Died on this Day

Anniversary Date: Dec-15

Died on This Day (Dec-15)

Person Person Description Age Anniv
Jean Adamson Jean Adamson Jean Adamson, MBE is a British writer and illustrator of children's books. British writer and illustrator 96 1
Tim Brighouse Tim Brighouse Sir Timothy Robert Peter Brighouse is a British educator. British educator 83 2
Shirley Eikhard Shirley Eikhard Shirley Rose Eikhard is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Canadian singer-songwriter 67 3
Taniela Moa Taniela Moa Taniela Moa was a Tongan rugby union player. He last played for Section Paloise. Tongan rugby union player 36 4
Donald Fowler Donald Fowler Donald L. Fowler was an American political scientist, professor, and political operative who served as National Chair of the Democratic National Committee from 1995 to 1997, alongside Chris Dodd as General Chairman during this same period. American political scientist 85 5
Chuck Peddle Chuck Peddle Charles Ingerham Peddle was an American electrical engineer best known as the main designer of the MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor, the KIM-1 single-board computer, and its successor, the Commodore PET personal computer, both based on the 6502. American electrical engineer 82 6
Heinz Wolff Heinz Wolff Heinz Siegfried Wolff, FIEE, FRSA was a German-born British scientist as well as a television and radio presenter. German-born British popular scientist 89 8
Craig Sager Craig Sager Craig Graham Sager was an American sports reporter who covered an array of sports for CNN and its sister stations TBS and TNT, from 1981 until the year he died. American sports reporter 65 9
Blake Edwards Blake Edwards Blake Edwards was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor. American film director 88 15
Oral Roberts Oral Roberts Granville Oral Roberts was an American Charismatic Christian televangelist, ordained in both the Pentecostal Holiness and United Methodist churches. Choctaw American Christian televangelist 91 16
William Proxmire William Proxmire Edward William Proxmire was an American politician. American politician 90 20
Jacques Goddet Jacques Goddet Jacques Goddet was a French sports journalist and director of the Tour de France road cycling race from 1936 to 1986. French sports journalist 95 25
Bill Otis Bill Otis Paul Franklin "Bill" Otis was a Major League Baseball player. American baseball player 100 35
Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam GCMG LRCP MRCS was a Mauritian physician, politician, and statesman. Prime Minister of Mauritius 85 40
James L. Tuck James L. Tuck James Leslie Tuck OBE, was a British physicist. He was born in Manchester, England, and educated at the Victoria University of Manchester. British physicist 70 45
Shigeyoshi Inoue Shigeyoshi Inoue Shigeyoshi Inoue was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. Japanese admiral 86 50
Ernst Boepple Ernst Boepple SS-Oberführer Ernst Boepple was a Nazi official and SS officer, serving as deputy to Josef Bühler in occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust, who was executed for war crimes. German general 63 75
Battling Siki Battling Siki Louis Mbarick Fall , known as Battling Siki, was a French light heavyweight boxer born in Senegal who fought from 1912 to 1925, and briefly reigned as the World light heavyweight champion after knocking out Georges Carpentier. Senegalese boxer 28 100
John Addison Porter John Addison Porter John Addison Porter was an American journalist, and the first person to hold the position of "Secretary to the President". American journalist 44 125
Johannes Vermeer Johannes Vermeer Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch Baroque Period painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. Dutch Baroque painter 43 350