Dec. 24

December 24 is the 358th (three hundred and fifty-eighth) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the 359th in leap years. There are 7 days left to end the year.

Events

The church of Santa Sofia.

• 563: The Byzantine church in Constantinople is rebuilt for the second time after being destroyed by an earthquake.
• 759: the poet of the Tang dynasty, Du Fu is part of Chengdu, where he is welcomed by his friend Pei Di.
• 1144: the capital of Edesa County falls into power of Zengi, Mr. Mosul and Aleppo.
• 1294: In Rome, Bonifacio VIII is elected pope, replacing Celestino V, who had resigned.
• 1500: In Cefalonia, the Grand Captain (Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba) leads an important Hispanic-Venezuelan victory over the Ottoman Empire (toma de Cefalonia).
• 1521: A fire destroys three quarters of Oviedo.
• 1536: Spanish conqueror Sebastián de Belalcázar founded the city of Popayán in the current territory of Colombia.
• 1591: Philip II publishes a general pardon for the mutineers and respects the essence of the Aragonese idols.
• 1598: In the Kingdom of Chile, Governor Martin García died being ambushed by Mapuche forces led by Pelantaro (the Spanish would call this event the Desastre de Curalaba).
• 1603: the Birth Commune (Chile) is founded.
• 1680: Morocco and the Netherlands sign an alliance treaty to promote Moroccan piracy in the Mediterranean against Spain.
• 1715: Felipe V ratified his marriage with Isabel de Farnesio in Guadalajara.
• 1726: the city of Montevideo is declared founded.
• 1734: a fire destroys the Real Alcazar of Madrid.
• 1752: for the first time in Spain the public lighting of the streets with oil lights is experienced.
• 1777: In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the navigator James Cook up to Kiritimati Island—also called Christmas Island—which until 1200 AD had been visited for centuries by the Polynesians.
• 1781: In Vienna, in the presence of the emperor Joseph II of Austria, there is a pianistic interpretation duel between Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Muzio Clementi, of which Mozart was a winner.
• 1800: In Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte suffers an attack from which he is illustrious.
• 1801: Emperor Francis I of Austria forbids Franz Joseph Gall – a brain researcher – to teach, as his doctrine leads to materialism.
• 1813: War of Independence of Mexico: the Battle of the Lomas de Santa María occurs where the insurgent troops, commanded by José María Morelos, are defeated by the Spanish troops of Commander Agustín de Iturbide.

Signature of the Ghent Treaty.

• 1814: England and the United States sign in Ghent a treaty ending the Anglo-American War.
• 1835: In Venezuela, the Puerto Cabello Site imposed in Puerto Cabello Square by the constitutionalist forces of José Antonio Páez begins with the reformist forces commanded by Colonel Pedro Carujo.
• 1836: Liberal forces commanded by Espartero defeat the Carlists in Luchana (Bilbao).
• 1851: fire at the U.S. Congress Library.
• 1865: The Ku Klux Klan is created in the United States.
• 1879: slavery is abolished by decree in Cuba.
• 1884: The first tram of mules arrives in Bogotá
• 1889: In the city of Rosario, Argentina, is founded the Club Atlético Rosario Central.
• 1905: in the cathedral of Barcelona (Spain) Cardinal Casañas suffers an attack from which he leaves unharmed.
• 1906: Canadian professor Reginald Aubrey Fessenden makes the first radio broadcast, in which his voice and Haendel's music are heard on the boats that sail near the island of Newfoundland.
• 1907: The Opera of Paris decides to pack in one of its walls boxes that contain recordings of great singers, so that within two hundred years they will astonish the Melomans.
• 1908: In Paris, President Fallières opened the First Hall of Aeronautics.
• 1909: In Belgium, Alberto I is crowned king.
• 1911: In Berlin, a methyl alcohol poisoning causes the death of 89 people.
• 1912: in Jubari (on the Japanese island of Hokkaidō) an explosion cost life to 245 miners.
• 1914: On the western front—in the framework of the First World War—German troops and British troops celebrate an unofficial fire a brief high; this fact was known as the “Tree of Christmas”.
• 1920: in Spain, as a result of the elections held on 19th, the conservatives won the victory.
• 1922: in Rome, Italy, his first encyclical, Pope Pius XI calls for peace in Italy and the world.
• 1924: Albania becomes a republic.
• 1924: The National Library of Cambodia is created.

Hippolyte Yrigoyen.

