Friday, December 25, 2009

December 25th : History of Events, Birthdays, Deaths




December 25th Events in History

2003
Union des Transports Africains de Guinee flight 141 crashes on
takeoff from Cotonou Airport
1997
For 1st time U.S. movie box office receipts pass $6 billion
1997
Jerry Seinfeld says this is the final season of his TV show
1994
Comedy Tonight closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City
after 8 performances
1991
Last day of a washout Pakistan vs. Sri Lanka at Gujranwala
1991
Mikhail Gorbachev formally resigned as President of U.S.S.R.
1990
Godfather III premieres
1989
Japanese scientist achieve -271.8 degrees C, coldest temp ever
recorded
1987
Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, who escaped 2 days earlier,
recaptured
1984
NBA's Bernard King scores 60 points
1983
1st live telecast of Christmas Parade
1982
Mudassar Nazar scores century, then Imran rips through Indians
1979
Opening day of 4th Test Cricket, India 8-112 vs. Pakistan at
Kanpur
1979
U.S.S.R. airlifts invasionary army to Afghanistan
1977
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin meets Egyptian President
Sadat in Egypt
1976
Egyptian SS Patria sinks in Red Sea, about 100 killed
1976
Takeo Fukuda becomes Japanese premier
1974
Cyclone Tracy virtually destroys Darwin, Australia
1973
Tommy Chambers (Scotland) finishes 51 yr cycle tour (799,405
miles)
1972
England beat India by six wickets in the 1st Test Cricket at
Delhi
1971
Longest NFL game (82m40s) as Dolphins beat Chiefs 27-24
1971
Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) form Jesse
Jackson
1971
Worst hotel fire in history kills 163 at Taeyokale Hotel in
Seoul
1969
5 Israeli gunboats escape from Cherbourg harbor
1969
India all out for 163 at Madras vs. Australia, Ashley Mallett
5-91
1968
Frank Borman's Christmas reading while orbiting Moon
1967
Paul McCartney and Jane Asher get engaged
1964
Goldfinger premieres in US
1964
George Harrison's girlfriend Patti Boyd attacked by female
Beatle fans
1963
Walt Disney's "The Sword in the Stone" is released
1962
U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1959
A synagogue in Cologne Germany desecrated with swatstikas
1959
Richard Starkey receives his 1st drum set
1959
Sony brings transistor TV 8-301 to the market
1958
Alan Freed's Christmas Rock and Roll Spectacular opens
1957
Ed Gein found insane of murder
1955
Cleveland Browns win NFL championship
1955
Pope Pius XII encyclical on sacred music and popular music
1954
WSFA TV channel 12 in Montgomery, AL (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953
Avalanche of lava kills 150 (Ruapehu volcano, New Zealand)
1951
1st Christmas Day in Test Crickets, Australia vs. WI at Adelaide
1951
West Indies defeat Australia by 6 wkts on 3rd day of 3rd Test
Cricket
1950
Cleveland Browns beat Los Angeles Rams 30-28 in NFL championship
game
1950
Dick Tracy marries Tess Truehart
1950
Coronation Stone, taken from Scone in Scotland by Edward I in
1296, stolen from Westminster Abbey and smuggled back to Scotland
1947
Taiwan passes Human Rights laws (Day of Earth Law)
1946
Constitution accepted in Taiwan
1942
Admiral Dalans murderer of Bosinier de la Chapelle, sentenced to
death
1942
British Col S W Bailey reaches Mihailovics headquarter
1942
Russian artillery/tank battle on German armies at Stalingrad
1941
Japan announces surrender of British-Canadian garrison at Hong
Kong
1941
Japanese aircraft carriers Akagi/Kagu back in Kure, Japan
1940
Bradman out 1st ball for SA vs. Victoria before 6213
1940
Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Harts "Pal Joey," premieres
