On This Day — December 25
4464 noted people were born and 2013 died on December 25 in our archive, including Adolf Windaus, Isaac Newton and René Girard.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on December 25
Adolf Windaus
1876 – 1959
Isaac Newton
1642 – 1727
René Girard
1923 – 2015
Alberto Quadrio Curzio
b. 1937
Alexander Alexandrovich Volkov
1951 – 2017
Alexander Shokhin
b. 1951
Apollon Kutateladze
1899 – 1972
Arseny Mironov
1917 – 2019
Christina Romer
b. 1958
Conrad Hilton
1887 – 1979
Donald Norman
b. 1935
Ernst Ruska
1906 – 1988
Eugene Gendlin
1926 – 2017
Gerhard Herzberg
1904 – 1999
Gottfried Köthe
1905 – 1989
Gregory Chow
b. 1930
Henri Nannen
1913 – 1996
Henryk Wujec
1940 – 2020
Herman Wold
1908 – 1992
Hugo Bergmann
1883 – 1975
Inoue Tetsujirō
1856 – 1944
Jacob Stenersen Worm-Müller
1884 – 1963
James Ewing
1866 – 1943
Jesse Beams
1898 – 1977
John Phillips
1800 – 1874
Juan Manuel Eguiagaray
1945 – 2025
Kazimierz Kostanecki
1863 – 1940
Maup Mendels
1868 – 1944
Mikhail Ilezov
b. 1979
Nikolai Marr
1864 – 1934
Noel Hinners
1935 – 2014
Paul Steinhardt
b. 1952
Peeter Olesk
1953 – 2021
Pyotr Shirshov
1905 – 1953
Sani Ahmed Yauta
b. 1960
Shihoko Ishii
b. 1950
Theodor Innitzer
1875 – 1955
Viktor Sheptiy
b. 1965
Walter Friedrich
1883 – 1968
William Gregory
1803 – 1858
Youssouf Ouédraogo
1952 – 2017
Yulia Svyrydenko
b. 1985
Yumi Hogan
b. 1959
Zhu Guangya
1924 – 2011
Abu Rushd
1919 – 2010
Adam Ołdakowski
b. 1955
Adam Wodnicki
1930 – 2020
Alain Tourret
b. 1947
Albert Betz
1885 – 1968
Alejandro Rodríguez de Valcárcel
1917 – 1976
Aleš Debeljak
1961 – 2016
Alija Behmen
1940 – 2018
Andrew Duff
b. 1950
Antanas Vinkus
b. 1942
Anton Ackermann
1905 – 1973
Anwar Sadat
1918 – 1981
Barton MacLane
1902 – 1969
Bernie Fryer
b. 1949
Brenda Yeoh
b. 1963
Burne Hogarth
1911 – 1996
Byambyn Rinchen
1905 – 1977
Caleb Atwater
1778 – 1867
Carla Cordua
b. 1925
Charles Athanase Walckenaer
1771 – 1852
Charles Lyon-Caen
1843 – 1935
Chester L. Mize
1917 – 1994
Christopher Frayling
b. 1946
Claes-Göran Granqvist
b. 1946
Clark Clifford
1906 – 1998
Daisuke Miura
b. 1973
David Rath
b. 1965
Delphine O
b. 1985
Dharamvir Bharati
1926 – 1997
Dick Kuiper
1938 – 2024
Dmitry Vasilyevich Dashkov
1788 – 1839
Ed Davey
b. 1965
Elena Lyadova
b. 1980
Emil Konopinski
1911 – 1990
Emilija Stojmenova Duh
b. 1985
Emmanuel Jacquin de Margerie
1924 – 1991
Faisal bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
b. 1970
Frances Wood
1883 – 1919
François de Closets
b. 1933
Frederick James Halliday
1806 – 1901
Félix Martí Ibáñez
1911 – 1972
George Ashburnham, 3rd Earl of Ashburnham
1760 – 1830
George Augustus Eliott
1717 – 1790
George Koval
1913 – 2006
George Vande Woude
1935 – 2021
Gerald D. Griffin
b. 1934
Gerhard Casper
b. 1937
Gérard Berry
b. 1948
Harvie Branscomb
1894 – 1998
Hector Ruiz
b. 1945
Helen Davis
1926 – 2015
Henry Hurwitz, Jr.
