Famous Birthdays on December 15

208 people 37 – 2000

December 15 has seen 208 notable people enter the world across recorded history — from 37 – 2000. Below are the most significant names born on this date.

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Clint Lowery

1971 — Clint Lowery

American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

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He has also played in Dark New Day and Still Rain, and served as the touring guitarist for Korn and Seether through most of 2007 and 2017, respectively

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In 2008, he decided to work on new music as a solo artist, and the name of the project was titled Hello Demons Meet Skeletons

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Also his fourth and last EP, Choices, was released in 2013.

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Clint Edward Lowery is an American musician, songwriter and producer, best known as a guitarist and backing vocalist in the rock band Sevendust

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Lowery wrote and recorded a six-song EP while off the road with Sevendust, just for a week


Roman emperor (died 68)
AD 37 (XXXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Proculus and Pontius. The denomination AD 37 for this year has been used since the…
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37
Roman emperor (died 169)
Year 130 (CXXX) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Catullinus and Aper. The denomination 130 for this year has been used since the…
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130
Prince Munetaka
Japanese shōgun (died 1274)
Prince Munetaka was the sixth shōgun of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan who reigned from 1252 to 1266.
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1242
Albert IV
Duke of Bavaria (died 1508)
Albert IV was Duke of Bavaria-Munich from 1467, and duke of the reunited Bavaria from 1503.
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1447
German composer, poet, and theorist (died 1643)
Johann Christoph Demantius was a German composer, music theorist, writer and poet. He was an exact contemporary of Monteverdi, and represented a transitional phase in German Lutheran music from the polyphonic…
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1567
David Teniers the Younger
Flemish painter (died 1690)
David Teniers the Younger or David Teniers II was a Flemish Baroque painter, printmaker, and artist. He was an extremely versatile artist known for his prolific output. He was an innovator in a wide range of genres such…
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1610
Michel Richard Delalande
French organist and composer (died 1726)
Michel Richard Delalande [de Lalande] was a French Baroque composer and organist who was in the service of King Louis XIV. He was one of the most important composers of grands motets. He also wrote orchestral suites…
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1657
Flemish violinist and composer (died 1746)
Jean-Joseph Fiocco was a Flemish composer of the high and late Baroque period.
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1686
Francesco Zahra
Maltese painter (died 1773)
Francesco Vincenzo Zahra was a Maltese painter who mainly painted religious works in the Neapolitan Baroque style. His works may be found in many churches around the Maltese Islands, as well as in some private…
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1710
Carlos Soublette
Venezuelan general and politician, 11th President of Venezuela (died 1870)
Carlos Valentín José de la Soledad Antonio del Sacramento de Soublette y Jerez de Aristeguieta was a Venezuelan politician and military officer who was the 7th and 9th president of Venezuela from 1837 to 1839 and again…
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1789
Gustave Eiffel
French architect and engineer, co-designed the Eiffel Tower (died 1923)
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel was a French civil engineer. A graduate of École Centrale des Arts et Métiers, he made his name with various bridges for the French railway network, most famously the Garabit Viaduct. He is best…
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1832
E. W. Bullinger
English minister, scholar, and theologian (died 1913)
Ethelbert William Bullinger was an Anglican clergyman, biblical scholar, and ultradispensationalist theologian.
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1837
Amunda Kolderup
Norwegian opera singer (died 1882)
Amunda Bartholda Wilhelmine Mariane Kolderup was a Norwegian opera singer.
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1846
Henri Becquerel
French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1908)
Antoine Henri Becquerel was a French experimental physicist who shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Marie and Pierre Curie for his discovery of radioactivity.
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1852
L. L. Zamenhof
Polish linguist and ophthalmologist, created Esperanto (died 1917)
L. L. Zamenhof was the creator of Esperanto, the most widely used constructed international auxiliary language.
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1859
Niels Ryberg Finsen
Faroese-Danish physician and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1904)
Niels Ryberg Finsen was a physician and scientist. In 1903, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology "in recognition of his contribution to the treatment of diseases, especially lupus vulgaris, with…
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1860
Abner Powell
American baseball player and manager (died 1953)
Abner Charles Powell was an American professional baseball player. Powell played in Major League Baseball for the Washington Nationals of the Union Association in 1884. He later played for the Baltimore Orioles and the…
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1860
Charles Duryea
American engineer and businessman, co-founded the Duryea Motor Wagon Company (died 1938)
Charles Edgar Duryea was an American engineer. He was the engineer of the second working American gasoline-powered car and co-founder of Duryea Motor Wagon Company. He was born near Canton, Illinois, a son of George…
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1861
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud
Finnish lawyer, judge, and politician, 3rd President of Finland (died 1944)
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud af Qvalstad served as the president of Finland from 1931 to 1937. Before 1917, as a lawyer, judge, and politician in the Grand Duchy of Finland, Svinhufvud played a major role in the movement for…
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1861
Arthur Dehon Little
American chemist and engineer (died 1935)
Arthur Dehon Little was an American chemist and chemical engineer. He founded the consulting company Arthur D. Little and was instrumental in developing chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology…
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1863
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Clint Lowery — American musician

FeaturedClint Lowery
Birth year1971
Known forHe has also played in Dark New Day and Still Rain, and served as the touring guitarist for Korn and Seether through most of 2007 and 2017, respectively
Birthdays on this date208 (37 – 2000)

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