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| December 26th, 2007 (December 26 2007) | Death | John A. Garraty, 87, American biographer (born in 1920) | |
| December 26th, 2007 (December 26 2007) | Death | Stu Nahan, American Sportscaster (born in 1926) | |
| December 26th, 2007 (December 26 2007) | Death | Joe Dolan, 64, Irish singer and entertainer (born in 1943) | |
| December 26th, 2006 (December 26 2006) | Event | The 2006 Hengchun earthquake with 7.1 magnitude hit Taiwan. | |
| December 26th, 2006 (December 26 2006) | Death | Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States (born in 1913) | Gerald Ford Quotes |
| December 26th, 2006 (December 26 2006) | Death | Ivar Formo, Norwegian skier (born in 1951) | |
| December 26th, 2005 (December 26 2005) | Event | Boxing Day shooting on a busy shopping street in Toronto. | |
| December 26th, 2005 (December 26 2005) | Death | Erich Topp, German submarine commander (born in 1914) | |
| December 26th, 2005 (December 26 2005) | Death | Muriel Costa-Greenspon, American mezzo-soprano (born in 1937) | |
| December 26th, 2005 (December 26 2005) | Death | Kerry Packer, Australian businessman (born in 1937) | |
| December 26th, 2005 (December 26 2005) | Death | Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (born in 1948) | |
| December 26th, 2004 (December 26 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 230,000 people. | |
| December 26th, 2004 (December 26 2004) | Death | Sir Angus Ogilvy, British businessman, husband of Princess Alexandra of Kent (born in 1928) | |
| December 26th, 2004 (December 26 2004) | Death | Marianne Heiberg, Norwegian mediator (born in 1945) | |
| December 26th, 2004 (December 26 2004) | Death | Jonathan Drummond-Webb, South African pediatric heart surgeon (born in 1959) | |
| December 26th, 2004 (December 26 2004) | Death | Sigurd Kohn, Norwegian jazz musician, in 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (born in 1959) | |
| December 26th, 2004 (December 26 2004) | Death | Reggie White, American football player (born in 1961) | Reggie White Quotes |
| December 26th, 2004 (December 26 2004) | Death | Aki Sirkesalo, Finnish musician, in 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (born in 1962) | |
| December 26th, 2004 (December 26 2004) | Death | Mieszko Talarczyk, Lead singer/Guitarist of grindcore band, Nasum, in 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (born in 1974) | |
| December 26th, 2004 (December 26 2004) | Death | Troy Broadbridge, Australian rules footballer, in 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (born in 1980) | |
| December 26th, 2003 (December 26 2003) | Event | A strong magnitude 6.6 earthquake devastates southeast Iranian city of Bam, killing tens of thousands and destroying the citadel of Arg-e Bam. | |
| December 26th, 2002 (December 26 2002) | Death | Herb Ritts, American photographer (born in 1952) | |
| December 26th, 2002 (December 26 2002) | Death | Armand Zildjian, American cymbal manufacturer (born in 1921) | |
| December 26th, 2001 (December 26 2001) | Death | Nigel Hawthorne, English actor (born in 1929) | |
| December 26th, 2000 (December 26 2000) | Death | Jason Robards, American actor (born in 1922) | |
| December 26th, 1999 (December 26 1999) | Event | Severe weather in France kills over 100 people and causes extensive damage to property, trees and the French national power grid (see Lothar). | |
| December 26th, 1999 (December 26 1999) | Death | Curtis Mayfield, American musician (born in 1942) | Curtis Mayfield Quotes |
| December 26th, 1999 (December 26 1999) | Death | Shankar Dayal Sharma, President of India (born in 1918) | |
| December 26th, 1998 (December 26 1998) | Event | Iraq announces its intention to fire upon U.S. and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern no-fly zones. | |
| December 26th, 1998 (December 26 1998) | Event | Severe gales over Ireland, northern England, and southern Scotland cause widespread disruption and widespread power outages in Northern Ireland and southern Scotland. | |
| December 26th, 1997 (December 26 1997) | Event | The Soufriere Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat explodes, creating a small tsunami offshore. | |
| December 26th, 1997 (December 26 1997) | Death | Cornelius Castoriadis, Greek philosopher and economist (born in 1922) | Philo Quotes |
