List of Famous people born on December 15th
George O. Gore II
George Owen Gore II is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Michael Kyle, Jr. on the ABC sitcom My Wife and Kids, Gore’s television credits include guest roles on Law & Order and Touched by an Angel. He was also a main character in the cast of the comedy Second Generation Wayans.
Hilde Zadek
Hildegard Zadek was a German operatic soprano. She was Kammersängerin at the Vienna State Opera and performed internationally.
Albert Memmi
Albert Memmi was a French-Tunisian writer and essayist of Tunisian-Jewish origins.
Toshinori Kondo
Toshinori Kondo was a Japanese avant-garde jazz and jazz fusion trumpeter.
François Chalais
François Chalais was a prominent French reporter, journalist, writer and film historian. The François Chalais Prize at the annual Cannes Film Festival is named after him.
Wang Hao
Wang Hao is a retired Chinese table tennis player. He became the World Champion in Men's Singles in Yokohama, Japan in May 2009, defeating three-time World Champion Wang Liqin 4–0. His other notable accomplishments include being a three-time World Cup Champion in 2007, 2008 and 2010, a singles silver medalist at the 2004 Summer Olympics, 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics. In January 2010, he was replaced by Ma Long as the #1 rank on the official ITTF world rankings. He was previously ranked #1 on the official ITTF world rankings for 27 consecutive months, from October 2007 to December 2009. In April 2011, he was again the top ranked male player in the world. He is known to execute the Reverse Penhold Backhand (RPB) with exceptional skill.
Abdul Karim al-Kabariti
Abdul Karim al-Kabariti is a Jordanian politician and businessman who was the Prime Minister of Jordan from 4 February 1996 to 9 September 1997.
Héléna Ciak
Héléna Ciak is a French basketball player for Basket Lattes and the French national team, where she participated at the 2014 FIBA World Championship. Ciak switched to Dynamo Kursk in 2016 and won with her team the EuroLeague.
Pascal Mahé
Pascal Mahé is a French handball player. He competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics and in the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Rudolf Laban
Rudolf von Laban, also known as Rudolf Laban, was an Austro-Hungarian dance artist and theorist. He is considered as one of the pioneers of modern dance in Europe as the "Founding Father of the Expressionist Dance" in Germany. His work laid the foundations for Laban Movement Analysis, Labanotation, other more specific developments in dance notation and the evolution of many varieties of Laban movement analysis. He is considered to be one of the most important figures in the history of dance, though his legacy remains tainted by his role in the Nazi movement of the 1930s in Europe.