History Deaths on December 15

Chill Wills, American actor (b. 1903)

#Chill_Wills

Antonio Barrette, Canadian politician, 18th Premier of Quebec (b. 1899)

#Antonio_Barrette

Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa Lakota tribal chief (b. 1831)

#Sitting_Bull

Louis Victor de Rochechouart de Mortemart, French nobleman (b. 1636)

#Louis_Victor_de_Rochechouart_de_Mortemart

Harry Zvi Tabor, English-Israeli physicist and engineer (b. 1917)

#Harry_Zvi_Tabor

Bob Feller, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1918)

#Bob_Feller

Vasily Zaytsev, Russian captain (b. 1915)

#Vasily_Zaitsev_(sniper)

Charles Laughton, English-American actor, director, and producer (b. 1899)

#Charles_Laughton

Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect and politician, designed Chiswick House (b. 1694)

#Richard_Boyle,_3rd_Earl_of_Burlington

Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Deputy Prime Minister of India (b. 1875)

#Vallabhbhai_Patel

Alfred Bird, English chemist and businessman, invented baking powder (b. 1811)

#Alfred_Bird

William Proxmire, American soldier, journalist, and politician (b. 1915)

#William_Proxmire

George Hickes, English minister and scholar (b. 1642)

#George_Hickes_(divine)

Heinz Wolff, scientist and TV presenter (b. 1928)

#Heinz_Wolff

Philip I, Latin emperor (b. 1243)

#Philip_I,_Latin_Emperor

Jess Willard, American boxer and actor (b. 1881)

#Jess_Willard

Joan Fontaine, British-American actress (b. 1917)

#Joan_Fontaine

Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician and academic (b. 1803)

#Jacques_Charles_François_Sturm

Gaspar Fagel, Dutch lawyer and politician (b. 1634)

#Gaspar_Fagel

Izaak Walton, English author (b. 1593)

#Izaak_Walton

Craig Sager, American sports journalist (b. 1951)

#Craig_Sager

Philips of Marnix, Lord of Saint-Aldegonde, Dutch nobleman (b. 1540)

#Philips_of_Marnix,_Lord_of_Saint-Aldegonde

Basil II, Byzantine emperor (b. 958)

#Basil_II

Keith Magnuson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1947)

#Keith_Magnuson

Selim II, Ottoman sultan (b. 1524)

#Selim_II

Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes, French courtier, Constable of France (b. 1578)

#Charles_d'Albert,_duc_de_Luynes

Christopher Hitchens, English-American essayist, literary critic, and journalist (b. 1949)

#Christopher_Hitchens

Alp Arslan, Turkish sultan (b. 1029)

#Alp_Arslan

León Febres Cordero, Ecuadorian engineer and politician, 46th President of Ecuador (b. 1931)

#León_Febres_Cordero

Johannes Vermeer, Dutch painter and educator (b. 1632)

#Johannes_Vermeer

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, English noblewoman (b. 1623)

#Margaret_Cavendish,_Duchess_of_Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Anatole Litvak, Russian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1902)

#Anatole_Litvak

Bob Brookmeyer, American trombone player and composer (b. 1929)

#Bob_Brookmeyer

Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna, archbishop and regent of Sweden (b. 1417)

#Jöns_Bengtsson_Oxenstierna

Glenn Miller, American bandleader and composer (b. 1904)

#Glenn_Miller

M. Balasundaram, Sri Lankan journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1903)

#M._Balasundaram

Paul Lévy, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1886)

#Paul_Lévy_(mathematician)

Fats Waller, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1904)

#Fats_Waller

Blake Edwards, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)

#Blake_Edwards

Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)

#Wolfgang_Pauli

Serge Lifar, Russian-French ballet dancer and choreographer

#Serge_Lifar

Jan Peerce, American tenor and actor (b. 1904)

#Jan_Peerce

Joseph Martin Kraus, Swedish pianist, violinist, and composer (b. 1756)

#Joseph_Martin_Kraus

Walt Disney, American animator, director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded The Walt Disney Company (b. 1901)

#Walt_Disney

Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (b. 1749)

#Daniel_Rutherford

Wanyan Liang, Chinese emperor (b. 1122)

#Wanyan_Liang

Ottokar I, duke of Bohemia (b. 1155)

#Ottokar_I_of_Bohemia

Julia Carson, American lawyer and politician (b. 1938)

#Julia_Carson

Clay Regazzoni, Swiss race car driver (b. 1939)

#Clay_Regazzoni

Crawford Vaughan, Australian politician, 27th Premier of South Australia (b. 1874)

#Crawford_Vaughan

Owoye Andrew Azazi, Nigerian general (b. 1952)

#Owoye_Andrew_Azazi

Girma Wolde-Giorgis, President of Ethiopia (b. 1924)

#Girma_Wolde-Giorgis

Olga Zubarry, Argentinian actress (b. 1929)

#Olga_Zubarry

Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, Mauritian physician and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Mauritius (b. 1900)

#Seewoosagur_Ramgoolam

Eryue He, Chinese historical fiction writer (b.1945)

Calestous Juma, academic (b. 1953)

Fausto Zapata, Mexican journalist, lawyer, and politician, Governor of San Luis Potosí (b. 1940)

Donald Metcalf, Australian physiologist and immunologist (b. 1929)

Dyron Nix, American basketball player (b. 1967)

Harold Camping, American evangelist, author, radio host (b. 1921)

Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, Nigerian politician, 18th Governor of Kaduna State (b. 1948)

Eugene Victor Wolfenstein, American psychoanalyst and theorist (b. 1940)

Oral Roberts, American evangelist, founded the Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association (b. 1918)

Eliza Atkins Gleason, African American librarian (b. 1909)

Mary Stolz, American journalist and author (b. 1920)

Darrell Russell, American football player (b. 1976)

Stan Leonard, Canadian golfer (b. 1915)

Heinrich Gross, Austrian physician and psychiatrist (b. 1914)

Vassal Gadoengin, Nauruan educator and politician, Speaker of the Nauru Parliament (b. 1943)

George Fisher, American cartoonist (b. 1923)

Vincent Apap, Maltese sculptor (b. 1909)

Haris Brki?, Bosnian-Serbian basketball player (b. 1974)

William Dale Phillips, American chemist and engineer (b. 1925)

Edward Underdown, English actor and jockey (b. 1908)

Wilfred Kitching, English 7th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1893)

Karl Theodor Bleek, German lawyer and politician, 12th Mayor of Marburg (b. 1898)

Keith Arbuthnott, 15th Viscount of Arbuthnott, Indian-Scottish general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire (b. 1897)

Arthur Machen, Welsh journalist and author (b. 1863)

Shneur Zalman, Russian rabbi, author and founder of Chabad (b. 1745)

Hasan Kucek, Chopanid prince (b. c. 1319)

Li Siyuan, Chinese emperor (d. 867)