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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 24th of December 0563 | EVENT | The Byzantine church Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is dedicated for the second time after being destroyed by earthquakes. |
| 24th of December 1294 | EVENT | Pope Boniface VIII is elected Pope, replacing St. Celestine V, who had resigned. |
| 24th of December 1777 | EVENT | Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island, is discovered by James Cook. |
| 24th of December 1814 | EVENT | The Treaty of Ghent is signed ending the War of 1812. |
| 24th of December 1826 | EVENT | The Eggnog Riot at the United States Military Academy begins that night, wrapping up the following morning. |
| 24th of December 1851 | EVENT | Library of Congress burns. |
| 24th of December 1865 | EVENT | The Ku Klux Klan is formed. |
| 24th of December 1906 | EVENT | Radio: Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech. |
| 24th of December 1914 | EVENT | World War I: The "Christmas truce" begins. |
| 24th of December 1924 | EVENT | Albania becomes a republic. |
| 24th of December 1929 | EVENT | Assassination attempt on Argentine President Hipolito Yrigoyen. |
| 24th of December 1939 | EVENT | World War II: Pope Pius XII makes a Christmas Eve appeal for peace. |
| 24th of December 1941 | EVENT | World War II: Kuching is conquered by Japanese forces. |
| 24th of December 1942 | EVENT | World War II: French monarchist, Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle, assassinates Vichy French Admiral Francois Darlan in Algiers. |
| 24th of December 1943 | EVENT | World War II: U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the Supreme Allied Commander. |
| 24th of December 1951 | EVENT | Libya becomes independent from Italy. Idris I is proclaimed King of Libya. |
| 24th of December 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. |
| 24th of December 1955 | EVENT | NORAD Tracks Santa for the first time in what will become an annual Christmas Eve tradition. |
| 24th of December 1966 | EVENT | A Canadair CL-44 chartered by the United States military crashes into a small village in South Vietnam, killing 129. |
| 24th of December 1968 | EVENT | The crew of the USS Pueblo is released by North Korea after being held for 11 months on suspicion of spying. |
| 24th of December 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. |
| 24th of December 1973 | EVENT | District of Columbia Home Rule Act is passed, allowing residents of Washington, D.C. to elect their own local government. |
| 24th of December 1974 | EVENT | Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Australia. |
| 24th of December 1979 | EVENT | The first European Ariane rocket is launched. |
| 24th of December 1980 | EVENT | Witnesses report the first of several sightings of unexplained lights near RAF Woodbridge, in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England, an incident called "Britain's Roswell". |
| 24th of December 1997 | EVENT | The Sid El-Antri massacre (or Sidi Lamri) in Algeria kills 50-100 people. |
| 24th of December 2000 | EVENT | The Texas 7 hold up a sports store in Irving, Texas. Police officer Aubrey Hawkins is murdered during the robbery. |
| 24th of December 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. |
| 24th of December 2008 | EVENT | Lord's Resistance Army, a Ugandan rebel group, begins a series of attacks on Democratic Republic of the Congo, massacring more than 400. |
| 24th of December 1166 | BIRTHDAY | King John of England (d. 1216) |
| 24th of December 1389 | BIRTHDAY | John VI, Duke of Brittany (d. 1442) |
| 24th of December 1475 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Murner, German writer (d. c. 1537) |
| 24th of December 1508 | BIRTHDAY | Pietro Carnesecchi, Italian humanist (d. 1567) |
| 24th of December 1588 | BIRTHDAY | Constance of Austria, queen of Poland (d. 1631) |
| 24th of December 1609 | BIRTHDAY | Philip Warwick, English writer and politician (d. 1683) |
| 24th of December 1635 | BIRTHDAY | Mariana of Austria, second wife of king Philip IV of Spain (d. 1696) |
| 24th of December 1698 | BIRTHDAY | William Warburton, English Bishop of Gloucester (d. 1779) |
| 24th of December 1724 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician and naturalist (d. 1811) |
| 24th of December 1745 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Rush, doctor and Founding Father of the United States (d. 1813) |
| 24th of December 1754 | BIRTHDAY | George Crabbe, British poet and naturalist (d. 1832) |
| 24th of December 1761 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer (d. 1831) |
| 24th of December 1784 | BIRTHDAY | Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia (d. 1803) |
| 24th of December 1798 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Mickiewicz, Polish poet (d. 1855) |
| 24th of December 1809 | BIRTHDAY | Kit Carson, American frontiersman (d. 1868) |
| 24th of December 1810 | BIRTHDAY | Wilhelm Marstrand, Danish painter (d. 1873) |
| 24th of December 1812 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal, German jurist (d. 1894) |
| 24th of December 1818 | BIRTHDAY | James Prescott Joule, British physicist (d. 1889) |