1918 – 1992
Henry Phillimore
1910 – 1974
Henry Sy
1924 – 2019
Holly Ridings
b. 1973
Howard L. Weiner
b. 1944
Humphrey Bogart
1899 – 1957
Ian Bostridge
b. 1964
Ichirō Satake
1927 – 2014
Ingrid Betancourt
b. 1961
Inshō Dōmoto
1891 – 1975
Irene Barnes Taeuber
1906 – 1974
Janusz Kaczmarek
b. 1961
Jean-François Heymans
1859 – 1932
Jean-Nicolas Huyot
1780 – 1840
Jerzy Antczak
b. 1929
Joachim Meisner
1933 – 2017
Johan P. Lunde
1866 – 1938
Johann Jacob Reiske
1716 – 1774
Johanna Wood
b. 1960
John Dill
1881 – 1944
John Forrest Dillon
1831 – 1914
John McManners
1916 – 2006
John Percy Farrar
1857 – 1929
Joseph Lovering
1813 – 1892
José Elguero Bertolini
b. 1934
Jozias van Aartsen
b. 1947
Jun Etō
1932 – 1999
Justin Trudeau
b. 1971
Kapila Vatsyayan
1928 – 2020
Karin Amatmoekrim
b. 1977
Kazimierz Pochwalski
1855 – 1940
Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson
1891 – 1959
Khamrokhon Zarifi
b. 1948
L. L. Langstroth
1810 – 1895
Lila Bell Wallace
1889 – 1984
Liz Lerman
b. 1947
Lo Wai-kwok
b. 1953
Louise Bourgeois
1911 – 2010
Madan Mohan Malaviya
1861 – 1946
Marco Alessandrini
b. 1970
Maria J. Uriz
b. 1949
Marie Krogh
1874 – 1943
Mia Wagner
b. 1977
Michael P. Anderson
1959 – 2003
Mike Donilon
b. 1958
Milada Horáková
1901 – 1950
Moshe Zimmermann
b. 1943
Mónica Jiménez
1940 – 2020
Nadiya Hussain
b. 1984
Natalia Shvedova
1916 – 2009
Nawaz Sharif
b. 1949
Nicholas Higham
1961 – 2024
Nicolaus Mulerius
1564 – 1630
Niyaz Ahmed
b. 1971
Nogi Maresuke
1849 – 1912
Norton Strange Townshend
1815 – 1895
Noël Carroll
b. 1947
Néstor Perlongher
1949 – 1992
Ofer Cassif
b. 1964
Oscar Lewis
1914 – 1970
Otto Frederick Hunziker
1873 – 1959
Pardis C. Sabeti
b. 1975
Paul Béchard
1899 – 1982
Pavlo Klimkin
b. 1967
Petar Atanasov
b. 1939
Phan Văn Khải
1933 – 2018
Pierre Vial
b. 1942
Queen Alia of Jordan
1948 – 1977
Richard Greenblatt
b. 1944
Richard Shope
1901 – 1966
Robert Brown
b. 1947
Robert Morss Lovett
1870 – 1956
Robert Ripley
1890 – 1949
Rose Mary Allen
b. 1950
Seiichi Funahashi
1904 – 1976
Sophocles Dousmanis
1868 – 1952
Stefan Ruzowitzky
b. 1961
Stephen Twigg
b. 1966
Tim Miller
b. 1981
Tomioka Sadayasu
1854 – 1917
Vasily Pronin
1905 – 1993
Vasily Starodubtsev
1931 – 2011
Victor Zalgaller
1920 – 2020
Vitali Silitski
1972 – 2011
Volodymyr Sosiura
1897 – 1965
Walter Weston
1860 – 1940
Wilhelm Emmanuel Freiherr von Ketteler
1811 – 1877
William Bach, Baron Bach
b. 1946
William H. Phelps Jr.
