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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 26th of December 1135 | EVENT | Coronation of King Stephen of England. |
| 26th of December 1481 | EVENT | Battle of Westbroek: Holland defeats troops of Utrecht. |
| 26th of December 1613 | EVENT | Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, marries Frances Howard. |
| 26th of December 1776 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: The British are defeated in the Battle of Trenton. |
| 26th of December 1790 | EVENT | Louis XVI of France gives his public assent to Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution. |
| 26th of December 1792 | EVENT | The final trial of Louis XVI of France begins in Paris. |
| 26th of December 1793 | EVENT | Second Battle of Wissembourg: French defeat Austrians. |
| 26th of December 1793 | EVENT | The wedding of Prince Friedrich Ludwig of Prussia and Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz takes place. |
| 26th of December 1799 | EVENT | Four thousand people attend George Washington's funeral where Henry Lee declares him as "first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen." |
| 26th of December 1805 | EVENT | Austria and France sign the Treaty of Pressburg. |
| 26th of December 1806 | EVENT | Battles of Pultusk and Golymin: Russian forces hold French forces under Napoleon. |
| 26th of December 1811 | EVENT | A theater fire in Richmond, Virginia kills the Governor of Virginia George William Smith and the president of the First National Bank of Virginia Abraham B. Venable. |
| 26th of December 1846 | EVENT | Trapped in snow in the Sierra Nevadas and without food, members of the Donner Party resort to cannibalism. |
| 26th of December 1860 | EVENT | The first ever inter-club football match takes place between Hallam F.C. and Sheffield F.C. at the Sandygate Road ground in Sheffield, England. |
| 26th of December 1861 | EVENT | American Civil War: The Trent Affair: Confederate diplomatic envoys James M. Mason and John Slidell are freed by the United States government, thus heading off a possible war between the United States and Britain. |
| 26th of December 1862 | EVENT | American Civil War: The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou begins. |
| 26th of December 1862 | EVENT | Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board USS Red Rover are the first female nurses on a U.S. Navy hospital ship. |
| 26th of December 1862 | EVENT | The largest mass-hanging in U.S. history took place in Mankato, Minnesota, 38 Native Americans die. |
| 26th of December 1870 | EVENT | The 12.8-km long Frejus Rail Tunnel through the Alps is completed. |
| 26th of December 1871 | EVENT | Gilbert and Sullivan collaborate for the first time, on their lost opera, Thespis. It does modestly well, but the two would not collaborate again for four years. |
| 26th of December 1883 | EVENT | The Harbour Grace Affray between Irish Catholics and Protestant Orangemen causes five deaths in Newfoundland. |
| 26th of December 1898 | EVENT | Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium. |
| 26th of December 1919 | EVENT | Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee. |
| 26th of December 1925 | EVENT | Turkey adopts the Gregorian Calendar. |
| 26th of December 1933 | EVENT | FM radio is patented. |
| 26th of December 1941 | EVENT | U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the United States. |
| 26th of December 1943 | EVENT | World War II: German warship Scharnhorst is sunk off of Norway's North Cape after a battle against major Royal Navy forces. |
| 26th of December 1944 | EVENT | World War II: Patton's Third Army breaks the encirclement of surrounded U.S. forces at Bastogne, Belgium. |
| 26th of December 1945 | EVENT | CFP franc and CFA franc are created. |
| 26th of December 1948 | EVENT | Cardinal Mindszenty is arrested in Hungary and accused of treason and conspiracy. |
| 26th of December 1966 | EVENT | The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach. |
| 26th of December 1972 | EVENT | Vietnam War: As part of Operation Linebacker II, 120 American B-52 Stratofortress bombers attacked Hanoi, including 78 launched from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, the largest single combat launch in Strategic Air Command history. |
| 26th of December 1975 | EVENT | The Tupolev Tu-144 goes into service in Soviet Union. |
| 26th of December 1976 | EVENT | The Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) is founded. |
| 26th of December 1980 | EVENT | Aeroflot puts the Ilyushin Il-86 into service. |
| 26th of December 1982 | EVENT | Time Magazine's Man of the Year is for the first time a non-human, the personal computer. |
| 26th of December 1986 | EVENT | The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its final episode after 35 years on the air. |
| 26th of December 1991 | EVENT | The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally dissolves the USSR. |
| 26th of December 1994 | EVENT | Four Armed Islamic Group hijackers seize control of Air France Flight 8969. When the plane lands at Marseille, a French Gendarmerie assault team boards the aircraft and kills the perpetrators. |
| 26th of December 1996 | EVENT | Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey is found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family's home in Boulder, Colorado. |
| 26th of December 1996 | EVENT | Start of the largest strike in South Korean history. |
| 26th of December 1997 | EVENT | The Soufriere Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat explodes, creating a small tsunami offshore. |