| 24th of December 1822 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Arnold, British poet (d. 1888) |
| 24th of December 1837 | BIRTHDAY | Elisabeth of Bavaria, also known as Sissi, Empress of Austria (d. 1898) |
| 24th of December 1843 | BIRTHDAY | Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet (d. 1886) |
| 24th of December 1845 | BIRTHDAY | King George I of Greece (d. 1913) |
| 24th of December 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Kantaro Suzuki, 42nd Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1948) |
| 24th of December 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Emanuel Lasker, German chess player (d. 1941) |
| 24th of December 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Sigrid Schauman, Finnish painter (d. 1979) |
| 24th of December 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Queen Alexandrine of Denmark, Queen Consort to Christian X (d. 1952) |
| 24th of December 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Emile Nelligan, Quebec poet (d. 1941) |
| 24th of December 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Gruelle, American cartoonist, children's book writer and creator of Raggedy Ann (d. 1939) |
| 24th of December 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Ramon Jimenez, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958) |
| 24th of December 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-born director (d. 1962) |
| 24th of December 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Jouvet, French actor and producer (d. 1951) |
| 24th of December 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Warren, American composer and lyricist (Chattanooga Choo Choo : I Only Have Eyes for You) (d. 1981) |
| 24th of December 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Ruth Chatterton, American actress (d. 1961) |
| 24th of December 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Georges Guynemer, French aviator (d. 1917) |
| 24th of December 1895 | BIRTHDAY | E. Roland Harriman, American financier (d. 1978) |
| 24th of December 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Jens Oliver Lisberg, Faroese law student, designer of the Flag of the Faroe Islands (d. 1920) |
| 24th of December 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Hector Scarone, Uruguayan footballer (d. 1967) |
| 24th of December 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Baby Dodds, American jazz drummer (d. 1959) |
| 24th of December 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Joey Smallwood, Canadian politician, Premier of Newfoundland (d. 1991) |
| 24th of December 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Ava Helen Pauling, American human rights activist (d. 1981) |
| 24th of December 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Moses Juran, American industrial engineer and philanthropist (d. 2008) |
| 24th of December 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Howard Hughes, American film producer and inventor (d. 1976) |
| 24th of December 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Franz Waxman, German film composer (d. 1967) |
| 24th of December 1907 | BIRTHDAY | I. F. Stone, American journalist (d. 1989) |
| 24th of December 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Fritz Leiber, American writer (d. 1992) |
| 24th of December 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Max Miedinger, typeface designer, famous for creating Helvetica in 1957. (d. 1980) |
| 24th of December 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Ralph Marterie, American trumpet player and big band leader (d. 1978) |
| 24th of December 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Herbert Reinecker, German writer (d. 2007) |
| 24th of December 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Yevgeniya Rudneva, Russian World War II heroine (d. 1944) |
| 24th of December 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Ava Gardner, American actress (d. 1990) |
| 24th of December 1923 | BIRTHDAY | George Patton IV, American general (d. 2004) |
| 24th of December 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Michael DiBiase, American wrestler (d. 1969) |
| 24th of December 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Dorsey, American singer (d. 1986) |
| 24th of December 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Norman Rossington, British actor (d. 1999) |
| 24th of December 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Grigory Kriss, Russian Olympic champion fencer |
| 24th of December 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Mohammed Rafi, Indian actor and playback singer (d. 1980) |
| 24th of December 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Buissonneau, French-born Quebec theatre director |
| 24th of December 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Higgins Clark, American author |
| 24th of December 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Joffrey, American choreographer (d. 1988) |
| 24th of December 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Mauricio Kagel, Argentine composer (d. 2008) |
