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Born This Day: Dec. 15
| 37 AD |
Nero, Roman emperor (Antium—now Anzio, Italy; died 68 AD ) |
| 1832 |
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, engineer and designer of the Eiffel Tower (Dijon, France; died 1923) |
| 1888 |
Maxwell Anderson, dramatist (Atlantic, PA; died 1959) |
| 1892 |
J. Paul Getty, billionaire oilman (Minneapolis, MN; died 1976) |
| 1916 |
Maurice H. Wilkins, biophysicist and co-discoverer of the structure of DNA (Pongaroa, New Zealand; died 2004) |
| 1918 |
Jeff Chandler, actor (Brooklyn, NY; died 1961) |
| 1922 |
Philip Rieff, sociologist who examined the impact of Sigmund Freud's ideas on Western culture (Chicago, IL; died 2006) |
| 1928 |
Friedensreich Hundertwasser, eccentric painter and architect (Vienna, Austria; died 2000) |
| 1931 |
Edna O'Brien, author (Tuamgraney, Ireland) |
| 1933 |
Tim Conway, actor/comedian (Willoughby, OH) |
| 1942 |
Dave Clark, musician, member of the Dave Clark Five (London, England) |
| 1949 |
Don Johnson, actor (Flat Creek, MO) |
| 1968 |
Garrett Wang, actor (Riverside, CA) |
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