| 26th of December 1998 | EVENT | Iraq announces its intention to fire upon U.S. and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern no-fly zones. |
| 26th of December 1999 | EVENT | The storm Lothar sweeps across Central Europe, killing 137 and causing US$1.3 billion in damage. |
| 26th of December 2003 | EVENT | A magnitude 6.6 earthquake devastates southeast Iranian city of Bam, killing tens of thousands and destroying the citadel of Arg-e Bam. |
| 26th of December 2004 | EVENT | A 9.3 magnitude earthquake creates a tsunami causing devastation in Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Maldives and many other areas around the rim of the Indian Ocean, killing over 230,000 people including over 1700 on a moving train. |
| 26th of December 2004 | EVENT | Orange Revolution: The final run-off election is held under heavy international scrutiny. |
| 26th of December 2005 | EVENT | A gang-related shooting on a busy shopping street in Toronto kills one and injures six. |
| 26th of December 2006 | EVENT | A 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit Hengchun, Pingtung, Taiwan, killing two people and causing severe communication disruptions in southeast Asia. |
| 26th of December 2006 | EVENT | An oil pipeline in Lagos, Nigeria explodes, killing at least 260. |
| 26th of December 1194 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1250) |
| 26th of December 1532 | BIRTHDAY | Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar (d. 1576) |
| 26th of December 1536 | BIRTHDAY | Yi I, Korean Confucian scholar (d. 1584) |
| 26th of December 1646 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Bolling, English settler in Virginia (d. 1709) |
| 26th of December 1687 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Georg Pisendel, German musician (d. 1755) |
| 26th of December 1716 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Francois de Saint-Lambert, French poet (d. 1803) |
| 26th of December 1716 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Gray, English writer (d. 1771) |
| 26th of December 1723 | BIRTHDAY | Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (d. 1807) |
| 26th of December 1737 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Josias of Coburg, Austrian general (d. 1815) |
| 26th of December 1751 | BIRTHDAY | Clement Hofbauer, Austrian missionary and saint (d. 1820) |
| 26th of December 1771 | BIRTHDAY | Julie Clary, queen consort of Naples (d. 1845) |
| 26th of December 1780 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Fairfax Somerville, British mathematician (d. 1872) |
| 26th of December 1782 | BIRTHDAY | Filaret Drozdov, Metropolitan of Moscow (d. 1867) |
| 26th of December 1791 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor (d. 1871) |
| 26th of December 1819 | BIRTHDAY | E. D. E. N. Southworth, American novelist (d. 1899) |
| 26th of December 1822 | BIRTHDAY | Dion Boucicault, Irish actor and playwright (d. 1890) |
| 26th of December 1837 | BIRTHDAY | Morgan Bulkeley, American politician, 54th Governor of Connecticut and baseball commissioner (d. 1922) |
| 26th of December 1837 | BIRTHDAY | George Dewey, U. S. admiral (d. 1917) |
| 26th of December 1853 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Bazin, French novelist (d. 1932) |
| 26th of December 1859 | BIRTHDAY | William Stephens, American politician and 24th Governor of California (d. 1944) |
| 26th of December 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Pathe, French pioneer of film and record industries (d. 1957) |
| 26th of December 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Norman Angell, British politician, Nobel laureate (d. 1967) |
| 26th of December 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Wass, English cricketer (d. 1953) |
| 26th of December 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Utrillo, French artist (d. 1955) |
| 26th of December 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Ernest Percival, British Army officer (d. 1966) |
| 26th of December 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Uncle Charlie Osborne, American fiddler (d. 1992) |
| 26th of December 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Miller, American writer (d. 1980) |
| 26th of December 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Mao Zedong, Chinese military leader and politician (d. 1976) |
| 26th of December 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Toomer, American writer (d. 1967) |
| 26th of December 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan, Russian painter (d. 1980) |
| 26th of December 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Elisha Cook Jr., American actor (d. 1995) |
| 26th of December 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer (d. 1980) |
| 26th of December 1905 | BIRTHDAY | William Loeb, American newspaper publisher, (d. 1981) |
| 26th of December 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Imperio Argentina, Argentine actress and singer (d. 2003) |
| 26th of December 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Gore Sr., American Politician (d. 1998) |
| 26th of December 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Arsenio Lacson, Filipino politician and sportswriter (d. 1962) |
| 26th of December 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Swift, English footballer and journalist (d. 1958) |
| 26th of December 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Annemarie Wendl, German actress (d. 2006) |
| 26th of December 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Widmark, American actor (d. 2008) |
