History Deaths on December 24

Johannes Heesters, Dutch-German entertainer (b. 1903)

#Johannes_Heesters

Letty Jimenez Magsanoc, Filipino journalist (b. 1941)

#Letty_Jimenez_Magsanoc

Stanis?aw B?eszy?ski, Polish-German entomologist and lepidopterist (b. 1927)

#Stanis?aw_B?eszy?ski

Rick Parfitt, British musician (b. 1948)

#Rick_Parfitt

Wesley Coe, American shot putter, hammer thrower, and discus thrower (b. 1879)

#Wesley_Coe

Noël Coypel, French painter and educator (b. 1628)

#Noël_Coypel

Joop den Uyl, Dutch journalist, economist, and politician, 45th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1919)

#Joop_den_Uyl

Martha Érika Alonso, first female Governor of Puebla, Mexico, and her husband Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas, former governor; helicopter crash (Alonso b. 1973, Valle b. 1968)

#Martha_Érika_Alonso

Josephine Sabel, American singer and comedian (b. 1866)

#Josephine_Sabel

Frank Stanton, American businessman (b. 1908)

#Frank_Stanton_(executive)

Norman Vincent Peale, American minister and author (b. 1898)

#Norman_Vincent_Peale

Wilhelm Ackermann, German mathematician (b. 1896)

#Wilhelm_Ackermann

H?j? Tokiyori, regent of Japan (b. 1227)

#H?j?_Tokiyori

Johns Hopkins, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1795)

#Johns_Hopkins

Thorbjørn Egner, Norwegian playwright and songwriter (b. 1922)

#Thorbjørn_Egner

Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (b. 1802)

#Adolphe_d'Archiac

William M. Branham, American minister and theologian (b. 1906)

#William_M._Branham

Peyo, Belgian cartoonist, created The Smurfs (b. 1928)

#Peyo

Anna Bochkoltz, German operatic soprano, voice teacher and composer (b. 1815)

#Anna_Bochkoltz

Rafael Caldera, Venezuelan lawyer and politician, 65th President of Venezuela (b. 1916)

#Rafael_Caldera

Claudia Jones, Trinidad-British journalist and activist (b. 1915)

#Claudia_Jones

Frédéric Back, German-Canadian director, animator, and screenwriter (b. 1924)

#Frédéric_Back

Eveline Adelheid von Maydell, German illustrator (b. 1890)

#Eveline_Adelheid_von_Maydell

John Cantius, Polish scholar and theologian (b. 1390)

#John_Cantius

Syl Apps, Canadian ice hockey player and pole vaulter (b. 1915)

#Syl_Apps

Heather Menzies, Canadian-American model and actress (b. 1949)

#Heather_Menzies

Jack Klugman, American actor (b. 1922)

#Jack_Klugman

Stephen Mosher Wood, American lieutenant and politician (b. 1832)

#Stephen_Mosher_Wood

Herbert Harris, American lawyer and politician (b. 1926)

#Herbert_Harris

João Figueiredo, Brazilian general and politician, 30th President of Brazil (b. 1918)

#João_Figueiredo

Frans de Munck, Dutch footballer and manager (b. 1922)

#Frans_de_Munck

John Dunstaple, English composer (b. 1390)

#John_Dunstaple

Marcus Bakker, Dutch journalist and politician (b. 1923)

#Marcus_Bakker

Pierre Péladeau, Canadian businessman, founded Quebecor (b. 1925)

#Pierre_Péladeau

George Michael, American sportscaster (b. 1939)

#George_Michael_(sportscaster)

Siegfried Alkan, German composer (b. 1858)

#Siegfried_Alkan

Harold Pinter, English playwright, screenwriter, director, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1930)

#Harold_Pinter

Flying Hawk, American warrior, educator and historian (b. 1854)

#Flying_Hawk

Richard Adams, English author (b. 1920)

#Richard_Adams

Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (b. 1740)

#Empress_Go-Sakuramachi

Louis Aragon, French author and poet (b. 1897)

#Louis_Aragon

Toshiro Mifune, Chinese-Japanese actor and producer (b. 1920)

#Toshiro_Mifune

Charles Gondouin, French rugby player and tug of war competitor (b. 1875)

#Charles_Gondouin

Bernard Herrmann, American composer and conductor (b. 1911)

#Bernard_Herrmann

Bruno Taut, German architect and urban planner (b. 1880)

#Bruno_Taut

Norma Talmadge, American actress and producer (b. 1894)

#Norma_Talmadge

Rossano Brazzi, Italian actor (b. 1916)

#Rossano_Brazzi

?ura? Brankovi?, Despot of Serbia (b. 1377)

#?ura?_Brankovi?

Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (b. 1631)

#Mary,_Princess_Royal_and_Princess_of_Orange

Maurice Couve de Murville, French soldier and politician, 152nd Prime Minister of France (b. 1907)

#Maurice_Couve_de_Murville

Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, Dutch pastor and poet (b. 1819)

#Jan_Jakob_Lodewijk_ten_Kate

Johnny Oates, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1946)

#Johnny_Oates

William Makepeace Thackeray, English author and poet (b. 1811)

#William_Makepeace_Thackeray

M. G. Ramachandran, Sri Lankan-Indian actor, producer, and politician, 5th Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (b. 1917)

#M._G._Ramachandran

Roger III of Sicily (b. 1175)

#Roger_III_of_Sicily

Jerry Kindall, American baseball player and coach (b. 1935)

#Jerry_Kindall

Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian author and poet (b. 1920)

#Kjell_Aukrust

William C. Schneider, American aerospace engineer (d. 1999)

#William_C._Schneider

Allan McKeown, English-American screenwriter and producer (b. 1946)

#Allan_McKeown

Alban Berg, Austrian composer and educator (b. 1885)

#Alban_Berg

Adriana Olguín, Chilean lawyer and politician, Chilean Minister of Justice (b. 1911)

#Adriana_Olguín

Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer and politician, Governor of Portuguese India (b. 1469)

#Vasco_da_Gama

Peter Lawford, English-American actor (b. 1923)

#Peter_Lawford

Gardner Fox, American author (b. 1911)

#Gardner_Fox

Karl Dönitz, German admiral and politician, President of Germany (b. 1891)

#Karl_Dönitz

Andreas Karlstadt, Christian theologian and reformer (born 1486)

#Andreas_Karlstadt

Walter Bower, Scottish chronicler (b. 1385)

#Walter_Bower

Edward Greenspan, Canadian lawyer and author (b. 1944)

#Edward_Greenspan

John Muir, Scottish-American geologist, botanist, and author, founded Sierra Club (b. 1838)

#John_Muir

Krzysztof Krauze, Polish director and screenwriter (b. 1953)

#Krzysztof_Krauze

Buddy DeFranco, American clarinet player (b. 1923)

#Buddy_DeFranco

Charles Durning, American soldier and actor (b. 1923)

#Charles_Durning

Alfred B. Skar, Norwegian journalist and politician (b. 1896)

#Alfred_B._Skar

B. T. Finniss, Australian politician, 1st Premier of South Australia (b. 1807)

#B._T._Finniss

Leo V the Armenian, Byzantine emperor (b. 775)

#Leo_V_the_Armenian

Orestes Quércia, Brazilian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 28th Governor of São Paulo State (b. 1938)

#Orestes_Quércia

François Darlan, French admiral and politician, 122nd Prime Minister of France (b. 1881)

#François_Darlan

Jainendra Kumar, Indian author (b. 1905)

#Jainendra_Kumar

Charles Lock Eastlake, English painter and historian (b. 1793)

#Charles_Lock_Eastlake

Carlo Fornasini, micropalaeontologist (b. 1854)

#Carlo_Fornasini

José Mariano Salas, Mexican general and politician. President of Mexico (1846, 1859) and regent of the Second Mexican Empire(b. 1797)

#José_Mariano_Salas

Turid Birkeland, Norwegian businesswoman and politician, Norwegian Minister of Culture (b. 1962)

#Turid_Birkeland

Ben Xi, Chinese singer (b.1994)

Liz Smith, English actress (b. 1921)

John M. Goldman, English haematologist and oncologist (b. 1938)

Ian Barbour, Chinese-American author and scholar (b. 1923)

Dennis O'Driscoll, Irish poet and critic (b. 1954)

Richard Rodney Bennett, English-American composer and academic (b. 1936)

Eino Tamberg, Estonian composer and educator (b. 1930)

Elisabeth Beresford, French-English journalist and author (b. 1926)

Gero von Wilpert, German author and academic (b. 1933)

Ralph Harris, British journalist (b. 1921)

George Warrington, American businessman (b. 1952)

Nicholas Pumfrey, English lawyer and judge (b. 1951)

Kenneth Sivertsen, Norwegian guitarist and composer (b. 1961)

Braguinha, Brazilian singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1907)

Jake Thackray, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1938)

John Cooper, English businessman, co-founded the Cooper Car Company (b. 1923)

Bill Bowerman, American runner, coach, and businessman, co-founded Nike, Inc. (b. 1911)

James Komack, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1930)

John Boswell, American historian, author, and academic (b. 1947)

James Mathews, Australian rugby league player (b. 1968)

Bobby LaKind, American singer-songwriter and conga player (b. 1945)

Virginia Sorensen, American author (b. 1912)

Camille Tourville, Canadian-American wrestler and manager (b. 1927)

Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, American lawyer (b. 1904)

Samael Aun Weor, Colombian author and educator (b. 1917)

Fritz Gause, German historian and author (b. 1893)

Gisela Richter, English-American archaeologist and historian (b. 1882)

Maria Koepcke, German-Peruvian ornithologist and zoologist (b. 1924)

Olivia FitzRoy, English soldier and author (b. 1921)

Cortelia Clark, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1907)

Burt Baskin, American businessman, co-founded Baskin-Robbins (b. 1913)

John Black, English businessman (b. 1895)

Robert Hillyer, American poet and academic (b. 1895)

Charbel Makhluf, Lebanese priest and saint (b. 1828)

William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish physicist and engineer (b. 1820)

Friedrich Bernhard Westphal, Danish-German painter (b. 1803)

Hester Jonas, German nurse (b. 1570)

Henry V of Luxembourg (b. 1216)

John I, Count of Hainaut (b. 1218)

Yang Bin, Chinese chancellor

Wang Zhang, Chinese official

Shi Hongzhao, Chinese general

Hedwiga, duchess of Saxony

Archbishop Sisinnius I of Constantinople

Gongsun Shu, emperor of Chengjia