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| December 25th, 2007 (December 25 2007) | Death | Desmond Barrick, English Cricketer (born in 1927) | |
| December 25th, 2007 (December 25 2007) | Death | Mighty King Kong, Kenyan reggae musician. (born in 1973) | |
| December 25th, 2006 (December 25 2006) | Death | James Brown, American singer (born in 1933) | James Brown Quotes |
| December 25th, 2006 (December 25 2006) | Death | Hiroaki Hidaka, Japanese serial killer (born in 1962) | |
| December 25th, 2005 (December 25 2005) | Death | Derek Bailey, English guitar virtuoso (born in 1930) | |
| December 25th, 2005 (December 25 2005) | Death | Birgit Nilsson, Swedish singer (born in 1918) | |
| December 25th, 2005 (December 25 2005) | Death | Robert Barbers, Philippine senator (born in 1944) | |
| December 25th, 2004 (December 25 2004) | Event | Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn s moon Titan on January 14, 2005. | |
| December 25th, 2004 (December 25 2004) | Death | Gennady Strekalov, Russian cosmonaut (born in 1940) | |
| December 25th, 2003 (December 25 2003) | Event | The ill-fated Beagle 2 probe which was released from the Mars Express Spacecraft on December 19, disappears shortly before its scheduled landing. | |
| December 25th, 2003 (December 25 2003) | Death | Nicholas Mavroules, American politician (born in 1929) | |
| December 25th, 2002 (December 25 2002) | Death | William T. Orr, American television producer (born in 1917) | |
| December 25th, 2000 (December 25 2000) | Death | Neil Hawke, Australian cricketer and footballer (born in 1939 | |
| December 25th, 2000 (December 25 2000) | Death | Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher (born in 1908) | Willard van Orman Quine Quotes |
| December 25th, 1999 (December 25 1999) | Death | Peter Jeffrey, English actor (born in 1929) | |
| December 25th, 1998 (December 25 1998) | Death | Bryan MacLean, American singer, musician and songwriter (Love) (born in 1946) | |
| December 25th, 1998 (December 25 1998) | Death | John Pulman, English snooker player (born in 1926) | |
| December 25th, 1997 (December 25 1997) | Death | Denver Pyle, American actor (born in 1920) | |
| December 25th, 1996 (December 25 1996) | Death | JonBenet Ramsey, American beauty queen (born in 1990) | |
| December 25th, 1995 (December 25 1995) | Death | Dean Martin, American singer (born in 1917) | |
| December 25th, 1995 (December 25 1995) | Death | Emmanuel Levinas, French Philosopher (born in 1906) | Philo Quotes |
| December 25th, 1994 (December 25 1994) | Death | Zail Singh, President of India (born in 1916) | |
| December 25th, 1993 (December 25 1993) | Death | Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (born in 1899) | |
| December 25th, 1992 (December 25 1992) | Death | Monica Dickens, British writer (born in 1915) | |
| December 25th, 1991 (December 25 1991) | Event | 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. | |
| December 25th, 1990 (December 25 1990) | Event | The first successful trial run of the system which would become the World Wide Web. | |
| December 25th, 1989 (December 25 1989) | Event | Nicolae Ceausescu, former communist dictator of Romania, and his wife Elena are condemned to death and executed under a wide range of charges. | |
| December 25th, 1989 (December 25 1989) | Death | Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanian dictator (executed) (born in 1918) | |
| December 25th, 1989 (December 25 1989) | Death | Elena Ceausescu, Romanian politician (executed) (born in 1916) | |
| December 25th, 1989 (December 25 1989) | Death | Billy Martin, American baseball manager (born in 1928) | |
| December 25th, 1988 (December 25 1988) | Birth | Eric Gordon, American Basketball Player | |
| December 25th, 1988 (December 25 1988) | Death | Ooka Shohei, Japanese novelist (born in 1909) | |
| December 25th, 1988 (December 25 1988) | Death | Edward Pelham-Clinton, 10th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (born in 1920) | |
| December 25th, 1986 (December 25 1986) | Birth | Doug Loft, English footballer | |
| December 25th, 1985 (December 25 1985) | Birth | Leon Pisani, Welsh singer | |
| December 25th, 1985 (December 25 1985) | Birth | Perdita Weeks, British actress | |