in New York City
1939
Grimmett and Ward rip through Qld except Bill Brown (156)
1939
Montgomery Ward introduces Rudolph the 9th reindeer
1938
George Cukor announces Vivien Leigh will play Scarlett O'Hara
1937
Arturo Toscanini conducts 1st Symphony of the Air over NBC Radio
1937
Queensland all out for 93 vs. SA in front of 10,436
1936
Belgian bishops condemn fascism and communism
1936
Ron Hamence scores 104 for SA vs. Queensland before 4,865
1934
Four centuries for SA as they make 7-644 vs. Qld before 6,180
1934
Samson Raphaelson's "Accent on Youth," premieres in
New York City
1933
Another Christmas Day five-wicket haul by Clarrie Grimmett
1933
Belgian Working people's party accept Henry de Mans Plan of
Labor
1933
Stan Smith takes 8-33 for Victoria vs. Tasmania at Hobart
1932
During King George V Christmas dinner speech, his chair collapes
1931
Albert Lonergan scores 137 SA vs. Qld at Adelaide before 5,697
1931
Fleetwood-Smith takes 5-69 Victoria vs. Tas at Hobart
1931
New Yorks's Metropolitan Opera broadcasts an entire opera over
radio
1930
Mount Van Hoevenberg bobsled run at Lake Placid, New York opens
1930
Slinger Nitschke scores 142 SA vs. Qld at Adelaide before 5,422
1930
Tasmania all out 280, WI 2-139 at Hobart Crowd 2,500
1929
Grimmett takes 6-146 for SA, Queensland all out 380 Crowd 5,390
1928
Christmas Day attendance at cricket MCG (Vic vs. NSW) 14,887
1928
NSW (v Vic) go from 8-74 to 9-113 to be 9-367 at stumps
1926
Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan 1926-1989
1923
Imperial Theater opens at 249 W 45th St. New York City
1922
Lenin dictates his "Political testament"
1917
Why Marry, 1st drama to win Pulitzer Prize, premieres in New
York City
1917
Hirsch/Harbach's musical "Going Up," premieres in New
York City
1915
Irving Berlin and Harry B Smith's musical premieres in New York
City
1914
Legendary/unofficial "Christmas Truce" takes place
(Brits and Germans)
1911
Edward Knoblock's "Kismet," premieres in New York City
1908
Jack Johnson KO Tommy Burns and becomes 1st black heavyweight
champ
1905
V Herbert/H Blossoms musical "Mlle Modiste," premieres
in New York City
1902
Clyde Fitch' "Girl with Green Eyes," premieres in New
York City
1901
Battle at Tweefontein Orange-Free state: Boers surprise attack
Brits
1900
Arthur Schnitzlers "Leutnant Gustl" forbidden in
Germany
1899
Farmers send/guide belegerd Ladysmith Kerstpudding/desire in
grenade
1896
Stars and Stripes Forever written by John Philip Sousa
1894
1st midwestern football team to play on west coast, University
of Chicago defeats Stanford 24-4 at Palo Alto, California in football
1888
1st indoor baseball game played at fairgrounds in Philadelphia
1875
Lambs Club in New York forms
1868
Despite bitter opposition, President A Johnson grants
unconditional pardon to all persons involved in Southern rebellion (Civil
War)
1862
40,000 watch Union army men play baseball at Hilton Head, SC
1848
New Haven Railroad opens
1843
1st theatre matinee (Olympic Theatre, New York City)
1837
Battle of Okeechobee-U.S. forces defeat Seminole Indians
1835
Charles Darwin company celebrates Christmas in Pahia, New
Zealand
1834
Charles Darwin celebrates Christmas on Beagle at Tres Montes,
Chile
1833
Charles Darwin celebrates Christmas in Port Desire, Patagonia
1832
Charles Darwin celebrates Christmas in St. Martin at Cape
Receiver
1831
Louisiana and Arkansas are 1st states to observe Christmas as
holiday
1830
Hector Berlioz's "Symphony Fantastic," premieres
1818
1st known Christmas carol ("Silent Night, Holy Night")
sung (Austria)
1818
