| 144571 | December 24 | Birth | 1895 – E. Roland Harriman, American financier and philanthropist (d. 1978) |
| 144572 | December 24 | Birth | 1895 – Noel Streatfeild, English author (d. 1986) |
| 144573 | December 24 | Birth | 1895 – Marguerite Williams, American geologist and academic (d. 1999) |
| 144574 | December 24 | Birth | 1896 – Jens Oliver Lisberg, Faroese designer of the Flag of the Faroe Islands (d. 1920) |
| 144575 | December 24 | Birth | 1897 – Koto Okubo, Japanese super-centenarian (d. 2013) |
| 144576 | December 24 | Birth | 1897 – Ville Pörhölä, Finnish shot putter and discus thrower (d. 1964) |
| 144577 | December 24 | Birth | 1897 – Väinö Sipilä, Finnish runner (d. 1987) |
| 144578 | December 24 | Birth | 1898 – Baby Dodds, American drummer (d. 1959) |
| 144579 | December 24 | Birth | 1900 – Joey Smallwood, Canadian journalist and politician, 1st Premier of Newfoundland (d. 1991) |
| 144580 | December 24 | Birth | 1903 – Joseph Cornell, American artist (d. 1972) |
| 144581 | December 24 | Birth | 1903 – Ernst Krenkel, Polish-Russian geographer and explorer (d. 1971) |
| 144582 | December 24 | Birth | 1903 – Ava Helen Pauling, American humanitarian and activist (d. 1981) |
| 144583 | December 24 | Birth | 1904 – Joseph M. Juran, Romanian-American engineer and businessman (d. 2008) |
| 144584 | December 24 | Birth | 1905 – Howard Hughes, American businessman, engineer, and pilot (d. 1976) |
| 144585 | December 24 | Birth | 1906 – Franz Waxman, German-American composer (d. 1967) |
| 144586 | December 24 | Birth | 1907 – I. F. Stone, American journalist and author (d. 1989) |
| 144587 | December 24 | Birth | 1910 – Ellen Braumüller, German javelin thrower and triathlete (d. 1991) |
| 144588 | December 24 | Birth | 1910 – Fritz Leiber, American author and poet (d. 1992) |
| 144589 | December 24 | Birth | 1910 – Max Miedinger, Swiss typeface designer, created Helvetica (d. 1980) |
| 144590 | December 24 | Birth | 1913 – Ad Reinhardt, American painter and academic (d. 1967) |
| 144591 | December 24 | Birth | 1914 – Ralph Marterie, Italian-American trumpet player and bandleader (d. 1978) |
| 144592 | December 24 | Birth | 1914 – Herbert Reinecker, German author and screenwriter (d. 2007) |
| 144593 | December 24 | Birth | 1919 – Qateel Shifai, Pakistani poet and songwriter (d. 2001) |
| 144594 | December 24 | Birth | 1920 – Franco Lucentini, Italian author and screenwriter (d. 2002) |
| 144595 | December 24 | Birth | 1920 – Yevgeniya Rudneva, Ukrainian-Russian lieutenant and navigator (d. 1944) |
| 144596 | December 24 | Birth | 1922 – Ava Gardner, American actress and singer (d. 1990) |
| 144597 | December 24 | Birth | 1923 – Michael DiBiase, American wrestler (d. 1969) |
| 144598 | December 24 | Birth | 1923 – George Patton IV, American general (d. 2004) |
| 144599 | December 24 | Birth | 1924 – Lee Dorsey, American singer-songwriter (d. 1986) |
| 144600 | December 24 | Birth | 1924 – Abdirizak Haji Hussein, Somalian soldier and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Somalia (d. 2014) |