| 24th of December 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Bryant, American jazz pianist and composer |
| 24th of December 1932 | BIRTHDAY | On Kawara, Japanese conceptual artist |
| 24th of December 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Stjepan Mesic, president of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Secretary General of Non-Aligned Movement and president of Croatia |
| 24th of December 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Felix Mieli Venerando, Brazilian football player |
| 24th of December 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Valentim Loureiro, Portuguese politician, and former football chairman of Boavista F.C. and Liga Portuguesa de Futebol Profissional |
| 24th of December 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Henrich, American baseball player |
| 24th of December 1941 | BIRTHDAY | John Levene, British actor |
| 24th of December 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Tarja Halonen, President of Finland |
| 24th of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Johnson, Jr., Quebec politician, Premier of Quebec |
| 24th of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Curb, American musician, record company executive and politician |
| 24th of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Oswald Gracias, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bombay |
| 24th of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Chuckle, British comedian |
| 24th of December 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Lemmy, British singer, bassist (Motorhead) |
| 24th of December 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Smith, Canadian Comedian, The New Red Green Show, Duct Tape Forever |
| 24th of December 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Nicholas Meyer, American author |
| 24th of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Brenda Howard, American bisexual activist (d. 2005) |
| 24th of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Sessions, American politician |
| 24th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Sheedy, coach of Australian Football League club Essendon FC |
| 24th of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Oliver, New Zealand rugby player |
| 24th of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Warwick Brown, Australian racing driver |
| 24th of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Randy Neugebauer, American politician |
| 24th of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Dana Gioia, American poet |
| 24th of December 1951 | BIRTHDAY | John D'Acquisto, baseball player |
| 24th of December 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Buckley, American author and political commentator |
| 24th of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Francois Loos, French politician |
| 24th of December 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Maria Figueres, Costa Rican politician |
| 24th of December 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Grand L. Bush, American actor |
| 24th of December 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Clarence Gilyard, American actor |
| 24th of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Diane Tell, Quebec singer |
| 24th of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan |
| 24th of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Munetaka Higuchi, Japanese drummer (d. 2008) |
| 24th of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Pressey, American basketball player |
| 24th of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Gene Sperling, American economist and government official |
| 24th of December 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Deller, British darts player |
| 24th of December 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Anil Kapoor, Indian actor |
| 24th of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Glenn McQueen, American animator (d. 2002) |
| 24th of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Carol Vorderman, British television presenter |
| 24th of December 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Wright, American basketball coach |
| 24th of December 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan |
| 24th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Bilas, American basketball analyst |
| 24th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Ramsey, American singer (10,000 Maniacs) |
| 24th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Caroline Aherne, British comedienne, writer and actress |
| 24th of December 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Valley, American actor |
| 24th of December 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Millard Powers, American musician (Counting Crows) |
| 24th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Diedrich Bader, American actor |
| 24th of December 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Mikhail Shchennikov, Russian race walker |
| 24th of December 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Choi Jin-sil, South Korean actress and model (d. 2008) |
| 24th of December 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Marleen Renders, Belgian athlete |
