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| December 24th, 2007 (December 24 2007) | Death | Nicholas Pumfrey, British judge (born in 1951) | |
| December 24th, 2007 (December 24 2007) | Death | Akbar Radi, Iranian dramatist and playwright (born in 1939) | |
| December 24th, 2006 (December 24 2006) | Death | "Braguinha", Brazilian songwriter (born in 1907) | |
| December 24th, 2006 (December 24 2006) | Death | Kenneth Sivertsen, Norwegian singer, poet and comedian (born in 1961) | |
| December 24th, 2006 (December 24 2006) | Death | Frank Stanton, American television executive (born in 1908) | |
| December 24th, 2005 (December 24 2005) | Death | Michael Vale, American commercial actor (born in 1922) | |
| December 24th, 2004 (December 24 2004) | Death | Johnny Oates, baseball player and manager (born in 1946) | |
| December 24th, 2003 (December 24 2003) | Event | The Spanish police thwart an attempt by ETA to detonate 50 kg of explosives at 3:55 p.m. inside Madrid s busy Chamartin Station. | |
| December 24th, 2002 (December 24 2002) | Death | Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian author (born in 1920) | |
| December 24th, 2002 (December 24 2002) | Death | Laci Peterson, American murder victim (born in 1975) | |
| December 24th, 2000 (December 24 2000) | Event | The Texas 7 hold up a sports store in Irving, Texas. Police officer Aubrey Hawkins is shot during the robbery. | |
| December 24th, 2000 (December 24 2000) | Death | John Cooper, English race car designer (born in 1923) | |
| December 24th, 2000 (December 24 2000) | Death | Nick Massi, American singer (The Four Seasons) (born in 1935) | |
| December 24th, 1999 (December 24 1999) | Death | Joao Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo, President of Brazil (born in 1918) | |
| December 24th, 1999 (December 24 1999) | Death | Maurice Couve de Murville, French politician, Prime minister of France (born in 1907) | |
| December 24th, 1999 (December 24 1999) | Death | Bill Bowerman, American track and field coach | Bill Bowerman Quotes |
| December 24th, 1997 (December 24 1997) | Event | The Sid El-Antri massacre (or Sidi Lamri) in Algeria kills 50-100 people. | |
| December 24th, 1997 (December 24 1997) | Event | The Dominican Republic becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. | |
| December 24th, 1997 (December 24 1997) | Death | Toshiro Mifune, Japanese actor (born in 1920) | |
| December 24th, 1997 (December 24 1997) | Death | Pierre Peladeau, Quebec businessman, founder of Quebecor (born in 1925) | |
| December 24th, 1994 (December 24 1994) | Death | John Boswell, American historian (born in 1947) | |
| December 24th, 1994 (December 24 1994) | Death | Rossano Brazzi, Italian actor and singer (born in 1916) | |
| December 24th, 1993 (December 24 1993) | Death | Norman Vincent Peale, American writer (born in 1898) | |
| December 24th, 1992 (December 24 1992) | Birth | Melissa Suffield, English actress | |
| December 24th, 1992 (December 24 1992) | Death | Peyo, Belgian comics artist, and creator of The Smurfs (born in 1928) | |
| December 24th, 1992 (December 24 1992) | Death | Bobby LaKind, American musician and singer (The Doobie Brothers) (born in 1945) | |
| December 24th, 1990 (December 24 1990) | Death | Thorbjorn Egner, Norwegian author (born in 1922) | |
| December 24th, 1987 (December 24 1987) | Death | Joop den Uyl, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (born in 1919) | |
| December 24th, 1987 (December 24 1987) | Death | M. G. Ramachandran, Chief Minister of the Tamil Nadu (born in 1917) | |
| December 24th, 1986 (December 24 1986) | Birth | Edward Southall, British composer | |
| December 24th, 1986 (December 24 1986) | Birth | Riyo Mori, Miss Universe 2007 from Japan | |
| December 24th, 1986 (December 24 1986) | Death | Gardner Fox, American writer (born in 1911) | |
| December 24th, 1985 (December 24 1985) | Birth | David Ragan, American race car driver | |
| December 24th, 1985 (December 24 1985) | Death | Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, Last Lincoln descendant (born in 1904) | |
