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December 25 Deaths in History - December 25 Birthdays - December 25 Events
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December 25, 1998 Hurd Hatfield, actor, Picture of Dorian Gray, dies at 80 December 25, 1998 Richard Paul, actor, The People vs. Larry Flynt, dies at 58 December 25, 1997 Anatoli Boukreev, mountaineer, dies at 39 December 25, 1997 Denver Pyle, actor (Dukes of Hazzard), dies at 77 December 25, 1997 Giorgio Strehler, theatre director, dies at 76 December 25, 1997 Laurence Gower, academic, dies at 84 December 25, 1996 Derek Prouse, writer actor and director (Le Scandale), dies at 74 December 25, 1996 Jon Benet Ramsey, Colorado child beauty queen, murdered at 6 December 25, 1996 Rupert John, Governor-General of Grenadines (1970-76), dies December 25, 1995 Dean Martin, singer and actor (Return to Me), dies at 78 December 25, 1995 Emmanuel Levinas, philosopher, dies at 89 December 25, 1995 Nikolai [Nicolas Leonidovich] Slonimsky, musicologist, dies at 101 December 25, 1994 Pierre Dreyfus, French director of Renault (1955-75), dies at 87 December 25, 1994 Zail Singh, president of India (1982-87), dies at 78 December 25, 1992 Garrison H Davidson, U.S. lt-gen commandant (West Point), dies December 25, 1992 Helen B M Fennell Joseph, English/South Afr anti-apartheid, dies at 87 December 25, 1992 Monica Dickens, English/US journalist/author, dies at 77 December 25, 1992 Ted Croker, RAF-pilot/sect English soccer team (sponsoring), dies December 25, 1991 Curt Bois, actor (Great Waltz, Boat is Full), dies at 90 December 25, 1991 Orane Demazis, French actress (Marius, Fanny et Cesar), dies at 87 December 25, 1991 Sal Provenza, entertainer, dies of lymphoma at 45 December 25, 1990 Marguerite N Wittenberg, entertainer, dies of cancer at 77 December 25, 1989 Barrel Regtien, student leader, dies December 25, 1989 Billy Martin, New York Yankee manager, killed in a car accident at 61 December 25, 1989 Elena Ceausescu, wife of Romania's dictator Nicolea, executed December 25, 1989 Nicolea Ceausescu, dictator of Romania, executed December 25, 1989 Roger Pigaut, actor (Indoptable Angelique), dies December 25, 1989 Ton Regtien, Dutch student leader, dies at 51 December 25, 1985 George Rhodes, orch leader (Sammy Davis, Jr. Show), dies at 66 December 25, 1983 Joan Miro, Spanish surrealist, dies at his home in Majorca at 90 December 25, 1980 Fred Emney, actor (Adventures of a Private Eye), dies at 80 December 25, 1980 Louis Neefs, Belgian singer, dies at 43 December 25, 1980 Oscar Romero, archbishop of El Salvador, murdered December 25, 1979 Joan Blondell, actress (Real McCoys), dies at 70 December 25, 1979 Lee Bowman, actor (Ellery Queen, Miami Undercover), dies at 64 December 25, 1977 Charlie Chaplin, actor (Modern Times), dies in Switzerland at 88 December 25, 1976 Frankie Darro, actor (Radio Ranch, Valley of Wanted Men), dies at 58 December 25, 1975 Gaston Gallimard, French publisher (Library Gallimard), dies at 94 December 25, 1973 Ismet Inonu [Mustapha Ismet Pasha], Turkish PM (1923..65), dies at 89 December 25, 1971 Byron Arnold, composer, dies at 70 December 25, 1964 Cheerio Meredith, actress (One Happy Family), dies at 74 December 25, 1963 Tristan Tzara, writer, dies at 67 December 25, 1961 Rheinhold Rudenberg, inventor of electron microscope, dies December 25, 1957 Frederick Law Olmsted, U.S. architect (Central Park), dies at 87 December 25, 1956 Robert Walser, writer, dies at 78 December 25, 1954 Johnny Ace, Memphis rocker, accidently shot self in head at 25 December 25, 1954 Liberty Hyde Bailey, U.S. botanist (Plantbreeding), dies at 96 December 25, 1954 Rosario Scalero, composer, dies at 84 December 25, 1951 Harry T Moore, Florida NAACP official, killed by bomb December 25, 1950 Xavier Villaurrutia, Mexican poet (Nostalgia de la muerte), dies at 47 December 25, 1946 W C Fields, writer/comedian (Bank Dick, It's A Gift), dies at 67 December 25, 1946 W. C. Fields, American Comedian December 25, 1943 Ilona Durigo, Hungarian singer, dies at 62 December 25, 1943 Raymond Huntington Woodman, composer, dies at 82 December 25, 1942 Vojislav Vuckovic, composer, dies at 32 December 25, 1940 Agnes Ayres, actress (Johnny Belinda, Sheik), dies at 42 December 25, 1938 Karel Capek, Czech author/antifascist (Bila Nemoc), dies at 48 December 25, 1936 Pierre Maurice, composer, dies at 68 December 25, 1930 Harvey Worthington Loomis, composer, dies at 65 December 25, 1927 Sergei D Sazonov, Russian Foreign minister (1910-16), dies at 66 December 25, 1926 Yoshihito, 123rd Emperor of Japan (1912-26), dies at 47 December 25, 1925 Sergei Jessenin, writer, dies at 30 December 25, 1922 Alphonse Goovaerts, composer, dies at 75 December 25, 1921 Hans Huber, composer, dies at 69 December 25, 1921 Korolenko, writer, dies December 25, 1904 Per Jonas Fredrik Vilhelm Svedbom, composer, dies at 61 December 25, 1903 Albert Schaffle, German sociologist, dies at 72 December 25, 1895 Raul d'Avila Pompeia, Brazilian writer (Boarding-school), dies at 32 December 25, 1883 Marek Konrad Sokolowski, composer, dies at 65 December 25, 1878 Anna Claypoole Peale, U.S. painter of miniatures, dies December 25, 1868 Linus Yale, developer of cylinder lock, dies December 25, 1848 Johann Erik Nordblom, composer, dies at 60 December 25, 1842 Bedrich Divis Weber, composer, dies at 76 December 25, 1824 Barbara Krudener, mystic visionary who renounced nobility, dies at 60 December 25, 1788 John Logan, Scottish conductor (Ode to the Cuckoo), dies at about 40 December 25, 1765 Antonio Tonelli, composer, dies at 79 December 25, 1761 Elisabeth Petrovna, tsarina of Russia (1741-62), dies at about 51 December 25, 1683 Kara Mustapha, Turkish grand-vizier (1676-83), executed December 25, 1530 Babur, emperor of Delhi, dies December 25, 1513 Johannes Amerbach, Swiss publisher/printer, dies at about 70 December 25, 1249 Peter Nolascus, Spanish monastery founder/St, dies December 25, 1156 Peter Venerabilis, Fr theologist/9th abbot of Cluny, dies at about 61 December 25, 820 Leo V, the Armenian, Byzantine gen/Emperor (813-20), murdered December 25, 795 Adrian I, Italian Pope (772-95), dies |