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You share your birthday with 32 famous people in our archive.
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b. 2001Diljá
Icelandic singer whose Eurovision song Power topped the charts in Iceland
Did you know? Power finished just outside the qualifying places in its semi-final.
Cavetown
English bedroom pop singer-songwriter who found fame on YouTube
Did you know? His father, David Skinner, is a classical musician and flautist.
b. 1997Celeste Cortesi
Oleksandr Zinchenko
Ukrainian footballer who has played for Manchester City and Arsenal
Did you know? At nineteen, he became the youngest player to score for the Ukrainian national team, breaking a record previously held by Andriy Shevchenko.
Jesse Lingard
English footballer known for his career with Manchester United
Did you know? He celebrated a goal for England at the World Cup by performing a popular dance move from a video game.
Yosuke Kashiwagi
Japanese international midfielder who played for Urawa Red Diamonds
Did you know? He was named the Most Valuable Player of the AFC Champions League when his team won the title in 2017.
Kirthi Jayakumar
Keylor Navas
Three-time Champions League winning goalkeeper with Real Madrid
Did you know? He is widely regarded as the greatest footballer in Costa Rican history and has appeared in several World Cup tournaments.
Martin Škrtel
Slovakian defender who played over three hundred games for Liverpool
Did you know? He won the Slovak Footballer of the Year award four times and captained his country at their first World Cup.
b. 1983Zlatan Ljubijankič
Slovenian international footballer who played as a forward
Did you know? He scored for his country against the United States during the group stages of the 2010 World Cup.
Roman Pavlyuchenko
Russian footballer who played as a striker for Tottenham Hotspur
Did you know? While playing professional football, he was elected to his local city council as a member of a major political party.
Annalena Baerbock
German politician serving as the Minister for Foreign Affairs
Did you know? Before her political career, she was a competitive trampolinist and won several bronze medals in national championships.
Élodie Gossuin
Milena Miconi
Allan Simonsen
Danish footballer and winner of the 1977 Ballon d'Or
Did you know? He is the only player to have scored in the finals of the European Cup, the UEFA Cup, and the Cup Winners' Cup.
Don Johnson
American actor who starred in the television series Miami Vice
Did you know? He won a world title in offshore powerboat racing in 1988 after developing a passion for the sport while filming in Florida.
Chico Mendes
Stanislaw Shushkievich
First head of state of independent Belarus
Did you know? As a young academic in the early 1960s, he was assigned to teach Russian to Lee Harvey Oswald during Oswald's time in Minsk.
Tim Conway
Comedian and actor famous for The Carol Burnett Show
Did you know? He was famous for his ability to make his fellow actors laugh on camera, a skill frequently seen during his comedy sketches.
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
Austrian artist and architect famous for his colourful, organic buildings
Did you know? He was a staunch opponent of straight lines, which he considered to be unnatural and harmful to human well-being.
Freeman Dyson
Theoretical physicist known for his imaginative ideas about space and technology
Did you know? He conceived the "Dyson sphere," a hypothetical structure built around a star to capture its entire energy output.
1916–2004Maurice Wilkins
Nobel Prize-winning physicist who helped discover the structure of DNA
Did you know? During the Second World War, he worked on the Manhattan Project focusing on isotope separation.
Oscar Niemeyer
Brazilian architect who designed the main government buildings of Brasília
Did you know? He was a lifelong communist and close friend of Fidel Castro, living in exile in France for many years.
J. Paul Getty
American industrialist and founder of the Getty Oil Company
Did you know? Despite being one of the world's richest men, he famously installed a payphone at his English country house for his guests to use.
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On This Day: December 15 in history5
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🇺🇸Walt DisneyAmerican animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneurView profile Photo (modified): Boy Scouts of America · Public domain1966Died
🇦🇹Wolfgang PauliAustrian theoretical physicist and a pioneer of quantum mechanicsView profile Photo (modified): Bettina Katzenstein · CC BY-SA 4.01958Died
🇬🇧Christopher HitchensBritish and American author and journalistView profile Photo (modified): ensceptico · CC BY 2.02011Died
🇮🇳Sardar Vallabhbhai PatelGandhian Indian independence activist, lawyer and statesman who served as the first Deputy Prime Minister and Home…View profile Photo (modified): Government of India work · Public domain1950Died
🇺🇸Joan FontaineBritish-American actress best known for her film roles during the Golden Age of HollywoodView profile Photo (modified): Whitey Schafer · Public domain2013Died
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December 15: birthdays, history and star sign
32 famous people were born on December 15, including L. L. Zamenhof, Nero and Antoine Henri Becquerel. Anyone born on December 15 is a Sagittarius, a fire sign ruled by Jupiter. Notable events on December 15 include Romanian Revolution (1989) (1989) and First Italo-Ethiopian War (1894).