| December 25th, 1984 (December 25 1984) | Birth | Chris Cahill, Samoan footballer | |
| December 25th, 1984 (December 25 1984) | Birth | Alastair Cook, English cricketer | |
| December 25th, 1984 (December 25 1984) | Birth | Georgia Moffett, British actress | |
| December 25th, 1983 (December 25 1983) | Death | Joan Miro, Catalan painter (born in 1893) | |
| December 25th, 1982 (December 25 1982) | Birth | Shawn Andrews, American football player | |
| December 25th, 1982 (December 25 1982) | Birth | Rob Edwards, Welsh footballer | |
| December 25th, 1982 (December 25 1982) | Birth | Shystie, British rapper-songwriter | |
| December 25th, 1981 (December 25 1981) | Birth | Katie Wright, American actress | |
| December 25th, 1981 (December 25 1981) | Birth | Willy Taveras, baseball player | |
| December 25th, 1980 (December 25 1980) | Birth | Marcus Trufant, American football player (Seattle Seahawks) | |
| December 25th, 1980 (December 25 1980) | Birth | Reika Hashimoto, Japanese actress | |
| December 25th, 1980 (December 25 1980) | Birth | Loco, Angolan footballer | |
| December 25th, 1980 (December 25 1980) | Birth | Laura Sadler, British actress (died in 2003) | |
| December 25th, 1979 (December 25 1979) | Event | The Soviet Union airlifts forces into Afghanistan to begin its costly occupation. | |
| December 25th, 1979 (December 25 1979) | Death | Joan Blondell, American actress (born in 1906) | |
| December 25th, 1979 (December 25 1979) | Death | Jordi Bonet, Quebec muralist and sculptor (born in 1932) | |
| December 25th, 1978 (December 25 1978) | Birth | Joel Porter, Australian footballer | |
| December 25th, 1978 (December 25 1978) | Birth | Simon Jones, English cricketer | |
| December 25th, 1977 (December 25 1977) | Event | Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin meets in Egypt with President of Egypt Anwar Sadat. | Menachem Begin Quotes |
| December 25th, 1977 (December 25 1977) | Birth | Jim Greco, American skateboarder | |
| December 25th, 1977 (December 25 1977) | Birth | Uhm Ji-won, South Korean actress | |
| December 25th, 1977 (December 25 1977) | Birth | Israel Vasquez, Current WBC Super bantamweight champion | |
| December 25th, 1977 (December 25 1977) | Death | Charlie Chaplin, English actor (born in 1889) | Charlie Chaplin Quotes |
| December 25th, 1976 (December 25 1976) | Birth | Tuomas Holopainen, Finnish keyboardist and songwriter | |
| December 25th, 1976 (December 25 1976) | Birth | Armin van Buuren, Dutch DJ & Producer | |
| December 25th, 1975 (December 25 1975) | Birth | Marcus Trescothick, English cricketer | |
| December 25th, 1975 (December 25 1975) | Birth | Hideki Okajima, Japanese baseball player | |
| December 25th, 1975 (December 25 1975) | Birth | Rob Mariano, American reality show contestant | |
| December 25th, 1975 (December 25 1975) | Death | Gaston Gallimard, French publisher (born in 1881) | |
| December 25th, 1974 (December 25 1974) | Event | Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Northern Territory Australia. | |
| December 25th, 1974 (December 25 1974) | Event | Marshall Fields drives a vehicle through the gates of the White House, resulting in a four-hour standoff. | |
| December 25th, 1974 (December 25 1974) | Birth | Nagma, Indian actress | |
| December 25th, 1973 (December 25 1973) | Event | The ARPANET crashes when a programming bug causes all ARPANET traffic to be routed through the server at Harvard University, causing the server to freeze. | |
| December 25th, 1973 (December 25 1973) | Birth | Robbie Elliott, English footballer | |
| December 25th, 1973 (December 25 1973) | Birth | Chris Harris, American professional wrestler | |
| December 25th, 1973 (December 25 1973) | Birth | Alexandre Trudeau, Canadian journalist | |
| December 25th, 1973 (December 25 1973) | Death | Ismet Inonu, Turkish statesman (born in 1884) | |
| December 25th, 1973 (December 25 1973) | Death | Gabriel Voisin, French aviation pioneer (born in 1880) | |
| December 25th, 1972 (December 25 1972) | Birth | Josh Freese, American drummer | |
| December 25th, 1972 (December 25 1972) | Birth | Mac Powell, American musician, singer/songwriter (lead singer of Third Day) | |
