Famous people born on 15 December

• L. L. ZamenhofPolish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto · 1859–1917
  57 yrs
• Antoine Henri BecquerelFrench physicist · 1852–1908
  55 yrs
• Gustave EiffelFrench chemical engineer and architect · 1832–1923
  91 yrs
• Oscar NiemeyerBrazilian architect · 1907–2012
  104 yrs
• Henry VI of EnglandKing of England from 1422 to 1461 and from 1470 to 1471, disputed King of France from 1422 to 1453 · 1421–1471
  49 yrs
• Freeman DysonTheoretical physicist and mathematician · 1923–2020
  96 yrs
• Maurice WilkinsNew Zealand-born English physicist and biologist · 1916–2004
  87 yrs
• Niels Ryberg FinsenFaroese physician and scientist and Nobel laureate · 1860–1904
  43 yrs
• Baldassarre Castiglione ↗Italian Renaissance author · 1478–1529
  50 yrs
• J. Paul Getty ↗American industrialist and art collector · 1892–1976
  83 yrs
• János Bolyai ↗Hungarian mathematician · 1802–1860
  57 yrs
• Tim Conway ↗American actor and comedian · 1933–2019
  85 yrs
• Friedensreich Hundertwasser ↗Austrian artist · 1928–2000
  71 yrs
• Pehr Evind Svinhufvud ↗President of Finland · 1861–1944
  82 yrs
• Stanislaw Shushkievich ↗Belarusian nuclear physicist and politician · 1934–2022
  87 yrs
• Edna O'Brien ↗Irish writer · 1930–2024
  93 yrs
• Rudolf Laban ↗Austrian choreographer · 1879–1958
  78 yrs
• Edmond Debeaumarché ↗French Resistance member · 1906–1959
  52 yrs
• Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed ↗Former president of Puntland and President of Somalia · 1934–2012
  77 yrs
• Josef Hoffmann ↗Austrian architect and product designer · 1870–1956
  85 yrs
• Daria Dugina ↗Russian journalist and activist · 1992–2022
  29 yrs
• Tamara Smirnova ↗Russian astronomer · 1935–2001
  65 yrs

Only people with a known day of birth are listed, and only people who have died. Dates are from Wikidata (CC0), last updated 22 October 2026.

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