List of Famous people born on December 15th
Tatti Sanguineti
Abdessalam Jalloud
Abdessalam Jalloud was Prime Minister of Libya from 16 July 1972 to 2 March 1977, during the government of Muammar Gaddafi. He was also Minister of Treasury from 1970 until 1972.
Archil Gelovani
George E. Tyson
Svetlana Vladimirskaya
Constantin Westchiloff
Constantin Alexandrovich Westchiloff born Константин Александрович Вещилов / Konstantin Aleksandrovich Veschilov was a Russian-American artist known for portraits, genre scenes, landscapes, and seascapes. He was also an accomplished graphic artist and set designer. Death records for Westchloff indicate that he was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, 5 December 1878, and died 23 April 1945 in New York. Some sources, including Benezit Dictionary of Artists, list the date of birth for Westchiloff as 20 November 1877. Another source lists his date of birth as 15/28 May 1878. Another source lists his date of birth as 27 May 1878. Westchiloff latinized his name to Constantin A. Westchiloff in 1922, when he took residency in France. Westchiloff's cause of death was heart attack. He was buried 25 April 1945 in Mount Olivet Cemetery (Queens), in Maspeth, Queens, New York. One biographer has described Westchiloff as "an enigmatic character."
Early LifeReginald Hudlin
Reginald Alan Hudlin is an American film screenwriter, director and producer and comic-book writer. Along with his older brother Warrington Hudlin, he is known as one of the Hudlin Brothers. From 2005 to 2008, Hudlin was President of Entertainment for Black Entertainment Television (BET). Hudlin has also written numerous graphic novels. He co-produced the 88th Academy Awards ceremony in 2016 as well as other TV specials. Hudlin's breakout film was 1990's House Party, and he worked as a producer on Quentin Tarantino's 2012 film, Django Unchained, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. He also directed the 1992 film Boomerang.
Nikolay Avdeyev
Norman J. Grossfeld
Norman J. Grossfeld is an American director, television producer, record producer, screenwriter and media executive. From February 1994 to December 2009, he was the president of 4Kids Productions, a former subsidiary of 4Kids Entertainment and Leisure Concepts. He produced the English adaptations of the first eight seasons of the Pokémon TV series and six seasons of Yu-Gi-Oh!. He produced five seasons of the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, five Pokémon movies, one Yu-Gi-Oh! movie and he also produced the 3 Seasons of Winx Club on 4KidsTV. In addition to producing and executive producing, Grossfeld co-wrote most of the Pokémon films, which grossed over $600 million worldwide. Grossfeld is credited with writing the Pokémon franchise's tagline, "Gotta catch 'em all!"