• 1929: In Argentina, Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen suffers an attack from which he is illustrious.
• 1933: Near Paris (France) more than 200 people die in a train crash.
• 1936: In the context of the Spanish civil war, the republican aviation bombards Cordoba in an attempt to weaken the rear of the sublevado side.
• 1936: in Cuba, Federico Laredo Brú is elected president.
• 1939: In the framework of the Second World War, Pope Pius XII appeals for peace at the Mass of Gallo (Christmas).
• 1941: In the framework of World War II, Kuching is conquered by Japanese troops.
• 1941: In the framework of the Second World War, Benghazi is conquered by the British army.
• 1942: In North Africa, French General Giraud assumes the position of high commissioner.
• 1943: In the framework of World War II, U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower assumes the powers of commander-in-chief of allied troops.
• 1943: In the Soviet Union—in the framework of the Second World War—the Red Army launches the Offensive of the Dniéper-Cárpatos in Ukraine.
• 1950: Spain and the United States resume their diplomatic relations.
• 1951: Libya is independent of Italy.
• 1959: In the province of Santiago del Estero (Argentina), an armed command of Uturuncos raids the police station of the town of Frías.
• 1961: During a hunting afternoon in the woods of El Pardo (Madrid), Francisco Franco is injured in the left hand by accidentally exploiting a cannon from his hunting shotgun. In spite of the government's attempts to subtract importance to the fact, public opinion and American intelligence services begin to fear the dictator's state of health. Following this accident, the warlord begins to think of a possible successor.
• 1968: under the Apollo Program, the ship Apollo 8 enters orbit around the Moon; they are the first humans to do so.
• 1969: In the United States, Charles Manson defends himself in the trial for Sharon Tate's death.
• 1971: in Peru, LANSA Flight 508 crashes in the Department of Huánuco, resulting in 91 dead passengers and one survivor (Juliane Kopcke).
• 1979: the Soviet Union invades Afghanistan.
• 1979: first successful take-off of Ariane 1, ESA project.
• 2004: an 8.2-degree earthquake on the Richter scale shakes the Australian Antarctic Territory.
• 2009: In Rome, Susana Maiolo attacks Pope Benedict XVI at the Mass of Gallo (Christmas).
• 2010: in Puerto Rico, at 19:42 h, a 5.4-degree earthquake on the Richter scale happens in full Christmas celebration.
• 2010: In the province of Manabí (Ecuador), 39 people die in a traffic accident.^{[chuckles]required]}
• 2011: In the Democratic People ' s Republic of Korea, Kim Jong-Un is appointed supreme leader; Kim Yong Nam confirms him as president of the Supreme People ' s Assembly five days later.
• 2014: a commercial plane falls in the area of Mesa de los Santos (Colombia), leaving the 7 occupants dead.
• 2014: The Arms Trade Treaty entered into force.
• 2017: in Peru, President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski granted a humanitarian pardon to former President Alberto Fujimori, who was imprisoned for 12 years in prison.
• 2018: in Coronango, Mexico, a helicopter fell, transporting the governor of the state of Puebla Martha Erika Alonso along with her husband Rafael Moreno Valle, who died in the accident

Births

Galba.

• 3 a. C.: Galba, Roman emperor (f. 69).
• 1166: John I, king of England between 1199 and 1216 (f. 1216).
• 1389: John VI of Brittany, French aristocrat (f. 1442).
• 1456: Đurađ Branković, Serbian king (n. 1377).
• 1473: Juan Cancio, a Polish priest and theologian (n. 1390).
• 1508: Pietro Carnesecchi, Italian humanist (f. 1567).
• 1588: Constance of Habsburg, Polish queen (f. 1631).
• 1597: Honorate II, prince Monegasque (f. 1662).
• 1635: Mariana of Austria, Queen Consort of Spain, second wife of Philip IV (f. 1696).
• 1638: Thomas de la Cerda and Aragón, aristocrat and Spanish governor (f. 1692).
• 1649: Manuel de Solórzano, a Spanish missionary and Jesuit (f. 1684).
• 1679: Domenico Sarro, Italian composer (f. 1744).
• 1709: Johann Evangelist Holzer, an Austrian-German painter (f. 1740).
• 1729: Manuel Abad and Lasierra, a Spanish religious (f. 1806).
• 1740: Anders Johan Lexell, astronomer and Swedish-Russian mathematician (f. 1784).

Benjamin Rush.

• 1745: Benjamin Rush, American physician (f. 1813).
• 1754: George Crabbe, British poet and naturalist (f. 1832).
• 1761: Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer (f. 1831).
• 1761: Selim III, Ottoman sultan (f. 1808).
• 1777: Manuel Salazar and Baquíjano, a Peruvian politician and military officer (f. 1850).
• 1781: Joaquín Manuel Fernández Cruzado, Spanish painter (f. 1856).
• 1782: Charles Hubert Millevoye, French poet (f. 1816).
• 1784: Elena Pávlovna Románova, heir to the Russian throne (f. 1803).
• 1786: Gregor MacGregor, Scottish military (f. 1845).
• 1787: William of Hesse-Kassel, German aristocrat (f. 1867).
• 1791: Ernst Ferdinand Nolte, German botanist (f. 1875).
• 1791: Eugène Scribe, a French writer (f. 1861).

Fernán Caballero.

• 1796: Fernán Caballero, a Spanish writer (n. 1877).
• 1798: Adam Mickiewicz, Polish poet and patriot (f. 1855).
• 1804: Mariano Rivera Paz, a Guatemalan politician (f. 1849).
• 1809: Kit Carson, American border explorer and resident (f. 1868).
• 1810: Wilhelm Marstrand, a Danish painter (f. 1873).
• 1816: Rafael Martínez Molina, a Spanish doctor (f. 1888).
• 1818: James Prescott Joule, British physicist (f. 1889).
• 1819: Antonio Trueba, a Spanish writer (f. 1889).
• 1820: Justin Clinchant, French military (f. 1881).
• 1821: Gabriel García Moreno, politician and Ecuadorian writer (f. 1875).
• 1822: Matthew Arnold, British poet (f. 1888).
• 1822: Charles Hermite, French mathematician (f. 1901).
• 1824: Peter Cornelius, German composer and poet (f. 1874).
• 1824: Emmanuel Frémiet, French sculptor (f. 1910).
• 1825: Gabriel Batllevell i Tort, master of Spanish works (f. 1910).
• 1829: José Rogel Soriano, Spanish composer (f. 1901).
• 1831: Manuel del Palacio, journalist and Spanish poet (f. 1906).
• 1832: Christian Christie, Norwegian architect (f. 1906).
• 1836: Joaquín Agrasot, a Spanish painter (f. 1919).
• 1837: Cosima Wagner, Richard Wagner's second wife (f. 1930).
• 1837: Hans von Marées, German painter (f. 1887).

Sissi.

