December 15: Today's Notable Birthdays

Is December 15th your birthday? Was someone special to you born on December 15th? With whom will you choose to celebrate this excellent occasion?

If today is your birthday, then you are in excellent company.

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December 15th was the birth date of several notable (or even notorious) individuals. Here they are:

December 15th Birthdays: Famous Artists

American painter Edwin Howland Blashfield (The Angel with the Flaming Sword, Design for the Washington Centennial Celebration, Music, The New Dress and Red Cross Christmas Roll Call - World War I Poster) was born on December 15, 1848. Edwin Howland Blashfield painted the Library of Congress dome.

Kermit Bloomgarden, theatrical producer (Another Part of the Forest, The Autumn Garden, Command Decision, The Crucible, Death of a Salesman, Deep Are the Roots, The Diary of Anne Frank, Equus, Heavenly Express, Look Homeward Angel, The Most Happy Fella, The Music Man and Toys in the Attic), was born on December 15, 1904.

Paul R. Citroen, German-Dutch artist (Metropolis) and postage stamp designer, was born on December 15, 1896.

British actor and film director Alexander Cox (Death and the Compass, Repo Man, Revengers' Tragedy, The Searchers, Sid & Nancy, Sleep Is for Sissies, Straight to Hell, Three Businessmen, Walker and The Winner) was born on December 15, 1954.

Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, French architect and engineer (The Eiffel Tower), was born on December 15, 1832. Gustav Eiffel designed the interior structure of the Statue of Liberty.

Austrian architect Josef Hoffmann (Beer-Hoffmann House, Koloman Moser House, Palais Stoclet, Sanatorium Purkersdorf, Villa Primavesi, Villenkolonie Hohe Warte and Werkbundsiedlung Wien) was born on December 15, 1870.

Reginald Hudlin, American film director (Bebe's Kids, Boomerang, Cosmic Stop, The Great White Hype and House Party), was born on December 15, 1961. Reginald Hudlin's brother is film director Warrington Hudlin.

Austrian architect Friedensreich Stowasser Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser (Die Grune Zitadelle von Magdeburg, Hundertwasser House, Hundertwasserhaus Waldspirale, Hundertwasserkirche, Kindergarten Heddernheim, Kunst Haus Wien, Markthalle, Quixote Winery, Ronald Mcdonald Kinder Vallei and Wohnen unterm Regenturm) was born on December 15, 1928.

Danish architect and ergonomic furniture designer Kaare Klint was born on December 15, 1888.

Francesco Messina, Italian sculptor (Alice, Ofelia and Pugilatore), was born on December 15, 1900.

Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho, Brazilian architect (Brasilia), was born on December 15, 1907.

British portrait painter George Romney (Milton and His Daughters and Scene from "The Tempest"), was born on December 15, 1734.

Evald Schorm, Czechoslovakian actor and film director (Confusion, Courage for Every Day, Dialogues, End of a Priest, Killing with Kindness, King and Women, The Nights of Prague, Pearls of the Deep, Railwaymen, Return of the Prodigal Son, Revenge, The Seventh Day - The Eighth Night and Turista), was born on December 15, 1931.

American film director Julie Taymor (Across the Universe, Fool's Fire, Frida, Oedipus Rex, The Tempest and Titus) was born on December 15, 1952. Julie Taymor directed The Lion King production on Broadway.

David Teniers II, Flemish painter (Theatrum Pictorium), was born on December 15, 1610.

Rudolf von Laban, Czechoslovakian-German modern dance choreographer, was born on December 15, 1879.

December 15th Birthdays: Famous Athletes

Harold Abrahams, British runner and Olympic gold medalist (1924), was born on December 15, 1899.

American professional football player (Boston Patriots and Miami Dolphins) and television sportscaster (Inside the NFL) Nicholas Anthony Buoniconti was born on December 15, 1940.

Catherine Mai-Lan Fox, American swimmer and Olympic gold medalist (1996), was born on December 15, 1977.

Mihaly Hesz, Hungarian kayaker and Olympic gold medalist (1968), was born on December 15, 1943.

Joseph (Joe) Jordan, Scottish soccer player and coach (A.C. Milan, Leeds United and Manchester United), was born on December 15, 1951.

American professional baseball star William Edward (Eddie) Robinson (Baltimore Orioles, Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers, Kansas City Athletics, New York Yankees, Philadelphia Athletics and Washington Nationals) was born on December 15, 1920.

December 15th Birthdays: Famous Authors and Journalists

Maxwell Anderson, American playwright and screenwriter (All Quiet on the Western Front, Anne of the Thousand Days, The Bad Seed, Barefoot in Athens, Death Takes a Holiday, The Devil's Hornpipe, Elizabeth the Queen, Joan of Arc, Key Largo, Knickerbocker Holiday, Mary of Scotland, Meet Joe Black, Saturday's Children, Washington Merry-Go-Round, What Price Glory and Winterset), was born on December 15, 1888.

American economist and author Henry Charles Carey (The Harmony of Interests) was born on December 15, 1793.