| December 24th, 1984 (December 24 1984) | Death | Peter Lawford, British actor (born in 1923) | |
| December 24th, 1982 (December 24 1982) | Birth | Aiba Masaki, Japanese singer and actor | Saki Quotes |
| December 24th, 1982 (December 24 1982) | Birth | Robert Carmine, American singer | |
| December 24th, 1982 (December 24 1982) | Death | Louis Aragon, French writer (born in 1897) | |
| December 24th, 1981 (December 24 1981) | Birth | Dima Bilan, Karachay-Russian pop artist | |
| December 24th, 1980 (December 24 1980) | Birth | Tomas Kalnoky, American musician (Streetlight Manifesto) | |
| December 24th, 1980 (December 24 1980) | Death | Karl Donitz, German naval admiral, and last leader of Nazi Germany (born in 1891) | Karl Donitz Quotes |
| December 24th, 1980 (December 24 1980) | Death | Siggie Nordstrom, model, actress, entertainer, socialite and lead singer of The Nordstrom Sisters (born in 1893) | |
| December 24th, 1979 (December 24 1979) | Event | The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan to support the country s Marxist government. | |
| December 24th, 1979 (December 24 1979) | Event | The first European Ariane rocket is launched. | |
| December 24th, 1979 (December 24 1979) | Birth | Chris Hero, American professional wrestler | |
| December 24th, 1978 (December 24 1978) | Birth | Y?ld?ray Basturk, Turkish footballer | |
| December 24th, 1977 (December 24 1977) | Death | Samael Aun Weor, Columbian writer (born in 1917) | |
| December 24th, 1976 (December 24 1976) | Death | Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza, heir to the throne of Portugal (born in 1907) | |
| December 24th, 1975 (December 24 1975) | Death | Bernard Herrmann, American film composer (born in 1911) | |
| December 24th, 1974 (December 24 1974) | Event | Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Australia. | |
| December 24th, 1974 (December 24 1974) | Birth | Marcelo Salas, Chilean footballer | |
| December 24th, 1974 (December 24 1974) | Birth | Ryan Seacrest, American television host | |
| December 24th, 1973 (December 24 1973) | Birth | Eddie Pope, American soccer player | |
| December 24th, 1973 (December 24 1973) | Birth | Stephenie Meyer, Author | Stephenie Meyer Quotes |
| December 24th, 1972 (December 24 1972) | Birth | Alvaro Mesen, Costa Rican footballer | |
| December 24th, 1972 (December 24 1972) | Death | Gisela Richter, British art historian (born in 1882) | |
| December 24th, 1972 (December 24 1972) | Death | Melville Ruick, American actor (born in 1898) | |
| December 24th, 1971 (December 24 1971) | Birth | Christopher Daniels, American professional wrestler | |
| December 24th, 1971 (December 24 1971) | Birth | Ricky Martin, Puerto Rican singer | |
| December 24th, 1971 (December 24 1971) | Birth | Giorgos Alkaios, Greek singer | |
| December 24th, 1971 (December 24 1971) | Death | Maria Koepcke, ornithologist (born in 1924) | |
| December 24th, 1970 (December 24 1970) | Birth | Amaury Nolasco, American actor | |
| December 24th, 1970 (December 24 1970) | Birth | Will Oldham, American singer and songwriter | |
| December 24th, 1969 (December 24 1969) | Birth | Mark Millar, Scottish comic book writer | |
| December 24th, 1968 (December 24 1968) | Event | The crew of the USS Pueblo is released by North Korea after being held for 11 months on suspicion of spying. | |
| December 24th, 1968 (December 24 1968) | Event | Apollo Program: The crew of Apollo 8 enters into orbit around the Moon, becoming the first humans to do so. They performed 10 lunar orbits and broadcast live TV pictures that became the famous Christmas Eve Broadcast, one of the most watched programs in history. | |
| December 24th, 1968 (December 24 1968) | Birth | Doyle Bramhall II, American guitarist | |
| December 24th, 1968 (December 24 1968) | Birth | Marleen Renders, Belgian athlete | |
| December 24th, 1967 (December 24 1967) | Birth | Mikhail Shchennikov, Russian race walker | |
| December 24th, 1966 (December 24 1966) | Event | A Canadair CL-44 chartered by the United States military crashes into a small village in South Vietnam, killing 129. | |
