About the day » Wednesday December 15, 1869Calender converter

• Aagtje Reijne, Krommenie
• Anna Barbara Verbunt, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1939)
• Anna Lucina Cornelje, Amsterdam
• Aartje Bos, Harmelen († 1870)
• Addie Nesbitt Whitney, New York City, N. Y († 1869)
• Anna Maria Deben, Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
• Andries Hoogendoorn erkend Zwezerijn, Utrecht († 1871)
• Alke Smits, Roswinkel, Drenthe, Nederland († 1909)
• Alke Smits, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1909)
• Adriana│Jaantje Hassing, Warmond († 1871)

• Anne "Jacqueline" Aimée Giudicelli (58), Paris
• Abraham Bolland (62), Den Haag, Nederland
• Adriaan Boogaard (81), Serooskerke, Zeeland, NL
• Adeline LIEUTENANT (16), Paris, Friesland, Nederland,, France
• Anna Catharina Hermie (41), Eede, Zeeland, Nederland
• Alijda van VEEN (56), Amersfoort,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adriaan (Boogerd) Boogaard (81), Serooskerke (Walcheren)
• Anna Angela Adelheidis* Schmitz (63), Vreden, Lünten
• Alijda van Veen (66), Amersfoort
• Addie Nesbitt Whitney (0), New York City, N. Y

• 1859 » L. L. Zamenhof, Polish linguist and ophthalmologist, created Esperanto († 1917)
• 1860 » Abner Powell, American baseball player and manager († 1953)
• 1860 » Niels Ryberg Finsen, Faroese-Danish physician and educator, Nobel Prize laureate († 1904)
• 1861 » Charles Duryea, American engineer and businessman, co-founded the Duryea Motor Wagon Company († 1938)
• 1861 » Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, Finnish lawyer, judge, and politician, 3rd President of Finland († 1944)
• 1863 » Arthur Dehon Little, American chemist and engineer († 1935)
• 1869 » Leon Marchlewski, Polish chemist and academic († 1946)
• 1875 » Emilio Jacinto, Filipino journalist and activist († 1899)
• 1878 » Hans Carossa, German author and poet († 1956)
• 1885 » Leonid Pitamic, Slovenian lawyer, philosopher, and academic († 1971)

• 1792 » Joseph Martin Kraus, Swedish pianist, violinist, and composer (b. 1756)
• 1812 » Shneur Zalman, Russian rabbi, author and founder of Chabad (b. 1745)
• 1819 » Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (b. 1749)
• 1855 » Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician and academic (b. 1803)
• 1878 » Alfred Bird, English chemist and businessman, invented baking powder (b. 1811)
• 1890 » Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa Lakota tribal chief (b. 1831)
• 1943 » Fats Waller, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1904)
• 1944 » Glenn Miller, American bandleader and composer (b. 1904)
• 1947 » Arthur Machen, Welsh journalist and author (b. 1863)
• 1947 » Crawford Vaughan, Australian politician, 27th Premier of South Australia (b. 1874)

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
• The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
• April 6 » Celluloid is patented.
• May 4 » The Naval Battle of Hakodate is fought in Japan.
• May 15 » Women's suffrage: In New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association.
• August 16 » Battle of Acosta Ñu: A Paraguayan battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the Paraguayan War.
• October 5 » The Hennepin Island tunnel collapses during construction, nearly destroying St. Anthony Falls.
• November 6 » In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College defeats Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey), 6–4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game.

The temperature on December 15, 1869 was about 7.3 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 29 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%.