| December 26th, 1996 (December 26 1996) | Event | Start of the largest strike in South Korean history. | |
| December 26th, 1996 (December 26 1996) | Event | The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification goes into force. | |
| December 26th, 1996 (December 26 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. | |
| December 26th, 1996 (December 26 1996) | Death | JonBenet Ramsey, noted murder victim (born in 1990) | |
| December 26th, 1995 (December 26 1995) | Birth | Zach Mills, American actor | |
| December 26th, 1992 (December 26 1992) | Death | Nikita Magaloff, Russian pianist (born in 1912) | |
| December 26th, 1991 (December 26 1991) | Event | The Supreme Soviet meets and formally dissolves the USSR. | |
| December 26th, 1990 (December 26 1990) | Birth | Aaron Ramsey, Welsh footballer | |
| December 26th, 1989 (December 26 1989) | Death | Doug Harvey, Canadian ice hockey player (born in 1924) | |
| December 26th, 1988 (December 26 1988) | Event | The Nanjing Anti-African protests in Nanjing, the People s Republic of China begin. | |
| December 26th, 1988 (December 26 1988) | Death | Glenn McCarthy, American oil tycoon and businessman (born in 1907) | |
| December 26th, 1987 (December 26 1987) | Birth | Adam Walker, British flautist | |
| December 26th, 1986 (December 26 1986) | Event | The first long-running American television soap opera, Search for Tomorrow, airs its final episode after thirty-five years on the air. | |
| December 26th, 1986 (December 26 1986) | Death | Elsa Lanchester, British-born actress (born in 1902) | |
| December 26th, 1985 (December 26 1985) | Birth | Yuu Shirota, Japanese Idol | |
| December 26th, 1985 (December 26 1985) | Death | Dian Fossey, American gorilla specialist (born in 1932) | |
| December 26th, 1985 (December 26 1985) | Death | Harold P. Warren, American movie director (died in 1928) | |
| December 26th, 1984 (December 26 1984) | Birth | Alex Schwazer, Italian race walker | |
| December 26th, 1983 (December 26 1983) | Death | Violet Carson, British actress (born in 1898) | |
| December 26th, 1982 (December 26 1982) | Event | Time Magazine s Man of the Year is for the first time a non-human, the personal computer. | |
| December 26th, 1982 (December 26 1982) | Birth | Kenneth Darby, National Football League player | |
| December 26th, 1982 (December 26 1982) | Birth | Oguri Shun, Japanese Actor/Model | |
| December 26th, 1981 (December 26 1981) | Death | Savithri, Indian actress (born in 1937) | |
| December 26th, 1981 (December 26 1981) | Death | Amber Reeves, feminist writer (born in 1887) | |
| December 26th, 1980 (December 26 1980) | Event | Aeroflot puts the Ilyushin Il-86 into service. | |
| December 26th, 1980 (December 26 1980) | Birth | Todd Dunivant, American soccer player | |
| December 26th, 1980 (December 26 1980) | Death | Tony Smith, American sculptor (born in 1912) | |
| December 26th, 1979 (December 26 1979) | Event | Soviet Special forces take over presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan. | |
| December 26th, 1979 (December 26 1979) | Event | Opening night of the Concerts for the People of Kampuchea at the Hammersmith Odeon; a benefit concert for the citizens of Cambodia who were victims of dictator Pol Pot. | |
| December 26th, 1979 (December 26 1979) | Birth | Chris Daughtry, American singer | |
| December 26th, 1979 (December 26 1979) | Birth | Fabian Carini, Uruguayan footballer | |
| December 26th, 1979 (December 26 1979) | Birth | Mzbel, Ghanaian singer | |
| December 26th, 1979 (December 26 1979) | Birth | Dimitry Vassiliev, Russian ski jumper | |
| December 26th, 1978 (December 26 1978) | Birth | Kaoru Sugayama, Japanese volleyball player | |
| December 26th, 1977 (December 26 1977) | Death | Howard Hawks, American film director and writer (born in 1896) | |
| December 26th, 1976 (December 26 1976) | Event | The Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist-Leninist) is founded. | |
| December 26th, 1976 (December 26 1976) | Birth | Lea De Mae, Czech actress (died in 2004) | |
| December 26th, 1975 (December 26 1975) | Event | The Tupolev Tu-144 goes into service in Soviet Union. | |
| December 26th, 1975 (December 26 1975) | Birth | Marcelo Rios, Chilean tennis player | |
| December 26th, 1974 (December 26 1974) | Event | Salyut 4 is launched. | |
| December 26th, 1974 (December 26 1974) | Birth | Josie Ho, Hong Kong singer and actor | |