| December 25th, 1971 (December 25 1971) | Birth | Dido, English singer | |
| December 25th, 1971 (December 25 1971) | Birth | Justin Trudeau, Canadian media personality | |
| December 25th, 1971 (December 25 1971) | Birth | Noel Hogan, Irish musician | |
| December 25th, 1968 (December 25 1968) | Event | 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. | |
| December 25th, 1968 (December 25 1968) | Event | 42 Dalits are burned alive in Kilavenmani village, Tamil Nadu, India, a retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit labourers. | |
| December 25th, 1968 (December 25 1968) | Birth | Helena Christensen, Danish model | |
| December 25th, 1968 (December 25 1968) | Birth | Jim Dowd, American ice hockey player | |
| December 25th, 1967 (December 25 1967) | Birth | Jason Thirsk, American bass player (died in 1996) | |
| December 25th, 1965 (December 25 1965) | Event | The Yemeni Nasserite Unionist People s Organisation is founded in Taiz | |
| December 25th, 1964 (December 25 1964) | Birth | Gary McAllister, Scottish footballer | |
| December 25th, 1964 (December 25 1964) | Birth | Tim RoyesMusic Video Director and Editor | |
| December 25th, 1964 (December 25 1964) | Birth | Bob Stanley, English musician (Saint Etienne), filmmaker and journalist | |
| December 25th, 1963 (December 25 1963) | Event | Turkish Cypriot Bayrak Radio begins transmitting in Cyprus after Turkish Cypriots were forcibly excluded from Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation. | |
| December 25th, 1963 (December 25 1963) | Death | Tristan Tzara, Romanian-born writer (born in 1896) | Tristan Tzara Quotes |
| December 25th, 1962 (December 25 1962) | Birth | Dean Cameron, American actor | |
| December 25th, 1962 (December 25 1962) | Birth | Darren Wharton, British Keyboardist (Thin Lizzy and Dare) | |
| December 25th, 1961 (December 25 1961) | Birth | Ingrid Betancourt, Colombian senator | |
| December 25th, 1961 (December 25 1961) | Death | Otto Loewi, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born in 1873) | |
| December 25th, 1961 (December 25 1961) | Death | Owen Brewster, U.S. Senator from Maine (born in 1888) | |
| December 25th, 1960 (December 25 1960) | Birth | Ron Bottitta, British actor | |
| December 25th, 1959 (December 25 1959) | Birth | Michael P. Anderson, astronaut (died in 2003) | |
| December 25th, 1958 (December 25 1958) | Birth | Hanford Dixon, American football player | |
| December 25th, 1958 (December 25 1958) | Birth | Rickey Henderson, baseball player | |
| December 25th, 1957 (December 25 1957) | Birth | Chris Kamara, English footballer and commentator | |
| December 25th, 1957 (December 25 1957) | Birth | Shane MacGowan, Irish musician | |
| December 25th, 1955 (December 25 1955) | Birth | Alannah Myles, Canadian singer | |
| December 25th, 1954 (December 25 1954) | Birth | Annie Lennox, Scottish singer, from Aberdeen | |
| December 25th, 1954 (December 25 1954) | Birth | Steve Wariner, American country music singer | |
| December 25th, 1954 (December 25 1954) | Death | Johnny Ace, American singer (born in 1929) | |
| December 25th, 1953 (December 25 1953) | Death | Patsy Donovan, Irish-born American baseball player (born in 1865) | |
| December 25th, 1952 (December 25 1952) | Birth | CCH Pounder, Guyana-born actress | |
| December 25th, 1952 (December 25 1952) | Birth | Desireless, French singer | |
| December 25th, 1950 (December 25 1950) | Event | 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. | |
| December 25th, 1950 (December 25 1950) | Birth | Manny Trillo, baseball player | |
| December 25th, 1950 (December 25 1950) | Birth | Yehuda Poliker, Israeli singer-songwriter | |
| December 25th, 1950 (December 25 1950) | Birth | Karl Rove, former American presidential advisor | |
| December 25th, 1950 (December 25 1950) | Death | Neil Francis Hawkins, British fascist (born in 1903) | |
| December 25th, 1949 (December 25 1949) | Birth | Nawaz Sharif, Prime Minister of Pakistan | |
| December 25th, 1949 (December 25 1949) | Birth | Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira, Singer and icon of the Brazilian music | |
| December 25th, 1949 (December 25 1949) | Birth | Sissy Spacek, American actress | |