| 26th of December 1918 | BIRTHDAY | George Rallis, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2006) |
| 26th of December 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Allen, American comedian (d. 2000) |
| 26th of December 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Mayes, English actor (d. 2006) |
| 26th of December 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Broyles, American athlete, long time athletic director of the University of Arkansas |
| 26th of December 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Gina Pellon, Cuban painter |
| 26th of December 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Alan King, American comedian (d. 2004) |
| 26th of December 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Denis Quilley, British actor (d. 2003) |
| 26th of December 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Stu Miller, American baseball player |
| 26th of December 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Regine, French singer and nightclub owner |
| 26th of December 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Donald Moffat, English-born actor |
| 26th of December 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Ferrat, French singer and songwriter |
| 26th of December 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Ugly Dave Gray, Australian television personality |
| 26th of December 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Caroll Spinney, American puppeteer |
| 26th of December 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Abdul "Duke" Fakir, American singer (The Four Tops) |
| 26th of December 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Norm Ullman, Canadian hockey player |
| 26th of December 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Heimowitz, American poker player |
| 26th of December 1937 | BIRTHDAY | John Horton Conway, British mathematician |
| 26th of December 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Bahram Beizai, Iranian playwright and film director |
| 26th of December 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Alamgir Kabir, Bangladeshi film director (d. 1989) |
| 26th of December 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Schepisi, Australian film director |
| 26th of December 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Edward C. Prescott, American economist, Nobel laureate |
| 26th of December 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Sadecki, American Major league baseball pitcher |
| 26th of December 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Schmid, Swiss film director (d. 2006) |
| 26th of December 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arevalo, Guatemalan president |
| 26th of December 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Gray Davis, American politician and 37th Governor of California |
| 26th of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Jane Lapotaire, British actress |
| 26th of December 1945 | BIRTHDAY | John Walsh, American talk show host |
| 26th of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Frumin, Parliamentarian of the United States Senate |
| 26th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | James T. Conway, 34th Commandant of the United States Marine Corps |
| 26th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Richard L. McCormick, President of Rutgers University |
| 26th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Carlton Fisk, American baseball player |
| 26th of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Candy Crowley, American journalist |
| 26th of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Ramos-Horta, President of East Timor, Nobel laureate |
| 26th of December 1951 | BIRTHDAY | John Scofield, American jazz guitarist |
| 26th of December 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Skinner, British radio presenter |
| 26th of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Leonel Fernandez, Dominican politician and current President of the Dominican Republic |
| 26th of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Henning Schmitz, German musician (Kraftwerk) |
| 26th of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Toomas Hendrik Ilves, President of Estonia |
| 26th of December 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Ozzie Smith, American baseball player |
| 26th of December 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Steen, English actor |
| 26th of December 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Rosato, Italian-Canadian actor |
| 26th of December 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer |
| 26th of December 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Evan Bayh, American politician, 46th Governor of Indiana, and United States Senator from Indiana |
| 26th of December 1956 | BIRTHDAY | David Sedaris, American essayist |
| 26th of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Dermot Murnaghan, British broadcaster |
| 26th of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Adrian Newey, British engineer |
| 26th of December 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Koji Morimoto, Japanese animated film director |
| 26th of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Muller, German footballer |
| 26th of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Temuera Morrison, New Zealand actor |
| 26th of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Toomey, American syndicated cartoonist |