| December 26th, 1974 (December 26 1974) | Birth | Joshua John Miller, American actor | |
| December 26th, 1974 (December 26 1974) | Death | Farid al-Atrash, Arab composer, singer, virtuoso oud player, and actor (born in 1915) | |
| December 26th, 1974 (December 26 1974) | Death | Jack Benny, American comedian (born in 1894) | Jack Benny Quotes |
| December 26th, 1973 (December 26 1973) | Event | Comet Kohoutek reaches perihelion but is not as spectacular a display as expected. | |
| December 26th, 1973 (December 26 1973) | Event | Soyuz 13 lands on earth after a week in orbit. | |
| December 26th, 1973 (December 26 1973) | Birth | Reichen Lehmkuhl, American television personality | |
| December 26th, 1973 (December 26 1973) | Death | Harold B. Lee, 11th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born in 1899) | Jesus Christ Quotes |
| December 26th, 1972 (December 26 1972) | Birth | Esteban Fuertes, Argentine footballer | |
| December 26th, 1972 (December 26 1972) | Birth | Robert Muchamore, Children s Author | |
| December 26th, 1972 (December 26 1972) | Death | Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States (born in 1884) | Harry S. Truman Quotes |
| December 26th, 1971 (December 26 1971) | Birth | Jared Leto, American actor and singer (30 Seconds to Mars) | Jared Leto Quotes |
| December 26th, 1971 (December 26 1971) | Birth | Jonathan M. Parisen, American film director | |
| December 26th, 1971 (December 26 1971) | Birth | Mika Nurmela, Finnish footballer | |
| December 26th, 1970 (December 26 1970) | Birth | James Mercer, musician (The Shins) | |
| December 26th, 1970 (December 26 1970) | Birth | Krissada Terrence, Thai singer and actor | |
| December 26th, 1970 (December 26 1970) | Death | Lillian Board, British athlete (born in 1948) | |
| December 26th, 1968 (December 26 1968) | Birth | Dennis Knight, American professional wrestler | |
| December 26th, 1966 (December 26 1966) | Event | The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach. | |
| December 26th, 1966 (December 26 1966) | Birth | Sandra Taylor, American model and actress | |
| December 26th, 1966 (December 26 1966) | Death | Herbert Otto Gille, German SS officer (born in 1897) | |
| December 26th, 1964 (December 26 1964) | Birth | Elizabeth Kostova, American author | |
| December 26th, 1963 (December 26 1963) | Birth | Lars Ulrich, Danish-born drummer (Metallica) | |
| December 26th, 1963 (December 26 1963) | Death | George Wagner (Gorgeous George), American professional wrestler and television personality (born in 1915) | |
| December 26th, 1961 (December 26 1961) | Birth | John Lynch, Irish actor | |
| December 26th, 1960 (December 26 1960) | Birth | Temuera Morrison, New Zealand actor | |
| December 26th, 1960 (December 26 1960) | Death | Watsuji Tetsuro, Japanese philosopher (born in 1889) | Philo Quotes |
| December 26th, 1959 (December 26 1959) | Birth | Koji Morimoto, Japanese animated film director | |
| December 26th, 1958 (December 26 1958) | Birth | Adrian Newey, British engineer | |
| December 26th, 1957 (December 26 1957) | Birth | Dermot Murnaghan, British broadcaster | |
| December 26th, 1957 (December 26 1957) | Death | Charles Pathe, French film and recording industries pioneer (born in 1863) | |
| December 26th, 1956 (December 26 1956) | Birth | David Sedaris, American essayist | David Sedaris Quotes |
| December 26th, 1955 (December 26 1955) | Birth | Evan Bayh, American politician | |
| December 26th, 1954 (December 26 1954) | Birth | Ozzie Smith, American baseball player | Seba Smith Quotes |
| December 26th, 1954 (December 26 1954) | Birth | Steve Steen, English actor | |
| December 26th, 1953 (December 26 1953) | Birth | Henning Schmitz, German musician (Kraftwerk) | |
| December 26th, 1953 (December 26 1953) | Birth | Leonel Fernandez, Dominican politician and current President of the Dominican Republic | |
| December 26th, 1951 (December 26 1951) | Birth | Richard Skinner, British radio presenter | |
| December 26th, 1949 (December 26 1949) | Birth | Jose Ramos-Horta, President of East Timor, Nobel laureate | |
| December 26th, 1948 (December 26 1948) | Event | Cardinal Mindszenty is arrested in Hungary and accused of treason and conspiracy. | |
| December 26th, 1948 (December 26 1948) | Birth | Candy Crowley, American journalist | |
| December 26th, 1947 (December 26 1947) | Birth | Carlton Fisk, American baseball player | |
