Birthdates which
occurred on 25th December :
0004 -BC- Jesus
of Nazareth religious leader/philosopher (estimated date)
1583 Orlando Gibbons English composer (O Clap Your Hands), baptized
1601 Jose Ximenez composer
1624 Angelus Silesius [Johann Scheffler] German mystic (St Seelenlust)
1628 Noel Coypel French painter
1642 [Sir] Isaac Newton Woolsthorpe Lincolnshire England, physicist/mathematician/astronomer
(Laws of Motion and Gravity)
1646 Harald Vallerius composer
1686 Giovanni Battista Somis composer
1698 Jacobus Houbraken Dutch engraver/illustrator
1711 Jean-Joseph Cassenea de Mondonville composer
1717 Pius VI [Giovanni A Braschi] Italy, Pope (1775-99)
1721 William Collins Chichester England, (Mayor-Chichester)/poet
1728 Johann Adam Hiller composer
1750 John "Christmas" Beckwith composer
1763 Claude Chappe French engineer (optical telegraph)
1765 Joseph Mazzinghi composer
1771 Dorothy Wordsworth
1775 Antun Sorkocevic composer
1808 Stephen Cleeg Rowan Commander (Union Navy), died in 1890
1811 Wilhelm E Freiherr von Ketteler German politician/bishop of Mainz
1813 Milledge Luke Bonham (Confederacy) died in 1890
1814 Jan de Liefde II Dutch vicar/founder (Co-op of Welfare of the
People)
1815 Temistocle Solera composer
1821 Clara Harlowe Barton Oxford MA, nurse (founder-American Red Cross)
1823 Preston Smith Brigadier-General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
1825 Esteban Salas y Castro composer
1829 Patrick S Gilmore composer
1831 Johann Herbeck composer
1832 Thomas Alfred Smyth Major General (Union volunteers), died in
1865
1837 Cosima Liszt wife of Austrian composer Richard Wagner
1855 James Galvin pitcher, shut-out every opposing team in 1884
1859 Raoul Gunsbourg composer
1863 E Fernández Arbós Spanish violinist/conductor/composer
1865 Evangeline Cory Booth Salvation Army general (1904-34)
1867 Alfred Kerr writer
1868 Eugenie Besserer Watertown NY, actress (Jazz Singer)
1875 Theodor Innitzer cardinal/archbishop Vienna
1875 Walter Lees cricketer (Surrey pace bowler toured for England
1905-06)
1876 Quaid-i-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah Karachi, founded Pakistan (1947)/Governor
(1947-58)
1878 W Starling Burgess yacht designer (America Cup's Enterprise)
1881 Joseph V McCarthy baseball manager (New York Yankees)
1883 Fran Lhotka composer
1883 Maurice Utrillo France, painter (Port St Martin, Montmartre)
1887 Conrad Hilton hotel mogul (Hilton Hotels)
1887 Jacobus W G Balfoort Dutch actor (Bulldog Drummond)
1887 John Davidson New York NY, actor (Charlie Chan-Chinese Cat)
1891 Clarrie Grimmett cricketer (in Dunedin Great Australian leg-spinner)
1891 Earle Foxe Oxford OH, actor (Dance Fools Dance)
