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What happend on 25. December in History
In our data base we found 360 events happened on 25. December:
• 333: Emperor Constantine the Great elevates his youngest son Constans to the rank of Caesar. [category: Events]
• 350: Vetranio meets Constantius II at Naissus (Serbia) and is forced to abdicate his title (Caesar). Constantius allows him to live as a private citizen on a state pension. [category: Events]
• 496: Clovis I, king of the Franks, is baptized into the Catholic faith at Reims, by Saint Remigius. [category: Events]
• 795: Pope Adrian I (b. 700) [category: Deaths]
• 800: Coronation of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor, in Rome. [category: Events]
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• 820: Leo V the Armenian, Byzantine emperor (b. 775) [category: Deaths]
• 940: Makan ibn Kaki, Iranian warlord [category: Deaths]
• 1000: The foundation of the Kingdom of Hungary: Hungary is established as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I of Hungary. [category: Events]
• 1066: William the Conqueror is crowned king of England, at Westminster Abbey, London. [category: Events]
• 1100: Baldwin of Boulogne is crowned the first King of Jerusalem in the Church of the Nativity. [category: Events]
• 1130: Count Roger II of Sicily is crowned the first King of Sicily. [category: Events]
• 1156: Peter the Venerable, French abbot of Cluny (b. 1092) [category: Deaths]
• 1250: John IV Laskaris, Byzantine emperor (d. 1305) [category: Births]
• 1261: John IV Laskaris of the restored Eastern Roman Empire is deposed and blinded by orders of his co-ruler Michael VIII Palaiologos. [category: Events]
• 1461: Christina of Saxony (d. 1521) [category: Births]
• 1553: Pedro de Valdivia, Spanish conquistador, 1st Royal Governor of Chile (b. 1500) [category: Deaths]
• 1553: Battle of Tucapel: Mapuche rebels under Lautaro defeat the Spanish conquistadors and executes the governor of Chile, Pedro de Valdivia. [category: Events]
• 1583: Orlando Gibbons, English composer and organist (d. 1625) [category: Births]
• 1584: Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain (d. 1611) [category: Births]
• 1628: Noël Coypel, French painter (d. 1707) [category: Births]
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• 1635: Samuel de Champlain, French soldier, geographer, and explorer (b. 1567) [category: Deaths]
• 1642: Isaac Newton, English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and theologian (d. 1727) [category: Births]
• 1643: Christmas Island found and named by Captain William Mynors of the East India Company vessel, the Royal Mary. [category: Events]
• 1652: Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician (d. 1713) [category: Births]
• 1665: Grizel Baillie, Scottish songwriter (d. 1746) [category: Births]
• 1667: Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal (d. 1743) [category: Births]
• 1674: Thomas Halyburton, Scottish theologian (d. 1712) [category: Births]
• 1676: Matthew Hale, English jurist (b. 1609) [category: Deaths]
• 1676: William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English soldier and politician (b. 1592) [category: Deaths]
• 1683: Kara Mustafa Pasha, Ottoman general (b. 1634) [category: Deaths]
• 1686: Giovanni Battista Somis, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1763) [category: Births]
• 1696: Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar (d. 1715) [category: Births]
• 1700: Leopold II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (d. 1758) [category: Births]
• 1711: Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, French composer (d. 1772) [category: Births]
• 1716: Johann Jakob Reiske, German physician and scholar (d. 1774) [category: Births]
• 1728: Johann Adam Hiller, German composer and conductor (d. 1804) [category: Births]
• 1730: Philip Mazzei, Italian physician (d. 1816) [category: Births]
• 1742: Charlotte von Stein, German assistant of Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (d. 1827) [category: Births]
• 1745: Chevalier de Saint-George, Caribbean-French composer, conductor, and violinist (d. 1799) [category: Births]
• 1757: Benjamin Pierce, American politician, 17th Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1839) [category: Births]
• 1758: James Hervey, English clergyman (b. 1714) [category: Deaths]
• 1763: Claude Chappe, French engineer (d. 1805) [category: Births]
• 1763: Suraj Mal, Indian ruler of Bharatpur (b. 1707) [category: Deaths]
• 1765: Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian and scientist (b. 1698) [category: Deaths]
• 1771: Dorothy Wordsworth, English author and poet (d. 1855) [category: Births]
• 1776: Sydney, Lady Morgan, Irish author (d. 1859) [category: Births]