Handel's Messiah, U.S. premieres in Boston
1776
Washington crosses Delaware and surprises and defeats 1,400
Hessians
1775
Pope Pius VI encyclical on the problems of the pontificate
1760
Juptier Hammon, New York slave, publishes poetry in "An
Evening Throught"
1758
Halley's comet 1st sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch during
return
1745
Prussia/Austria signs Treaty of Dresden
1745
Treaty of Dresden gives much of Silesia to the Prussians
1741
Astronomer Anders Celcius introduces Centigrade temperature
scale
1717
Floods ravage Dutch coast provinces, 1000s killed
1688
English king James II lands in Ambleteuse, France
1688
Lord Delamere sides with King James II
1683
English Whig-leader duke of Monmouth flees to Holland
1651
Massachusetts General Court ordered a fine (five shillings) for
"observing any such day as Christmas"
1641
Emperor Ferdinand III makes appointments with Sweden and France
1640
Pierre de Fermat writes to Marin Mersenne about Fermat's church
thesis
1621
Governor William Bradford of Plymouth forbids game playing on
Christmas
1613
Johan Sigismund of Brandenburg becomes protestant
1582
Zealand/Brabant adopts Gregorian calendar, yesterday was Dec
14th
1522
Turkish troops occupy Rhodos
1492
Columbus' ship Santa Maria docks at Dominican Republic
1223
St. Francis of Assisi assembles 1st Nativity scene (Greccio,
Italy)
1130
Anti-pope Anacletus II crowns Roger II the Norman, king of
Sicily
1121
Norbertus van Xanten finds order of the Norbertijnen
1101
Henry I of Limburg becomes duke of Netherlands-Lutherans
1100
Boudouin I of Boulogne crowned king of Jerusalem
1066
William the Conqueror, crowned king of England
1048
Parliament of Worms: Emperor Henry III names his cousin count
Bruno van Egisheim/Dagsburg as Pope Leo IX
1046
Pope Clemens VI crowns Henry III RC-German emperor
1000
Monarch Istvan crowned king of Hungary
999
Heribertus becomes bishop of Cologne
979
Rotardus appointed as bishop of the kingdom
969
Johannes I Tzimisces, crowned emperor of Byzantium
967
John XIII crowned Otto II the Red German compassionate emperor
875
Charles, the Bare, crowned emperor of Rome
800
Pope Leo III crowns Charles the Great (Charlemagne), Roman
emperor
795
Adrian I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
604
Battle at Etampes (Stampae): Burgundy beat Neustriers
597
England adopts Julian calendar
498
French king Clovis baptises himself
390
Roman emperor Theodosius admits debt on mass murder in
Thessalonica
352
1st definite date Christmas was celebrated on Dec 25th
337
Earliest possible date that Christmas was celebrated on Dec 25th
1
1st Christmas, according to calendar-maker Dionysus Exiguus

December 25th Birthdays in History

1976
Scott Vermillion, Independence, Missouri, soccer defender, 1996
Olympics gold
1976
Yazmin Fiallos, Miss Universe-Honduras 1996
1975
Rob Mariano, American Celebrity
1974
Chris Naeole, guard for the New Orleans Saints
1974
Grayson Shillingford, NFL wide receiver for the Seattle Seahawks
1972
Fantasia, Tonya Manley, born in Detroit, Michigan,
dancer/actress, Pump it Up
1971
Marlon Forbes, safety for the Chicago Bears
1971
Noel Hogan, musician, Cranberries
1971
Terry Vaughn, CFL receiver for the Calgary Stampeders
1971
Dido Armstrong, British Musician
1970
Azhar Saeed, UAE cricketer, opening batsman 1996 World Cup
1970
Ghalid Salamat, soccer player, MVV
1970
Stu Barnes, Spruce Grove, NHL center for the Florida Panthers
1969
Bernhard, Jr., Prince of Netherlands
1968
Corey Widmer, NFL linebacker for the 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, West Virginia, outfielder for the
