
1944 Chico Mendes, Brazilian trade union leader
and activist (d. 1988) ·
1945 Heather Booth, American civil rights
activist, feminist, and political strategist ·
1945 Ivor Crewe, English political scientist and
academic ·
1946 Carmine Appice, American drummer and
songwriter ·
1946 Art Howe, American baseball player and
manager ·
1946 Genny Lim, American writer[7] ·
1948 Cassandra Harris, Australian actress (d.
1991) ·
1948 Charlie Scott, American basketball player[8] ·
1949 Don Johnson, American actor ·
1949 Brian Roper,
English economist and academic ·
1950 Melanie Chartoff, American actress and
comedian ·
1950 Sylvester James
Gates, American theoretical physicist and professor ·
1951 George Donikian, Australian journalist ·
1951 Joe Jordan, Scottish footballer and manager ·
1951 Tim Webster, Australian journalist and
sportscaster ·
1952 Rudi Protrudi, American singer-songwriter
and producer ·
1952 Allan Simonsen, Danish footballer and
manager ·
1952 Julie Taymor, American director, producer,
and screenwriter ·
1953 John R. Allen, American general and diplomat ·
1953 J. M. DeMatteis, American author ·
1953 Robert Charles
Wilson, American-Canadian author ·
1954 Alex Cox, English film director,
screenwriter, nonfiction author, broadcaster and sometime actor ·
1954 Oliver Heald, English lawyer and
politician, Solicitor
General for England and Wales ·
1954 Mark Warner, American businessman and
politician, 69th Governor of Virginia ·
1955 Hector Sants, English banker ·
1955 Paul Simonon, English singer-songwriter and
bass player ·
1956 John Lee Hancock, American screenwriter,
film director, and producer ·
1956 Tony Leon, South African lawyer and politician ·
1957 Mario Marois, Canadian ice hockey player and
sportscaster ·
1957 Mike McAlary, American journalist and author
(d. 1998) ·
1957 Laura Molina,
American singer, guitarist, actress, and painter ·
1957 Tim Reynolds, German-American
singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1958 Carlo J. Caparas, Filipino director and