• 1776: George Washington and the Continental Army cross the Delaware River at night to attack Hessian forces serving Great Britain at Trenton, New Jersey, the next day. [category: Events]
• 1784: Yosa Buson, Japanese painter (b. 1716) [category: Deaths]
• 1810: Alexandros Rizos Rangavis, Greek poet (d. 1892) [category: Births]
• 1815: The Handel and Haydn Society, oldest continuously performing arts organization in the United States, gives its first performance. [category: Events]
• 1821: Clara Barton, American nurse and humanitarian, founded the American Red Cross (d. 1912) [category: Births]
• 1824: Barbara von Krüdener, German mystic and author (b. 1764) [category: Deaths]
• 1826: The Eggnog Riot at the United States Military Academy concludes after beginning the previous evening. [category: Events]
• 1829: Patrick Gilmore, Irish-American composer (d. 1892) [category: Births]
• 1837: Battle of Lake Okeechobee. [category: Events]
• 1856: Hans von Bartels, German painter (d. 1913) [category: Births]
• 1856: Pud Galvin, American baseball player (d. 1902) [category: Births]
• 1860: Manwel Dimech, Maltese journalist, author, and philosopher (d. 1921) [category: Births]
• 1861: Madan Mohan Malaviya, Indian educator and politician, founder of Banaras Hindu University (d. 1946) [category: Births]
• 1864: Thomas Cahill, American soccer player and coach (d. 1951) [category: Births]
• 1865: Evangeline Booth, English 4th General of the Salvation Army (d. 1950) [category: Births]
• 1868: Linus Yale, Jr., American engineer and inventor (b. 1821) [category: Deaths]
• 1868: U.S. President Andrew Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all Civil War Confederate soldiers. [category: Events]
• 1870: Helena Rubinstein, Polish-American businesswoman (d. 1965) [category: Births]
• 1870: Lloyd Hildebrand, French cyclist (d. 1924) [category: Births]
• 1871: Katherine McKinley, American daughter of William McKinley (d. 1875) [category: Births]
• 1873: Otto Frederick Hunziker, Swiss-American educator (d. 1959) [category: Births]
• 1874: Lina Cavalieri, Italian soprano (d. 1944) [category: Births]
• 1875: Theodor Innitzer, Austrian cardinal (d. 1955) [category: Births]
• 1875: Young Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (b. 1851) [category: Deaths]
• 1876: Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959) [category: Births]
• 1876: Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, founder of Pakistan (d. 1948) [category: Births]
• 1877: Noël Bas, French gymnast (d. 1960) [category: Births]
• 1878: Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-American race car driver and automobile magnate (d. 1941) [category: Births]
• 1878: Noël Leslie, Countess of Rothes (d. 1956) [category: Births]
• 1880: Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss politician (b. 1828) [category: Deaths]
• 1883: Hugo Bergmann, German-Israeli philosopher (d. 1975) [category: Births]
• 1884: Evelyn Nesbit, American actress (d. 1967) [category: Births]
• 1884: Samuel Berger, American boxer (d. 1925) [category: Births]
• 1886: Edward "Kid" Ory, American trombonist and bandleader (d. 1973) [category: Births]
• 1887: Conrad Nicholson Hilton Sr., American businessman, founded the Hilton Hotels & Resorts (d. 1979) [category: Births]
• 1889: Lila Bell Wallace, American publisher, co-founded Reader's Digest (d. 1984) [category: Births]
• 1890: Noel Odell, English geologist and mountaineer (d. 1987) [category: Births]
• 1890: Robert LeRoy Ripley, American cartoonist and anthropologist, founded Ripley's Believe It or Not! (d. 1949) [category: Births]
• 1891: Clarrie Grimmett, Australian cricketer (d. 1980) [category: Births]
• 1899: Humphrey Bogart, American actor (d. 1957) [category: Births]
• 1901: Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1902: Barton MacLane, American actor (d. 1969) [category: Births]
• 1904: Gerhard Herzberg, German-Canadian physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1906: Ernst Ruska, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988) [category: Births]
• 1906: Lew Grade, Ukrainian-English film producer (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1907: Cab Calloway, American singer-songwriter and bandleader (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1907: Glenn McCarthy, American businessman, founded the Shamrock Hotel (d. 1988) [category: Births]
• 1907: Mike Mazurki, Ukrainian-American actor (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1908: Ernest L. Massad, American general (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1908: Jo-Jo Moore, American baseball player (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1908: Quentin Crisp, English author (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1909: Zora Arkus-Duntov, Belgian-American engineer (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1911: Louise Bourgeois, French-American sculptor (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1912: Natalino Otto, Italian singer (d. 1969) [category: Births]
