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Approximately 136,763 people died worldwide on December 15, 1977.
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People who died on December 15, 1977 (the exact day you were born)
- Wilfred Kitching, the 7th General of The Salvation Army
Unusual Deaths in 1977
- Tom pryce, a formula one driver, and a 19-year-old track marshal jansen van vuuren both died at the 1977 south african grand prix after van vuuren ran across the track beyond a blind brow to attend to another car which had caught fire and was struck by pryce's car at approximately 170mph. pryce was struck in the face by the marshal's fire extinguisher and was killed instantly.
Natural disasters in 1977
- 1977 Bucharest earthquake
- Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977
- Independence Day Derecho of 1977
- 1977 San Juan earthquake
People who died on December 15 (various years)
- 2007 - Brom, Famous Dragon Rider
- 2005 - Stan Leonard, Canadian professional golfer
- 2005 - Heinrich Gross, Austrian physician
- 2005 - Darrell Russell, American football player
- 2005 - William Proxmire, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin
- 2004 - Pauline Gore, mother of American Vice President Al Gore
- 2003 - Keith Magnuson, National Hockey League defenceman
- 2003 - George Fisher, American political cartoonist
- 2001 - Rufus Thomas, American musician
- 2001 - Russ Haas, American professional wrestler
- 1991 - Vasily Grigoryevich Zaitsev, Russian-born Soviet sniper
- 1989 - Arnold Moss, American character actor
- 1989 - Edward Underdown, stage and film veteran
- 1984 - Lennard Pearce, British actor
- 1984 - Jan Peerce, American tenor
- 1974 - Anatole Litvak, Russian-born filmmaker
- 1971 - Paul Pierre Lévy, French mathematician
- 1968 - Antonio Barrette, politician, premier of Quebec
- 1968 - Jess Willard, American boxer
- 1966 - Walt Disney, American animator
- 1962 - Charles Laughton, English actor
- 1958 - Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born American physicist and Nobel laureate
- 1950 - Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian political leader, Iron Man of India
- 1947 - Arthur Machen, British author
- 1944 - Glenn Miller, American musician (later declared dead on this date, true date unknown)
- 1943 - Fats Waller, American musician
- 1890 - Sitting Bull, Sioux nation leader (b. circa 1831)
- 1855 - Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician
- 1792 - Joseph Martin Kraus, Swedish composer
- 1753 - Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect
- 1715 - George Hickes, English minister and scholar
- 1688 - Gaspar Fagel, Dutch statesman
- 1683 - Izaak Walton, English writer
- 1675 - Johannes Vermeer, Dutch painter
- 1673 - Margaret Cavendish, English writer
- 1621 - Charles de Luynes, Constable of France
- 1598 - Philips van Marnix, lord of Sint-Aldegonde, Dutch writer and statesman
- 1263 - King Haakon IV of Norway
- 1230 - King Otakar I of Bohemia
- 1072 - Alp Arslan, Turkish sultan in Persia
- 1025 - Basil II, Byzantine Emperor (b. 958)