| December 24th, 1966 (December 24 1966) | Birth | Diedrich Bader, American actor | |
| December 24th, 1965 (December 24 1965) | Death | William M. Branham, Christian minister (born in 1906) | |
| December 24th, 1964 (December 24 1964) | Birth | Mark Valley, American actor | |
| December 24th, 1963 (December 24 1963) | Birth | Jay Bilas, American basketball analyst | |
| December 24th, 1963 (December 24 1963) | Birth | Mary Ramsey, American singer (10,000 Maniacs) | |
| December 24th, 1963 (December 24 1963) | Birth | Caroline Aherne, British comedienne, writer and actress | |
| December 24th, 1961 (December 24 1961) | Birth | Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan Republic | |
| December 24th, 1961 (December 24 1961) | Birth | Jay Wright, American basketball coach | |
| December 24th, 1960 (December 24 1960) | Birth | Glenn McQueen, American animator (died in 2002) | |
| December 24th, 1960 (December 24 1960) | Birth | Carol Vorderman, British television presenter | |
| December 24th, 1959 (December 24 1959) | Birth | Keith Deller, British darts player | |
| December 24th, 1959 (December 24 1959) | Birth | Anil Kapoor, Indian actor | |
| December 24th, 1958 (December 24 1958) | Event | Cuba On December 24 and Blessed by the pope ["El Cristo de La Habana"] ][1]"(Havana s Christ) was erected for the first time. The marble sculpture is the work of Jilma Madera and its the biggest free standing sculpture made by a woman in the world. | |
| December 24th, 1958 (December 24 1958) | Birth | Munetaka Higuchi, Japanese drummer | |
| December 24th, 1957 (December 24 1957) | Birth | Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan | Hamid Karzai Quotes |
| December 24th, 1957 (December 24 1957) | Birth | Diane Tell, Quebec singer | |
| December 24th, 1957 (December 24 1957) | Death | Norma Talmadge, American actress (born in 1893) | |
| December 24th, 1955 (December 24 1955) | Birth | Grand L. Bush, American actor | |
| December 24th, 1955 (December 24 1955) | Birth | Clarence Gilyard, American actor | |
| December 24th, 1954 (December 24 1954) | Birth | Jose Maria Figueres, Costa Rican politician | |
| December 24th, 1953 (December 24 1953) | Event | Tangiwai disaster: A railway bridge is destroyed by a lahar at Tangiwai, in the Central North Island of New Zealand, sending a fully loaded passenger train into the Whangaehu River, and killing 153 people. | |
| December 24th, 1953 (December 24 1953) | Birth | Francois Loos, French politician | |
| December 24th, 1951 (December 24 1951) | Event | Libya becomes independent from Italy. Idris I is proclaimed King of Libya. | |
| December 24th, 1951 (December 24 1951) | Birth | John D Acquisto, baseball player | |
| December 24th, 1950 (December 24 1950) | Birth | Dana Gioia, American poet | Dana Gioia Quotes |
| December 24th, 1949 (December 24 1949) | Birth | Randy Neugebauer, American politician | |
| December 24th, 1949 (December 24 1949) | Birth | Warwick Brown, Australian racing driver | |
| December 24th, 1948 (December 24 1948) | Birth | Frank Oliver, New Zealand rugby player | |
| December 24th, 1947 (December 24 1947) | Birth | Kevin Sheedy, coach of Australian Football League club Essendon FC | |
| December 24th, 1946 (December 24 1946) | Event | France s Fourth Republic is founded. | |
| December 24th, 1946 (December 24 1946) | Birth | Brenda Howard, American bisexual activist (died in 2005) | |
| December 24th, 1946 (December 24 1946) | Birth | Jeff Sessions, American politician | |
| December 24th, 1945 (December 24 1945) | Birth | Lemmy, British singer, bassist (Motorhead) | |
| December 24th, 1945 (December 24 1945) | Birth | Nicholas Meyer, American author | |
| December 24th, 1945 (December 24 1945) | Birth | Steve Smith, Canadian Comedian, The New Red Green Show, Duct Tape Forever | |
| December 24th, 1944 (December 24 1944) | Birth | Daniel Johnson, Jr., Quebec politician, Premier of Quebec | |
| December 24th, 1944 (December 24 1944) | Birth | Mike Curb, American musician, record company executive and politician | |