• 1913: Henri Nannen, German journalist (d. 1966) [category: Births]
• 1913: Tony Martin, American singer and actor (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1914: James Muir Cameron Fletcher, New Zealand businessman (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1915: Pete Rugolo, Italian-born composer (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1916: Ahmed Ben Bella, Algerian soldier and politician, 1st President of Algeria (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1916: Albert Chmielowski, Polish saint, founded the Albertine Brothers (b. 1845) [category: Deaths]
• 1916: Solko van den Bergh, Dutch target shooter (b. 1854) [category: Deaths]
• 1917: Lincoln Verduga Loor, Ecuadorian journalist and politician (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1918: Anwar Sadat, Egyptian politician, 3rd President of Egypt, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981) [category: Births]
• 1919: Naushad, Indian composer and director (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1919: Noele Gordon, English actress (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1919: Paul David, Canadian cardiologist and politician, founded the Montreal Heart Institute (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1920: Artur Agostinho, Portuguese journalist (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1921: Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Pakistani journalist (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1921: Vladimir Korolenko, Russian journalist, author, and activist (b. 1853) [category: Deaths]
• 1923: René Girard, French historian, critic, and philosopher [category: Births]
• 1924: Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Indian politician, 10th Prime Minister of India [category: Births]
• 1924: Rod Serling, American screenwriter and producer, created The Twilight Zone (d. 1975) [category: Births]
• 1925: Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-American author (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1925: Ned Garver, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1925: Sam Pollock, Canadian businessman (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1925: Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst (b. 1877) [category: Deaths]
• 1926: Enrique Jorrín, Cuban composer and violinist (d. 1987) [category: Births]
• 1926: Febo Conti, Italian actor (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1926: Emperor Taishō of Japan (b. 1879) [category: Deaths]
• 1926: Emperor Taishō of Japan dies. His son, Prince Hirohito succeeds him as Emperor Shōwa. [category: Events]
• 1927: Nellie Fox, American baseball player (d. 1975) [category: Births]
• 1927: Ram Narayan, Indian sarangi player [category: Births]
• 1927: The Vietnamese Nationalist Party is founded. [category: Events]
• 1928: Dick Miller, American actor [category: Births]
• 1928: Miles Burke, American boxer (b. 1885) [category: Deaths]
• 1929: Chris Kenner, American singer-songwriter (d. 1976) [category: Births]
• 1929: Stuart Hall, English radio and television host [category: Births]
• 1930: Emmanuel Agassi, Iranian boxer [category: Births]
• 1930: Salah Jahin, Egyptian poet and cartoonist (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1932: Mabel King, American actress (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1932: A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China kills 275 people. [category: Events]
• 1933: Francesc Macià i Llussà, Catalan politician, 122nd President of Catalonia (b. 1859) [category: Deaths]
• 1935: Al Jackson, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1935: Anne Roiphe, American author and activist [category: Births]
• 1935: Jeanne Hopkins Lucas, American politician (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1935: Sadiq al-Mahdi, Sudanese politician, Prime Minister of Sudan [category: Births]
• 1935: Stephen Barnett, American academic and scholar (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1935: Paul Bourget, French author and critic (b. 1852) [category: Deaths]
• 1936: Ismail Merchant, Indian-English director and producer (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1936: Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy of Kent [category: Births]
• 1937: O'Kelly Isley, Jr., American singer-songwriter (The Isley Brothers) (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1938: David Borden, American composer [category: Births]
• 1938: Duane Armstrong, American painter [category: Births]
• 1938: Noel Picard, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1938: Karel Čapek, Czech author (b. 1890) [category: Deaths]