1891 Kenneth A N Anderson British general (Dunkerk, North Africa)
1892 Rebecca West [Cicely Isabel Fairfield] English author
1893 Fred Hillebrand Brooklyn NY, actor (Martin Kane)
1893 Ropert L Ripley Santa Rosa CA, cartoonist (Believe It or Not)
1893 Bert Bertram actor (How to Steal a Million)
1898 Theo Swagemakers Dutch portrait painter
1899 Frank Fergusson actor (My Friend Flicka, Peyton Place)
1899 Humphrey Bogart New York NY, actor, Here's looking at you, kid
(Casablanca)
1899 Raphael Soyer artist (Arts & Letters 1945, Depression Scenes
in NYC)
1900 Gladys Swarthout Deepwater MO, mezzo-soprano (La Gioconda)
1900 W L "Tich" Cornford cricketer (Sussex keeper played
for England 1930)
1901 Alice C English duchess of Gloucester/aunt of Elizabeth II
1902 Barton MacLane Columbia SC, actor (The Geisha Boy, General Peterson-I
Dream of Jeannie)
1903 Antiochos Evanghelatos composer
1903 Corry Lievens [Isabella MJ Adriaens] Flemish actress (Blue Bird)
1903 J Edward Bromberg Hungary, actor (Mark of Zorro, Under 2 Flags)
1904 Gerhard Herzberg Canada, physicist (molecular structure-Nobel
1971)
1906 Clark M Clifford US Secretary of Defense (1968-69)
1906 Lord Lew Grade British TV mogul (ATV)/movie producer (Boys from
Brazil)
1906 William McChesney Martin Chairman of Federal Reserve Bank (1951-70)
1906 Herman J Scheltema [NEM Pareau] Dutch jurist/poet
1907 Cab[ell] Calloway [III] Rochester NY, bandleader (Minnie the
Moocher, Jazzball, Blues Brothers)
1908 Frank Ferguson California, actor (Wagons West, Dynamite, My Gal
Sal)
1908 Helen [Marie Jurgens] Twelvetrees Brooklyn NY, actress (State's
Attorney, Painted Desert)
1908 Jan Seidel composer
1909 Mike Mazurki Tarnopal Austria, actor/wrestler (Centerfold Girls)
1909 Louis van Lint Belgian painter
1909 Marguerite Churchill Kansas City MO, actress (Dracula's Daughter,
Big Trail)
1910 David Lichine [Lichtenstein] Russian/US dancer (Make Mine Music)
1911 Burne Hogarth strip-cartoon artist
1912 Tony Martin Oakland CA, singer (Tony Martin Show, Tonight We
Love)
1912 Donald McRae cricketer (Test for New Zealand, the 1946 debacle
vs Australia)
1912 Herman W Filarski Dutch bridge journalist
1912 Leighton Noble singer/bandleader
1912 Werner Fussan composer
1912 Willian Noel Moffat architect
1913 Henri Nannen journalist
1914 Tony Martin [Alvin Morris] San Francisco CA, singer (It's a Blue
World, To Each)
1915 Noelle de Mosa Netherlands/British dancer/teacher (Brigadoon)
1915 Nora Dunfee actress (Forrest Gump, Lorenzo's Oil)
1915 Pete Rugolo bandleader/arranger (Fugitive)
1916 Daniel Devoto composer
1918 Anwar el-Sadat Egyptian President (1970-81, Nobel 1978)
1918 Eddie Safranski Pittsburgh PA, orchestra leader (Jonathan Winters
Show)