1902 – 1988
William Ross Macdonald
1891 – 1976
Yasmin Fahimi
b. 1967
A. J. Thomas, Jr.
1923 – 2004
Abdullahi Umar Ganduje
b. 1949
Achille Libéral Treilhard
1785 – 1855
Adam Wielomski
b. 1972
Adam Woronowicz
b. 1973
Adem Salihaj
b. 1950
Adolph Ferdinandovich Pfingsten
1867 – 1914
Adriana Chochelová
b. 1997
Adut Akech
b. 1999
Afonso Pena Júnior
1879 – 1968
Ahmad ibn Billah
1916 – 2012
Ajoy Chakrabarty
b. 1952
Akira Shimada
1901 – 1945
Akira Watanabe
1901 – 2005
… and 4,264 more
Died on December 25
Percy Alexander MacMahon
1854 – 1929
Adolf Mayer
1843 – 1942
Aurel Stodola
1859 – 1942
Bogusław Litwiniec
1931 – 2022
Brij Lal
1952 – 2021
Ethella Chupryk
1964 – 2019
Giorgio Strehler
1921 – 1997
Gu Jiegang
1893 – 1980
Ilse Lehiste
1922 – 2010
Louis Joseph Alcide Railliet
1852 – 1930
Mary F. Lyon
1925 – 2014
Richard Bowdler Sharpe
1847 – 1909
Sori Yanagi
1915 – 2011
Vera Rubin
1928 – 2016
William Thomson
1819 – 1890
Zenshirō Hoshina
1891 – 1991
Alberto Aguilera
1842 – 1913
Alexandre-Achille Souques
1860 – 1944
Alfred Walton Hinds
1874 – 1957
Alfred Wohl
1863 – 1939
Anton Gubankov
1965 – 2016
Bhupendranath Dutta
1880 – 1961
Bob Cotton
1915 – 2006
Brownlow Cust, 1st Baron Brownlow
1744 – 1808
C. Rajagopalachari
1878 – 1972
Carl Gustaf von Brinkman
1764 – 1847
Carl Stumpf
1848 – 1936
Carlos Andrés Pérez
1922 – 2010
Carter Harrison IV
1860 – 1953
Caspar Commelijn
1668 – 1731
Chaim Drukman
1932 – 2022
Charles-Frédéric Reinhard
1761 – 1837
Charlie Chaplin
1889 – 1977
Cyril Garnham
1901 – 1994
Dado Banatao
1946 – 2025
Donald MacKinnon
1839 – 1914
Elena Ceaușescu
1919 – 1989
Elizaveta Glinka
1962 – 2016
Emmanuel Levinas
1906 – 1995
Emperor Taishō
1879 – 1926
Ernest Debenham
1865 – 1952
Evgeny Golubev
1910 – 1988
Evgeny Moiseev
1948 – 2022
Frederick F. Houser
1905 – 1989
Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.
1870 – 1957
Gaspar Griswold Bacon
1886 – 1947
Gavin Brown
1942 – 2010
Gennadi Strekalov
1940 – 2004
George Samuel Sale
1831 – 1922
Gheorghe Mihoc
1906 – 1981
Gleb Makarevich
1920 – 1999
Guido Weiss
1928 – 2021
Gunnar Kangro
1913 – 1975
Hari Singh Gour
1870 – 1949
Heinrich Welker
1912 – 1981
Henry Fouquier
1838 – 1901
Henry Lopes, 1st Baron Ludlow
1828 – 1899
Henry Sandon
1928 – 2023
Hélène Viannay
1917 – 2006
James Stuart McKnight
1884 – 1950
Jan Bialostocki
1921 – 1988
Jean Blondel
1929 – 2022
Jean-Pierre Lacroix
1942 – 2024
Joan Blondell
1906 – 1979
Juan Francisco Meneses
1785 – 1860
Julius Nicolaysen
1831 – 1909
Karel Čapek
1890 – 1938
Karl Golser
1943 – 2016
Knarik Vardanyan
1914 – 1996
Kōmei Abe
1911 – 2006
Lawrence Arthur Dumoulin Cannon
1877 – 1939
Lee Mendelson
1933 – 2019
Liberty Hyde Bailey
1858 – 1954
Louis Boutet de Monvel
1941 – 2014
Ludwig Ramberg
1874 – 1940
Ludwig von Herterich
1856 – 1932
Luis Humberto Gómez Gallo
1962 – 2013
Marian Suski
1905 – 1993
Mart Niklus
1934 – 2025
Martin Wilhelm Kutta
1867 – 1944
Matthew Hale
1609 – 1676
Mikhail Ivanovich Terebenyov
1795 – 1864
Mikhail Kazakov
1901 – 1979
Nancy Roman
1925 – 2018
Newton Diehl Baker Jr.