producer ·
1958 Richard Kastle, American classical pianist ·
1959 Greg Matthews, Australian cricketer ·
1959 Alan Whetton, New Zealand rugby player ·
1959 Gary Whetton, New Zealand rugby player ·
1960 Walter Werzowa, Austrian composer and
producer ·
1961 Karin Resetarits, Austrian journalist and
politician ·
1962 Tim Gaines, American bass player ·
1962 Simon Hodgkinson, English rugby player and
coach ·
1963 Ellie Cornell, American actress and producer ·
1963 Norman J. Grossfeld,
American screenwriter and producer ·
1963 Helen Slater, American actress ·
1963 David Wingate,
American basketball player ·
1964 Paul Kaye, British actor ·
1966 Carl Hooper, Guyanese cricketer and coach ·
1966 Molly Price, American actress ·
1967 David Howells, English footballer and coach ·
1967 Mo Vaughn, American baseball player ·
1968 Garrett Wang, American actor ·
1969 Ralph Ineson, English actor ·
1969 Chantal Petitclerc,
Canadian wheelchair racer and senator ·
1969 Adam Setliff, American discus thrower and
lawyer ·
1970 Frankie Dettori, Italian jockey ·
1970 Lawrence Funderburke,
American basketball player ·
1970 Michael Shanks, Canadian actor, screenwriter
and director ·
1971 Clint Lowery, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer ·
1972 Rodney Harrison, American football player
and sportscaster ·
1972 Stuart Townsend, Irish actor ·
1972 Alexandra Tydings,
American actress, director, writer and producer ·
1973 Surya Bonaly, French figure skater ·
1973 Ryoo Seung-wan, South Korean actor,
director, and screenwriter ·
1974 Garath Archer, English rugby player ·
1974 P. J. Byrne American actor ·
1975 Samira Saraya, Palestinian actor, filmmaker,
poet and rapper ·
1976 Baichung Bhutia, Indian footballer and
manager ·
1976 Kim Eagles, Canadian sport shooter[9] ·
1976 Aaron Miles, American baseball player and
coach ·
1976 Todd Tichenor, American baseball player and
umpire ·
1977 Mehmet Aurιlio,
Brazilian-Turkish footballer and manager ·
1977 Geoff Stults, American actor and producer ·
1978 Ned Brower, American drummer ·
1978 Mark Jansen, Dutch guitarist and songwriter ·
1978 Jerome McDougle, American football player ·
1979 Adam Brody, American actor ·
1979 Eric Young,
Canadian-American wrestler ·
1980 Ιlodie Gossuin,
French beauty pageant titleholder, model, ·
1980 Sergio Pizzorno, English singer-songwriter
and guitarist ·
1980 Manuel Wilhelm, German rugby player ·
1981 Michelle Dockery, English actress ·
1981 Brendan Fletcher, Canadian actor and
screenwriter ·
1981 Andy Gonzαlez,
Puerto Rican-American baseball player ·
1981 Thomas Herrion, American football player (d.
2005) ·
1981 Roman Pavlyuchenko,
Russian footballer ·
1982 Charlie Cox, English actor ·
1982 Borja Garcνa, Spanish race car driver ·
1982 Tatiana Perebiynis,
Ukrainian tennis player ·
1983 Delon Armitage, Trinidadian-English rugby
player ·
1983 Renι Duprιe, Canadian professional wrestler ·
1983 Camilla Luddington,
English actress ·
1983 Ronnie Radke, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer ·
1984 Martyn Bernard, English high jumper ·
1985 Diogo Fernandes, Brazilian footballer ·
1986 Kim Junsu, South Korean singer-songwriter
and dancer ·
1986 Iveta Mazαčovα,
Czech sprinter ·
1986 Keylor Navas, Costa Rican footballer ·
1987 Josh Norman, American football player ·
1986 Snejana Onopka, Ukrainian model ·
1988 Emily Head, English actress ·
1988 Steven Nzonzi, French footballer ·
1989 Nichole Bloom, American actress and model ·
1991 Conor Daly, American race car driver ·
1992 Daiamami Genki, Japanese sumo wrestler ·
1992 Jesse Lingard, English footballer ·
1996 Jenifer Brening, German singer ·
1996 Oleksandr
Zinchenko, Ukrainian footballer ·
1997 Maude Apatow, American actress ·
1997 Zach Banks, American race car driver ·
1997 Magdalena Fręch,
Polish tennis player ·
1997 Stefania LaVie Owen,
New Zealand-American actress ·
1998 Chandler Canterbury,
American actor Deaths[edit]
·
933 Li Siyuan, Chinese emperor (b. 867) ·
1025 Basil II, Byzantine emperor (b. 958) ·
1072 Alp Arslan, Turkish sultan (b. 1029) ·
1161 Wanyan Liang, Chinese emperor (b. 1122) ·
1230 Ottokar I,
duke of Bohemia (b. 1155) ·
1283 Philip I,
Latin emperor (b. 1243) ·
1343 Hasan Kucek, Chopanid prince (b. c. 1319) ·
1467 Jφns Bengtsson
Oxenstierna, archbishop and regent of Sweden (b. 1417) ·
1574 Selim II, Ottoman sultan (b. 1524) ·
1598 Philips
of Marnix, Lord of Saint-Aldegonde, Dutch nobleman (b. 1540) ·
1621 Charles
d'Albert, duc de Luynes, French courtier, Constable of France (b.
1578) ·
1673 Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
English noblewoman (b. 1623) ·
1675 Johannes Vermeer, Dutch painter and educator
(b. 1632) ·
1683 Izaak Walton, English author (b. 1593) ·
1688 Gaspar Fagel, Dutch lawyer and politician
(b. 1634) ·
1688 Louis
Victor de Rochechouart de Mortemart, French nobleman (b. 1636) ·
1715 George Hickes,
English minister and scholar (b. 1642) ·
1753 Richard
Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect and politician,
designed Chiswick House (b.
1694) ·
1792 Joseph Martin Kraus,
Swedish pianist, violinist, and composer (b. 1756) ·
1812 Shneur Zalman, Russian rabbi, author and
founder of Chabad (b. 1745) ·
1819 Daniel Rutherford,
Scottish chemist and physician (b. 1749)[10] ·
1855 Jacques
Charles Franηois Sturm, French mathematician and academic (b.
1803) ·
1878 Alfred Bird, English chemist and
businessman, invented baking powder (b. 1811) ·
1890 Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa Lakota tribal chief (b. 1831) ·
1943 Fats Waller, American singer-songwriter and
pianist (b. 1904) ·
1944 Glenn Miller, American bandleader and
composer (b. 1904) ·
1947 Arthur Machen, Welsh journalist and author
(b. 1863) ·
1947 Crawford Vaughan, Australian politician,
27th Premier of
South Australia (b. 1874) ·
1950 Vallabhbhai Patel,
Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Deputy
Prime Minister of India (b. 1875) ·
1958 Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-Swiss physicist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1900) ·