• 1939: Bob James, American keyboard player and songwriter (Fourplay) [category: Births]
• 1939: Ghulam Ahmad Bilour, Pakistani businessman [category: Births]
• 1940: Pete Brown, English poet and songwriter [category: Births]
• 1940: Agnes Ayres, American actress (b. 1898) [category: Deaths]
• 1941: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz arrives at Pearl Harbor to assume command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet [category: Events]
• 1941: Admiral Émile Muselier seizes the archipelago of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, which become the first part of France to be liberated by the Free French Forces. [category: Events]
• 1941: World War II: Battle of Hong Kong ends, beginning the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong. [category: Events]
• 1942: Enrique Morente, Spanish singer-songwriter (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1942: Françoise Dürr, French tennis player [category: Births]
• 1943: Hanna Schygulla, German actress [category: Births]
• 1943: Wilson Fittipaldi Júnior, Brazilian race car driver [category: Births]
• 1944: Henry Vestine, American guitarist (Canned Heat and The Mothers of Invention) (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1944: Jairzinho, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1944: Kenny Everett, English comedian and radio host (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1944: Nigel Starmer-Smith, English rugby player and journalist [category: Births]
• 1944: George Steer, South African-English journalist (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 1945: Gary Sandy, American actor [category: Births]
• 1945: Ken Stabler, American football player [category: Births]
• 1945: Mike Pringle, Scottish politician [category: Births]
• 1945: Noel Redding, English singer-songwriter and bass player (The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Fat Mattress, Road, and The Noel Redding Band) (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1945: Rick Berman, American television producer [category: Births]
• 1945: Franz Kröwerath, German rower (b. 1880) [category: Deaths]
• 1946: Gene Lamont, American baseball player and manager [category: Births]
• 1946: Jimmy Buffett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor [category: Births]
• 1946: Larry Csonka, American football player [category: Births]
• 1946: W. C. Fields, American comedian and actor (b. 1880) [category: Deaths]
• 1946: The first in Europe artificial, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is initiated within Soviet nuclear reactor F-1. [category: Events]
• 1947: Twink Caplan, American actress and comedian [category: Births]
• 1947: Gaspar G. Bacon, American politician, 51st Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1886) [category: Deaths]
• 1947: The Constitution of the Republic of China goes into effect. [category: Events]
• 1948: Alia al-Hussein, Egyptian wife of Hussein of Jordan (d. 1977) [category: Births]
• 1948: Barbara Mandrell, American singer-songwriter and actress [category: Births]
• 1948: Joel Santana, Brazilian footballer and coach [category: Births]
• 1949: Joe Louis Walker, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer [category: Births]
• 1949: Nawaz Sharif, Pakistani politician, 12th Prime Minister of Pakistan [category: Births]
• 1949: Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira, Brazilian singer [category: Births]
• 1949: Sissy Spacek, American actress [category: Births]
• 1949: Leon Schlesinger, American film producer, founded Warner Bros. Cartoons (b. 1884) [category: Deaths]
• 1950: Karl Rove, American journalist, White House Deputy Chief of Staff [category: Births]
• 1950: Manny Trillo, Venezuelan baseball player [category: Births]
• 1950: Peter Boardman, English mountaineer and author (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1950: Yehuda Poliker, Israeli singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1950: Neil Francis Hawkins, English politician (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 1950: The Stone of Scone, traditional coronation stone of British monarchs, is taken from Westminster Abbey by Scottish nationalist students. It later turns up in Scotland on April 11, 1951. [category: Events]
• 1952: C. C. H. Pounder, Guyanese-American actress [category: Births]
• 1952: Desireless, French singer [category: Births]
• 1952: Margrethe Mather, American photographer (b. 1886) [category: Deaths]
• 1953: Patsy Donovan, Irish-American baseball player (b. 1865) [category: Deaths]
• 1953: William Haselden, English cartoonist (b. 1872) [category: Deaths]
• 1954: Annie Lennox, Scottish singer-songwriter (The Tourists and Eurythmics) [category: Births]