Chicago Cubs
1967
Kathleen Franey, born in Brooklyn, New York, 1.5k runner
1966
Craig Veasey, NFL defensive tackle/defensive end for the Houston
Oilers
1966
Javier Frana, Rafaela Argentina, tennis star
1966
Sandy Corn, model/Penthouse Pet, March, 1991
1965
Dmitri Mironov, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL defenseman, Pitts
Penguins, Anaheim
1965
Kathleen Luciano, Munich Ger, WPVA volleyballer,
Nationals-17th-1993
1964
Anil Kaul, Amritsar India, Canadian badminton player 1996
Olympics
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
1963
Joop Gall, Dutch soccer player, FC Groningen
1962
Dean Cameron, Morrison, Illinois, actor, Herbie-Spencer
1962
Mary Ellen Clark, Abington, Pennsylvania, diver, Olympics-2
bronze-92, 96
1960
Amy Grant, vocalist, That's What Love Is, Baby Baby
1959
Chris Spice, Australian field hockey coach 1996 Olympics
1959
Michael P Anderson, Plattsburgh, New York, major USAF/astronaut,
STS-89
1959
Missy Cleveland, Jackson, Mississippi, playmate, April, 1979
1959
Ton Lokhoff, Dutch soccer player, NAC
1959
Michael P. Anderson, American Astronaut
1958
Joop Hiele, soccer player, Dordrecht '90, Go Ahead Eagles
1958
Rickey Henderson, born in Chicago, Illinois, baseball player,
stolen base king, A's, Yankees
1957
Jan Rot, Dutch composer/writer, Wrong Nights
1957
Jillie Mack, Mrs. Tom Selleck/actress, Magnum PI
1957
Shane McGowan, rock vocalist, Pogues-Red Roses For Me
1956
Mansoor Akhtar, cricketer, Pakistani batsman early 80's
1955
Claus Strigel, director, Obituary for the Automobile, Act of God
1955
William Andrews, actor, Sealed Cargo
1954
Annie Lennox, Aberdeen, Scotland, vocalist, Eurythmics-Sweet
Dreams, Why
1954
Robin Campbell, British reggae vocalist and guitarist, UB40-Red
Red Wine
1954
Steve Wariner, Noblesville Indiana, country singer, Small Town
Girl
1953
Arnella Flynn, Rome, Italy, Errol Flynn's daughter
1951
Ria Thielsch, Dutch singer, Luv
1950
Manny Trillo, baseball infielder for the Philadelphia Phillies
1950
Karl Rove, American Politician
1949
Sissy Spacek, born in Quitman, Texas, Carrie, Badlands, Coal
Miner's Daughter
1948
Barbara Mandrell, born in Houston, Texas, singer/TV host,
Mandrell Sisters
1948
Merry Clayton, born in Gert Town, New Orleans, singer, actress,
sang gospel and soul music, famous for singing with The Rolling Stones' song
'Gimme Shelter' with Mick Jagger
1947
Connie Petracek, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, swimmer, 1992, 1996
Olympics
1946
Larry Csonka, NFL running back, Miami Dolphins, New York Giants
1946
Jimmy Buffett, born in Mobile, Alabama, vocalist, Margaritaville
1945
Gary Sandy, Dayton Ohio, actor, Andy-WKRP in Cincinnati
1945
Ken "The Snake" Stabler, NFL quarterback, Oak Raiders,
Super Bowl XI
1945
Kenny Everett, British TV personality, Kenny Everett Show
1945
Noel Redding, rocker, The Jimi Hendrix Experience-Purple Haze
1945
Steve Mancha, Clyde Wilson, U.S. singer and songwriter, Too Many
Cooks
1944
Henry Vestine, rock guitarist, Canned Heat-On the Road Again
1944
Rick Berman, Richard, producer, Star Trek Generations
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
1942
Francoise Durr, France, tennis player, 1976 U.S. indoor Doubles
1942
Mani Kaul, director, Idiot, Nazar, Dhrupad, Duvidha
1941
Don Pullen, pianist/composer
1941
Lex Hixon, religious teacher/author
1940
Frans Moor, Dutch MP, PvdA
1940
Peter Brown, born in Chicago, Illinois, rocker
1940
Pete Brown, born in Ashtead, England, poet, lyricist, musical
producer, worked with The Battered Ornaments, created Pete Brown &
Piblokto!