Famous people born on December 15
- 1992Jesse Lingard · English professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or winger for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club…
- 1986Keylor Navas · Costa Rican professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for and captains Liga MX club Pumas UNAM and the Costa…
- 1984Martin Škrtel · Slovak former professional footballer who played as a centre-back
- 1981Roman Pavlyuchenko · Russian football coach and a former player who played as a striker
- 1980Annalena Baerbock · German diplomat and politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens party
- 1949Don Johnson · American actor and singer-songwriter
- 1933Tim Conway · American comedian, actor, writer, and director
- 1928Friedensreich Hundertwasser · Austrian visual artist, architect and activist
- 1923Freeman Dyson · British-American theoretical physicist and mathematician who worked in quantum field theory, astrophysics, random…
- 1916Maurice Wilkins · New Zealand-born British biophysicist and Nobel laureate whose research spanned multiple areas of physics and…
- 1907Oscar Niemeyer · Brazilian architect considered to be one of the key figures in the development of modern architecture
- 1892J. Paul Getty · Jean Paul Getty Sr
- 1861Pehr Evind Svinhufvud · Pehr Evind Svinhufvud af Qvalstad served as the president of Finland from 1931 to 1937
- 1860Niels Ryberg Finsen · Physician and scientist
- 1859L. L. Zamenhof · Creator of Esperanto, the most widely used constructed international auxiliary language
- 1852Antoine Henri Becquerel · French experimental physicist who shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Marie and Pierre Curie for his discovery…
- 1832Gustave Eiffel · French civil engineer
- 1802János Bolyai · Hungarian mathematician who developed absolute geometry—a geometry that includes both Euclidean geometry and hyperbolic…
- AD 130Lucius Verus · Roman emperor from 161 until his death in 169, alongside his adoptive brother Marcus Aurelius
- AD 37Nero · Roman emperor from AD 54 until his suicide in AD 68, as the final emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty
On December 15 in history
- 1989Romanian Revolution (1989) · The Romanian revolution was a period of violent civil unrest in the Socialist Republic of Romania during December 1989 as a part of the revolutions of 1989…
- 1894First Italo-Ethiopian War · The First Italo-Ethiopian War, also referred to as the First Italo-Abyssinian War, or simply known as the Abyssinian War in Italy, was fought between Italy and…
- 17881788–89 United States presidential selection · Presidential elections were held in the United States from December 15, 1788 to January 7, 1789, under the new Constitution ratified in 1788. George Washington…
- 2013South Sudanese Civil War · The South Sudanese Civil War was a multi-sided civil war in South Sudan fought from 2013 to 2018 between government and opposition forces. The civil war caused…
- 20142014 Sydney hostage crisis · The Lindt Café siege was a terrorist hostage-taking that occurred on 15–16 December 2014 when a lone gunman, Man Haron Monis, held ten customers and eight…
Zodiac sign
Sagittarius · Fire · ruled by Jupiter · Adventurous, Optimistic, Philosophical, Blunt
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Ludwig van Beethoven
German composer of nine symphonies, including the Fifth and the choral Ninth, who kept writing masterpieces after losing his hearing
Did you know? He was famously particular about his coffee, insisting that every cup was made with exactly sixty beans that he counted himself.
Jane Austen
English novelist of Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Emma, famed for her wit and portraits of love and class
Did you know? All of her novels were published anonymously during her lifetime, with her first book simply credited to "A Lady".
Dilma Rousseff
Former guerrilla and economist who became Brazil's first female president, serving from 2011 until her impeachment in 2016
Did you know? During the 1970s, she was part of an underground guerrilla group fighting the military dictatorship and spent three years in prison.
Arthur C. Clarke
British science-fiction writer of 2001: A Space Odyssey and Childhood's End who first proposed communications satellites
Did you know? He proposed the idea of geostationary communication satellites in a technical paper years before the first one was launched into orbit.
George VI
King of the United Kingdom who took the throne after his brother's abdication, overcame a stammer and led Britain through the Second World War
Did you know? He competed in the men's doubles tournament at Wimbledon while he was still the Duke of York.
Nostradamus
French physician and astrologer whose cryptic book of prophecies, Les Prophéties, is still studied for supposed predictions
Did you know? Before becoming a famous seer, he was a physician who gained recognition for his innovative methods of treating plague victims.
Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer whose precise naked-eye observations from his island observatory allowed Kepler to discover planetary laws
Did you know? He lost part of his nose in a duel with a fellow student and wore a replacement made of metal for the rest of his life.
Wassily Kandinsky
Russian painter considered a pioneer of abstract art
Did you know? He was a trained lawyer and economist but abandoned a legal career to study painting when he was thirty.
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- Who was born on December 15?
- Famous people born on December 15 include L. L. Zamenhof (1859), Nero (AD 37), Antoine Henri Becquerel (1852), Gustave Eiffel (1832) and Oscar Niemeyer (1907). In total, 32 famous people in our archive were born on December 15.
- Which celebrities share a December 15 birthday?
- Famous people alive today with a December 15 birthday include Keylor Navas, Annalena Baerbock, Roman Pavlyuchenko and Don Johnson.
- What star sign is someone born on December 15?
- People born on December 15 are Sagittarius, a fire sign ruled by Jupiter. Sagittarius runs from November 22 to December 21.
- What happened on December 15 in history?
- Notable events on December 15 include Romanian Revolution (1989) (1989), First Italo-Ethiopian War (1894) and 1788–89 United States presidential selection (1788).
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- December 15 in historyYour birthday has a story. See every famous birth, historic event and notable death recorded on December 15, the day the world welcomed you.Date page
- Your most famous birthday match: L. L. ZamenhofOf the 32 famous people who share your birthday, L. L. Zamenhof is the best known. Read their story and see what you have in common.Person
- Sagittarius zodiac signAs a Sagittarius you're known for being adventurous, optimistic and philosophical, just like L. L. Zamenhof. Meet others who share your star sign.Zodiac
- Famous birthdays in DecemberSee the best-known people born on every day of December, from the 1st to the last day of the month.Month
- The 100 ClubWill you make it to 100? Meet the famous people who celebrated their 100th birthday, and the stars who are next in line.Centenarians
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