• 1954: Steve Wariner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1954: Johnny Ace, American singer (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 1956: Robert Walser, Swiss author (b. 1878) [category: Deaths]
• 1957: Chris Kamara, English footballer and sportscaster [category: Births]
• 1957: Shane MacGowan, English-Irish singer-songwriter (The Pogues, The Nips, and Shane MacGowan and The Popes) [category: Births]
• 1957: Charles Pathé, French film and record producer, founded Pathé and Pathé Records (b. 1863) [category: Deaths]
• 1958: Alannah Myles, Canadian singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1958: Cheryl Chase, American voice actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1958: Hanford Dixon, American football player [category: Births]
• 1958: Konstantin Kinchev, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Alisa) [category: Births]
• 1958: Martin Wiesner, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1958: Rickey Henderson, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1959: Michael P. Anderson, American astronaut (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1960: Ron Bottitta, English actor [category: Births]
• 1961: Íngrid Betancourt, Colombian politician [category: Births]
• 1961: Otto Loewi, German-American pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873) [category: Deaths]
• 1961: Owen Brewster, American politician, 54th Governor of Maine (b. 1888) [category: Deaths]
• 1962: Dean Cameron, American actor [category: Births]
• 1963: Tristan Tzara, Romanian-French poet (b. 1896) [category: Deaths]
• 1963: Turkish Cypriot Bayrak Radio begins transmitting in Cyprus after Turkish Cypriots are forcibly excluded from Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation. [category: Events]
• 1964: Bob Stanley, English keyboard player, songwriter, producer, and journalist (Saint Etienne) [category: Births]
• 1964: Gary McAllister, Scottish footballer [category: Births]
• 1964: Tim Royes, American director [category: Births]
• 1965: David Rath, Czech doctor and politician [category: Births]
• 1965: The Yemeni Nasserist Unionist People's Organisation is founded in Ta'izz [category: Events]
• 1966: Toshi Arai, Japanese race car driver [category: Births]
• 1967: Jason Thirsk, American bass player (Pennywise and Humble Gods) (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1968: Helena Christensen, Danish model [category: Births]
• 1968: Jim Dowd, American ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1968: 42 Dalits are burned alive in Kilavenmani village, Tamil Nadu, India, a retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit laborers. [category: Events]
• 1968: Apollo program: Apollo 8 performs the very first successful Trans-Earth injection (TEI) maneuver, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit. [category: Events]
• 1970: Emmanuel Amuneke, Nigerian footballer [category: Births]
• 1970: Nagma, Indian actress [category: Births]
• 1970: Michael Peto, Hungarian-English photographer and journalist (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 1971: Dido, English singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1971: Justin Trudeau, Canadian politician [category: Births]
• 1971: Noel Hogan, Irish guitarist and producer (The Cranberries, Mono Band, and Arkitekt) [category: Births]
• 1972: Josh Freese, American drummer and songwriter (The Vandals and Devo) [category: Births]
• 1972: Mac Powell, American singer-songwriter and producer (Third Day) [category: Births]
• 1973: Alexandre Trudeau, Canadian journalist [category: Births]
• 1973: Chris Harris, American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1973: Robbie Elliott, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1973: Gabriel Voisin, French engineer (b. 1880) [category: Deaths]
• 1973: İsmet İnönü, Turkish general and politician, 2nd President of Turkey (b. 1884) [category: Deaths]
• 1974: Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, Mexican drug lord (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1974: Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Northern Territory Australia. [category: Events]
• 1974: Marshall Fields drives a vehicle through the gates of the White House, resulting in a four-hour standoff. [category: Events]
• 1975: Choi Sung-Yong, South Korean footballer [category: Births]
• 1975: Daniel Mustard, American singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1975: Hideki Okajima, Japanese baseball player [category: Births]
• 1975: Marcus Trescothick, English cricketer [category: Births]
• 1975: Rob Mariano, American reality show contestant, winner of Survivor: Redemption Island [category: Births]
• 1975: Gaston Gallimard, French publisher, founded Éditions Gallimard (b. 1881) [category: Deaths]
• 1976: Armin van Buuren, Dutch DJ and producer [category: Births]
