December 15 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on December 15, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♐︎ Sagittarius
Nov 22 – Dec 21
Birth stone
Turquoise
Birth flower
Narcissus
How common
#217 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous December 15 birthdays
János Bolyai · Hungarian mathematician1802
Gustave Eiffel · French chemical engineer and architect1832
Henri Becquerel · French physicist1852
L. L. Zamenhof · Polish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto1859
Niels Ryberg Finsen · Faroese physician and scientist of Icelandic descent1860
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud · President of Finland1861
J. Paul Getty · American industrialist and art collector1892
Oscar Niemeyer · Brazilian architect1907
Maurice Wilkins · New Zealand-born English physicist and biologist1916
Freeman Dyson · Theoretical physicist and mathematician1923
Friedensreich Hundertwasser · Austrian artist1928
Tim Conway · American actor and comedian1933
Don Johnson · American actor and singer1949
Adam Brody · American actor1979
Annalena Baerbock · German politician1980
Roman Pavlyuchenko · Russian footballer1981
Martin Škrtel · Slovak association football player1984
Keylor Navas · Costa Rican association football player1986
Jesse Lingard · English footballer1992
Oleksandr Zinchenko · Ukrainian association football player1996
On this day in history
1864American Civil War: Union troops defeated the Army of Tennessee, one of the largest Confederate forces, at the Battle of Nashville.
1939The American historical epic film Gone With the Wind, adapted from Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of the same name, premiered in Atlanta, Georgia.
1943World War II: Australian and American forces began the Battle of Arawe against Japanese forces on New Britain as a diversion before a larger landing at Cape Gloucester.
1946U.S.-backed Iranian troops brought an end to the Iran crisis when they marched on the breakaway Republic of Mahabad and recaptured the territory.
1778American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of St. Lucia, the Royal Navy prevented French Navy ships from reaching their garrison on Saint Lucia in the West Indies.
1791The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, collectively known as the Bill of Rights, were ratified.
2013The South Sudanese Civil War began when three opposition leaders voted to boycott the meeting of the National Liberation Council in Juba.
2019Citizenship Amendment Act protests: 10 to 15 local women blockaded a major road in Delhi, India, to protest the exclusion of Muslims from the amended Citizenship Act.
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