• 1837: Isabel de Baviera, austro-Hungarian empress (f. 1898).
• 1843: Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet (f. 1886).
• 1845: George I, Greek king between 1863 and 1913 (f. 1913).
• 1845: Fernand Cormon, French painter (f. 1924).
• 1845: Alfonso Espínola, a Spanish doctor (f. 1905).
• 1846: Manuel Mato Vizoso, writer and Spanish historian (f. 1909).
• 1854: José María Reina Barrios, President of Guatemala (f. 1898).
• 1855: Manuel M. Plata, Mexican military (f. 1926).
• 1858: Eliseo Meifrén and Roig, a Spanish painter (f. 1940).
• 1859: Pedro Antonio Echagüe, Argentine lawyer and politician (f. 1939).
• 1861: Antonio Rodríguez Martínez (El Uncle de la Tiza), Spanish musician and composer (f. 1912).
• 1862: Manuel Azueta, Mexican marine (f. 1928).
• 1863: Dolphin Chamorro, Paraguayan pedagogue (f. 1931).

Enrique Fernández Arbós.

• 1863: Enrique Fernández Arbós, a Spanish musician (f. 1939).
• 1863: Ljubomir Davidović, a Serbian politician (f. 1940).
• 1864: Manuel González Zeledón (Magon), a Costa Rican writer (f. 1936).
• 1866: Manuel J. Calle, politician, journalist, writer and Ecuadorian historian (f. 1918).
• 1867: Kantarō Suzuki, a Japanese politician (f. 1948).
• 1868: Emanuel Lasker, German chess player (f. 1941).
• 1868: Richard Teichmann, German chessman f. 1925.
• 1869: Henriette Roland Holst, a Dutch socialist poet (f. 1952).
• 1872: Adam Gunn, American decaleta (f. 1935).
• 1872: Nativity Yarza Planas, Spanish politics (f. 1960).
• 1873: Emanuel Walberg, Swedish historian (f. 1951).
• 1876: Francisco Tudela and Varela, politician, lawyer and Peruvian (f. 1962).
• 1877: Manuel Castro Quesada, a Costa Rican politician (f. 1950).
• 1879: Alexandrina of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Queen of Denmark (f. 1952).
• 1879: Émile Nelligan, a Canadian poet and writer (f. 1941).
• 1879: Joaquín Tena Sicilia, pediatrician and Spanish surgeon (f. 1928).
• 1880: Enrique García-Rendueles, Spanish writer (f. 1955).
• 1881: Jan Bronner, Dutch sculptor (f. 1972).
• 1881: Delfina Bunge, an Argentine writer (f. 1952).
• 1884: Guillermo G. Cano, an Argentine politician (f. 1939).
• 1885: Paul Manship, American sculptor (f. 1966).
• 1886: Ana Adamuzm, Spanish actress (f. 1971).
• 1886: Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-American filmmaker (f. 1962).
• 1886: Bogoljub Jevtić, Yugoslav Prime Minister (f. 1960).
• 1886: Serguéi Pankéyev, Russian aristocrat (f. 1979).

Lucrecia Bori.

• 1887: Lucrecia Bori, Spanish soprano (f. 1960).
• 1887: Louis Jouvet, a French actor (f. 1951).
• 1888: Cèsar Martinell, Spanish architect (f. 1973).
• 1889: Osmín Aguirre and Salinas, Salvadoran military (f. 1977).
• 1889: Antonino Cipolla, violinist and Argentine composer (f. 1969).
• 1889: Franz Xaver Dorsch, German engineer (f. 1986).
• 1889: Carl O. Sauer, American geographer (f. 1975).
• 1891: Tomás Seguí, a Spanish politician (f. 1937).
• 1892: Ruth Chatterton, American actress (f. 1961).
• 1893: Harry Warren, American composer (f. 1981).
• 1894: Pedro Carbo, politician and Ecuadorian writer (n. 1813).
• 1894: Georges Guynemer, French aviator (f. 1917).
• 1894: Jack Thayer, survivor of the Titanic (f. 1945).
• 1895: Noel Streatfeild, British writer (f. 1986).
• 1895: Nikolaus von Vormann, German military (f. 1959).
• 1895: Marguerite Williams, American geologist (f. 1991).
• 1897: Francisco Díaz de León, Mexican artist (f. 1975).
• 1897: José de Figueroa and Alonso-Martínez, militar y polista español (f. 1920).
• 1898: Héctor Scarone, Uruguayan footballer (f. 1967).
• 1899: Carl Troll, geographer, botanist and German ecologist (f. 1975).
• 1900: Alfredo Chavero and Híjar, Mexican educator (f. 1980).
• 1901: Donald Ewen Cameron, British psychologist (f. 1967).
• 1903: Julián Alfredo, a Spanish religious (f. 1934).
• 1903: Joseph Cornell, American artist (f. 1972).
• 1904: Joseph Juran engineer and expert in Romanian quality control (f. 2008).
• 1904: Manuel Villar, an Argentine anarchist (f. 1972).

Howard Hughes.

• 1905: Howard Hughes, entrepreneur, pilot and producer of American cinema (f. 1976).
• 1905: Milt Dunnell, Canadian sports journalist (f. 2008).
• 1905: Miguel Ángel Zavala Ortiz, Argentine politician (f. 1982).
• 1906: James Hadley Chase, British writer (f. 1985).
• 1906: Franz Waxman, German composer (f. 1967).
• 1907: André Cailleux, a French writer (f. 1986).
• 1907: I. F. Stone, American journalist (f. 1989).
• 1910: Fritz Leiber, American writer (f. 1992).
• 1910: Max Miedinger, Swiss typographer (f. 1980).
• 1912: Ramón Carnicer Blanco, Spanish writer (f. 2007).
• 1913: César Alonso de las Heras, a Spanish religious (f. 2004).
• 1913: Ad Reinhardt, American painter (f. 1967).
• 1914: Dorothy Hyson, American actress (f. 1996).
• 1916: Assad Bucaram, Ecuadorian politician (f. 1981).
• 1916: Lalo Guerrero, Mexican composer (f. 2005).
• 1916: Héctor Stamponi, Argentine composer and pianist of tangos (f. 1997).
• 1917: Kim Jong-suk, North Korean personality (f. 1949).
• 1918: Jorge Yarur Banna, Chilean businessman (f. 1991).
• 1918: Óscar Bonilla, Chilean military and political (f. 1975).
• 1918: Carlos Coda, Argentinean marine (f. 2004).
• 1919: Pierre Soulages, French painter and sculptor (f. 2022).
• 1920: Vittorio Vettori, Italian poet and philosopher (f. 2004).
• 1920: Klavdia Blinova, Soviet military aircraft (f. 1988)
• 1921: Jesús Arellano, Argentine philosopher (f. 2009).
• 1921: Jimmy Clitheroe, British humorist (f. 1973).