| December 26th, 1947 (December 26 1947) | Birth | James T. Conway, 34th Commandant of the United States Marine Corps | |
| December 26th, 1945 (December 26 1945) | Event | CFP franc and CFA franc are created. | |
| December 26th, 1945 (December 26 1945) | Birth | John Walsh, American talk show host | |
| December 26th, 1944 (December 26 1944) | Event | World War II: U.S. troops repulse German forces at Bastogne. | |
| December 26th, 1944 (December 26 1944) | Birth | Jane Lapotaire, British actress | |
| December 26th, 1943 (December 26 1943) | Event | World War II: The German warship Scharnhorst sinks off the coast of North Cape in Norway after being attacked by the Royal Navy late the previous evening. | |
| December 26th, 1942 (December 26 1942) | Birth | Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arevalo, Guatemalan president | |
| December 26th, 1942 (December 26 1942) | Birth | Gray Davis, former Governor of California | |
| December 26th, 1941 (December 26 1941) | Birth | Daniel Schmid, Swiss film director (died in 2006) | |
| December 26th, 1940 (December 26 1940) | Birth | Edward C. Prescott, American economist, Nobel laureate | |
| December 26th, 1940 (December 26 1940) | Birth | Phil Spector, American music producer | |
| December 26th, 1940 (December 26 1940) | Birth | Ray Sadecki, Major league baseball pitcher | |
| December 26th, 1939 (December 26 1939) | Birth | Fred Schepisi, Australian film director | |
| December 26th, 1938 (December 26 1938) | Birth | Bahram Beizai, Iranian playwright and film director | |
| December 26th, 1938 (December 26 1938) | Birth | Alamgir Kabir, Bangladeshi film director (died in 1989) | Kabir Quotes |
| December 26th, 1937 (December 26 1937) | Birth | John Horton Conway, British mathematician | |
| December 26th, 1937 (December 26 1937) | Birth | Jay Heimowitz, American poker player | |
| December 26th, 1935 (December 26 1935) | Birth | Abdul "Duke" Fakir, American singer (The Four Tops) | |
| December 26th, 1935 (December 26 1935) | Birth | Norm Ullman, Canadian hockey player | |
| December 26th, 1933 (December 26 1933) | Event | The Nissan Motor Company is organized in Tokyo, Japan. | |
| December 26th, 1933 (December 26 1933) | Event | FM radio is patented. | |
| December 26th, 1933 (December 26 1933) | Birth | Ugly Dave Gray, Australian television personality | |
| December 26th, 1933 (December 26 1933) | Birth | Caroll Spinney, American puppeteer | |
| December 26th, 1933 (December 26 1933) | Death | Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian literary critic and politician (born in 1875) | |
| December 26th, 1931 (December 26 1931) | Death | Melvil Dewey, inventor of the Dewey decimal classification (born in 1851) | |
| December 26th, 1930 (December 26 1930) | Birth | Donald Moffat, English-born actor | |
| December 26th, 1930 (December 26 1930) | Birth | Jean Ferrat, French singer and songwriter | |
| December 26th, 1929 (December 26 1929) | Birth | Regine, French singer and nightclub owner | |
| December 26th, 1927 (December 26 1927) | Birth | Alan King, American comedian (died in 2004) | |
| December 26th, 1927 (December 26 1927) | Birth | Denis Quilley, British actor (died in 2003) | |
| December 26th, 1927 (December 26 1927) | Birth | Stu Miller, baseball player | |
| December 26th, 1925 (December 26 1925) | Event | The Communist Party of India is founded. | |
| December 26th, 1925 (December 26 1925) | Event | Turkey adopts the Gregorian Calendar. | |
| December 26th, 1924 (December 26 1924) | Birth | Frank Broyles, American athlete, long time athletic director of the University of Arkansas. | |
| December 26th, 1923 (December 26 1923) | Death | Dietrich Eckart, German Nazi politician (born in 1868) | |
| December 26th, 1922 (December 26 1922) | Birth | Richard Mayes, English actor (died in 2006) | |
| December 26th, 1921 (December 26 1921) | Birth | Steve Allen, American comedian (died in 2000) | Steve Allen Quotes |
| December 26th, 1919 (December 26 1919) | Event | Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee. | Babe Ruth Quotes |
| December 26th, 1918 (December 26 1918) | Birth | George Rallis, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (died in 2006) | |
| December 26th, 1916 (December 26 1916) | Event | Joseph Joffre is made Marshal of France. | |
| December 26th, 1914 (December 26 1914) | Birth | Richard Widmark, American actor (died in 2008) | |