1939
Bob James, born in Marshall, Missouri, rocker, smooth jazz,
fusion, arranger, producer, wrote "Nautilus" and "Take Me To
Mardi Gras", two of the most sampled songs in hip hop history
1939
Christopher Wates, English real estate
developer/multi-millionaire
1938
David Borden, born in Boston, Massachusetts, composer,
minimalist music, jazz pianist, founded Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece
Company, the world's first synthesizer ensemble, wrote vocal, chamber
ensemble, music, style similar to Phillip Glass, Terry Riley
1938
Wibo van de Linde, Dutch TV host/director, Avro
1937
O'Kelly Isley, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, singer, Isley
Brothers-Twist and Shout
1936
Alexandra HEOC, English princess/daughter of sir Angus Ogilvy
1936
Ismail Merchant, Bombay India, producer, Householder
1935
Gunter Friedrichs, composer
1934
Bob Martinez, born in America, served as Mayor of Tampa, Florida
and 40th Governor of Florida, initiated Preservation 2000, America's largest
environmental land acquisition program, appointed Drug Czar by President
George H.W. Bush
1934
Giancarlo Baghetti, racing driver/journalist
1934
John Ashley, born in Kansas City, Missouri, actor,
Clipper-Straightaway
1934
McKinley Mitchell, U.S. gospel/singer, The Town I Live In
1932
Jose Maria Capricorne, Curacaos graphically designer/painter
1932
Peter John Swales, football club chairman
1931
Carlos Castaneda, U.S., writer/mystic, Eagle's Gift, Fire From
Within
1931
Uzo Egonu, painter/print maker
1929
Billy Horton, rocker, The Silhouettes-Get a Job
1929
Chris Kenner, born in Kenner, near New Orleans, Louisiana,
rhythm and blues singer, songwriter, recording artist, 1961 hit I Like It
Like That was on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, song Land of a Thousand Dances
was recorded by Patti Smith, and others
1929
Irish McCalla, Pawnee City, Nebraska, actress, Sheena Queen of
Jungle
1928
Earl Brown, born in Salt Lake City, Utah, actor,
Stovall-Operation Petticoat
1927
Nellie Fox, White Sox infielder, AL MVP 1959
1925
Christmas F Tinto, South African ANC'er/UDF-leader
1925
Ossi Reichert, born in West Germany, giant slalom 1956 Olympics
gold
1925
Carlos Castenada, Peruvian Writer
1924
Mihaly Vaci, Hungarian poet/politician
1924
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Indian Statesman
1923
Louis Lane, born in Eagle Pass, Texas, conductor, Oere Orchestra
1968 - 1973
1923
Noel Vandernotte, France, cox, Olympic-bronze-1936
1922
Kitty Kallen, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, singer, Judge For
Yourself
1920
Artur Agostinho, Lisbon Port, actor, Capas Negras, Leao da
Estrela
1920
Henry Charnock, oceanographer
1918
Eddie Safranski, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, orchestra
leader, Jonathan Winters Show
1918
Anwar Sadat, Egyptian President, 1970-81, Nobel 1978
1918
Ahmed Ben Bella, Algerian Politician
1916
Daniel Devoto, composer
1915
Noelle de Mosa, Netherlands/British dancer/teacher, Brigadoon
1915
Nora Dunfee, actress, Forrest Gump, Lorenzo's Oil
1915
Pete Rugolo, bandleader/arranger, Fugitive
1914
Tony Martin, Alvin Morris, SF, singer, It's a Blue World, To
Each
1913
Henri Nannen, journalist
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