Charles Cowden Clarke, British editor, Shakespearean scholar, literary critic and author (Carmina Minima, Moliere's Characters and Shakespeare's Characters), was born on December 15, 1787.

George B. Cressey, American geographer and author (Asia's Lands and Peoples), was born on December 15, 1896.

Edna O'Brien, Irish author (Casualties of Peace, The Country Girls, Down by the River, A Fanatic Heart, Girls in Their Married Bliss, The High Road, House of Splendid Isolation, In the Forest, Johnny I Hardly Knew You, Lantern Slides, The Light of Evening, The Lonely Girl, The Love Object, Mother Ireland and A Scandalous Woman), was born on December 15, 1932.

Muriel Rukeyser, American poet. biographer and author (Body of Waking, The Green Wave, Speed of Darkness, Theory of Flight,U.S. 1 and Waterlily Fire), was born on December 15, 1913.

American journalist, philanthropist, abolitionist, transcendentalist and author (A. Bronson Alcott: His Life and Philosophy, Dr. Earle, Emerson, Final Life of Thoreau, Hawthorne, A History of New Hampshire, John Brown, Personality of Emerson, Personality of Thoreau, Recollections of Seventy Years and Thoreau) Franklin Benjamin Sanborn was born on December 15, 1831.

Elizabeth (Betty Smith) Wehner, American author (Joy in the Morning, Maggie-Now, Tomorrow Will Be Better and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn), was born on December 15, 1906.

December 15th Birthdays: Famous Business Leaders

Charles Edgar Duryea, American inventor, bicycle maker and automotive manufacturer (Duryea Motor Wagon Company), was born on December 15, 1861.

Jean Paul Getty, American oil executive (Getty Oil), was born on December 15, 1892.

British publisher and London Daily Telegraph founder Joseph Moses Levy was born on December 15, 1812.

Chaja Helena Rubinstein, Polish-American cosmetics manufacturer (Helena Rubenstein Cosmetics), was born on December 15, 1882.

December 15th Birthdays: Famous Performers

American rock drummer, singer and songwriter Carmine Appice (Cactus, KGB, King Kobra and Vanilla Fudge) was born on December 15, 1946. Carmine Appice's brother is drummer Vinny Appice.

Ernest Ashworth, American country singer ("Talk Back Trembling Lips"), was born on December 15, 1928.

Canadian actress Margaret Bannerman (Flames, Goodbye, The Grass Orphan, The Home Stretch, Justice and Royal Cavalcade) was born on December 15, 1896.

Nicholas (Nick) Beggs, British pop bass guitarist and singer (Iona and Kajagoogoo), was born on December 15, 1961.

Jesse Lorenzo Belvin, American R&B singer ("Dream Girl," "Earth Angel" and "Goodnight My Love"), was born on December 15, 1933.

Cindy Birdsong, American rock singer (Patti LaBelle and the Blue Belles and Diana Ross and The Supremes), was born on December 15, 1939.

American actress (Hotel) and television personality (American Baby,GSN Live and Party at Home) Heidi Bohay was born on December 15, 1959. Heidi Bohay married actor Michael Spound.

American actor Adam Brody (Grind, Growing Up Brady, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, The O.C., The Ring and Thank You for Smoking) was born on December 15, 1979.

Melanie Chartoff, American actress (American Hot Wax, Newhart, Parker Lewis Can't Lose and Search for Tomorrow), television personality (Fridays) and voice-over artist (All Grown Up and Rugrats), was born on December 15, 1955.

Edwin (Buddy) Cole, American jazz pianist and singer (The Buddy Cole Trio), was born on December 15, 1916. Buddy Cole sang with Rosemary Clooney and other artists.

Tim Conway, American comedian, actor (McHale's Navy) and television personality (The Carol Burnett Show and The Tim Conway Show), was born on December 15, 1933.

British actor Geoffrey Davies (Casual Affair, Doctor at Sea, Doctor in the House, Doctor in Trouble, Doctor on the Go, The Fossett Saga, Kindly Leave the Raj and Oh What a Lovely War) was born on December 15, 1942. Geoffrey Davies' daughter is actress Emma Davies.

Don Franklin, American actor (Girlfriends, NCIS, Seaquest DSV, Seven Days and The Young Riders), was born on December 15, 1960.

Alan Freed, American disc jockey, radio personality (The Moondoggy Show) and music producer, was born on December 15, 1922. Alan Freed has been credited with coining the phrase, "rock-n-roll," as recounted in the 1978 motion picture American Hot Wax.

American actor George O. Gore, II (The Bumblebee Flies Anyway, The Devil's Advocate, Eddie, Juice, My Wife and Kids, New York Undercover and Touched by an Angel), was born on December 15, 1981.

American actor Ira (Jeff Chandler) Grossel (Broken Arrow, Merrill's Marauders and Return to Peyton Place) was born on December 15, 1918.

David Gwillim, British actor, (Anna Karenina, The Citadel, Do Not Disturb, Hanlon, Island at Top of the World, Nostradamus and Peter and Paul), was born on December 15, 1948. David Gwillim is brother to actress Sara-Jane Gwillim.