1920 Artur Agostinho Lisbon Port, actor (Capas Negras, Leao da Estrela)
1920 Henry Charnock oceanographer
1922 Kitty Kallen Philadelphia PA, singer (Judge For Yourself)
1923 Louis Lane Eagle Pass TX, conductor (Oere Orchestra 1968-73)
1923 Nöel Vandernotte France, cox (Olympics-bronze-1936)
1924 Mihály Váci Hungarian poet/politician
1925 Ossi Reichert German Federal Republic, giant slalom (Olympics-gold-1956)
1925 Christmas F Tinto South African ANC'er/UDF-leader
1927 Nellie Fox White Sox infielder (American League MVP 1959)
1928 Earl Brown Salt Lake City UT, actor (Stovall-Operation Petticoat)
1929 Billy Horton rocker (The Silhouettes-Get a Job)
1929 Irish McCalla Pawnee City NE, actress (Sheena Queen of Jungle)
1929 Chris Kenner rocker
1931 Carlos Castaneda US, writer/mystic (Eagle's Gift, Fire From Within)
1931 Uzo Egonu painter/print maker
1932 Mabel King Charleston SC, actress (Mama-What's Happening?)
1932 José Maria Capricorne Curaçao graphically designer/painter
1932 Peter John Swales football club chairman
1934 John Ashley Kansas City MO, actor (Clipper-Straightaway)
1934 Bob Martinez (Governor-FL)
1934 Giancarlo Baghetti racing driver/journalist
1934 McKinley Mitchell US gospel/singer (The Town I Live In)
1935 Gunter Friedrichs composer
1936 Alexandra English princess/daughter of Sir Angus Ogilvy
1936 Ismail Merchant Bombay India, producer (Householder)
1937 O'Kelly Isley Cincinnati OH, singer (Isley Brothers-Twist &
Shout)
1938 David Borden composer
1938 Wibo van de Linde Dutch TV host/director (Avro)
1939 Bob James rocker
1939 Christopher Wates English real estate developer/multi-millionaire
1940 Frans Moor Dutch MP (PvdA)
1940 Peter Brown Chicago IL, rocker
1941 Don Pullen pianist/composer
1941 Lex Hixon religious teacher/author
1941 Ronald Perera composer
1942 François Durr France, tennis player (1976 US indoor Doubles)
1942 Mani Kaul director (Idiot, Nazar, Dhrupad, Duvidha)
1943 Hanna Schygulla Katowice Silesia, actress (Love is Colder than
Death)
1943 Hedley Howarth cricketer (brother of Geoff, New Zealand lefty
spinner 1969-77)
1943 Ravish Malhotra India cosmonaut (Soyuz T-11 backup)
1943 Trevor Lucas rocker (Fairport Convention)
1944 Henry Vestine rock guitarist (Canned Heat-On the Road Again)
1944 Kenny Everett [Maurice James Cole] British TV personality (Kenny
Everett Show)
1944 Rick Berman [Richard] producer (Star Trek Generations)
1945 Gary Sandy Dayton OH, actor (Andy-WKRP in Cincinnati)
1945 Noel Redding rocker (The Jimi Hendrix Experience-Purple Haze)
1945 Ken "The Snake" Stabler NFL quarterback (Oakland Raiders,
Super Bowl XI)
1945 Kenny Everett British TV personality (Kenny Everett Show)
1945 Steve Mancha [Clyde Wilson] US singer/songwriter (Too Many Cooks)
1946 Jimmy Buffett Mobile AL, singer/songwriter (Margaritaville, Volcano)
1946 Larry Csonka NFL running back (Miami Dolphins, New York Giants)
1947 Connie Petracek Chambersburg PA, swimmer (Olympics-92, 96)
1948 Barbara Mandrell Houston TX, singer/TV host (Mandrell Sisters)
1948 Merry Clayton rocker
1949 Sissy Spacek Quitman TX (Carrie, Badlands, Coal Miner's Daughter)
1950 Barry Pearson NFLer
1950 Manny Trillo baseball infielder (Philadelphia Phillies)
1951 Ria Thielsch Dutch singer (Luv)
1953 Arnella Flynn Rome Italy, Errol Flynn's daughter
1953 Dave Wasick NFLer
1954 Annie Lennox Aberdeen Scotland, singer (Eurythmics-Sweet Dreams,
Here Comes The Rain Again)
1954 Robin Campbell British reggae vocalist/guitarist (UB40-Red Red
Wine)
1954 Steve Wariner Noblesville IN, country singer (Small Town Girl)
1955 Claus Strigel director (Obituary for the Automobile, Act of God)
1955 William Andrews actor (Sealed Cargo)
1956 Mansoor Akhtar cricketer (Pakistani batsman early 80's)
1957 Shane McGowan rock vocalist (The Pogues-Red Roses For Me)
