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Famous people born on December 15

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Well-known people born on December 15 include L. L. Zamenhof (1859), Antoine Henri Becquerel (1852), Gustave Eiffel (1832) and Oscar Niemeyer (1907). Our list below has 79 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives December 15 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1610 (David Teniers the Younger) and the most recent is 1998 (Chandler Canterbury). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, writer.

Who was born on December 15?

  1. L. L. Zamenhof 1859 Polish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto
  2. Antoine Henri Becquerel 1852 French physicist
  3. Gustave Eiffel 1832 French chemical engineer and architect
  4. Oscar Niemeyer 1907 Brazilian architect
  5. Freeman Dyson 1923 Theoretical physicist and mathematician
  6. Keylor Navas 1986 Costa Rican association football player
  7. Maurice Wilkins 1916 New Zealand-born English physicist and biologist
  8. Niels Ryberg Finsen 1860 Faroese physician and scientist and Nobel laureate
  9. Annalena Baerbock 1980 German politician
  10. J. Paul Getty 1892 American industrialist and art collector
  11. Roman Pavlyuchenko 1981 Russian footballer
  12. Tim Conway 1933 American actor and comedian
  13. János Bolyai 1802 Hungarian mathematician
  14. Jesse Lingard 1992 English footballer
  15. Friedensreich Hundertwasser 1928 Austrian artist
  16. Don Johnson 1949 American actor and singer
  17. Martin Škrtel 1984 Slovak association football player
  18. Pehr Evind Svinhufvud 1861 President of Finland
  19. Oleksandr Zinchenko 1996 Ukrainian association football player
  20. Stanislaw Shushkievich 1934 Belarusian nuclear physicist and politician (1934—2022)
  21. Yosuke Kashiwagi 1987 Japanese association football player
  22. Allan Simonsen 1952 Danish footballer
  23. Adam Brody 1979 American actor
  24. Zlatan Ljubijankič 1983 Slovenian association football player
  25. Rudolf Laban 1879 Austrian choreographer
  26. Henri B. Kagan 1930 French chemist
  27. Edna O'Brien 1930 Irish writer
  28. Lee Jung-jae 1972 South Korean actor and businessman
  29. Charlie Cox 1982 British actor
  30. Steven Nzonzi 1988 French footballer
  31. Edmond Debeaumarché 1906 French Resistance member
  32. Alex Telles 1992 Brazilian association football player
  33. Michelle Dockery 1981 British actress
  34. Michael Shanks 1970 Canadian actor
  35. Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed 1934 Former president of Puntland and President of Somalia (dead 2012)
  36. Josef Hoffmann 1870 Austrian architect and product designer
  37. Cosmin Contra 1975 Romanian footballer and manager
  38. Aaron Cresswell 1989 English association football player
  39. Tamara Smirnova 1935 Russian astronomer
  40. Daria Dugina 1992 Russian journalist and activist
  41. Maude Apatow 1997 American actress
  42. Uthman Dan Fodio 1754 Founder of the Sokoto Caliphate
  43. Mark Warner 1954 United States Senator from Virginia
  44. Maxwell Anderson 1888 American playwright and writer
  45. Albert Memmi 1920 French writer of Tunisian-Jewish origin
  46. Juan Carlos Wasmosy 1938 44th President of Paraguay
  47. Milena Miconi 1971 Italian actress and model
  48. Boris Gryzlov 1950 Russian politician
  49. Jeff Chandler 1918 American actor and singer
  50. Helen Slater 1963 American actress, singer-songwriter
  51. Ralph Ineson 1969 British actor
  52. Harold Abrahams 1899 British sprinter
  53. David Teniers the Younger 1610 Flemish Baroque painter
  54. Pascal Bruckner 1948 French writer
  55. Nawaf Salam 1953 Lebanese Prime Minister
  56. Gregory III Laham 1933 Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch of Antioch
  57. Toni Šunjić 1988 Bosnian association football player
  58. David Černý 1967 Czech sculptor
  59. Geeta Phogat 1988 Indian freestyle wrestler
  60. Stuart Townsend 1972 Irish actor
  61. Ali Zeidan 1950 Libyan politician
  62. Joe Jordan 1951 Scottish football manager
  63. Julie Taymor 1952 American film and theatre director
  64. Ronnie Radke 1983 American musician
  65. Stan Kenton 1911 American pianist, composer, arranger and band leader
  66. Adriana Esteves 1969 Brazilian actress
  67. Will Robson Emilio Andrade 1973 Brazilian association football player
  68. Camilla Luddington 1983 British actress
  69. Wang Hao 1983 Chinese table tennis player
  70. Piet Schrijvers 1946 Dutch association football player
  71. Louis IX of Hesse-Darmstadt 1719 Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
  72. Ida Haendel 1928 Polish-born British violinist and violin teacher
  73. Famara Diedhiou 1992 Senegalese Footballer
  74. Mehmet Aurélio 1977 Turkish association football player
  75. Chandler Canterbury 1998 American actor
  76. Chico Mendes 1944 Brazilian trade union leader and environmentalist
  77. Paul Simonon 1955 English musician (Bass guitarist, vocalist, songwriter) and visual artist
  78. Carl Gotthard Langhans 1732 Prussian builder and architect
  79. Nejcati Shashmaz 1971 Turkish actor

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on December 15 share the 15th of December as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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