15 December: today's birthdays

• Adbullahi Yusuf Ahmed - Somali politician.He was the 6th President of Somalia
• Bruno Amable - French economist
• Carmine Appice - American drummer 
• Henri Becquerel - French physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 
• János Bolyai - Hungarian mathematician
• Adam Brody - American actor, born Adam Jared Brody. He played Seth Cohen on the television series The O.C.
• Rachel Brosnahan - American actress
• Jeff Chandler - American actor. He played Cochise in 1950 film Broken Arrow
• Gordon Douglas - American film director. He won an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film in 1936
• Freeman Dyson - English-born American mathematician and physicist
• Ray Eames - American artist and designer, born Bernice Alexandra Kaiser and married to Charles Eames
• Alexandre Gustave Eiffel - French engineer and entrepreneur. He built the world-famous Tour Eiffel for the 1889 World's Fair in Paris (France). He also contributed to the construction of the Statue of Liberty in New York
• Steven N'Zonzi - French professional footballer of Congolese descent, born Steven N'Kemboanza Mike Christopher N'Zonzi
• Oscar Niemeyer - Brazilian architect
• Maurice Wilkins - New Zealand-born British biologist