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December 15 Deaths in History - December 15 Birthdays - December 15 Events
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December 15, 1997 Lillian Disney, widow of Walt Disney, dies at 98 December 15, 1997 Pananayiotis Taki Vatikiotis, middle east scholar, dies at 69 December 15, 1996 Gerald Moverley, priest, dies at 74 December 15, 1996 Guiseppe Dossetti, politician/priest, dies at 83 December 15, 1996 Laurens jan van der Post, explorer/conservationist, dies at 90 December 15, 1995 James Geoffrey Cutcliffe Hepburn, tap-dancer/socialist, dies at 88 December 15, 1995 Manuel Gutierrez Mellado, PM of Defense of Spain (1977-81), dies at 83 December 15, 1994 Hans de Jong, musician/conductor (Amsterdams Vrouwenkoor), dies at 86 December 15, 1994 Harry Tobias, songwriter, dies at 99 December 15, 1994 Henry Phelps Brown, historian/economist, dies at 88 December 15, 1994 Mollie Doreen Phillips, British figure skater (Eur-bronze-33), dies at 87 December 15, 1993 Kakuei Tanaka, PM of Japan (1972-74), dies December 15, 1992 Fre [Frederik] Meis, Dutch MP (CPN), dies at 71 December 15, 1991 Horatio Luro, U.S. horse trainer (Northern Dancer), dies at 90 December 15, 1991 Ray Smith, British actor (And Then You Die), dies at 55 December 15, 1990 Betty Warren actress (Passport to Pimlico), dies December 15, 1990 Jean Paige, actress (Capt Blood, Black Beauty), dies December 15, 1989 Arnold Moss, actor (Gambit), dies at 79 December 15, 1984 Avon Long, actor (Roots: Next Generation), dies at 74 December 15, 1984 Jan Peerce, [Perelmuth], operatic tenor, dies at 80 following a stroke December 15, 1979 Bern Hoffman, actor (Major Dell Conway), dies at 66 December 15, 1978 Chill Wills, actor (Frontier Circus, Rounders), dies at 75 December 15, 1975 Mukhtar Ashrafi, composer, dies at 63 December 15, 1974 Erich Walter Sternberg, composer, dies at 83 December 15, 1974 Harry Hershfield, cartoonist (Can You Top This?), dies at 89 December 15, 1973 Orest Alexandrovich Evlahkov, composer, dies at 61 December 15, 1972 Edward Earle, actor (Charlie Chan-Meeting at Midnight), dies at 90 December 15, 1972 Herbert Eimert, German composer (Glockenspiel), dies at 75 December 15, 1968 Jess Willard, Heavyweight boxing champ (1915-19), dies at 86 December 15, 1966 Walt Disney, animator, dies at 65, put in suspended animation December 15, 1962 Charles Laughton, English actor (Hunchback of Notre Dame), dies at 63 December 15, 1961 William "Dummy" Hoy, professional baseball player, dies at 99 December 15, 1953 Kishio Hirao, composer, dies at 46 December 15, 1951 Eric Drummond, 1st sec-gen League of Nations (1919-33), dies at 75 December 15, 1950 Robert Muller-Hartmann, composer, dies at 66 December 15, 1946 Conrad Haebler, historian (Hundert Kalenderinkunabeln), dies at 89 December 15, 1946 Gordon Frederic Norton, composer, dies at 77 December 15, 1944 Glenn Miller, U.S. band leader/jazz composer, dies at 40 December 15, 1943 Thomas W. "Fats" Waller, jazz pianist, dies at 39 in Kansas City Missouri December 15, 1943 Fats Waller, American Musician December 15, 1934 Maggis Lena Walker, 1st U.S. (black) woman to head a bank, dies at 69 December 15, 1909 Francisco Tarrega y Eixea, composer, dies at 57 December 15, 1901 Elias Alvares Lobo, composer, dies at 67 December 15, 1896 John GR Acquoy, Dutch theologist/church historian, dies at 67 December 15, 1892 Charles Balmer, composer, dies at 75 December 15, 1890 Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa-Sioux chief (Little Big Horn), killed by US December 15, 1889 Ferdinand II A F A, king of Portugal, dies at 73 December 15, 1880 Carlo Boncompagni di Mombello, Ital minister of Justice, dies at 76 December 15, 1861 Gualtiero Sanelli, composer, dies at 45 December 15, 1839 Matthijs I van Bree, Flemish court-painter, dies at 66 December 15, 1831 Paul R Cantzlaar, Governor of Saba/Curaeao/Dutch-West Indies, dies at 60 December 15, 1822 Ferenc Verseghy, composer, dies at 65 December 15, 1817 Maria Walewska [Leszczinska], lover of emperor Napoleon I, dies December 15, 1816 Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowitz, composer, dies at 44 December 15, 1792 Joseph Martin Kraus, composer, dies at 36 December 15, 1779 Manuel Jeronimo Romero de Avila, composer, dies at 62 December 15, 1715 George Hickes, English linguist (Old German Philology), dies at 73 December 15, 1712 Sidney 1st earl of Godolphine, English minister of Finance, dies at 67 December 15, 1699 Henrik A van Reede tot Drakenstein, Dutch botanist, dies at about 63 December 15, 1688 Gaspar Fagel, lawyer/Neth grand pensionary (1672-88), dies at 54 December 15, 1675 John Vermeer, Dutch painter (Love Letter), dies at 43 December 15, 1626 Adriaen de Vries, Dutch sculptor/painter, dies at about 70 December 15, 1621 Charles d'albert duke of Luynes/PM of France, dies at 43 December 15, 1598 Philip van Marnix, Flemish ruler of St. Aldegonde/poet, dies at 58 December 15, 1576 Joachim Hopperus, [Hoppers], Frisian lawyer/politician, dies at 53 December 15, 1515 Alfonso de Albuquerque, viceroy of Portuguese Indies, dies December 15, 1230 Ottokar I, king of Bohemia (1197-1230), dies December 15, 1025 Basilius II, the Bulgarendoder, Byzantine emperor (976-1025), dies |