The 349th day of the year, the 350th in a leap year
Born on 15 December
Every 15 December birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Sagittarius, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- SagittariusFire, mutable, ruled by Jupiter.
- Birthstone
- Turquoise, Zircon, TanzaniteThe 1912 list gave Turquoise and Lapis lazuli.
- Birth flower
- Narcissus, HollyUsually taken today to mean good wishes and defence.
- Most common weekdays
- Thursday and Tuesday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 15 December in any year.
Which weekday 15 December falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 15 December falls on every day of the week: Thursday 16, Tuesday 16, Wednesday 15, Friday 15, Saturday 15, Monday 15, Sunday 15.
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How common a birthday 15 December is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,783 babies were born on 15 December in each year of the twenty, making it the 266th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 15 December
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| L. L. Zamenhof | 1859–1917 | Polish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto |
| Henri Becquerel | 1852–1908 | French physicist |
| Gustave Eiffel | 1832–1923 | French civil engineer |
| Oscar Niemeyer | 1907–2012 | Brazilian architect |
| Freeman Dyson | 1923–2020 | theoretical physicist and mathematician |
| Keylor Navas | 1986– | Costa Rican association football player |
| Maurice Wilkins | 1916–2004 | New Zealand-born English physicist and biologist |
| Niels Ryberg Finsen | 1860–1904 | Faroese physician and scientist of Icelandic descent |
| J. Paul Getty | 1892–1976 | American industrialist and art collector |
| Roman Pavlyuchenko | 1981– | Russian footballer |
| Tim Conway | 1933–2019 | American actor and comedian |
| Jesse Lingard | 1992– | English footballer |
| Friedensreich Hundertwasser | 1928–2000 | Austrian artist |
| Martin Škrtel | 1984– | Slovak association football player |
| Pehr Evind Svinhufvud | 1861–1944 | President of Finland |
| Don Johnson | 1949– | American actor and singer |
| Oleksandr Zinchenko | 1996– | Ukrainian association football player |
| Allan Simonsen | 1952– | Danish footballer |
Died on 15 December
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Walt Disney | 1901–1966 | American animator, film producer, voice actor and entrepreneur |
| Johannes Vermeer | 1632–1675 | Dutch painter |
| Wolfgang Pauli | 1900–1958 | Austrian theoretical physicist |
| Sitting Bull | 1831–1890 | Hunkpapa Lakota medicine man and holy man |
| Vallabhbhai Patel | 1875–1950 | Indian lawyer and statesman, Deputy Prime Minister of India from 1947 to 1950 |
| Christopher Hitchens | 1949–2011 | English American author and journalist |
| Selim II | 1524–1574 | Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1566 to 1574 |
| Joan Fontaine | 1917–2013 | British actress |
| Basil II | 958–1025 | Byzantine Emperor from the Macedonian dynasty |
| Charles Laughton | 1899–1962 | British-American actor |
| Glenn Miller | 1904–1944 | American band leader, arranger, and composer |
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