Ava Gardner.

• 1922: Ava Gardner, American actress (f. 1990).
• 1923: Manuel Quindimil, an Argentine politician (f. 2008).
• 1924: Mohammad Rafi, an Indian actor and singer (f. 1980).
• 1924: Norman Rossington, British actor (f. 1999).
• 1925: Baldramina Flores, a Chilean writer and activist.
• 1925: Innes Lloyd, British television producer (f. 1991).
• 1925: Yafa Yarkoni, an Israeli singer (f. 2012).
• 1926: Luis Alberto Costales, Ecuadorian writer and politician (f. 2006).
• 1926: Juan José Linz, an American polytologist (f. 2013).
• 1927: Mary Higgins Clark, American writer (f. 2020).
• 1927: Vernon Hilton Heywood, British biologist.
• 1928: Manfred Rommel, a German politician (f. 2013).
• 1928: Norman Rossington, American actor (f. 1999).
• 1928: Hugo Serrano Gómez, Colombian politician (f. 2010).
• 1929: José Carol Archs, Spanish writer.
• 1929: Lennart Skoglund, Swedish footballer (f. 1975).
• 1929: Philip Ziegler, British historian and biographer.
• 1930: Jorge Arguindegui, Argentine military (f. 1997).
• 1930: Arsenio Iglesias, footballer and Spanish coach.
• 1931: Antonio Barbosa Alves, Portuguese cyclist.
• 1931: Jill Bennett, British actress (f. 1990).
• 1931: Ray Bryant, American pianist and composer (f. 2011).
• 1931: Mauricio Kagel, Argentine composer, director and scenographer (f. 2008).
• 1931: Russell Stannard, British physicist.
• 1933: Francisco Capel, Spanish basketball player.
• 1934: Enrique Dussel, a Mexican scholar, philosopher and historian.
• 1934: Stjepan Mesić, Croatian politician.

Alberto Locati.

• 1935: Alberto Locati, Argentine actor (f. 2007).
• 1935: Jesús Antonio Sam López, Mexican politician and lawyer (f. 2010).
• 1935: Eugenio Chicano, Spanish painter (f. 2019).
• 1936: María Cuadra, Spanish actress.
• 1937: Nicolás García Uriburu, Argentine artist and architect.
• 1937: Felix Miéli Venerando, Brazilian footballer (f. 2012).
• 1937: Jaime Alomar, Spanish cyclist.
• 1938: Manuel Avellaneda Gómez, a Spanish painter (f. 2003).
• 1938: Messia Maiguashca, Ecuadorian composer.
• 1939: Herty Lewites, a Nicaraguan politician (f. 2006).
• 1940: Jan Stráský, Czech politician and banker, Czechoslovakia Prime Minister in 1992 (f. 2019).
• 1940: Guillermo Jiménez Sánchez, Spanish jurist.
• 1940: Anthony Fauci, American doctor.
• 1941: Howden Ganley, New Zealand racing pilot.
• 1941: John Levene, British actor.
• 1941: Ana Maria Machado, journalist, painter, and Brazilian writer.

Alfonso Espinosa de los Monteros.

• 1941: Alfonso Espinosa de los Monteros, Ecuadorian journalist.
• 1942: Diego Jesús Jiménez, Spanish poet, painter and journalist (f. 2009).
• 1942: Joaquín Sánchez Garrido, Spanish politician.
• 1943: Alberto Andrade Carmona, a Peruvian businessman and politician (f. 2009).

Halonen tar.

• 1943: Tarja Halonen, Finnish president.
• 1943: Robert Kurz, philosopher, writer and German journalist (f. 2012).
• 1943: Arysteides Turpana, Panamanian poet.
• 1944: Oswald Thank you, Indian Archbishop.
• 1944: Daniel Johnson, Jr., Canadian politician.
• 1944: Woody Shaw, American trumpetist and composer (f. 1989).
• 1945: Enrique Jackson, Mexican politician.

Lemmy Kilmister.

• 1945: Lemmy Kilmister, British singer and bassist, from the Motörhead band (f. 2015).
• 1946: Jan Akkerman, Dutch guitarist, from the Focus band.
• 1946: Nel Amaro, Spanish writer.
• 1946: Jesús Antonio Bejarano Ávila, Colombian economist (f. 1999).
• 1946: Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, Chinese scientist.
• 1946: Vittorio Giardino, Italian hysterist.
• 1946: Manuel González, Spanish actor.
• 1946: La Chana, Spanish dancer.
• 1946: Óscar Liera, Mexican playwright (f. 1990).
• 1947: Miguel Ángel González Suárez, Spanish footballer.
• 1947: Peter Houseman, British footballer (f. 1977).
• 1947: Michel Rolland, French enologist.
• 1947: Joost Swarte, Dutch illustrator and hysterist.
• 1948: Juan Bau, Spanish singer.
• 1948: José María Covarrubias, Mexican activist (f. 2003).
• 1948: Edwige Fenech, Italian actress.
• 1948: Mo Layton, American basketball player.
• 1948: Gerardo Melgar Vicious, Bishop and Spanish philosopher.
• 1948: Rafael Román Guerrero, Spanish politician.
• 1948: Erik Trinkaus, American paleontologist.
• 1949: Francisco Bartolucci, Chilean politician.