• 1976: Tuomas Holopainen, Finnish keyboard player, songwriter, and producer (Nightwish and For My Pain...) [category: Births]
• 1977: Israel Vázquez, Mexican boxer [category: Births]
• 1977: Uhm Ji-won, South Korean actress [category: Births]
• 1977: Charlie Chaplin, English actor and director (b. 1889) [category: Deaths]
• 1977: Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin meets in Egypt with President of Egypt Anwar Sadat. [category: Events]
• 1978: Bridgetta Tomarchio, American actress and model [category: Births]
• 1978: Joel Porter, Australian footballer [category: Births]
• 1978: Simon Jones, English cricketer [category: Births]
• 1979: Hyun Young-Min, South Korean footballer [category: Births]
• 1979: Laurent Bonnart, a French footballer [category: Births]
• 1979: Robert Huff, English race car driver [category: Births]
• 1979: Joan Blondell, American actress (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1979: Jordi Bonet, Canadian painter and sculptor (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 1980: Kahi, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (After School) [category: Births]
• 1980: Laura Sadler, English actress (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1980: Locó, Angolan footballer [category: Births]
• 1980: Marcus Trufant, American football player [category: Births]
• 1980: Reika Hashimoto, Japanese actress [category: Births]
• 1981: Christian Holst , a Danish/Faroese footballer [category: Births]
• 1981: Katie Wright, American actress [category: Births]
• 1981: Trenesha Biggers, American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1981: Willy Taveras, Dominican baseball player [category: Births]
• 1982: Chris Rene, American singer-songwriter and producer [category: Births]
• 1982: Dev, Indian actor [category: Births]
• 1982: Ethan Kath, Canadian keyboard player, songwriter, and producer (Crystal Castles and Kïll Cheerleadër) [category: Births]
• 1982: Rob Edwards, Welsh footballer [category: Births]
• 1982: Shawn Andrews, American football player [category: Births]
• 1983: Joan Miró, Catalan painter (b. 1893) [category: Deaths]
• 1984: Alastair Cook, English cricketer [category: Births]
• 1984: Chris Cahill, Samoan footballer [category: Births]
• 1984: Georgia Moffett, English actress [category: Births]
• 1984: Jessica Origliasso, Australian singer-songwriter and actress (The Veronicas) [category: Births]
• 1984: Lisa Origliasso, Australian singer-songwriter and actress (The Veronicas) [category: Births]
• 1985: Leon Pisani, Welsh singer-songwriter (V) [category: Births]
• 1985: Perdita Weeks, Welsh actress [category: Births]
• 1987: Ceyhun Gülselam, a Turkish footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Jorgie Porter, English actress [category: Births]
• 1987: Julian Lage, American guitarist and composer [category: Births]
• 1987: Justin Sweeney, Australian footballer [category: Births]
• 1988: Eric Gordon, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1988: Joãozinho, a Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1988: Lukas Hinds-Johnson, German rugby player [category: Births]
• 1988: Edward Pelham-Clinton, 10th Duke of Newcastle, English lepidopterist (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: Shōhei Ōoka, Japanese author (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: Billy Martin, American baseball player and manager (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: Elena Ceaușescu, Romanian politician (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: Nicolae Ceaușescu, Romanian politician, 11th President of Romania (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: Nicolae Ceaușescu, former communist President of Romania and his wife, First-Deputy Prime-Minister Elena are condemned to death and executed after a summary trial. [category: Events]
• 1991: Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day). Ukraine's referendum is finalized and Ukraine officially leaves the Soviet Union. [category: Events]
• 1992: Monica Dickens, English author (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (b. 1899) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Zail Singh, Indian politician, 7th President of India (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 1995: Dean Martin, American singer and actor (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 1995: Emmanuel Levinas, French philosopher (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Bill Hewitt, Canadian sportscaster (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: Anatoli Boukreev, Kazakh mountaineer (b. 1958) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: Denver Pyle, American actor (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Bryan MacLean, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Love) (b. 1946) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: John Pulman, English snooker player (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Peter Jeffrey, English actor (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Neil Hawke, Australian cricketer and footballer (b. 1939) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Russian President Vladimir Putin signs a bill into law that officially establishes a new National Anthem of Russia, with music adopted from the anthem of the Soviet Union that was composed by Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov. [category: Events]