1962 Charles Laughton, English-American actor,
director, and producer (b. 1899) ·
1965 M. Balasundaram, Sri Lankan journalist,
lawyer, and politician (b. 1903) ·
1966 Keith Arbuthnott, 15th Viscount of Arbuthnott,
Indian-Scottish general and politician, Lord
Lieutenant of Kincardineshire (b. 1897) ·
1966 Walt Disney, American animator, director,
producer, and screenwriter, co-founded The Walt Disney
Company (b. 1901) ·
1968 Antonio Barrette, Canadian politician,
18th Premier of
Quebec (b. 1899) ·
1968 Jess Willard, American boxer and actor (b.
1881) ·
1969 Karl Theodor Bleek,
German lawyer and politician, 12th Mayor of
Marburg (b. 1898) ·
1971 Paul Lιvy,
French mathematician and theorist (b. 1886) ·
1974 Anatole Litvak, Russian-American director,
producer, and screenwriter (b. 1902) ·
1977 Wilfred Kitching, English 7th General of
The Salvation Army (b. 1893) ·
1978 Chill Wills, American actor (b. 1903) ·
1984 Jan Peerce, American tenor and actor (b.
1904) ·
1985 Seewoosagur
Ramgoolam, Mauritian physician and politician, 1st Prime
Minister of Mauritius (b. 1900) ·
1986 Serge Lifar, Russian-French ballet dancer
and choreographer ·
1989 Edward Underdown, English actor and jockey
(b. 1908) ·
1991 Vasily Zaytsev,
Russian captain (b. 1915) ·
1993 William Dale
Phillips, American chemist and engineer (b. 1925) ·
2000 Haris Brkić, Bosnian-Serbian basketball
player (b. 1974) ·
2003 Vincent Apap, Maltese sculptor (b. 1909) ·
2003 George Fisher,
American cartoonist (b. 1923) ·
2003 Keith Magnuson, Canadian ice hockey player
and coach (b. 1947) ·
2004 Vassal Gadoengin, Nauruan educator and
politician, Speaker
of the Nauru Parliament (b. 1943) ·
2005 Heinrich Gross, Austrian physician and
psychiatrist (b. 1914) ·
2005 Stan Leonard, Canadian golfer (b. 1915) ·
2005 William Proxmire, American soldier,
journalist, and politician (b. 1915) ·
2005 Darrell
Russell, American football player (b. 1976) ·
2006 Clay Regazzoni, Swiss race car driver (b.
1939) ·
2006 Mary Stolz, American journalist and author
(b. 1920) ·
2007 Julia Carson, American lawyer and politician
(b. 1938) ·
2008 Leσn Febres Cordero,
Ecuadorian engineer and politician, 46th President
of Ecuador (b. 1931) ·
2009 Eliza Atkins Gleason,
African American librarian (b. 1909)[3] ·
2009 Oral Roberts, American evangelist, founded
the Oral
Roberts Evangelistic Association (b. 1918) ·
2010 Blake Edwards, American director, producer,
and screenwriter (b. 1922) ·
2010 Bob Feller, American baseball player and
sportscaster (b. 1918) ·
2010 Eugene Victor
Wolfenstein, American psychoanalyst and theorist (b. 1940) ·
2011 Bob Brookmeyer, American trombone player and
composer (b. 1929) ·
2011 Christopher Hitchens,
English-American essayist, literary critic, and journalist (b. 1949) ·
2012 Owoye Andrew Azazi,
Nigerian general (b. 1952) ·
2012 Patrick Ibrahim
Yakowa, Nigerian politician, 18th Governor
of Kaduna State (b. 1948) ·
2012 Olga Zubarry, Argentinian actress (b. 1929) ·
2013 Harold Camping, American evangelist, author,
radio host (b. 1921) ·
2013 Joan Fontaine, British-American actress (b.
1917) ·
2013 Dyron Nix, American basketball player (b.
1967) ·
2014 Donald Metcalf, Australian physiologist and
immunologist (b. 1929) ·
2014 Fausto Zapata, Mexican journalist, lawyer,
and politician, Governor of
San Luis Potosν (b. 1940) ·
2015 Harry Zvi Tabor, English-Israeli physicist
and engineer (b. 1917) ·
2016 Craig Sager, American sports journalist (b.
1951) ·
2017 Heinz Wolff, scientist and TV presenter (b.
1928)[11] ·
2017 Calestous Juma, academic (b. 1953) ·
2018 Eryue He, Chinese historical fiction writer
(b.1945) [12] ·
2018 Girma Wolde-Giorgis,
President of Ethiopia (b. 1924) Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Bill of Rights Day (United
States) o 2nd Amendment Day (South Carolina) ·
Christian feast day: o John Horden and Robert
McDonald (Episcopal Church
(USA)) o Mesmin o Virginia
Centurione Bracelli o December
15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Kingdom Day (Netherlands), moves to December 16 if the
15th is on a Sunday ·
Zamenhof Day (International Esperanto Community) |
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