| 26th of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Tina Wesson, Winner of Survivor: The Australian Outback |
| 26th of December 1961 | BIRTHDAY | John Lynch, Irish actor |
| 26th of December 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Lock, Australian mountaineer |
| 26th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Lars Ulrich, Danish-born drummer (Metallica) |
| 26th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Wennington, Canadian basketball player |
| 26th of December 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth Kostova, American author |
| 26th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Legler, American basketball player |
| 26th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Sandra Taylor, American model and actress |
| 26th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Yuenger, American musician and producer |
| 26th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Farrar, American musician and songwriter |
| 26th of December 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Knight, American professional wrestler |
| 26th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | James Mercer, American musician (The Shins) |
| 26th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Krissada Terrence, Thai singer and actor |
| 26th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Mika Nurmela, Finnish footballer |
| 26th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Jared Leto, American actor and singer (30 Seconds to Mars) |
| 26th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan M. Parisen, American film director |
| 26th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Esteban Fuertes, Argentine footballer |
| 26th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Shane Meadows, British filmmaker |
| 26th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Muchamore, English children's author |
| 26th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Gianluca Faliva, Italian rugby player |
| 26th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Reichen Lehmkuhl, American television personality |
| 26th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Paulao, Brazilian footballer |
| 26th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Tiffany Brissette, American TV actress |
| 26th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Zach Blair, American guitarist (Rise Against) |
| 26th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Joshua John Miller, American actor |
| 26th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Josie Ho, Hong Kong singer and actor |
| 26th of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Marcelo Rios, Chilean tennis player |
| 26th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Goodwin, Australian rules footballer |
| 26th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Lea De Mae, Czech actress (d. 2004) |
| 26th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Nadia Litz, Canadian actress |
| 26th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Kaoru Sugayama, Japanese volleyball player |
| 26th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Fabian Carini, Uruguayan footballer |
| 26th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Mzbel, Ghanaian singer |
| 26th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Daughtry, American singer |
| 26th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Dimitry Vassiliev, Russian ski jumper |
| 26th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Wing, Australian Rugby League Player |
| 26th of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Todd Dunivant, American soccer player |
| 26th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Pablo Canavosio, Argentine-born Italian rugby player |
| 26th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Oguri Shun, Japanese actor/model |
| 26th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Aksel Lund Svindal, Norwegian skier |
| 26th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Kenneth Darby, American football player |
| 26th of December 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Leonardo Ghiraldini, Italian rugby player |
| 26th of December 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Schwazer, Italian race walker |
| 26th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Yuu Shirota, Japanese Idol |
| 26th of December 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Hugo Lloris, French goalkeeper |
| 26th of December 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Walker, British flautist |
| 26th of December 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Jennica Garcia, Filipina actress |
| 26th of December 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Ramsey, Welsh footballer |
| 26th of December 1995 | BIRTHDAY | Zach Mills, American actor |
| 26th of December 2000 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Sevian, American chess player |
| 26th of December 0268 | DEATH | Pope Dionysius |
| 26th of December 0418 | DEATH | Pope Zosimus |
| 26th of December 1350 | DEATH | Jean de Marigny, French bishop |
| 26th of December 1458 | DEATH | Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (Born 1393) |
| 26th of December 1476 | DEATH | Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan (Born 1444) |
| 26th of December 1530 | DEATH | Babur, Emperor of the Mogul empire (Born 1483) |
| 26th of December 1574 | DEATH | Charles of Guise, French cardinal (Born 1524) |
| 26th of December 1624 | DEATH | Simon Marius, German astronomer (Born 1573) |
| 26th of December 1731 | DEATH | Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer (Born 1672) |