| December 25th, 1949 (December 25 1949) | Birth | Joe Louis Walker, American musician | Joe Louis Quotes |
| December 25th, 1948 (December 25 1948) | Birth | Barbara Mandrell, American singer and actress | |
| December 25th, 1948 (December 25 1948) | Birth | Alia al Hussein, of Jordan (died in 1977) | |
| December 25th, 1948 (December 25 1948) | Birth | Joel Natalino Santana, Brazilian soccer coach | |
| December 25th, 1947 (December 25 1947) | Event | The Constitution of the Republic of China goes into effect. | |
| December 25th, 1947 (December 25 1947) | Death | Gaspar G. Bacon, was Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (born in 1886) | |
| December 25th, 1946 (December 25 1946) | Birth | Jimmy Buffett, American singer and songwriter | |
| December 25th, 1946 (December 25 1946) | Birth | Larry Csonka, American football player | |
| December 25th, 1946 (December 25 1946) | Birth | Gene Lamont, American baseball player and manager | |
| December 25th, 1946 (December 25 1946) | Death | W. C. Fields, American comedian (born in 1880) | W. C. Fields Quotes |
| December 25th, 1945 (December 25 1945) | Birth | Noel Redding, English musician (died in 2003) | |
| December 25th, 1945 (December 25 1945) | Birth | Rick Berman, Star Trek producer | |
| December 25th, 1945 (December 25 1945) | Birth | Gary Sandy, American actor | |
| December 25th, 1945 (December 25 1945) | Birth | Mike Pringle, Scottish politician | |
| December 25th, 1944 (December 25 1944) | Birth | Jairzinho, Brazilian footballer | |
| December 25th, 1944 (December 25 1944) | Birth | Kenny Everett, British entertainer (died in 1995) | |
| December 25th, 1944 (December 25 1944) | Birth | Henry Vestine, American musician (died in 1997) | |
| December 25th, 1944 (December 25 1944) | Death | George Steer, British Journalist (born in 1909) | |
| December 25th, 1943 (December 25 1943) | Birth | Hanna Schygulla, German actress | |
| December 25th, 1943 (December 25 1943) | Birth | Wilson Fittipaldi Junior, Brazilian racing driver | |
| December 25th, 1941 (December 25 1941) | Event | Admiral Chester W Nimitz arrives at Pearl Harbor to assume command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet | |
| December 25th, 1941 (December 25 1941) | Event | World War II: Battle of Hong Kong ends, beginning the Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong. | |
| December 25th, 1940 (December 25 1940) | Birth | Pete Brown, English poet and lyricist | |
| December 25th, 1940 (December 25 1940) | Death | Agnes Ayres, American actress (born in 1898) | |
| December 25th, 1938 (December 25 1938) | Birth | Noel Picard, Quebec ice hockey player | |
| December 25th, 1938 (December 25 1938) | Death | Karel Capek, Czech author (born in 1890) | Karel Capek Quotes |
| December 25th, 1937 (December 25 1937) | Birth | O Kelly Isley, Jr., American singer (The Isley Brothers) (died in 1986) | |
| December 25th, 1936 (December 25 1936) | Birth | HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent | |
| December 25th, 1936 (December 25 1936) | Birth | Ismail Merchant, Indian-born film producer (died in 2005) | |
| December 25th, 1935 (December 25 1935) | Birth | Al Jackson, baseball player | |
| December 25th, 1935 (December 25 1935) | Death | Paul Bourget, French novelist and critic (born in 1852) | |
| December 25th, 1933 (December 25 1933) | Death | Francesc Macia, Catalonian statesman (born in 1859) | |
| December 25th, 1932 (December 25 1932) | Event | A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China kills ~70,000 people. | |
| December 25th, 1932 (December 25 1932) | Birth | Mabel King, American actress (died in 1999) | |
| December 25th, 1930 (December 25 1930) | Birth | Emmanuel Agassi, Iranian boxer and father of Andre Agassi | |
| December 25th, 1930 (December 25 1930) | Birth | Salah Jaheen, Egyptian poet and cartoonist (d.1986) | |
| December 25th, 1929 (December 25 1929) | Birth | Stuart Hall, British radio and television presenter | |
| December 25th, 1929 (December 25 1929) | Birth | Chris Kenner, American singer and songwriter (died in 1976) | |
| December 25th, 1928 (December 25 1928) | Birth | Dick Miller, American actor | |