Moncho Borrajo.

• 1949: Moncho Borrajo, Spanish actor and humorist.
• 1949: Beatriz Carvajal, Spanish actress.
• 1950: Gilberto Alves, footballer and Brazilian coach.
• 1950: Mario Ruiz Massieu, Mexican politician (f. 1999).
• 1951: Jesús Bracamontes, Mexican footballer.
• 1952: Christopher Buckley, American writer.
• 1952: Jesus Square Bausela, Spanish geographer and politician.
• 1952: Chucho Merchán, Colombian musician.
• 1952: Julio Mora, Uruguayan singer.
• 1953: Wilfried Maria Blum, German sculptor.
• 1953: Mario Santiago Papasquiaro, Mexican poet (f. 1998).
• 1953: Gerardo Solano, a Costa Rican footballer (f. 2000).
• 1954: Georgina Barbarossa, actress, comedian and presenter of Argentine television.
• 1954: Yves Debay, a Belgian journalist (f. 2013).
• 1954: José María Figueres Olsen, Costa Rican politician, president of Costa Rica between 1994 and 1998.
• 1954: Gregory S. Paul, American peleontologist.
• 1955: Luis Auserón, Spanish musician, of the Radio Futura band.
• 1955: Grand L. Bush, American actor.
• 1955: Scott Fischer, American alpineist (f. 1996).
• 1955: Gary Lachman, American musician.
• 1956: Irene Khan, Bangladeshi politician.
• 1957: Hamid Karzai, Afghan politician, President of Afghanistan between 2004 and 2014.
• 1957: Francisco Muñoz Soler, Spanish writer.
• 1958: Olívia Byington, singer and Brazilian guitarist.
• 1958: Paul Pressey, American basketball player.
• 1958: Manuel Enríquez Rosero, Colombian politician.
• 1958: Janfri Topera, Spanish actor.

Anil Kapoor.

• 1959: Anil Kapoor, Indian actor.
• 1959: Lee Daniels, American filmmaker.
• 1960: Gustavo Fontán, Argentine filmmaker.
• 1960: Glenn McQueen, American cartoonist (f. 2002).
• 1960: Eva Tamargo, American actress.
• 1960: Fei Xiang, Chinese singer.
• 1961: Ilham Aliyev, Azerbaijani politician, President of Azerbaijan since 2003.
• 1961: Wade Williams, American actor.
• 1963: Naja Marie Aidt, Danish writer.
• 1963: Eloy M. Cebrián, Spanish writer.
• 1964: Tod Murphy, American basketball player.
• 1964: Mark Valley, American actor.
• 1965: Marcelo Villena Alvarado, Bolivian poet.
• 1965: Mika Selander, Finnish musician.
• 1965: Mafalda Veiga, Portuguese singer.
• 1966: Diedrich Bader, American actor.
• 1967: Mónica Scapparone, Argentine actress.
• 1967: Pernilla Wahlgren, Swedish actress and singer.
• 1967: Vladislav Jovalyg, Russian politician of Tuvana ethnic current president of the Republic of Tuvá.
• 1968: Javier Echevarría Writens, Peruvian actor.
• 1968: Choi Jin-sil, South Korean actress (f. 2008).
• 1968: Xiomara Rivero, a Cuban javelin launcher.
• 1969: Clinton McKinnon, American musician.
• 1969: Ed Miliband, British politician.
• 1969: Mark Millar, British hysterist.
• 1969: Humberto Ovelar, Paraguayan footballer.
• 1970: Christopher Daniels, American professional fighter.
• 1970: Adam Haslett, American writer.

Amaury Nolasco

• 1970: Amaury Nolasco, Puerto Rican actor.
• 1970: Will Oldham, American actor and singer.
• 1970: Adriana Riveramelo, Mexican journalist and actress.
• 1971: Giórgos Alkaíos, Greek singer.
• 1971: Álex Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player.

Ricky Martin.

• 1971: Ricky Martin, Puerto Rican actor and singer.
• 1972: Richard Dutruel, French footballer.
• 1972: Betina González, Argentine writer.
• 1972: Alvaro Mesén, a Costa Rican footballer.
• 1972: Klaus Schnellenkamp, Chilean-German author.
• 1973: Grutle Kjellson, Norwegian bassist, of the Enslaved band.
• 1973: Stephenie Meyer, American writer.
• 1973: Matt Passmore, Australian actor.
• 1973: Eddie Pope, American footballer.
• 1973: Ali Salem Tamek, Moroccan activist.
• 1973: Dong Liu, Chinese-Spanish athlete.
• 1974: Cristina Umaña, Colombian actress.
• 1974: Thure Lindhardt, Danish actor.
• 1974: Marcelo Salas, Chilean footballer.
• 1974: Ryan Seacrest, American TV presenter.
• 1975: Toru Ito, Japanese professional fighter.
• 1975: Jaime Ruiz, Mexican footballer.
• 1976: Florence Abbate, Argentine writer and journalist.
• 1976: Angel Matos, a Cuban taekwondo practitioner.
• 1976: Iker Lastra, Spanish actor.
• 1976: Pepe Ocio, Spanish actor.
• 1976: Alfredo Toxqui, Mexican footballer.
• 1977: Dayron Pérez, Colombian footballer.
• 1977: Michael Raymond-James, American actor.
• 1977: Américo, Chilean tropical singer.
• 1978: Josh Asselin, American basketball player.
• 1978: Yıldıray Baştürk, Turkish footballer.
• 1978: Souleymane Diawara, Senegalese footballer.
• 1979: Ben Geurens, an Australian actor.
• 1979: Chris Hero, American fighter.
• 1979: Rodrigo Mannara, Argentine footballer.
• 1979: Danny Raco, Italian actor.
• 1980: Stephen Appiah, Ghanaian footballer.
• 1980: Alvaro Gómez, Chilean actor.
• 1980: Maarja-Liis Ilus, Estonian singer.
• 1981: Dima Bilán, Russian singer.
• 1982: Masaki Aiba, Japanese musician and actor.