1871 – 1937
Nicolae Ceaușescu
1918 – 1989
Nicolas Slonimsky
1894 – 1995
Olav Dalgard
1898 – 1980
Oliver P. Smith
1893 – 1977
Otto Loewi
1873 – 1961
Paul Bourget
1852 – 1935
Pompeu Fabra
1868 – 1948
Riccardo Morandi
1902 – 1989
Rodney Loudon
1934 – 2022
Rosalyn Terborg-Penn
1941 – 2018
Sampson Eardley, 1st Baron Eardley
1744 – 1824
Shōhei Ōoka
1909 – 1988
Soumaïla Cissé
1949 – 2020
Suzuki Osamu
1930 – 2024
Tadao Yanaihara
1893 – 1961
Theodor Fischer
1862 – 1938
Theodor Molien
1861 – 1941
Theodor Nöldeke
1836 – 1930
Thomas E. Lovejoy
1941 – 2021
Táňa Fischerová
1947 – 2019
Vaidya Suresh Chaturvedi
1928 – 2017
Valery Khalilov
1952 – 2016
Vram Dovlatyan
1923 – 2005
Wilhelm Harster
1904 – 1991
Willard Van Orman Quine
1908 – 2000
William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle
1592 – 1676
Yehoshua Ben-Arieh
1928 – 2023
Yoshitada Konoike
1940 – 2018
Yury Sadovenko
1969 – 2025
Zail Singh
1916 – 1994
Abraham Constantin Mouradgea d’Ohsson
1779 – 1851
Adam Kazanowski
1599 – 1649
Adams Sherman Hill
1833 – 1910
Ahmad Ismail Ali
1917 – 1974
Ajit Nath Ray
1912 – 2010
Alan Pittard
1902 – 1992
Albert Chmielowski
1846 – 1916
Albert Likhanov
1935 – 2021
Albert Schäffle
1831 – 1903
Alberta Masiello
1916 – 1990
Aleksey Maslov
1953 – 2022
Alexander Melnikov
1930 – 2011
Alexandre Jacques François Brière de Boismont
1797 – 1881
Alfonso Lastras Ramírez
1924 – 1999
Alfredo Covelli
1914 – 1998
Ali Eid
1940 – 2015
Allen Russell Patrick
1910 – 1995
Anatoli Boukreev
1958 – 1997
Andreas Schei
1902 – 1989
Andrew Arbuckle
1944 – 2025
Andrew J. Evans Jr.
1918 – 2001
Anna Quinquaud
1890 – 1984
Ari Behn
1972 – 2019
Armand Samuel de Marescot
1758 – 1832
Art Weiner
1926 – 2013
Arthur David-Andersen
1875 – 1970
Augustus Jay
1850 – 1919
Bapsi Sidhwa
1938 – 2024
Barbara Rose
1936 – 2020
Barney Goltz
1924 – 2008
Benjamin T. Biggs
1821 – 1893
Benny Binion
1904 – 1989
Bernardino Molinari
1880 – 1952
Bill Bowerman
1911 – 1999
Bill Granger
1969 – 2023
Birgit Nilsson
1918 – 2005
Blair Lee I
1857 – 1944
Bryan Drake
1925 – 2001
Carl Glasgow
1883 – 1954
Carl von Noorden
1833 – 1883
Carlos Gil Pérez
1931 – 2009
Catherine-Dominique Pérignon
1754 – 1818
Charles R. Hale
1837 – 1900
Charles Wills
1666 – 1741
Claude Alphonse Delangle
1797 – 1869
Colin Campbell
1901 – 1978
Daniel Jones
1830 – 1891
Danny Hodge
1932 – 2020
Dario Antoniozzi
1923 – 2019
David R. Harris
1930 – 2013
David Thorns
1943 – 2020
Dean Martin
1917 – 1995
Djalma Bastos de Morais
1937 – 2020
Domingos Oliveira
1873 – 1957
Donald Pederson
1925 – 2004
Duy Tân
1900 – 1945
Eartha Kitt
1927 – 2008
Edgar D. Tillyer
1881 – 1970
Elliott Coues
1842 – 1899
Emil Mattiesen
1875 – 1939
Emilie Haspels
1894 – 1980
Emily Georgiana Kemp
1860 – 1939
Erasmus D. Peck
1808 – 1876
Erskine Douglas Williamson
1886 – 1923
Eugenio Riccomini
1936 – 2023
Eugène Lawrence Vail
1857 – 1934
Felice Andreasi
1928 – 2005
Felix Feodosidi
1933 – 2022
Francis Boott
1792 – 1863
Frank Murphy
1897 – 1944
François Anthoine
1860 – 1944
Fred Thomson
1890 – 1928
Frederick Becton
1908 – 1995
Frederick L. Conklin
1888 – 1974
Frederick Philbrick
1835 – 1910
Friedrich Jäger von Jaxtthal
1784 – 1871
Gabriel Almond
1911 – 2002
Gabriel Voisin
1880 – 1973
Garrison H. Davidson
1904 – 1992
Genaro Magsaysay
1924 – 1978
Geoffrey Robson
1902 – 1989
George Michael
1963 – 2016
George Preddy
1919 – 1944
George Steer
1909 – 1944
George William Andrews
1906 – 1971
… and 1,813 more