Tony Martin, Oakland Cal, singer, Tony Martin Show, Tonight We
Love
1912
Werner Fussan, composer
1912
Willian Noel Moffat, architect
1911
Burne Hogarth, strip-cartoon artist
1910
David Lichine, Lichtenstein, Russian/US dancer, Make Mine Music
1909
Louis van Lint, Belgian painter
1909
Marguerite Churchill, actress, Dracula's Daughter, Big Trail
1909
Mike Mazurki, Tarnopal Austria, actor/wrestler, Centerfold Girls
1908
Frank Ferguson, California, actor, Wagons West, Dynamite, My Gal
Sal
1908
Helen Twelvetrees, actress, State's Attorney, Painted Desert
1908
Jan Seidel, composer
1908
Quentin Crisp, English Writer
1907
Cab[ell] Calloway, Rochester, bandleader, Minnie the Moocha,
Jazzball
1907
Cab Calloway, American Musician
1906
Clark M. Clifford, U.S. Secretary of Defense, 1968 - 1969
1906
Herman J Scheltema, NEM Pareau, Dutch jurist/poet
1906
Lew Grade, British TV mogul, ATV, movie producer, Boys from
Brazil
1906
William McChesney Martin, Chairman of Federal Reserve Bank,
1951-70
1906
Clark M. Clifford, American Public Servant
1904
Gerhard Herzberg, Can, physicist, molecular structure-Nobel 1971
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
1902
Barton MacLane, South Carolina, actor, Geisha Boy, Peterson-I
Dream of Jeannie
1900
Barton Maclane, Columbia, South Carolina, actor, General
Peterson-I Dream of Jeannie
1900
Gladys Swarthout, Deepwater Missouri, mezzo-soprano, La Gioconda
1900
W L "Tich" Cornford, cricketer, Sussex keeper played
for England 1930
1899
Frank Fergusson, actor, My Friend Flicka, Peyton Place
1899
Humphrey Bogart, born in New York City, actor, Here's looking at
you, kid, Casablanca
1899
Raphael Soyer, artist, Depression Scenes in New York City
1898
Theo Swagemakers, Dutch portrait painter
1893
Bert Bertram, actor, How to Steal a Million
1893
Fred Hillebrand, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Martin Kane
1893
Ropert L Ripley, Santa Rosa California, cartoonist, Believe It
or Not
1892
Rebecca West, Cicely Isabel Fairfield, English author
1891
Clarrie Grimmett, cricketer, in Dunedin Great Australian
leg-spinner
1891
Earle Foxe, Oxford, Ohio, actor, Dance Fools Dance
1891
Kenneth A. N. Anderson, British general, Dunkerk, North Africa
1887
Conrad Hilton, hotel mogul, Hilton Hotels
1887
Jacobus W. G. Balfoort, Dutch actor, Bulldog Drummond
1887
John Davidson, New York City, actor, Charlie Chan-Chinese Cat
1883
Fran Lhotka, composer
1883
Maurice Utrillo, France, painter, Port St. Martin, Montmartre
1881
Joseph V McCarthy, baseball manager, New York Yankees
1878
W Starling Burgess, yacht designer, America Cup's Enterprise
1878
Louis Chevrolet, American Celebrity
1878
Joseph Schenck, Russian Businessman
1876
Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Karachi, founded Pakistan, 1947, gov,
1947-58
1876
Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistani Politician
1875
Theodor Innitzer, cardinal and archbishop Vienna
1875
Walter Lees, cricketer, Surrey pace bowler toured for England
1905-06
1868
Eugenie Besserer, Watertown, New York, actress, Jazz Singer
1867
Alfred Kerr, born in Breslau, Silesia, nickname, Culture Pope,
writer, essayist, wrote, 'Die Harfe'
1865
Evangeline Cory Booth, Salvation Army general, 1904-34
1863