Robert Schwartzman.

• 1982: Robert Schwartzman, American musician and actor.
• 1983: Gregor Blanco, Venezuelan baseball player.
• 1983: Ariel Bogado, Paraguayan footballer.
• 1983: Valeria Bringas, Peruvian actress and model.
• 1983: Irene Fornaciari, Italian singer.
• 1983: Sayaka Minami, Japanese singer.
• 1983: Joel Solanilla, Panamanian footballer.
• 1983: Alla Lyshafay, Ukrainian footballer.
• 1984: Yerson Opazo, Chilean footballer.
• 1984: Wallace Spearmon, American athlete.
• 1984: Austin Stowell, American actor.
• 1984: Rogério Miranda Silva, Brazilian footballer.
• 1985: Takeshi Minamino, Japanese professional fighter.
• 1986: Ana Brenda Contreras, American actress.
• 1986: Kyrylo Fesenko, Ukrainian basketball player.
• 1986: Theodor Gebre Selassie, Czech footballer.
• 1986: Riyo Mori, Japanese dancer and model.
• 1986: Thomas Peterson, American cyclist.
• 1986: Satomi Ishihara, Japanese actress.
• 1987: Matías Cahais, Argentine footballer.
• 1987: Antonio Jesús Regal Angulo, Spanish footballer.
• 1988: Momodou Ceesay, a Gambian footballer.
• 1988: Nikola Mektić, Croatian tennis player.
• 1988: Simon Zenke, Nigerian footballer.
• 1988: Kōhei Doi, Japanese footballer.
• 1989: Carlos Escobar Ortiz, Chilean footballer.
• 1989: Gonzalo Verón, Argentine soccer player.
• 1991: Louis Tomlinson, singer, songwriter and British footballer, started in the band One Direction.
• 1991: Eric Moreland, American basketball player.
• 1992: Davante Adams, American football player.
• 1992: Melissa Suffield, British actress.
• 1992: Maksym Malyshev, Ukrainian footballer.
• 1993: Andrea Cedron, Peruvian swimmer.
• 1994: LaShawn Tináh Jefferies, American actress.
• 1994: Brad Abbott, English footballer.
• 1995: Lynden Gooch, American footballer.
• 1998: Declan McKenna, British singer.
• 1998: Alexis Mac Allister, Argentine soccer player.

Deaths

• 820: Lion V the Armenian, Byzantine emperor (n. 775).
• 1317: Jean de Joinville, French writer (n. 1224).
• 1453: John Dunstaple, English composer (n. 1390).

Vasco da Gama.