| 24th of December 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Doyle Bramhall II, American guitarist |
| 24th of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Millar, Scottish comic book writer |
| 24th of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Michael, South African actor |
| 24th of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Anderson, American professional wrestler |
| 24th of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Miliband, leader of the Labour Party |
| 24th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Will Oldham, American singer and songwriter |
| 24th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Amaury Nolasco, American actor |
| 24th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Giorgos Alkaios, Greek singer |
| 24th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Daniels, American professional wrestler |
| 24th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Sascha Fischer, German rugby player |
| 24th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Ricky Martin, Puerto Rican singer |
| 24th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Oro, Mexican professional wrestler (d. 1993) |
| 24th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Alvaro Mesen, Costa Rican footballer |
| 24th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Klaus Schnellenkamp, German-Chilean author |
| 24th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Pope, American soccer player |
| 24th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Seacrest, American television host |
| 24th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Thure Lindhardt, Danish actor |
| 24th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Marcelo Salas, Chilean footballer |
| 24th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Yuri Korean singer |
| 24th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Y?ld?ray Basturk, Turkish footballer |
| 24th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Warren Tredrea, Australian rules footballer |
| 24th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Carlson Twins, Kyle and Lane Carlson, American fashion models |
| 24th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Tonedeff, American rapper |
| 24th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Hero, American professional wrestler |
| 24th of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Tomas Kalnoky, Czech musician (Streetlight Manifesto) |
| 24th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Shane Tuck, Australian rules footballer |
| 24th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Dima Bilan, Karachay-Russian pop artist |
| 24th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Carmine, American singer |
| 24th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Aiba Masaki, Japanese singer and actor |
| 24th of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Ansver Oksman, Finnish visual artist |
| 24th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Alexey Dmitriev, German ice hockey player |
| 24th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | David Ragan, American race car driver |
| 24th of December 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Riyo Mori, Miss Universe 2007 from Japan |
| 24th of December 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Kyrylo Fesenko, Ukrainian basketball player |
| 24th of December 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Jane Summersett, American ice dancer |
| 24th of December 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Melissa Suffield, English actress |
| 24th of December 1995 | BIRTHDAY | Anett Kontaveit, Estonian tennis player |
| 24th of December 2000 | BIRTHDAY | Ethan Bortnick, child musician |
| 24th of December 0427 | DEATH | Archbishop Sisinnius I of Constantinople |
| 24th of December 0738 | DEATH | Maslamah ibn Abd al-Malik, Umayyad prince and general |
| 24th of December 1257 | DEATH | John I, Count of Hainaut (Born 1218) |
| 24th of December 1453 | DEATH | John Dunstaple, English composer (Born c.1390) |
| 24th of December 1524 | DEATH | Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer (Born c.1469) |
| 24th of December 1660 | DEATH | Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (Born 1631) |
| 24th of December 1707 | DEATH | Noel Coypel, French painter (Born 1628) |
| 24th of December 1813 | DEATH | Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (Born 1740) |
| 24th of December 1863 | DEATH | William Makepeace Thackeray, British writer (Born 1811) |
| 24th of December 1865 | DEATH | Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, British painter and writer (Born 1793) |
| 24th of December 1868 | DEATH | Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (Born 1802) |
| 24th of December 1872 | DEATH | William John Macquorn Rankine, British physician and engenier (Born 1820) |
| 24th of December 1873 | DEATH | Johns Hopkins, Baltimore philanthropist and businessman (Born 1795) |
| 24th of December 1889 | DEATH | Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, Dutch poet and clergyman (Born 1819) |
| 24th of December 1898 | DEATH | Sharbel Makhluf, Lebanese monk canonized in 1977 by Pope Paul VI (Born 1828) |