| December 24th, 1944 (December 24 1944) | Birth | Oswald Gracias, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bombay | |
| December 24th, 1944 (December 24 1944) | Birth | Barry Chuckle, British comedian | Chuck D Quotes |
| December 24th, 1943 (December 24 1943) | Event | World War II: U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the Supreme Allied Commander. | Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes |
| December 24th, 1943 (December 24 1943) | Birth | Tarja Halonen, President of Finland | |
| December 24th, 1942 (December 24 1942) | Event | World War II: French monarchist, Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle, assassinates Vichy French Admiral Francois Darlan in Algiers. | |
| December 24th, 1942 (December 24 1942) | Death | Francois Darlan, vice-premier of Vichy France (born in 1881) | |
| December 24th, 1941 (December 24 1941) | Event | World War II: Hong Kong falls to the Japanese Imperial Army. | |
| December 24th, 1941 (December 24 1941) | Event | World War II: Kuching is conquered by Japanese forces. | |
| December 24th, 1941 (December 24 1941) | Birth | John Levene, British actor | |
| December 24th, 1941 (December 24 1941) | Death | Siegfried Alkan, German composer (born in 1858) | |
| December 24th, 1939 (December 24 1939) | Event | World War II: Pope Pius XII makes a Christmas Eve appeal for peace. | |
| December 24th, 1938 (December 24 1938) | Birth | Bobby Henrich, American baseball player | |
| December 24th, 1938 (December 24 1938) | Birth | Valentim Loureiro, Portuguese politician, and former football chairman of Boavista F.C. and Liga Portuguesa de Futebol Profissional | |
| December 24th, 1938 (December 24 1938) | Death | Bruno Taut, German architect (born in 1880) | |
| December 24th, 1937 (December 24 1937) | Birth | Felix Mieli Venerando, Brazilian football player | |
| December 24th, 1935 (December 24 1935) | Death | Alban Berg, Austrian composer (born in 1885) | Alban Berg Quotes |
| December 24th, 1934 (December 24 1934) | Birth | Stjepan Mesic, president of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Secretary General of Non-Aligned Movement and president of Croatia. | |
| December 24th, 1932 (December 24 1932) | Birth | On Kawara, Japanese conceptual artist | |
| December 24th, 1931 (December 24 1931) | Birth | Mauricio Kagel, Argentine composer | |
| December 24th, 1931 (December 24 1931) | Birth | Ray Bryant, American jazz pianist and composer | |
| December 24th, 1929 (December 24 1929) | Event | Assassination attempt on Argentine President Hipolito Yrigoyen. | |
| December 24th, 1927 (December 24 1927) | Birth | Mary Higgins Clark, American author | |
| December 24th, 1926 (December 24 1926) | Birth | Paul Buissonneau, French-born Quebec theatre director | |
| December 24th, 1925 (December 24 1925) | Birth | Mohdied in Rafi, Indian actor and playback singer (died in 1980) | |
| December 24th, 1924 (December 24 1924) | Event | Albania becomes a republic. | |
| December 24th, 1924 (December 24 1924) | Birth | Lee Dorsey, American singer (died in 1986) | |
| December 24th, 1924 (December 24 1924) | Birth | Grigory Kriss, Russian Olympic champion fencer | |
| December 24th, 1923 (December 24 1923) | Birth | George Patton IV, American general (died in 2004) | |
| December 24th, 1923 (December 24 1923) | Birth | Michael DiBiase, American wrestler (died in 1969) | |
| December 24th, 1922 (December 24 1922) | Birth | Ava Gardner, American actress (died in 1990) | |
| December 24th, 1920 (December 24 1920) | Birth | Evgeniya Rudneva, Russian World War II heroine (died in 1944) | |
| December 24th, 1917 (December 24 1917) | Birth | Kim Jong-suk, Wife of Kim Il-sung, mother of Kim Jung-Il, "The Heroine of the Anti-Japanese Revolution" (died in 1949) | |
| December 24th, 1914 (December 24 1914) | Event | World War I: The "Christmas truce" begins. | |
| December 24th, 1914 (December 24 1914) | Birth | Ralph Marterie, American trumpet player and big band leader (died in 1978) | |
