Assuming you mean December 25th, then...

795 - Pope Adrian I
820 - Leo V, Byzantine Emperor (b. 775)
1156 - Peter the Venerable, French Benedictine abbot of Cluny (b. c.1092)
1635 - Samuel de Champlain, French explorer (b. 1567)
1676 - Matthew Hale, English jurist (b. 1609)
1676 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English soldier (b. 1592)
1683 - Kara Mustafa, Ottoman general (b. 1634)
1758 - James Hervey, English clergyman (b. 1714)
1763 - Suraj Mal, Sinsiwar Jat ruler of Bharatpur (b. 1707)
1765 - Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian and natural scientist (b. 1698)
1784 - Yosa Buson, Japanese painter (b. 1716)
1824 - Barbara Juliana, Baroness von Krüdener, Russian writer (b. 1764)
1868 - Linus Yale, Jr., American mechanical engineer and inventor (b. 1821)
1875 - Young Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (b. 1851)
1880 - Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss jurist (b. 1828)
1916 - St. Albert Chmielowski, Polish Catholic saint (b. 1845)
1921 - Vladimir Korolenko, Russian writer (b. 1853)
1925 - Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst (b. 1877)
1926 - Emperor Taishō of Japan (b. 1879)
1933 - Francesc Macià, Catalonian statesman (b. 1859)
1935 - Paul Bourget, French novelist and critic (b. 1852)
1938 - Karel Čapek, Czech author (b. 1890)
1940 - Agnes Ayres, American actress (b. 1898)
1944 - George Steer, British journalist (b. 1909)
1946 - W. C. Fields, American comedian (b. 1880)
1947 - Gaspar G. Bacon, American politician (b. 1886)
1949 - Leon Schlesinger, American film producer (b. 1884)
1950 - Neil Francis Hawkins, British fascist (b. 1903)
1952 - Margrethe Mather, photographer (b. 1886)
1953 - Patsy Donovan, Irish-born American baseball player (b. 1865)
1954 - Johnny Ace, American singer (b. 1929)
1956 - Robert Walser, Swiss writer (b. 1878)
1961 - Otto Loewi, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1873)
1961 - Owen Brewster, American politician (b. 1888)
1963 - Tristan Tzara, Romanian writer (b. 1896)
1973 - İsmet İnönü, Turkish statesman (b. 1884)
1973 - Gabriel Voisin, French aviator (b. 1880)
1975 - Gaston Gallimard, French publisher (b. 1881)
1977 - Charlie Chaplin, English actor and film director (b. 1889)
1979 - Joan Blondell, American actress (b. 1906)
1979 - Jordi Bonet, Quebec muralist and sculptor (b. 1932)
1983 - Joan Miró, Catalan painter (b. 1893)
1988 - Ooka Shohei, Japanese novelist (b. 1909)
1988 - Edward Pelham-Clinton, 10th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (b. 1920)
1989 - Nicolae Ceauşescu, Romanian dictator (b. 1918)
1989 - Elena Ceauşescu, Romanian politician (b. 1916)
1989 - Billy Martin, American baseball manager (b. 1928)
1992 - Monica Dickens, British writer (b. 1915)
1993 - Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (b. 1899)
1994 - Zail Singh, President of India (b. 1916)
1995 - Dean Martin, American singer (b. 1917)
1995 - Emmanuel Levinas, French philosopher (b. 1906)
1996 - JonBenet Ramsey, American beauty queen and murder victim (b. 1990)
1997 - Anatoli Boukreev, Kazakh mountaineer (b. 1958)
1997 - Denver Pyle, American actor (b. 1920)
1998 - Bryan MacLean, American musician and songwriter (Love) (b. 1946)
1998 - John Pulman, English snooker player (b. 1926)
1999 - Peter Jeffrey, English actor (b. 1929)
2000 - Neil Hawke, Australian cricketer and footballer (b. 1939)
2000 - Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher (b. 1908)
2002 - William T. Orr, American television producer (b. 1917)
2003 - Nicholas Mavroules, American politician (b. 1929)
2004 - Gennady Strekalov, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1940)
2005 - Derek Bailey, English guitar virtuoso (b. 1930)
2005 - Birgit Nilsson, Swedish opera singer (b. 1918)
2005 - Robert Barbers, Philippine senator (b. 1944)
2006 - James Brown, American singer (b. 1933)
2006 - Hiroaki Hidaka, Japanese serial killer (b. 1962)
2007 - Desmond Barrick, English Cricketer (b. 1927)
2007 - Mighty King Kong, Kenyan reggae musician. (b. 1973)
2007 - Jim Beauchamp, American baseball player (b. 1939)
2008 - Eartha Kitt, American actress and singer (b. 1927)
2009 - Vic Chesnutt, American singer and songwriter (b. 1964)

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