December 25 - Deaths

Deaths

• 795 – Pope Adrian I
• 820 – Leo V, Byzantine Emperor (b. 775)
• 1156 – Peter the Venerable, French Benedictine abbot of Cluny (b. c.1092)
• 1635 – Samuel de Champlain, French explorer (b. 1567)
• 1676 – Matthew Hale, English jurist (b. 1609)
• 1676 – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English soldier (b. 1592)
• 1683 – Kara Mustafa, Ottoman general (b. 1634)
• 1758 – James Hervey, English clergyman (b. 1714)
• 1763 – Suraj Mal, Sinsiwar Jat ruler of Bharatpur (b. 1707)
• 1765 – Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian and natural scientist (b. 1698)
• 1784 – Yosa Buson, Japanese painter (b. 1716)
• 1824 – Barbara Juliana, Baroness von Krüdener, Russian writer (b. 1764)
• 1868 – Linus Yale, Jr., American mechanical engineer and inventor (b. 1821)
• 1875 – Young Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (b. 1851)
• 1880 – Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss jurist (b. 1828)
• 1916 – St. Albert Chmielowski, Polish Catholic saint (b. 1845)
• 1921 – Vladimir Korolenko, Russian writer (b. 1853)
• 1925 – Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst (b. 1877)
• 1926 – Emperor Taishō of Japan (b. 1879)
• 1933 – Francesc Macià, Catalonian statesman (b. 1859)
• 1935 – Paul Bourget, French novelist and critic (b. 1852)
• 1938 – Karel Čapek, Czech author (b. 1890)
• 1940 – Agnes Ayres, American actress (b. 1898)
• 1944 – George Steer, British journalist (b. 1909)
• 1946 – W. C. Fields, American comedian (b. 1880)
• 1947 – Gaspar G. Bacon, American politician (b. 1886)
• 1949 – Leon Schlesinger, American film producer (b. 1884)
• 1950 – Neil Francis Hawkins, British fascist (b. 1903)
• 1952 – Margrethe Mather, photographer (b. 1886)
• 1953 – Patsy Donovan, Irish-born American baseball player (b. 1865)
• 1954 – Johnny Ace, American singer (b. 1929)
• 1956 – Robert Walser, Swiss writer (b. 1878)
• 1957 – Charles Pathé, French pioneer of film and record industries (b. 1863)
• 1961 – Otto Loewi, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1873)
• 1961 – Owen Brewster, American politician (b. 1888)
• 1963 – Tristan Tzara, Romanian writer (b. 1896)
• 1973 – İsmet İnönü, Turkish statesman (b. 1884)
• 1973 – Gabriel Voisin, French aviator (b. 1880)
• 1975 – Gaston Gallimard, French publisher (b. 1881)
• 1977 – Charlie Chaplin, English actor and film director (b. 1889)
• 1979 – Joan Blondell, American actress (b. 1906)
• 1979 – Jordi Bonet, Quebec muralist and sculptor (b. 1932)
• 1983 – Joan Miró, Catalan painter (b. 1893)
• 1988 – Ooka Shohei, Japanese novelist (b. 1909)
• 1988 – Edward Pelham-Clinton, 10th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (b. 1920)
• 1989 – Nicolae Ceauşescu, Romanian dictator(executed in revolution) (b. 1918)
• 1989 – Elena Ceauşescu, Romanian politician(executed in revolution) (b. 1916)
• 1989 – Billy Martin, American baseball manager (b. 1928)
• 1992 – Monica Dickens, British writer (b. 1915)
• 1993 – Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (b. 1899)
• 1994 – Zail Singh, President of India (b. 1916)
• 1995 – Dean Martin, American singer (b. 1917)
• 1995 – Emmanuel Levinas, French philosopher (b. 1906)
• 1996 – JonBenet Ramsey, American beauty queen and murder victim (b. 1990)
• 1996 – Bill Hewitt, Canadian sportscaster (b. 1928)
• 1997 – Anatoli Boukreev, Kazakh mountaineer (b. 1958)
• 1997 – Denver Pyle, American actor (b. 1920)
• 1998 – Bryan MacLean, American musician and songwriter (Love) (b. 1946)
• 1998 – John Pulman, English snooker player (b. 1926)
• 1999 – Peter Jeffrey, English actor (b. 1929)
• 2000 – Neil Hawke, Australian cricketer and footballer (b. 1939)
• 2000 – Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher (b. 1908)
• 2002 – William T. Orr, American television producer (b. 1917)
• 2003 – Nicholas Mavroules, American politician (b. 1929)
• 2004 – Gennady Strekalov, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1940)
• 2005 – Derek Bailey, English guitar virtuoso (b. 1930)
• 2005 – Birgit Nilsson, Swedish opera singer (b. 1918)
• 2005 – Robert Barbers, Philippine senator (b. 1944)
• 2006 – James Brown, American singer (b. 1933)
• 2006 – Hiroaki Hidaka, Japanese serial killer (b. 1962)
• 2007 – Desmond Barrick, English Cricketer (b. 1927)
• 2007 – Mighty King Kong, Kenyan reggae musician (b. 1973)
• 2007 – Jim Beauchamp, American baseball player (b. 1939)
• 2008 – Eartha Kitt, American actress and singer (b. 1927)
• 2009 – Vic Chesnutt, American singer and songwriter (b. 1964)
• 2010 – Carlos Andrés Pérez, former President of Venezuela (b. 1922)