| December 24th, 1914 (December 24 1914) | Birth | Herbert Reinecker, German writer | |
| December 24th, 1914 (December 24 1914) | Death | John Muir, British naturalist (born in 1838) | John Muir Quotes |
| December 24th, 1910 (December 24 1910) | Birth | Fritz Leiber, American writer (died in 1992) | Fritz Leiber Quotes |
| December 24th, 1910 (December 24 1910) | Birth | Max Miedinger, typeface designer, famous for creating Helvetica in 1957. (died in 1980) | |
| December 24th, 1907 (December 24 1907) | Birth | I. F. Stone, American journalist (died in 1989) | I. F. Stone Quotes |
| December 24th, 1906 (December 24 1906) | Event | Radio: Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech. | |
| December 24th, 1906 (December 24 1906) | Birth | Franz Waxman, German film composer (died in 1967) | |
| December 24th, 1905 (December 24 1905) | Birth | Howard Hughes, American film producer and inventor (died in 1976) | |
| December 24th, 1904 (December 24 1904) | Birth | Joseph Moses Juran, American industrial engineer and philanthropist. | |
| December 24th, 1900 (December 24 1900) | Birth | Joey Smallwood, Canadian politician, Premier of Newfoundland (died in 1991) | |
| December 24th, 1898 (December 24 1898) | Birth | Hector Scarone, Uruguayan footballer (died in 1967) | |
| December 24th, 1898 (December 24 1898) | Birth | Baby Dodds, American jazz drummer (died in 1959) | |
| December 24th, 1898 (December 24 1898) | Death | Sharbel Makhluf, Lebanese monk canonized in 1977 by Pope Paul VI (born in 1828) | |
| December 24th, 1895 (December 24 1895) | Birth | E. Roland Harriman, American financier (died in 1978) | |
| December 24th, 1894 (December 24 1894) | Birth | Georges Guynemer, French aviator (died in 1917) | |
| December 24th, 1893 (December 24 1893) | Birth | Harry Warren, American composer and lyricist (Chattanooga Choo ChooI Only Have Eyes for You) (died in 1981) | |
| December 24th, 1889 (December 24 1889) | Death | Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, Dutch poet and clergyman (born in 1819) | |
| December 24th, 1887 (December 24 1887) | Birth | Louis Jouvet, French actor and producer (died in 1951) | |
| December 24th, 1886 (December 24 1886) | Birth | Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-born director (died in 1962) | |
| December 24th, 1881 (December 24 1881) | Birth | Juan Ramon Jimenez, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1958) | |
| December 24th, 1880 (December 24 1880) | Birth | Johnny Gruelle, American cartoonist, children s book writer and creator of Raggedy Ann (died in 1939) | |
| December 24th, 1879 (December 24 1879) | Birth | Queen Alexandrine of Denmark, Queen Consort to Christian X (died in 1952) | |
| December 24th, 1879 (December 24 1879) | Birth | Emile Nelligan, Quebec poet (died in 1941) | |
| December 24th, 1873 (December 24 1873) | Death | Johns Hopkins, Baltimore philanthropist and businessman (born in 1795) | |
| December 24th, 1872 (December 24 1872) | Death | William John Macquorn Rankine, British physician and engenier (born in 1820) | |
| December 24th, 1868 (December 24 1868) | Birth | Emanuel Lasker, German chess player (died in 1941) | |
| December 24th, 1868 (December 24 1868) | Death | Adolphe d Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (born in 1802) | |
| December 24th, 1867 (December 24 1867) | Birth | Kantaro Suzuki, 42nd Prime Minister of Japan (died in 1948) | |
| December 24th, 1865 (December 24 1865) | Event | Several U.S. Civil War Confederate veterans form the Ku Klux Klan. | |
| December 24th, 1865 (December 24 1865) | Death | Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, British painter and writer (born in 1793) | |
| December 24th, 1863 (December 24 1863) | Death | William Makepeace Thackeray, British writer (born in 1811) | William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes |
| December 24th, 1851 (December 24 1851) | Event | Library of Congress burns. | |
| December 24th, 1845 (December 24 1845) | Birth | King George I of Greece (died in 1913) | |
