December 25 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on December 25, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♑︎ Capricorn
Dec 22 – Jan 19
Birth stone
Turquoise
Birth flower
Narcissus
How common
#366 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous December 25 birthdays
Clara Barton · American Civil War nurse1821
Muhammad Ali Jinnah · Politician and the founder of Pakistan1876
Adolf Windaus · German chemist1876
Michael Curtiz · Hungarian-American director1886
Humphrey Bogart · American actor1899
Ernst Ruska · German physicist1906
Cab Calloway · American jazz singer1907
Louise Bourgeois · French-American artist1911
Ahmed Ben Bella · President of Algeria from 1963 to 19651916
Anwar Sadat · President of Egypt from 1970 to 19811918
Carlos Castaneda · Peruvian-American author1925
Ram Narayan · Indian classical sarangi player1927
Jimmy Buffett · American singer-songwriter1946
Sissy Spacek · American actress1949
Nawaz Sharif · Former prime minister of Pakistan1949
Annie Lennox · Scottish singer-songwriter1954
Justin Trudeau · 23rd prime minister of Canada from 2015 to 20251971
Dido · English singer and songwriter1971
Armin van Buuren · Dutch DJ and record producer1976
Yulia Svyrydenko · Ukrainian politician, Former Prime Minister of Ukraine1985
On this day in history
1809American physician Ephraim McDowell performed the world's first removal of an ovarian tumor.
1990British computer programmer Tim Berners-Lee introduced WorldWideWeb, the world's first web browser and WYSIWYG HTML editor.
1991In a nationally televised speech, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as President of the Soviet Union.
2009A fire destroyed Longford's 19th-century St Mel's Cathedral, considered the "flagship cathedral" of the Irish midlands.
1837Second Seminole War: American general Zachary Taylor leads 1,100 troops against the Seminoles at the Battle of Lake Okeechobee.
1868Pardons for ex-Confederates: United States President Andrew Johnson grants an unconditional pardon to all Confederate veterans.
1927The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng, a revolutionary socialist political party that sought Vietnamese independence from French colonial rule, was formed in Hanoi.
1941Second World War: The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong began when Mark Aitchison Young, the Governor of Hong Kong, surrendered the territory to Japan after 18 days of fierce fighting.
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