• 1524: Vasco da Gama, explorer and Portuguese navigator (n. 1469).
• 1535: Euricius Cordus, German poet, physician and botanist (n. 1486).
• 1541: Damián Forment, Spanish sculptor (n. c. 1480).
• 1588: Louis II, Cardinal of Guisa, French religious (n. 1555).
• 1598: Martín García Óñez de Loyola, Spanish conqueror (n. 1549).
• 1608: Angela Serafina Prat, Spanish religious (n. 1543).
• 1660: Maria Enriqueta Estuardo, British aristocrat (n. 1631).
• 1667: John Mylne, British architect (n. 1611).
• 1692: Marie Antonia of Austria, German aristocrat (n. 1669).
• 1707: Noël Coypel, French painter and decorator (n. 1628).
• 1729: Marcantonio Franceschini, Italian painter (n. 1648).
• 1783: Jacobus Cornelius Matthaeus Radermacher, explorer, botanist, and Dutch writer (n. 1741).
• 1804: Martin Vahl, Norwegian botanist (n. 1749).
• 1806: Fernando Carlos de Habsburg-Lorena, Austrian aristocrat (n. 1754).
• 1813: Go-Sakuramachi, Japanese empress (n. 1740).
• 1816: Manuel Tolsá, architect and Spanish sculptor (n. 1757).
• 1821: Valentin de Foronda, economist and Spanish writer (n. 1751).
• 1827: Joseph Collyer, British engraver (n. 1748).
• 1834: Agustín García Arrieta, a Spanish writer (n. 1768).
• 1836: Francisco Espoz and Mina, a Spanish military man (n. 1781).
• 1850: Christian Friedrich Hornschuch, German botanist (n. 1793).
• 1856: John Ayrton Paris, British physician (n. 1785).
• 1863: William Makepeace Thackeray, British writer (n. 1811).
• 1864: Heinrich Hössli, Swiss writer (n. 1784).
• 1867: José Mariano Salas, Mexican politician and military (n. 1797).
• 1868: Adolphe d'Archiac, naturalist, paleontologist and French geologist (n. 1802).
• 1868: Felipe Pardo and Aliaga, a Peruvian writer (n. 1806).
• 1869: Edwin M. Stanton, American lawyer (n. 1814).
• 1871: Luis Viale, an Italian businessman (n. 1815).
• 1872: William John Macquorn Rankine, British engineer and physicist (n. 1820).
• 1873: Johns Hopkins, American philanthropist (n. 1795).
• 1882: Johann Benedict Listing, German mathematician (n. 1808).
• 1884: Philipp von Jolly, German physicist and mathematician (n. 1809).
• 1885: José Víctor Jiménez, Mexican politician (n. 1803).
• 1891: Miguel Payá and Rico, Spanish bishop (n. 1811).
• 1893: Robert Bentley, British botanist (n. 1821).
• 1893: Emilio Mitre, Argentine military (n. 1824).
• 1894: José Nicolás Puccio, an Argentine businessman (n. 1844).
• 1895: Leopoldo Laussat, Spanish politician (n. 1838).
• 1898: Carbel Makhlouf, monk and Lebanese priest (n. 1828).
• 1898: Elena Sanz, Spanish lyric singer (n. 1849).
• 1903: Carlos Navarro Rodrigo, Spanish journalist and politician (n. 1833).
• 1904: Julien Dillens, Belgian sculptor (n. 1849).
• 1912: Adolfo Büttner, German architect (n. 1849).
• 1914: John Muir, American naturalist (n. 1838).
• 1921: Teresa Wilms Montt, Chilean writer (n. 1893).
• 1926: William Wesley Coe, American athlete (n. 1979).
• 1927: Vladimir Béjterev, Russian neurologist and psychiatrist (n. 1857).
• 1927: Alexandre Promio, French filmmaker (n. 1868).
• 1930: Antonio de Orleans y Borbón, Spanish aristocrat (n. 1866).
• 1933: Lorenzo Tio, American saxophoneist (n. 1883).
• 1935: Alban Berg, Austrian composer (n. 1885).
• 1935: Ramón Sijé, writer, journalist and Spanish lawyer (n. 1913).
• 1936: Irene Fenwick, American actress (n. 1887).
• 1938: Joaquim Francisco de Assis Brazil, Brazilian writer and politician (n. 1857).
• 1938: Amália Luazes, Portuguese writer (n. 1865).
• 1938: Severiano Martínez Anido, a Spanish military officer (n. 1862).
• 1938: Bruno Taut, German architect (n. 1880).
• 1939: José Negre, Spanish anarcho-syndicalist (n. 1875).
• 1942: François Darlan, Admiral and French politician (n. 1881).
• 1943: Kurt Gruber, German Nazi politician (n. 1904).
• 1943: Mariano Gutiérrez-Lanza, meteorologist and Spanish astronomer (n. 1865).
• 1945: Luis Chamizo Trigueros, a Spanish writer (n. 1894).
• 1945: Mariano Holguín, Peruvian priest (n. 1860).
• 1945: Francisco Pujol, Spanish composer (n. 1878).
• 1947: Charles Gondouin, French rugby player (n. 1875).
• 1948: Luis Trenova Balharry, Chilean politician (n. 1876).
• 1950: Anselmo Barreto, Peruvian lawyer and magistrate (n. 1865).
• 1950: Lev Semionovich Berg, Soviet geographer and biologist (n. 1876).
• 1953: Carlos Pío de Habsburgo-Borbón, Austrian aristocrat and carlist to the Spanish throne (n. 1909).
• 1957: Arturo Barea, Spanish writer (n. 1897).
• 1957: Angel Lascurain and Osio, Mexican engineer (n. 1882).
• 1957: Shūmei ⋅kawa, a Japanese intellectual (n. 1886).
• 1957: Norma Talmadge, American actress (n. 1894).
• 1959: Edmund Goulding, British film director (n. 1891).
• 1959: Holger Wederkinch, Danish sculptor (n. 1886).
• 1961: Luis Nicolau d'Olwer, Spanish politician (n. 1888).
• 1962: Wilhelm Ackermann, German mathematician (n. 1896).
• 1963: Mariano Arrate, Spanish footballer (n. 1892).
• 1965: William Marrion Branham, American Reverend (n. 1906).
• 1965: Manuel Gallego Suárez-Somonte, Spanish military (n. 1894).
• 1966: Gaspar Cassadó i Moreu, violonchelist and Spanish composer (n. 1897).
• 1968: Eduardo Cansino, dancer and Spanish actor (n. 1895).
• 1969: Oswaldo Hercelles García, Peruvian doctor (n. 1908).
• 1969: Seabury Quinn, American writer (n. 1889).
• 1970: Nikolái Shvérnik, Soviet politician (n. 1888).
• 1971: Maria Koepcke, German-Peruvian ornithologist (n. 1924).
• 1972: Jay Allen, American journalist (n. 1900).
• 1972: Melville Ruick, American actor (n. 1898).
• 1973: Gerard Kuiper, American astronomer (n. 1905).
• 1973: Sergei Tschachotin, microbiologist and Soviet sociologist (n. 1883).
• 1974: Ida Kar, Russian photographer (n. 1908).
• 1974: Adriana Prieto, Brazilian actress (n. 1950).
• 1975: Bernard Herrmann, American composer (n. 1911).
• 1977: Ubaldo Martínez, Uruguayan actor (n. 1909).
• 1977: Salvatore Papaccio, Italian tenor (n. 1890).
• 1977: Juan Velasco Alvarado, a Peruvian politician and military officer (n. 1910).
• 1977: Samael Aun Weor, Colombian writer (n. 1917).

Rudi Dutschke.