| December 24th, 1843 (December 24 1843) | Birth | Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet (died in 1886) | |
| December 24th, 1837 (December 24 1837) | Birth | Elisabeth of Bavaria a.k.a Sissi, Empress of Austria (died in 1898) | |
| December 24th, 1822 (December 24 1822) | Birth | Matthew Arnold, British poet (died in 1888) | Matthew Arnold Quotes |
| December 24th, 1818 (December 24 1818) | Birth | James Prescott Joule, British physicist (died in 1889) | |
| December 24th, 1814 (December 24 1814) | Event | The Treaty of Ghent is signed ending the War of 1812. | |
| December 24th, 1813 (December 24 1813) | Death | Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (born in 1740) | |
| December 24th, 1812 (December 24 1812) | Birth | Karl Eduard Zachariae, German jurist (died in 1894) | |
| December 24th, 1810 (December 24 1810) | Birth | Wilhelm Marstrand, Danish painter (died in 1873) | |
| December 24th, 1809 (December 24 1809) | Birth | Kit Carson, American frontiersman (died in 1868) | |
| December 24th, 1798 (December 24 1798) | Birth | Adam Mickiewicz, Polish poet (died in 1855) | |
| December 24th, 1784 (December 24 1784) | Birth | Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia (died in 1803) | |
| December 24th, 1777 (December 24 1777) | Event | Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island, is discovered by James Cook. | |
| December 24th, 1761 (December 24 1761) | Birth | Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer (died in 1831) | |
| December 24th, 1754 (December 24 1754) | Birth | George Crabbe, British poet and naturalist (died in 1832) | George Crabbe Quotes |
| December 24th, 1745 (December 24 1745) | Birth | Benjamin Rush, doctor and Founding Father of the United States (died in 1813) | |
| December 24th, 1724 (December 24 1724) | Birth | Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician and naturalist (died in 1811) | |
| December 24th, 1707 (December 24 1707) | Death | Noel Coypel, French painter (born in 1628) | |
| December 24th, 1698 (December 24 1698) | Birth | William Warburton, English Bishop of Gloucester (died in 1779) | |
| December 24th, 1660 (December 24 1660) | Death | Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (born in 1631) | |
| December 24th, 1635 (December 24 1635) | Birth | Mariana of Austria, second wife of king Philip IV of Spain (died in 1696) | |
| December 24th, 1609 (December 24 1609) | Birth | Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (died in 1683) | |
| December 24th, 1588 (December 24 1588) | Birth | Constance of Austria, queen of Poland (died in 1631) | |
| December 24th, 1524 (December 24 1524) | Death | Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer (bc. 1469) | |
| December 24th, 1508 (December 24 1508) | Birth | Pietro Carnesecchi, Italian humanist (died in 1567) | |
| December 24th, 1491 (December 24 1491) | Birth | Ignatius of Loyola, Spanish founder of the Jesuit order (died in 1556) | Ignatius of Loyola Quotes |
| December 24th, 1475 (December 24 1475) | Birth | Thomas Murner, German writer (d.c. 1537) | |
| December 24th, 1453 (December 24 1453) | Death | John Dunstaple, English composer (bc. 1390) | |
| December 24th, 1389 (December 24 1389) | Birth | John VI, Duke of Brittany (died in 1442) | |
| December 24th, 1294 (December 24 1294) | Event | Pope Boniface VIII is elected Pope, replacing St. Celestine V, who had abdicated. | |
| December 24th, 1257 (December 24 1257) | Death | John I, Count of Hainaut (born in 1218) | |
| December 24th, 1166 (December 24 1166) | Birth | King John of England (died in 1216) | |
| December 24th, 0820 (December 24 0820) | Death | Leo V, Byzantine Emperor (assassinated) (born in 775) | |
| December 24th, 0563 (December 24 0563) | Event | The Byzantine church Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is dedicated for the second time after being destroyed by earthquakes. | |
| December 24th, 0427 (December 24 0427) | Death | Archbishop Sisinnius I of Constantinople | |
| December 24th, 0003 (December 24 0003) | Birth | Galba, Roman Emperor (died in 69) | |