| December 25th, 1927 (December 25 1927) | Birth | Nellie Fox, baseball player (died in 1975) | |
| December 25th, 1926 (December 25 1926) | Event | Emperor Taisho of Japan dies. His son, Prince Hirohito succeeds him as Emperor Showa. | |
| December 25th, 1926 (December 25 1926) | Birth | Enrique Jorrin, Cuban composer and musician (died in 1987) | |
| December 25th, 1926 (December 25 1926) | Death | Emperor Taisho of Japan (born in 1879) | |
| December 25th, 1925 (December 25 1925) | Birth | Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-born author (died in 1998) | Carlos Castaneda Quotes |
| December 25th, 1925 (December 25 1925) | Death | Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst (born in 1877) | Abraham Quotes |
| December 25th, 1924 (December 25 1924) | Birth | Rod Serling, American television writer (died in 1975) | Rod Serling Quotes |
| December 25th, 1924 (December 25 1924) | Birth | Atal Bihari Vajpayee, former Prime Minister of India | |
| December 25th, 1921 (December 25 1921) | Birth | Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Pakistani journalist (died in 2000) | |
| December 25th, 1921 (December 25 1921) | Death | Vladimir Korolenko, Russian writer (born in 1853) | |
| December 25th, 1919 (December 25 1919) | Birth | Naushad Ali, Indian music director (died in 2006) | |
| December 25th, 1919 (December 25 1919) | Birth | Paul David, French Canadian cardiologist, founder of the Montreal Heart Institute (died in 1999) | |
| December 25th, 1919 (December 25 1919) | Birth | Noele Gordon, English actress (died in 1985) | |
| December 25th, 1918 (December 25 1918) | Birth | Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, Nobel laureate (died in 1981) | |
| December 25th, 1918 (December 25 1918) | Birth | Ahmed Ben Bella, politician, first President of Algeria | |
| December 25th, 1916 (December 25 1916) | Death | St. Albert Chmielowski, Polish Catholic saint (born in 1845) | |
| December 25th, 1915 (December 25 1915) | Birth | Pete Rugolo, Italian-born composer | |
| December 25th, 1914 (December 25 1914) | Event | World War I: Known as the Christmas truce, German and British troops on the Western Front temporarily cease fire. | |
| December 25th, 1914 (December 25 1914) | Birth | James Muir Cameron Fletcher, New Zealand industrialist (died in 2007) | James Cameron Quotes |
| December 25th, 1913 (December 25 1913) | Birth | Henri Nannen, German journalist (died in 1966) | |
| December 25th, 1912 (December 25 1912) | Birth | Tony Martin, American singer and actor | |
| December 25th, 1912 (December 25 1912) | Birth | Natalino Otto, Italian singer (died in 1969) | |
| December 25th, 1911 (December 25 1911) | Birth | Louise Bourgeois, sculptor | |
| December 25th, 1908 (December 25 1908) | Birth | Quentin Crisp, English author (died in 1999) | Quentin Crisp Quotes |
| December 25th, 1908 (December 25 1908) | Birth | Jo-Jo Moore, baseball player (died in 2001) | |
| December 25th, 1908 (December 25 1908) | Birth | Zora Arkus-Duntov, Belgian-American automotive engineer (died in 1996) | |
| December 25th, 1907 (December 25 1907) | Birth | Cab Calloway, American bandleader (died in 1994) | |
| December 25th, 1907 (December 25 1907) | Birth | Glenn McCarthy, American oil tycoon and businessman (died in 1988) | |
| December 25th, 1907 (December 25 1907) | Birth | Mike Mazurki, Ukrainian-born actor (died in 1990) | |
| December 25th, 1906 (December 25 1906) | Birth | Lew Grade, Ukrainian-born film producer (died in 1998) | |
| December 25th, 1906 (December 25 1906) | Birth | Ernst Ruska, Nobel laureate (died in 1988) | |
| December 25th, 1904 (December 25 1904) | Birth | Gerhard Herzberg, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1999) | |
| December 25th, 1902 (December 25 1902) | Birth | Barton MacLane, American actor (died in 1969) | |
| December 25th, 1901 (December 25 1901) | Birth | Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (died in 2004) | |
| December 25th, 1899 (December 25 1899) | Birth | Humphrey Bogart, American actor (died in 1957) | |
| December 25th, 1891 (December 25 1891) | Birth | Clarrie Grimmett, Australian cricketer (d.1980) | |
| December 25th, 1890 (December 25 1890) | Birth | Robert Ripley, collector of odd facts (died in 1949) | Robert Ley Quotes |
