Can the circle be characterized by the following property?

Question

In the Euclidean plane, is the circle the only simple closed curve that has an axis of symmetry in every direction?

Answer 1

A slightly different argument is as follows. Choose two symmetries $\sigma,\tau$ with axes intersecting at a point $P$ and forming an angle of $2\pi \lambda$ with $\lambda$ irrational. The composition $\rho=\sigma\circ \tau$ is then a rotation of infinite order generating a dense subgroup of the group of all rotations centered at $P$. Any closed subset left invariant under $\rho$ is thus a union of concentric circles centered at $P$. A simple closed curve invariant under $\rho$ is thus such a circle.

Answer 2

If a figure had an axis of symmetry in three non-parallel but non-concurrent axes, then composing these suitably would give a translative symmetry, which is impossible if the figure is bounded. So all the axes of symmetry of your putative curve are concurrent through a point $O$ which we shall call a centre. Then all rotations about the centre $O$ are symmetries. The only simple closed curves with this property are circles centred at $O$.