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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