| December 25th, 1889 (December 25 1889) | Birth | Lila Bell Wallace, American magazine publisher (Reader s Digest) (died in 1984) | |
| December 25th, 1887 (December 25 1887) | Birth | Conrad Hilton, American hotelier (died in 1979) | |
| December 25th, 1886 (December 25 1886) | Birth | Kid Ory, American musician (died in 1973) | |
| December 25th, 1884 (December 25 1884) | Birth | Evelyn Nesbit, American actress (died in 1967) | |
| December 25th, 1880 (December 25 1880) | Death | Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss Federal Councillor (born in 1828) | |
| December 25th, 1878 (December 25 1878) | Birth | Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-born race car driver (died in 1941) | |
| December 25th, 1876 (December 25 1876) | Birth | Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan (died in 1948) | Muhammad Ali Quotes |
| December 25th, 1876 (December 25 1876) | Birth | Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, Nobel laureate (died in 1959) | |
| December 25th, 1875 (December 25 1875) | Birth | Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Austrian archbishop (died in 1955) | |
| December 25th, 1874 (December 25 1874) | Birth | Lina Cavalieri, Italian soprano (died in 1944) | |
| December 25th, 1870 (December 25 1870) | Birth | Helena Rubinstein, Polish-born American cosmetics industrialist (died in 1965) | |
| December 25th, 1868 (December 25 1868) | Event | U.S. President Andrew Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all Civil War Confederate soldiers. | Andrew Johnson Quotes |
| December 25th, 1868 (December 25 1868) | Death | Linus Yale, Jr., American mechanical engineer and inventor (born in 1821) | |
| December 25th, 1865 (December 25 1865) | Birth | Evangeline Booth, the 4th General of The Salvation Army (died in 1950) | |
| December 25th, 1864 (December 25 1864) | Birth | Thomas Cahill, American soccer coach (died in 1951) | |
| December 25th, 1863 (December 25 1863) | Birth | Charles Pathe, French pioneer of film and record industries (died in 1957) | |
| December 25th, 1861 (December 25 1861) | Birth | Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, Indian founder of Banaras Hindu University (died in 1946) | |
| December 25th, 1860 (December 25 1860) | Birth | Manuel Dimech, Maltese philosopher and social reformer (died in 1921) | Philo Quotes |
| December 25th, 1856 (December 25 1856) | Birth | Hans von Bartels, German painter (died in 1913) | |
| December 25th, 1856 (December 25 1856) | Birth | Pud Galvin, American professional baseball pitcher (died in 1902) | |
| December 25th, 1837 (December 25 1837) | Event | Battle of Lake Okeechobee: United States forces defeat Seminole Native Americans. | |
| December 25th, 1824 (December 25 1824) | Death | Barbara Juliana, Baroness von Krudener, Russian writer (born in 1764) | Julian Quotes |
| December 25th, 1821 (December 25 1821) | Birth | Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross (died in 1912) | |
| December 25th, 1818 (December 25 1818) | Event | The first performance of "Silent Night" takes place in the Church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorf, Austria. | |
| December 25th, 1810 (December 25 1810) | Birth | Alexandros Rhizos Rhankaves, Greek poet and statesman (died in 1892) | |
| December 25th, 1784 (December 25 1784) | Death | Yosa Buson, Japanese painter (born in 1716) | |
| December 25th, 1776 (December 25 1776) | Event | George Washington and his army cross the Delaware River to attack the Kingdom of Great Britain s Hessian mercenaries in Trenton, New Jersey. | George Washington Quotes |
| December 25th, 1771 (December 25 1771) | Birth | Dorothy Wordsworth, English diarist and sister of William Wordsworth (died in 1855) | William Wordsworth Quotes |
| December 25th, 1765 (December 25 1765) | Death | Vaclav Prokop Divis, Czech theologian and natural scientist (born in 1698) | |
| December 25th, 1763 (December 25 1763) | Birth | Claude Chappe, French telecommunications pioneer (died in 1805) | |
| December 25th, 1758 (December 25 1758) | Death | James Hervey, English clergyman (born in 1714) | |
| December 25th, 1757 (December 25 1757) | Birth | Benjamin Pierce, U.S. politician (d 1839) | |