| 26th of December 1771 | DEATH | Claude Adrien Helvetius, French philosopher (Born 1715) |
| 26th of December 1780 | DEATH | John Fothergill, English physician (Born 1712) |
| 26th of December 1784 | DEATH | Seth Warner, American revolutionary leader (Born 1743) |
| 26th of December 1786 | DEATH | Gasparo Gozzi, Italian critic and dramatist (Born 1713) |
| 26th of December 1869 | DEATH | Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille, French physiologist (Born 1797) |
| 26th of December 1890 | DEATH | Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (Born 1822) |
| 26th of December 1909 | DEATH | Frederic Remington, American artist (Born 1861) |
| 26th of December 1923 | DEATH | Dietrich Eckart, German Nazi politician (Born 1868) |
| 26th of December 1931 | DEATH | Melvil Dewey, inventor of the Dewey decimal classification (Born 1851) |
| 26th of December 1933 | DEATH | Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian literary critic and politician (Born 1875) |
| 26th of December 1933 | DEATH | Henry Watson Fowler, English schoolmaster and lexicographer (Born 1858) |
| 26th of December 1960 | DEATH | Watsuji Tetsuro, Japanese philosopher (Born 1889) |
| 26th of December 1963 | DEATH | George Wagner (Gorgeous George), American professional wrestler and television personality (Born 1915) |
| 26th of December 1966 | DEATH | Herbert Otto Gille, German SS officer (Born 1897) |
| 26th of December 1970 | DEATH | Lillian Board, British track and field athlete (Born 1948) |
| 26th of December 1972 | DEATH | Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States (Born 1884) |
| 26th of December 1973 | DEATH | Harold B. Lee, 11th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Born 1899) |
| 26th of December 1974 | DEATH | Jack Benny, American comedian (Born 1894) |
| 26th of December 1974 | DEATH | Farid al-Atrash, Arab composer (Born 1915) |
| 26th of December 1977 | DEATH | Howard Hawks, American film director and writer (Born 1896) |
| 26th of December 1980 | DEATH | Tony Smith, American sculptor (Born 1912) |
| 26th of December 1981 | DEATH | Savitri, Indian actress (Born 1937) |
| 26th of December 1981 | DEATH | Amber Reeves, British feminist writer (Born 1887) |
| 26th of December 1983 | DEATH | Violet Carson, British actress (Born 1898) |
| 26th of December 1985 | DEATH | Dian Fossey, American gorilla specialist (Born 1932) |
| 26th of December 1985 | DEATH | Harold P. Warren, American movie director (d. 1928) |
| 26th of December 1986 | DEATH | Elsa Lanchester, British-born actress (Born 1902) |
| 26th of December 1988 | DEATH | Glenn McCarthy, American oil tycoon and businessman (Born 1907) |
| 26th of December 1989 | DEATH | Doug Harvey, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1924) |
| 26th of December 1990 | DEATH | Gene Callahan, American film art and production designer (Born 1923) |
| 26th of December 1992 | DEATH | Nikita Magaloff, Russian pianist (Born 1912) |
| 26th of December 1994 | DEATH | Parveen Shakir, Pakistani poetess (Born 1952) |
| 26th of December 1997 | DEATH | Cornelius Castoriadis, Greek philosopher and economist (Born 1922) |
| 26th of December 1999 | DEATH | Curtis Mayfield, American musician (Born 1942) |
| 26th of December 1999 | DEATH | Shankar Dayal Sharma, President of India (Born 1918) |
| 26th of December 2000 | DEATH | Jason Robards, American actor (Born 1922) |
| 26th of December 2001 | DEATH | Nigel Hawthorne, English actor (Born 1929) |
| 26th of December 2002 | DEATH | Armand Zildjian, American cymbal manufacturer (Born 1921) |
| 26th of December 2002 | DEATH | Herb Ritts, American photographer (Born 1952) |
| 26th of December 2004 | DEATH | Reggie White, American football player (Born 1961) |
| 26th of December 2004 | DEATH | Marianne Heiberg, Norwegian mediator (Born 1945) |
| 26th of December 2004 | DEATH | Troy Broadbridge, Australian rules footballer (Born 1980) |
| 26th of December 2004 | DEATH | Jonathan Drummond-Webb, South African heart surgeon (Born 1959) |
| 26th of December 2004 | DEATH | Khun Bhumi Jensen, Thai Royal Family member (Born 1983) |
| 26th of December 2004 | DEATH | Sigurd K?hn, Norwegian jazz musician (Born 1959) |
| 26th of December 2004 | DEATH | Aki Sirkesalo, Finnish musician (Born 1962) |
| 26th of December 2004 | DEATH | Sir Angus Ogilvy, British businessman (Born 1928) |
| 26th of December 2004 | DEATH | Mieszko Talarczyk, Polish-born Swedish musician (Nasum) (Born 1974) |
| 26th of December 2005 | DEATH | Muriel Costa-Greenspon, American mezzo-soprano (Born 1937) |
| 26th of December 2005 | DEATH | Kerry Packer, Australian businessman (Born 1937) |
| 26th of December 2005 | DEATH | Erich Topp, German submarine commander (Born 1914) |
| 26th of December 2005 | DEATH | Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (Born 1948) |
| 26th of December 2006 | DEATH | Ivar Formo, Norwegian skier (Born 1951) |
| 26th of December 2006 | DEATH | Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States (Born 1913) |
| 26th of December 2007 | DEATH | John A. Garraty, American author (Born 1920) |
| 26th of December 2007 | DEATH | Joe Dolan, Irish entertainer (Born 1943) |
| 26th of December 2007 | DEATH | Stu Nahan, American sportscaster (Born 1926) |
| 26th of December 2008 | DEATH | Gosta Krantz, Swedish actor (Born 1925) |
| 26th of December 2009 | DEATH | Felix Wurman, American cellist and composer (Born 1958) |
| 26th of December 2010 | DEATH | Teena Marie, American singer and composer (Born 1956) |
| 26th of December 2010 | DEATH | Edward Bhengu, South African activist (Born 1934) |