1957 Jan Rot Dutch composer/writer (Wrong Nights)
1957 Jillie Mack Mrs Tom Selleck/actress (Magnum PI)
1958 Joop Hiele soccer player (Dordrecht '90, Go Ahead Eagles)
1958 Rickey Henderson Chicago IL, baseball player (stolen base king,
A's, Yankees)
1959 Missy Cleveland Jackson MS, playmate (April, 1979)
1959 Chris Spice Australian field hockey coach (Olympics-96)
1959 Michael P Anderson Plattsburgh NY, major USAF/astronaut (STS
89)
1959 Ton Lokhoff Dutch soccer player (NAC)
1960 Amy Grant singer (That's What Love Is, Baby Baby)
1961 Storm Davis baseball player
1962 Dean Cameron Morrison IL, actor (Herbie-Spencer)
1962 Mary Ellen Clark Abington PA, diver (Olympics-2 bronze-92, 96)
1963 Joop Gall Dutch soccer player (FC Groningen)
1964 Anil Kaul Amritsar India, Canadian badminton player (Olympics-96)
1964 Janet Soulsby Corbridge Australia, golfer (Curtis Cup 1982)
1964 Peter Hanson English/Sierra Leone/Dutch actor (Darling How Could
You)
1964 Raymond Libregts soccer player (MVV)
1965 Dmitri Mironov Moscow Russia, NHL defenseman (Pittsburgh Penguins,
Anaheim)
1965 Kathleen Luciano Munich Germany, WPVA volleyballer (Nationals-17th-1993)
1966 Sandy Corn model/Penthouse Pet (March, 1991)
1966 Craig Veasey NFL defensive tackle/defensive end (Houston Oilers)
1966 Javier Frana Rafaela Argentina, tennis star
1967 Kathleen Franey Brooklyn NY, 1.5k runner
1968 Corey Widmer NFL linebacker (New York Giants)
1968 Don Silvestri NFL/WLAF kicker (New York Jets, London Monarchs)
1968 Helena Christensen Copenhagen Denmark, model/actress (Inferno)
1968 Jim Dowd Brick, NHL center (Vancouver Canucks)
1968 Scott Bullett Martinsburg WV, outfielder (Chicago Cubs)
1969 Bernhard Jr Prince of Netherlands
1970 Azhar Saeed UAE cricketer (opening batsman 1996 World Cup)
1970 Ghalid Salamat soccer player (MVV)
1970 Stu Barnes Spruce Grove, NHL center (Florida Panthers)
1971 Marlon Forbes safety (Chicago Bears)
1971 Noel Hogan musician (Cranberries)
1971 Terry Vaughn CFL receiver (Calgary Stampeders)
1972 Fantasia [Tonya Manley] Detroit MI, dancer/actress (Pump it Up)
1974 Chris Naeole guard (New Orleans Saints)
1974 Grayson Shillingford NFL wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks)
1976 Scott Vermillion Independence MO, soccer defender (Olympics-gold-96)
1976 Yazmin Fiallos Miss Universe-Honduras (1996)
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Deaths which occurred on 25th December:
0795 Adrian I Italian Pope (772-95), dies
0820 Leo V the Armenian, Byzantine general/Emperor (813-20), murdered
1156 Peter Venerabilis French theologist/9th abbot of Cluny, dies
at about 61
1249 Peter Nolascus Spanish monastery founder/St, dies
1513 Johannes Amerbach Swiss publisher/printer, dies at about 70
1530 Babur emperor of Delhi, dies
1683 Kara Mustapha Turkish grand-vizier (1676-83), executed
1761 Empress Elizabeth dies
1761 Elisabeth Petrovna tsarina of Russia (1741-62), dies at about
51
1765 Antonio Tonelli composer, dies at 79
1788 John Logan Scottish conductor (Ode to the Cuckoo), dies at about
40
1824 Barbara Krudener mystic visionary who renounced nobility, dies
at 60
1842 Bedrich Divis Weber composer, dies at 76
1848 Johann Erik Nordblom composer, dies at 60
1868 Linus Yale developer of cylinder lock, dies
1878 Anna Claypoole Peale US painter of miniatures, dies
1883 Marek Konrad Sokolowski composer, dies at 65
1895 Raul d'Avila Pompeia Brazilian writer (Boarding-school), dies
at 32
1899 Raphael Soyer artist (Depression scenes in NYC)
1903 Albert Schäffle German sociologist, dies at 72
1904 Per Jonas Fredrik Vilhelm Svedbom composer, dies at 61
1921 Hans Huber composer, dies at 69
1921 Korolenko writer, dies
1922 Alphonse Goovaerts composer, dies at 75
1925 Sergei Jessenin writer, dies at 30
1926 Yoshihito 123rd Emperor of Japan (1912-26), dies at 47