| December 25th, 1742 (December 25 1742) | Birth | Charlotte von Stein, German friend of Goethe (died in 1827) | |
| December 25th, 1730 (December 25 1730) | Birth | Philip Mazzei, Italian physician and friend of Thomas Jefferson (died in 1816) | Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| December 25th, 1716 (December 25 1716) | Birth | Johann Jakob Reiske, German scholar and physician (died in 1774) | |
| December 25th, 1711 (December 25 1711) | Birth | Jean Joseph de Mondonville, French composer (died in 1772) | |
| December 25th, 1700 (December 25 1700) | Birth | Leopold II of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian general (died in 1758) | |
| December 25th, 1683 (December 25 1683) | Death | Kara Mustafa, Ottoman general (born in 1634) | |
| December 25th, 1676 (December 25 1676) | Death | Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice of England (born in 1609) | |
| December 25th, 1676 (December 25 1676) | Death | William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English soldier (born in 1592) | |
| December 25th, 1674 (December 25 1674) | Birth | Thomas Halyburton, Scottish theologian (died in 1712) | |
| December 25th, 1667 (December 25 1667) | Birth | Ehrengard von der Schulenburg, English royal mistress (died in 1743) | |
| December 25th, 1665 (December 25 1665) | Birth | Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish songwriter (died in 1746) | |
| December 25th, 1652 (December 25 1652) | Birth | Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician (died in 1713) | |
| December 25th, 1643 (December 25 1643) | Event | Christmas Island founded and named by Captain William Mynors of the East India Ship Company vessel, the Royal Mary. | |
| December 25th, 1635 (December 25 1635) | Death | Samuel de Champlain, French explorer and founder of Quebec City (born in 1567) | |
| December 25th, 1628 (December 25 1628) | Birth | Noel Coypel, French painter (died in 1707) | |
| December 25th, 1599 (December 25 1599) | Event | The city of Natal, Brazil is founded. | |
| December 25th, 1587 (December 25 1587) | Birth | Margarita of Austria, queen of Philip III of Spain (died in 1611) | |
| December 25th, 1583 (December 25 1583) | Birth | Orlando Gibbons, English composer (died in 1625) | |
| December 25th, 1553 (December 25 1553) | Event | Battle of Tucapel: Mapuche rebels under Lautaro defeats the Spanish conquistadors and exetutes the governor of Chile Pedro de Valdivia. | |
| December 25th, 1461 (December 25 1461) | Birth | Christina of Saxony, queen of Denmark and Norway (died in 1521) | |
| December 25th, 1261 (December 25 1261) | Event | John IV Lascaris of the restored Eastern Roman Empire is deposed and blinded by orders of his co-ruler Michael VIII Palaeologus. | |
| December 25th, 1250 (December 25 1250) | Birth | John IV Laskaris, Byzantine Emperor (died in circa 1305) | |
| December 25th, 1223 (December 25 1223) | Event | St. Francis of Assisi assembles the first Nativity scene. | Francis of Assisi Quotes |
| December 25th, 1156 (December 25 1156) | Death | Peter the Venerable, Benedictine abbot of Cluny (born in c. 1092) | |
| December 25th, 1130 (December 25 1130) | Event | Roger II of Sicily is crowned as the first King of Sicily | |
| December 25th, 1100 (December 25 1100) | Event | Baldwin of Boulogne is crowned as the first King of Jerusalem in the Church of the Nativity | |
| December 25th, 1066 (December 25 1066) | Event | Coronation of William the Conqueror as king of England, at Westminster Abbey, London. | William King Quotes |
| December 25th, 1000 (December 25 1000) | Event | The foundation of the Kingdom of Hungary: Hungary is established as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I of Hungary. | Stephen King Quotes |
| December 25th, 0800 (December 25 0800) | Event | Coronation of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor, in Rome. | Charlemagne Quotes |
| December 25th, 0795 (December 25 0795) | Death | Pope Adrian I | |
| December 25th, 0274 (December 25 0274) | Event | Roman Emperor Aurelian dedicates a temple to Sol Invictus on the supposed day of the winter solstice and day of rebirth of the Sun. | |