| December 26th, 1914 (December 26 1914) | Birth | Annemarie Wendl, German actress (died in 2006) | |
| December 26th, 1913 (December 26 1913) | Birth | Frank Swift, English footballer and journalist (died in 1958) | |
| December 26th, 1911 (December 26 1911) | Birth | Arsenio Lacson, Filipino politician and sportswriter (died in 1962) | |
| December 26th, 1909 (December 26 1909) | Death | Frederic Remington, American artist (born in 1861) | |
| December 26th, 1906 (December 26 1906) | Birth | Imperio Argentina, Argentine actress and singer (died in 2003) | |
| December 26th, 1904 (December 26 1904) | Birth | Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer (died in 1980) | |
| December 26th, 1903 (December 26 1903) | Birth | Elisha Cook Jr., American actor (died in 1995) | |
| December 26th, 1902 (December 26 1902) | Birth | Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan, Russian painter (died in 1980) | |
| December 26th, 1898 (December 26 1898) | Event | Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium. | Marie Curie Quotes |
| December 26th, 1894 (December 26 1894) | Birth | Jean Toomer, American writer (died in 1967) | Jean Toomer Quotes |
| December 26th, 1893 (December 26 1893) | Birth | Mao Zedong, Chinese military leader and politician (died in 1976) | Mao Zedong Quotes |
| December 26th, 1891 (December 26 1891) | Birth | Henry Miller, American writer (died in 1980) | Henry Miller Quotes |
| December 26th, 1890 (December 26 1890) | Birth | Uncle Charlie Osborne, American fiddler (died in 1992) | |
| December 26th, 1890 (December 26 1890) | Death | Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (born in 1822) | |
| December 26th, 1887 (December 26 1887) | Birth | Arthur Ernest Percival, British Army officer (died in 1966) | |
| December 26th, 1883 (December 26 1883) | Event | The Harbour Grace Affray between Irish Catholics and Protestant Orangemen causes five deaths in Newfoundland. | |
| December 26th, 1883 (December 26 1883) | Birth | Maurice Utrillo, French artist (died in 1955) | |
| December 26th, 1873 (December 26 1873) | Birth | Thomas Wass, English cricketer (died in 1953) | |
| December 26th, 1872 (December 26 1872) | Birth | Norman Angell, British politician, Nobel laureate (died in 1967) | Norman Angell Quotes |
| December 26th, 1871 (December 26 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. | |
| December 26th, 1870 (December 26 1870) | Event | The 12.8-km long Frejus Rail Tunnel through the Alps is completed. | |
| December 26th, 1869 (December 26 1869) | Death | Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille, French physiologist (born in 1797) | |
| December 26th, 1862 (December 26 1862) | Event | American Civil War: The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou begins. | |
| December 26th, 1862 (December 26 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. | |
| December 26th, 1862 (December 26 1862) | Event | The largest mass-hanging in U.S. history took place in Mankato, Minnesota, killing 39. | |
| December 26th, 1861 (December 26 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. | |
| December 26th, 1860 (December 26 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. | |
| December 26th, 1859 (December 26 1859) | Birth | William Stephens, U.S. political figure (died in 1944) | |
| December 26th, 1853 (December 26 1853) | Birth | Rene Bazin, French novelist (died in 1932) | |
| December 26th, 1848 (December 26 1848) | Event | The Phi Delta Theta fraternity is founded at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. | |
| December 26th, 1837 (December 26 1837) | Birth | George Dewey, U. S. admiral (died in 1917) | |
| December 26th, 1837 (December 26 1837) | Birth | Morgan Bulkeley, American politician and baseball commissioner (died in 1922) | |
| December 26th, 1825 (December 26 1825) | Event | Several Imperial Russia army officers lead circa 3000 soldiers on the Senate Square in the failed Decembrist uprising. | |
| December 26th, 1822 (December 26 1822) | Birth | Dion Boucicault, Irish actor and playwright (died in 1890) | |
| December 26th, 1819 (December 26 1819) | Birth | E. D. E. N. Southworth, American novelist (died in 1899) | |
| December 26th, 1811 (December 26 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. | Will Smith Quotes |
| December 26th, 1806 (December 26 1806) | Event | Battles of Pultusk and Golymin: Russian forces hold French forces under Napoleon. | |