1927 Sergei D Sazonov Russian Foreign minister (1910-16), dies at
66
1930 Harvey Worthington Loomis composer, dies at 65
1936 Pierre Maurice composer, dies at 68
1938 Karel Capek Czechoslovakian author/antifascist (Bílá
Nemoc), dies at 48
1940 Agnes Ayres actress (Johnny Belinda, Sheik), dies at 42
1942 Vojislav Vuckovic composer, dies at 32
1943 Ilona Durigo Hungarian singer, dies at 62
1943 Raymond Huntington Woodman composer, dies at 82
1946 W[illiam] C[laude] Fields writer/comedian/actor (Bank Dick, It's
A Gift), dies from pneumonia at 67
1950 Xavier Villaurrutia Mexican poet (Nostalgia de la muerte), dies
at 47
1951 Harry T Moore Florida NAACP official, killed by bomb
1954 Johnny Ace ballad singer, dies at 25 in a game of Russian Roulette
1954 Liberty Hyde Bailey US botanist (Plantbreeding), dies at 96
1954 Rosario Scalero composer, dies at 84
1956 Robert Walser writer, dies at 78
1957 Frederick Law Olmsted US architect (Central Park), dies at 87
1961 Dr Rheinhold Rudenberg inventor of the electron microscope dies
1963 Tristan Tzara writer, dies at 67
1964 Cheerio Meredith actress (One Happy Family), dies at 74
1971 Byron Arnold composer, dies at 70
1973 Ismet Inönü [Mustapha Ismet Pasha] Turkish PM (1923..65),
dies at 89
1975 Gaston Gallimard French publisher (Library Gallimard), dies at
94
1976 Arthur Mitchell cricketer (batted in 6 Tests for England 1933-36),
dies
1976 Frankie Darro actor (Radio Ranch, Valley of Wanted Men), dies
at 58
1977 Charlie Chaplin actor (Modern Times), dies in Switzerland at
88
1979 Joan Blondell actress (Real McCoys), dies at 70
1979 Lee Bowman actor (Ellery Queen, Miami Undercover), dies at 64
1980 Fred Emney actor (Adventures of a Private Eye), dies at 80
1980 Louis Neefs Belgian singer, dies at 43
1980 Oscar Romero archbishop of El Salvador, murdered
1983 Joan Miro Spanish surrealist, dies at his home in Majorca at
90
1985 George Rhodes orchestra leader (Sammy Davis Jr Show), dies at
66
1989 Billy Martin New York Yankee manager, killed in a car accident
at 61
1989 Barrel Regtien student leader, dies
1989 Elena Ceausescu wife of Romanian dictator Nicolae, executed
1989 Nicolae Ceausescu Romanian dictator (1945-89), executed
1989 Roger Pigaut actor (Indoptable Angélique), dies
1989 Ton Regtien Dutch student leader, dies at 51
1990 Marguerite N Wittenberg entertainer, dies of cancer at 77
1991 Curt Bois actor (Great Waltz, Boat is Full), dies at 90
1991 Mahmood Hussain cricketer (27 Tests for Pakistan, 68 wickets),
dies
1991 Orane Demazis French actress (Marius, Fanny et César),
dies at 87
1991 Sal Provenza entertainer, dies of lymphoma at 45
1992 Garrison H Davidson US Lieutenant-General commandant (West Point),
dies
1992 Helen B M Fennell Joseph English/South Afr anti-apartheid, dies
at 87
1992 Monica Dickens English/US journalist/author, dies at 77
1992 Ted Croker RAF-pilot/secretary English soccer team (sponsoring),
dies
1994 Pierre Dreyfus French director of Renault (1955-75), dies at
87
1994 Zail Singh President of India (1982-87), dies at 78
1995 Dean Martin singer/actor (Return to Me), dies at 78
1995 Emmanuel Levinas philosopher, dies at 89
1995 Jimmy Boucher cricketer (great Irish all-rounder 1929-54), dies
1995 Nikolai [Nicolas Leonidovich] Slonimsky musicologist, dies at
101
1996 Derek Prouse writer actor/director (Le Scandale), dies at 74
1996 Jon Benet Ramsey Colorado child beauty queen, murdered at 6
1996 Rupert John Governor-General of Grenadines (1970-76), dies
1997 Anatoli Boukreev mountaineer, dies at 39
1997 Denver Pyle actor (Dukes of Hazzard), dies at 77
1997 Giorgio Strehler theatre director, dies at 76
1997 Laurence Gower academic, dies at 84
2006 James
Brown, Godfather of soul dies at 73
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