E Fernandez Arbos, Spanish violinist, conductor and composer
1859
Raoul Gunsbourg, composer
1855
James Galvin, pitcher, shut-out every opposing team in 1884
1837
Cosima Liszt, wife of Austrian composer Richard Wagner
1832
Thomas Alfred Smyth, Major General Union volunteers
1831
Johann Herbeck, composer
1829
Patrick S Gilmore, composer
1825
Esteban Salas y Castro, composer
1823
Preston Smith, Brigadier General Confederate Army
1821
Clara Harlowe Barton, Oxford Massachusetts, nurse/founder,
American Red Cross
1821
Clara Barton, American Public Servant
1815
Temistocle Solera, composer
1814
Jan de Liefde II, Dutch vicar/founder, Coop of Welfare of the
People
1813
Milledge Luke Bonham, Confederacy
1811
Wilhelm E Freiherr von Ketteler, German politician/bishop of
Mainz
1808
Stephen Cleeg Rowan, Commander Union Navy
1775
Antun Sorkocevic, composer
1771
Dorothy Wordsworth, born in Cumberland, England, author,
diarist, poet, sister of William Wordsworth, romantic poet
1765
Joseph Mazzinghi, composer
1763
Claude Chappe, French engineer, optical telegraph
1750
John "Christmas" Beckwith, composer
1728
Johann Adam Hiller, composer
1721
William Collins, Chichester England, Mayor-Chichester, poet
1717
Pius VI, Giovanni A Braschi, Italy, Pope, 1775 - 1799
1711
Jean-Joseph Cassenea de Mondonville, composer
1698
Jacobus Houbraken, Dutch engraver/illustrator
1686
Giovanni Battista Somis, composer
1646
Harald Vallerius, composer
1628
Noel Coypel, French painter
1624
Angelus Silesius, Johann Scheffler, German mystic, St.
Seelenlust
1601
Jose Ximenez, composer
1583
Orlando
Gibbons, English composer, O Clap Your Hands, baptized

December 25th Deaths in History

2005
Derek Bailey, English Musician
1998
Hurd Hatfield, actor, Picture of Dorian Gray, dies at 80
1998
Richard Paul, actor, The People vs. Larry Flynt, dies at 58
1997
Anatoli Boukreev, born in Russia, Anatolij Nikolaevich Bukreev,
climber, mountaineer, made seven, 8,000-metre peaks without supplemental
oxygen, died in avalanche on Annapurna, chronicled in books 'Into Thin Air',
'The Climb', 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
1996
Derek Prouse, writer actor and 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
1995
Dean Martin, singer and actor (Return to Me), dies at 78
1995
Emmanuel Levinas, philosopher, dies at 89
1995
Nikolai Slonimsky, musicologist, dies at 101
1994
Pierre Dreyfus, French director of Renault (1955-75), dies at 87
1994
Zail Singh, president of India (1982-87), dies at 78
1992
Garrison H Davidson, U.S. 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/sect English soccer team (sponsoring),
dies
1991
Curt Bois, actor (Great Waltz, Boat is Full), dies at 90
1991
Orane Demazis, French actress (Marius, Fanny et Cesar), dies at
87
1991
Sal Provenza, entertainer, dies of lymphoma at 45
1990
Marguerite N Wittenberg, entertainer, dies of cancer at 77
1989
Barrel Regtien, student leader, dies
1989
Billy Martin, New York Yankee manager, killed in a car accident
at 61
1989
Elena Ceausescu, wife of Romania's dictator Nicolea, executed
1989
Nicolea Ceausescu, dictator of Romania, executed
1989
Roger Pigaut, actor (Indoptable Angelique), dies
1989
Ton Regtien, Dutch student leader, dies at 51
1985
George Rhodes, orchestra leader (Sammy Davis, Jr. Show), dies at