American actor Donnie Wayne (Don) Johnson (A Boy and His Dog, Guilty as Sin, Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, The Harrad Experiment, The Hot Spot, Just Legal, The Long Hot Summer, Miami Vice, Nash Bridges, Revenge of the Stepford Wives and Sweet Hearts Dance) was born on December 15, 1949. Don Johnson was married to actress Patti D'Arbanville and actress Melanie Griffith.

Stanley Newcomb (Stan) Kenton, American jazz pianist and bandleader (Stan Kenton and His Masters of Swing), was born on December 15, 1911.

Ken Knox, American rock singer (Chairmen of the Board), was born on December 15, 1951.

American actress (The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, Cabaret Tonight, Cage Without a Key, I Was a Mail Order Bride, A Prairie Home Companion and Singin') and television personality (The Jim Nabors Hour. The Match Game, The Merv Griffin Show and The Tonight Show) Karen Morrow was born on December 15, 1937.

American ventriloquist Jimmy Nelson was born on December 15, 1928. Jimmy Nelson's most popular characters were Farfel the Dog and Danny O'Day.

Thaao Penghlis, Greek-Australian actor (Cannon, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital, Hart to Hart, Kojak, Magnum P.I., Mission Impossible and Santa Barbara), was born on December 15, 1945.

Doug Phelps, American country music singer (The Kentucky Headhunters), was born on December 15, 1960.

American actress Molly Price (The Bionic Woman, Chasing Sleep, Law & Order, Sex and the City, Sweet and Lowdown, Third Watch and Without a Trace) was born on December 15, 1966.

French television personality Annie Pujol (Roue de la Fortune) was born on December 15, 1961.

Harry Milton Ray, American R&B singer (The Moments and Ray Goodman and Brown), was born on December 15, 1946.

American actor Justin Ross (A Chorus Line, The Fan, Funny About Love, Quick Change and Sinatra) was born on December 15, 1954.

James Schneider, American actor (Keystone Kops), was born on December 15, 1881.

Canadian actor Michael Garrett Shanks (24, The Artist's Circle, The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon, Escape from Mars, Living Out Loud, Mr. Fortune's Smile, Stargate: Atlantis, Stargate SG-1 and Suspicious River) was born on December 15, 1970. Michael Shanks married actress Lexa Doig.

Paul Simonon, British pop bassist (The Clash), was born on December 15, 1955.

Helen Rachel Slater, American actress (Capital News, Chantilly Lace, City Slickers, Happy Together, Heavenzapoppin, Lassie, The Legend of Billie Jean, Nowhere in Sight, Parallel Lives, Ruthless People, The Secret of My Succe$s, Seeing Other People, Sticky Fingers and Supergirl), was born on December 15, 1963.

Irish actor (About Adam, The Best Man, Chaos Theory, Head in the Clouds, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Night Stalker, Queen of the Damned, Resurrection Man, Shade, Shooting Fish, Simon Magus, Trapped, Trojan Eddie, Under the Skin, The Venice Project and Wonderland) and film director (Battle in Seattle) Stuart Townsend was born on December 15, 1972.

Frank Vosper, British actor (The Man Who Knew Too Much), was born on December 15, 1899.

American country music singer ("A Touch of Pink," "How the Time Flies," "If You Leave Me Tonight I'll Cry," "In the Misty Moonlight," "Primrose Lane," "Shutters and Boards," "The Lovers of the World" and "To Get to You") and actor (Hec Ramsey) Jerry Wallace was born on December 15, 1938.

Garrett Richard Wang, Chinese-American actor (Demon Island, Into the West and Star Trek: Voyager), was born on December 15, 1968.

December 15th Birthdays: Famous Scientists

Antoine Henri Becquerel, radiochemist, physicist and Nobel Prize winner (1903), was born on December 15, 1852. Antoine Becquerel has been credited with the discovery of radioactivity.

Janos Bolyai, Romanian-Hungarian mathematician and non-Euclidean geometry specialist, was born on December 15, 1802.

Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian-American biochemist, pharmacologist and Nobel Prize winner (1947), was born on December 15, 1896.

Freeman John Dyson, British-American mathematician and theoretical physicist (Dyson Operator and Dyson Sphere), was born on December 15, 1923.

Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish physician, phototherapist and Nobel Prize winner (1903), was born on December 15, 1860.

Gregory King, British statistician and author (Natural and Political Observations), was born on December 15, 1648.

Arthur Dehon Little, American chemist and management consultant, was born on December 15, 1863. Arthur D. Little has been credited with the discoveries of acetate and rayon.

Maurice Wilkins, British physicist and Nobel Prize winner (1962), was born on December 15, 1916.

Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof, Russian-Polish physician and linguist, was born on December 15, 1859. Ludwig Zamenhof created an international language, known as Esperanto.

December 15th Birthdays: Famous World (and Other) Leaders

Nero Claudius Augustus Germanicus, 5^th Roman Emperor, was born on December 15, 1937 A.D.

Paul Prudent Painleve, French Premier and mathematician, was born on December 15, 1863.

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