December 15

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.

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Events

Pre-1600

1601–1900

1901–present

Births

Pre-1600

1601–1900

1901–present

Deaths

Pre-1600

1601–1900

1901–present

  • 1943 Fats Waller, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1904)
  • 1944 Glenn Miller, American bandleader and composer (b. 1904)[41]
  • 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)[42]
  • 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 Lévy, 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)
  • 1980 Peter Gregg, American race car driver (b. 1940)[43]
  • 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 (b. 1905)
  • 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 León Febres Cordero, Ecuadorian engineer and politician, 46th President of Ecuador (b. 1931)
  • 2009 Eliza Atkins Gleason, American librarian (b. 1909)[19]
  • 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 Potosí (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)[44]
  • 2017 Calestous Juma, academic (b. 1953)
  • 2018 Eryue He, Chinese historical fiction writer (b.1945) [45]
  • 2018 Girma Wolde-Giorgis, President of Ethiopia (b. 1924)
  • 2020 Saufatu Sopoanga, Tuvaluan politician, 8th Prime Minister of Tuvalu (b. 1952)[46]

Holidays and observances

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