December 24 Deaths |
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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, 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) | 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) | 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) | 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) | Death | Gardner Fox, American writer (born in 1911) | |
| 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) | Death | Louis Aragon, French writer (born in 1897) | |
| 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, 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, 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) | Death | Maria Koepcke, ornithologist (born in 1924) | |
| December 24th, 1965 (December 24 1965) | Death | William M. Branham, Christian minister (born in 1906) | |
| December 24th, 1957 (December 24 1957) | Death | Norma Talmadge, American actress (born in 1893) | |
| December 24th, 1942 (December 24 1942) | Death | Francois Darlan, vice-premier of Vichy France (born in 1881) | |
| December 24th, 1941 (December 24 1941) | Death | Siegfried Alkan, German composer (born in 1858) | |
| December 24th, 1938 (December 24 1938) | Death | Bruno Taut, German architect (born in 1880) | |
| December 24th, 1935 (December 24 1935) | Death | Alban Berg, Austrian composer (born in 1885) | Alban Berg Quotes |
| December 24th, 1914 (December 24 1914) | Death | John Muir, British naturalist (born in 1838) | John Muir Quotes |
| December 24th, 1898 (December 24 1898) | Death | Sharbel Makhluf, Lebanese monk canonized in 1977 by Pope Paul VI (born in 1828) | |
| December 24th, 1889 (December 24 1889) | Death | Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, Dutch poet and clergyman (born in 1819) | |
| 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) | Death | Adolphe d Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (born in 1802) | |
| 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, 1813 (December 24 1813) | Death | Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (born in 1740) | |
| December 24th, 1707 (December 24 1707) | Death | Noel Coypel, French painter (born in 1628) | |
| December 24th, 1660 (December 24 1660) | Death | Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (born in 1631) | |
| December 24th, 1524 (December 24 1524) | Death | Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer (bc. 1469) | |
| December 24th, 1453 (December 24 1453) | Death | John Dunstaple, English composer (bc. 1390) | |
| December 24th, 1257 (December 24 1257) | Death | John I, Count of Hainaut (born in 1218) | |
| December 24th, 0820 (December 24 0820) | Death | Leo V, Byzantine Emperor (assassinated) (born in 775) | |
| December 24th, 0427 (December 24 0427) | Death | Archbishop Sisinnius I of Constantinople | |