| December 26th, 1805 (December 26 1805) | Event | Austria and France sign the Treaty of Pressburg. | |
| December 26th, 1793 (December 26 1793) | Event | Battle of Geisberg: French defeat Austrians. | |
| December 26th, 1793 (December 26 1793) | Event | The wedding of Prince Friedrich Ludwig of Prussia and Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz takes place. | |
| December 26th, 1792 (December 26 1792) | Event | The final trial of Louis XVI of France begins in Paris. | |
| December 26th, 1791 (December 26 1791) | Birth | Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor (died in 1871) | Charles Babbage Quotes |
| December 26th, 1790 (December 26 1790) | Event | Louis XVI of France gives his public assent to Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution. | |
| December 26th, 1786 (December 26 1786) | Death | Gasparo Gozzi, Italian critic and dramatist (born in 1713) | |
| December 26th, 1784 (December 26 1784) | Death | Seth Warner, American revolutionary leader (born in 1743) | |
| December 26th, 1782 (December 26 1782) | Birth | Filaret Drozdov, Metropolitan of Moscow (died in 1867) | |
| December 26th, 1780 (December 26 1780) | Birth | Mary Fairfax Somerville, British mathematician (died in 1872) | |
| December 26th, 1780 (December 26 1780) | Death | John Fothergill, English physician (born in 1712) | |
| December 26th, 1776 (December 26 1776) | Event | American Revolutionary War: The British are defeated in the Battle of Trenton. | |
| December 26th, 1771 (December 26 1771) | Birth | Julie Clary, queen consort of Naples (died in 1845) | |
| December 26th, 1771 (December 26 1771) | Death | Claude Adrien Helvetius, French philosopher (born in 1715) | Philo Quotes |
| December 26th, 1751 (December 26 1751) | Birth | Clement Hofbauer, Austrian missionary and saint (died in 1820) | |
| December 26th, 1737 (December 26 1737) | Birth | Prince Josias of Coburg, Austrian general (died in 1815) | |
| December 26th, 1731 (December 26 1731) | Death | Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer (born in 1672) | |
| December 26th, 1723 (December 26 1723) | Birth | Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (died in 1807) | |
| December 26th, 1716 (December 26 1716) | Birth | Thomas Gray, English writer (died in 1771) | Thomas Gray Quotes |
| December 26th, 1716 (December 26 1716) | Birth | Jean Francois de Saint-Lambert, French poet (died in 1803) | |
| December 26th, 1687 (December 26 1687) | Birth | Johann Georg Pisendel, German musician (died in 1755) | |
| December 26th, 1666 (December 26 1666) | Birth | Guru Gobind Singh, Tenth Guru of Sikhism (died in 1708) | |
| December 26th, 1646 (December 26 1646) | Birth | Robert Bolling, English settler in Virginia (died in 1709) | |
| December 26th, 1624 (December 26 1624) | Death | Simon Marius, German astronomer (born in 1573) | |
| December 26th, 1620 (December 26 1620) | Event | Elizabeth Bathory s crimes are uncovered. | Elizabeth Bath Quotes |
| December 26th, 1620 (December 26 1620) | Event | Pilgrim Fathers land at what becomes New Plymouth in Massachusetts. | |
| December 26th, 1574 (December 26 1574) | Death | Charles of Guise, French cardinal (born in 1524) | |
| December 26th, 1542 (December 26 1542) | Birth | Tokugawa Ieyasu, unifier of Japan and first Tokugawa Shogun (died in 1616) | |
| December 26th, 1536 (December 26 1536) | Birth | Yi I, Korean Confucian scholar (died in 1584) | |
| December 26th, 1532 (December 26 1532) | Birth | Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar (died in 1576) | |
| December 26th, 1530 (December 26 1530) | Death | Babur, Emperor of the Mogul empire (born in 1483) | |
| December 26th, 1481 (December 26 1481) | Event | Battle of WestbrookHolland defeats troops of Utrecht. | |
| December 26th, 1476 (December 26 1476) | Death | Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan (born in 1444) | |
| December 26th, 1458 (December 26 1458) | Death | Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (born in 1393) | |
| December 26th, 1350 (December 26 1350) | Death | Jean de Marigny, French bishop | |
| December 26th, 1194 (December 26 1194) | Birth | Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (died in 1250) | |
| December 26th, 0418 (December 26 0418) | Death | Pope Zosimus | |
| December 26th, 0268 (December 26 0268) | Death | Pope Dionysius | |