• 2002: William T. Orr, American actor and producer (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Nicholas Mavroules, American politician (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: The ill-fated Beagle 2 probe, released from the Mars Express Spacecraft on December 19, disappears shortly before its scheduled landing. [category: Events]
• 2004: Gennadi Strekalov, Russian astronaut(b. 1940) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005. [category: Events]
• 2005: Birgit Nilsson, Swedish soprano (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Derek Bailey, English guitarist (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Robert Barbers, Filipino police officer and politician (b. 1944) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Hiroaki Hidaka, Japanese serial killer (b. 1962) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: James Brown, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (The Famous Flames) (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Des Barrick, English cricketer (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Jim Beauchamp, American baseball player (b. 1939) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Mighty King Kong, Kenyan singer (b. 1973) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Eartha Kitt, American singer and actress (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Vic Chesnutt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (brute. and The Undertow Orchestra) (b. 1964) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab unsuccessfully attempts a terrorist attack against the US while on board a flight to Detroit Metro Airport Northwest Airlines Flight 253 [category: Events]
• 2010: Carlos Andrés Pérez, Venezuelan politician, 66th President of Venezuela (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Ben Breedlove, American blogger (b. 1993) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Giorgio Bocca, Italian journalist (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Jim Sherwood, American saxophonist (The Mothers of Invention) (b. 1942) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Augusto Bracca, Venezuelan composer (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Edward Hughes, American bishop (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Erico B. Aumentado, Filipino journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1940) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Frank Calabrese, Sr., American mobster (b. 1937) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Halfdan Hegtun, Norwegian radio host and politician (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Henry Ford Kamel, Ghanaian banker and politician (b. 1961) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Jane Dixon, American bishop (b. 1937) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Joe Krivak, American football coach (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Othmar Schneider, Austrian skier (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Rachel Douglas-Home, 27th Baroness Dacre, English wife of William Douglas-Home (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Rudolf Müller, German bishop (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Sita bint Fahd Al Damir, Saudi Arabian wife of Khalid of Saudi Arabia (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Turki bin Sultan, Saudi Arabian politician (b. 1959) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: A military plane crashes while descending toward Shymkent, Kazakhstan, killing all 27 people. [category: Events]
• _: Anastasia of Sirmium (Catholic Church) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christmas Day, Christian holiday commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ. (International) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Constitution Day (Taiwan) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: December 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Malkh-Festival (Nakh peoples of Chechnya and Ingushetia) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Quaid-e-Azam's Day (Pakistan) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Takanakuy (Chumbivilcas Province, Peru) [category: Holidays and observances]