66
1983
Joan Miro, Spanish surrealist, dies at his home in Majorca at 90
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
1979
Joan Blondell, actress (Real McCoys), dies at 70
1979
Lee Bowman, actor (Ellery Queen, Miami Undercover), dies at 64
1977
Charlie Chaplin, actor (Modern Times), dies in Switzerland at 88
1976
Frankie Darro, actor (Radio Ranch, Valley of Wanted Men), dies
at 58
1975
Gaston Gallimard, French publisher (Library Gallimard), dies at
94
1973
Ismet Inonu [Mustapha Ismet Pasha], Turkish Prime Minister 1923
- 1965, dies at 89
1971
Byron Arnold, composer, dies at 70
1964
Cheerio Meredith, actress (One Happy Family), dies at 74
1963
Tristan Tzara, writer, dies at 67
1962
Warren R. Austin, American Politician
1961
Rheinhold Rudenberg, inventor of electron microscope, dies
1957
Frederick Law Olmsted, U.S. architect (Central Park), dies at 87
1956
Robert Walser, writer, dies at 78
1954
Johnny Ace, Memphis rocker, accidently shot self in head at 25
1954
Liberty Hyde Bailey, U.S. botanist (Plantbreeding), dies at 96
1954
Rosario Scalero, composer, dies at 84
1951
Harry T Moore, Florida NAACP official, killed by bomb
1950
Xavier Villaurrutia, Mexican poet (Nostalgia de la muerte), dies
at 47
1946
W C Fields, writer/comedian (Bank Dick, It's A Gift), dies at 67
1946
W. C. Fields, American Comedian
1943
Ilona Durigo, Hungarian singer, dies at 62
1943
Raymond Huntington Woodman, composer, dies at 82
1942
Vojislav Vuckovic, composer, dies at 32
1940
Agnes Ayres, actress (Johnny Belinda, Sheik), dies at 42
1938
Karel Capek, Czechoslovakian author/antifascist (Bila Nemoc),
dies at 48
1936
Pierre Maurice, composer, dies at 68
1930
Harvey Worthington Loomis, composer, dies at 65
1927
Sergei D Sazonov, Russian Foreign minister (1910-16), dies at 66
1926
Yoshihito, 123rd Emperor of Japan (1912-26), dies at 47
1925
Sergei Jessenin, writer, dies at 30
1925
Karl Abraham, German Psychologist
1922
Alphonse Goovaerts, composer, dies at 75
1921
Hans Huber, composer, dies at 69
1921
Korolenko, writer, dies
1904
Per Jonas Fredrik Vilhelm Svedbom, composer, dies at 61
1903
Albert Schaffle, German sociologist, dies at 72
1895
Raul d'Avila Pompeia, Brazilian writer (Boarding-school), dies
at 32
1883
Marek Konrad Sokolowski, composer, dies at 65
1878
Anna Claypoole Peale, U.S. painter of miniatures, dies
1868
Linus Yale, developer of cylinder lock, dies
1858
James Gadsden, American Politician
1848
Johann Erik Nordblom, composer, dies at 60
1842
Bedrich Divis Weber, composer, dies at 76
1824
Barbara Krudener, mystic visionary who renounced nobility, dies
at 60
1788
John Logan, Scottish conductor (Ode to the Cuckoo), dies at
about 40
1765
Antonio Tonelli, composer, dies at 79
1761
Elisabeth Petrovna, tsarina of Russia (1741-62), dies at about
51
1683
Kara Mustapha, Turkish grand-vizier (1676-83), executed
1530
Babur, emperor of Delhi, dies
1513
Johannes Amerbach, Swiss publisher/printer, dies at about 70
1249
Peter Nolascus, Spanish monastery founder/St, dies
1156
Peter Venerabilis, French theologist/9th abbot of Cluny, dies at
about 61
820
Leo V, the Armenian, Byzantine gen/Emperor (813-20), murdered
795
Adrian I, Italian
Pope (772-95), dies

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