| 24th of December 1914 | DEATH | John Muir, Scottish-American naturalist (Born 1838) |
| 24th of December 1935 | DEATH | Alban Berg, Austrian composer (Born 1885) |
| 24th of December 1938 | DEATH | Bruno Taut, German architect (Born 1880) |
| 24th of December 1941 | DEATH | Siegfried Alkan, German composer (Born 1858) |
| 24th of December 1942 | DEATH | Francois Darlan, vice-premier of Vichy France (Born 1881) |
| 24th of December 1957 | DEATH | Norma Talmadge, American actress (Born 1893) |
| 24th of December 1965 | DEATH | William M. Branham, Christian minister (Born 1906) |
| 24th of December 1967 | DEATH | Burt Baskin, American entrepreneur (Born 1913) |
| 24th of December 1971 | DEATH | Maria Koepcke, ornithologist (Born 1924) |
| 24th of December 1972 | DEATH | Melville Ruick, American actor (Born 1898) |
| 24th of December 1972 | DEATH | Gisela Richter, British art historian (Born 1882) |
| 24th of December 1975 | DEATH | Bernard Herrmann, American film composer (Born 1911) |
| 24th of December 1976 | DEATH | Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza, heir to the throne of Portugal (Born 1907) |
| 24th of December 1977 | DEATH | Samael Aun Weor, Columbian writer (Born 1917) |
| 24th of December 1980 | DEATH | Karl Donitz, German naval admiral, and last leader of Nazi Germany (Born 1891) |
| 24th of December 1980 | DEATH | Siggie Nordstrom, model, actress, entertainer, socialite and lead singer of The Nordstrom Sisters (Born 1893) |
| 24th of December 1982 | DEATH | Louis Aragon, French writer (Born 1897) |
| 24th of December 1984 | DEATH | Peter Lawford, British actor (Born 1923) |
| 24th of December 1985 | DEATH | Camille Tourville, Professional wrestler (Born 1927) |
| 24th of December 1985 | DEATH | Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, Last Lincoln descendant (Born 1904) |
| 24th of December 1986 | DEATH | Gardner Fox, American writer (Born 1911) |
| 24th of December 1987 | DEATH | Betty Noyes, singer who dubbed Debbie Reynold's singing voice in Singin' in the Rain |
| 24th of December 1987 | DEATH | Joop den Uyl, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1973 until 1977 (Born 1919) |
| 24th of December 1987 | DEATH | M. G. Ramachandran, Chief Minister of the Tamil Nadu (Born 1917) |
| 24th of December 1990 | DEATH | Thorbj?rn Egner, Norwegian author (Born 1922) |
| 24th of December 1992 | DEATH | Bobby LaKind, American musician and singer (The Doobie Brothers) (Born 1945) |
| 24th of December 1992 | DEATH | Peyo, Belgian comics artist, and creator of The Smurfs (Born 1928) |
| 24th of December 1993 | DEATH | Norman Vincent Peale, American writer (Born 1898) |
| 24th of December 1994 | DEATH | John Boswell, American historian (Born 1947) |
| 24th of December 1994 | DEATH | Rossano Brazzi, Italian actor and singer (Born 1916) |
| 24th of December 1997 | DEATH | Pierre Peladeau, Quebec businessman, founder of Quebecor (Born 1925) |
| 24th of December 1997 | DEATH | Toshiro Mifune, Japanese actor (Born 1920) |
| 24th of December 1998 | DEATH | Syl Apps, Canadian ice hockey player and pole vaulter (Born 1915) |
| 24th of December 1999 | DEATH | Joao Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo, President of Brazil (Born 1918) |
| 24th of December 1999 | DEATH | Bill Bowerman, American track and field coach (Born 1911) |
| 24th of December 1999 | DEATH | Maurice Couve de Murville, French politician, Prime minister of France (Born 1907) |
| 24th of December 2000 | DEATH | John Cooper, English race car designer (Born 1923) |
| 24th of December 2000 | DEATH | Nick Massi, American singer (The Four Seasons) (Born 1935) |
| 24th of December 2002 | DEATH | Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian author (Born 1920) |
| 24th of December 2002 | DEATH | Jake Thackray, English singer-songwriter (Born 1938) |
| 24th of December 2002 | DEATH | Laci Peterson, American murder victim (Born 1975) |
| 24th of December 2004 | DEATH | Johnny Oates, baseball player and manager (Born 1946) |
| 24th of December 2005 | DEATH | Michael Vale, American commercial actor (Born 1922) |
| 24th of December 2006 | DEATH | "Braguinha", Brazilian songwriter (Born 1907) |
| 24th of December 2006 | DEATH | Kenneth Sivertsen, Norwegian singer, poet and comedian (Born 1961) |
| 24th of December 2006 | DEATH | Frank Stanton, American television executive (Born 1908) |
| 24th of December 2007 | DEATH | Nicholas Pumfrey, British judge (Born 1951) |
| 24th of December 2007 | DEATH | Akbar Radi, Iranian dramatist and playwright (Born 1939) |
| 24th of December 2008 | DEATH | Harold Pinter, British playwright (Born 1930) |
| 24th of December 2009 | DEATH | Rafael Caldera, lawyer, sociologist, writer, speaker, politician, and ex-president of Venezuela (Born 1916) |
| 24th of December 2009 | DEATH | George Michael, American sportscaster (The George Michael Sports Machine) (Born 1939) |
| 24th of December 2010 | DEATH | Elisabeth Beresford, British author and creator of The Wombles (Born 1926) |
| 24th of December 2010 | DEATH | Orestes Quercia, Brazilian politician (Born 1938) |
| 24th of December 2010 | DEATH | Eino Tamberg, Estonian composer (Born 1930) |