• 1979: Rudi Dutschke, German student leader (n. 1940).
• 1980: Karl Doenitz, German admiral (n. 1891).
• 1982: Louis Aragon, French writer (n. 1897).
• 1982: Maurice Biraud, French actor (n. 1922).
• 1982: Rafael Rossi, Argentine musician (n. 1896).
• 1983: Héctor Duvauchelle, Chilean actor (n. 1932).
• 1984: Ian Hendry, British actor (n. 1931).
• 1984: Peter Lawford, British actor (n. 1923).
• 1985: Ferhat Abbas, Algerian politician (n. 1899).
• 1985: James Hadley Chase, British writer (n. 1906).
• 1985: Demetrio Vallejo, Mexican politician (n. 1910).
• 1985: Sara Insúa, a Spanish writer and journalist (n. 1901).
• 1986: Gardner Fox, American writer (n. 1911).
• 1987: Joop den Uyl, a Dutch politician (n. 1919).
• 1987: Thérèse Bertrand-Fontaine, French doctor (n. 1895).
• 1987: Terence Tiller, British radio poet and producer (n. 1916).
• 1988: Mary Cavendish, British aristocrat (n. 1895).
• 1989: Roger Pigaut, French actor and director (n. 1919).
• 1990: Rodolfo Orlandini, footballer and Argentine coach (n. 1905).
• 1991: Maria Àngels Cardona i Florit, a Spanish scientist (n. 1940).
• 1992: Jack Nichols, American basketball player (n. 1926).
• 1992: Peyo, historietista Belgian (n. 1928).
• 1992: Faustino Pérez, a Cuban politician and doctor (n. 1920).
• 1993: Yen Chia-kan, Chinese politician (n. 1905).
• 1993: Chucho Navarro, Mexican musician (n. 1913).
• 1993: Norman Vincent Peale, American psychologist and writer (n. 1898).
• 1994: John Boswell, American historian (n. 1947).
• 1994: Rossano Brazzi, Italian actor (n. 1916).
• 1994: Julie Haydon, American actress (n. 1910).
• 1994: John Osborne, British playwright (n. 1929).
• 1995: Carlos Lapetra, Spanish footballer (f. 1938).
• 1997: Toshiro Mifune, Japanese actor (n. 1920).
• 1998: José Campillo Sainz, Mexican lawyer and politician (n. 1917).
• 1999: João Baptista Figueiredo, Brazilian president between 1979 and 1985 (n. 1918).
• 1999: Maurice Couve de Murville, French politician (n. 1907).
• 1999: Tito Guízar, Mexican actor (n. 1908).
• 1999: Grete Stern, German designer and photographer (n. 1904).
• 2001: Robert Leckie, American reporter and writer (n. 1920).
• 2001: Harvey Martin, American football player (n. 1950).

Tita Merello.

• 2002: Jaime Barylko, writer, essayist and Argentine pedagogue (n. 1936).
• 2002: Tita Merello, Argentinean actress and singer (n. 1904).
• 2002: José Luis Molinuevo, Spanish footballer (n. 1917).
• 2002: Richie Regan, American basketball player (n. 1930).
• 2003: Hugo Argüelles, Mexican playwright (n. 1932).
• 2003: Gustavo Lagos, Chilean lawyer (n. 1924).
• 2004: Fermin de la Sierra, Spanish engineer (n. 1912).
• 2004: José R. Somoza, a Nicaraguan military (n. 1914).
• 2006: Braguinha, Brazilian musician (n. 1907).
• 2006: Kiva Maidánik, Soviet historian and political scientist (n. 1929).
• 2006: Victor Puyuelo, actor and Spanish painter (n. 1941).
• 2006: Mirko Sandić, waterpolist and Serbian trainer (n. 1942).
• 2006: Frank Stanton, American businessman (n. 1908).
• 2007: Sergio Correa Gac, Chilean priest (n. 1915).
• 2007: Luis Ximénez Caballero, Mexican musician (n. 1928).
• 2008: Samuel Phillips Huntington, American polytologist (n. 1927).
• 2008: Harold Pinter, Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005 (n. 1930).
• 2009: Freddy Artiles, playwright and Cuban puppeteer (n. 1946).
• 2009: Hugo Berly, a Chilean footballer and coach (n. 1941).
• 2009: Rafael Caldera, lawyer, politician and former Venezuelan president (n. 1916).
• 2010: José Orlandis, Spanish historian and jurist (n. 1918).
• 2010: Orestes Quércia, Brazilian politician (n. 1938).
• 2010: Eino Tamberg, Estonian composer (n. 1930).
• 2011: José Andrés Corral Arredondo, Mexican bishop (n. 1946).
• 2011: Juan García Damas, a Spanish writer (n. 1915).
• 2011: Johannes Heesters, Dutch actor and singer (n. 1903).
• 2012: Charles Durning, American actor (n. 1923).

Jack Klugman.

• 2012: Jack Klugman, American actor, protagonist of the series Quincy (n. 1922).
• 2012: Richard Rodney Bennett, British composer (n. 1936).
• 2012: José Simón Díaz, Spanish bibliographer and philologist (n. 1920).
• 2016: Fernando Corredor, a Colombian actor who participated in theater, television and cinema. (n. 1935).
• 2016: Gil Parrondo, Spanish art director winner of two Oscar Awards (n. 1921).
• 2016: Rick Parfitt, British guitarist for the Status Quo band (n. 1948).
• 2018: Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas, Mexican politician (n. 1968).
• 2020: Ivry Gitlis, Israeli violinist (n. 1922).
• 2022: Franco Frattini, Italian politician (n. 1957).

Celebrations

• World: Christmas Eve
• DenmarkDenmark/Norway Norway/Sweden Sweden: Juleaften/Julaften/Julafton
• United States: Feast of the Seven Fishes
• FinlandFinland: Declaration of Christmas Peace
• IcelandIceland: Aðfangadagskvöld
• LibyaLibya: Independence Day
• Russia Russia: Military Honor Day
• Some Jewish communitiesSome Jewish communities: Nittel Nacht

Catholic saints list

• Holy ancestors of Jesus Christ.
• Saint Dolphin of Bordeaux, bishop (c. 404).
• Saint Tarsila of Rome, virgin (c. 593).
• Saint Irmina of Tréveris, Abbey (c. 710).
• San Juan de Kety (1473).
• Blessed Bartolomé María dal Monte, priest (1778).
• Blessed Paula Elisabet Cerioli (1865).
• San Charbel Makhluf (1898).