| 144541 | December 24 | Birth | 1812 – Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal, German lawyer and jurist (d. 1894) |
| 144542 | December 24 | Birth | 1818 – James Prescott Joule, English physicist and brewer (d. 1889) |
| 144543 | December 24 | Birth | 1822 – Matthew Arnold, English poet and critic (d. 1888) |
| 144544 | December 24 | Birth | 1827 – Alexander von Oettingen, German theologian and statistician (d. 1905) |
| 144545 | December 24 | Birth | 1837 – Empress Elisabeth of Austria (d. 1898) |
| 144546 | December 24 | Birth | 1837 – Cosima Wagner, German daughter of Franz Liszt (d. 1930) |
| 144547 | December 24 | Birth | 1843 – Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet and playwright (d. 1886) |
| 144548 | December 24 | Birth | 1845 – George I of Greece (d. 1913) |
| 144549 | December 24 | Birth | 1867 – Tevfik Fikret, Turkish poet and educator (d. 1915) |
| 144550 | December 24 | Birth | 1867 – Kantarō Suzuki, Japanese admiral, 42nd Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1948) |
| 144551 | December 24 | Birth | 1868 – Emanuel Lasker, German chess player (d. 1941) |
| 144552 | December 24 | Birth | 1869 – Henriette Roland Holst, Dutch poet, playwright, and politician (d. 1952) |
| 144553 | December 24 | Birth | 1872 – Adam Gunn, Scottish-American decathlete (d. 1935) |
| 144554 | December 24 | Birth | 1872 – Frederick Semple, American golfer and tennis player (d. 1927) |
| 144555 | December 24 | Birth | 1875 – Émile Wegelin, French rower (d. 1962) |
| 144556 | December 24 | Birth | 1877 – Sigrid Schauman, Finnish painter and critic (d. 1979) |
| 144557 | December 24 | Birth | 1879 – Otto Fickeisen, German rower (d. 1963) |
| 144558 | December 24 | Birth | 1879 – Émile Nelligan, Canadian poet (d. 1941) |
| 144559 | December 24 | Birth | 1879 – Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (d. 1952) |
| 144560 | December 24 | Birth | 1880 – Johnny Gruelle, American author and illustrator (d. 1939) |
| 144561 | December 24 | Birth | 1881 – Charles Wakefield Cadman, American composer and critic (d. 1946) |
| 144562 | December 24 | Birth | 1882 – Hans Rebane, Estonian journalist and politician, 8th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1961) |
| 144563 | December 24 | Birth | 1885 – Paul Manship, American sculptor (d. 1966) |
| 144564 | December 24 | Birth | 1886 – Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-American actor, director, and producer (d. 1962) |
| 144565 | December 24 | Birth | 1887 – Louis Jouvet, French actor and producer (d. 1951) |
| 144566 | December 24 | Birth | 1891 – Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky, Russian illustrator (d. 1970) |
| 144567 | December 24 | Birth | 1893 – Ruth Chatterton, American actress and singer (d. 1961) |
| 144568 | December 24 | Birth | 1893 – Harry Warren, American pianist and composer (d. 1981) |
| 144569 | December 24 | Birth | 1894 – Georges Guynemer, French captain and pilot (d. 1917) |
| 144570 | December 24 | Birth | 1894 – Jack Thayer, American businessman (d. 1945) |