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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
 4Holidays and observances
 5References
 6External links

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 as a compromise
between antipopes Paschal and Theodore.[1]
 1025 – Constantine VIII becomes sole emperor of
the Byzantine Empire, 63 years after being crowned
co-emperor.
 1161 – Jin–Song 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.[2]
 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.
 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
13–0 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 the Republic of China (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 café
in Martin Place for 16 hours in Sydney. Monis and
two hostages are killed when police raid the café 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)[3]
 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 Brasília (d. 2012)
 1908 – Swami Ranganathananda, Indian monk,
scholar, and author (d. 2005)
 1909 – Sattar Bahlulzade, Azerbaijani-Russian
painter (d. 1974)
 1909 – Eliza Atkins Gleason, American librarian (d.
2009)[4]
 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)[5]
 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)[6]
 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)
 1926 – Bitt Pitt, Australian race car driver (d. 2017) [7]
 1928 – Ernest Ashworth, American singer-songwriter
(d. 2009)
 1928 – Ida Haendel, Polish-English violinist and
educator (d. 2020)
 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[8] (d. 2020)
 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 – 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[9]
 1948 – Cassandra Harris, Australian actress (d.
1991)
 1948 – Charlie Scott, American basketball player[10]
 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[11]
 1976 – Aaron Miles, American baseball player and
coach
 1976 – Todd Tichenor, American baseball player and
umpire
 1977 – Mehmet Aurélio, 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 – Élodie Gossuin, French beauty pageant
titleholder and 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 González, 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 García, Spanish race car driver
 1982 – Tatiana Perebiynis, Ukrainian tennis player
 1983 – Delon Armitage, Trinidadian-English rugby
player
 1983 – René Duprée, 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 Mazáčová, 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
 1992 – Alex Telles, Brazilian footballer[12]
 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
 1999 – Amber Joseph, Barbadian cyclist[13]

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 – Jöns 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)[14]
 1855 – Jacques Charles François 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 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)[15]
 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 – León Febres Cordero, Ecuadorian engineer
and politician, 46th President of Ecuador (b. 1931)
 2009 – Eliza Atkins Gleason, American librarian (b.
1909)[4]
 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)[16]
 2017 – Calestous Juma, academic (b. 1953)
 2018 – Eryue He, Chinese historical fiction writer
(b.1945) [17]
 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 Drina Martyrs
o Drostan (Aberdeen Breviary)
o John Horden and Robert
McDonald (Episcopal Church (USA))
o Maria Crocifissa di Rosa
o Mesmin
o Valerian of Abbenza
o Virginia Centurione Bracelli
o December 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
 Homecoming Day (Alderney)
 Kingdom Day (Netherlands), moves to December 16
if the 15th is on a Sunday
 Zamenhof Day (International Esperanto Community)

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521-42974-0.
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