| 144751 | December 24 | Birth | 1992 – Melissa Suffield, English actress |
| 144752 | December 24 | Birth | 1993 – Mariya Nishiuchi, Japanese model, actress, and singer-songwriter |
| 144753 | December 24 | Birth | 1994 – Miguel Castro, Dominican baseball player |
| 144754 | December 24 | Birth | 1995 – Anett Kontaveit, Estonian tennis player |
| 144755 | December 24 | Birth | 1997 – Marina Chan, Singaporean swimmer |
| 144756 | December 24 | Birth | 2000 – Ethan Bortnick, American singer-songwriter and pianist |
| 144757 | December 24 | Death | 427 – Archbishop Sisinnius I of Constantinople |
| 144758 | December 24 | Death | 1257 – John I, Count of Hainaut (b. 1218) |
| 144759 | December 24 | Death | 1281 – Henry V of Luxembourg, lord of Ligny, count of Arlon, Namur, Luxembourg and Laroche (b. 1216) |
| 144760 | December 24 | Death | 1453 – John Dunstaple, English composer (b. 1390) |
| 144761 | December 24 | Death | 1524 – Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer (b. 1469) |
| 144762 | December 24 | Death | 1635 – Hester Jonas, German midwife (b. 1570) |
| 144763 | December 24 | Death | 1660 – Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (b. 1631) |
| 144764 | December 24 | Death | 1707 – Noël Coypel, French painter (b. 1628) |
| 144765 | December 24 | Death | 1813 – Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (b. 1740) |
| 144766 | December 24 | Death | 1863 – William Makepeace Thackeray, English author and poet (b. 1811) |
| 144767 | December 24 | Death | 1865 – Charles Lock Eastlake, English painter and historian (b. 1793) |
| 144768 | December 24 | Death | 1868 – Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (b. 1802) |
| 144769 | December 24 | Death | 1872 – William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish physicist and engineer (b. 1820) |
| 144770 | December 24 | Death | 1873 – Johns Hopkins, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1795) |
| 144771 | December 24 | Death | 1889 – Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, Dutch clergyman and poet (b. 1819) |
| 144772 | December 24 | Death | 1898 – Charbel Makhluf, Lebanese priest and saint (b. 1828) |
| 144773 | December 24 | Death | 1914 – John Muir, Scottish-American geologist, botanist, and author, founded Sierra Club (b. 1838) |
| 144774 | December 24 | Death | 1920 – Stephen Mosher Wood, American politician (b. 1832) |
| 144775 | December 24 | Death | 1926 – Wesley Coe, American shot putter, hammer thrower, and discus thrower (b. 1879) |
| 144776 | December 24 | Death | 1935 – Alban Berg, Austrian composer (b. 1885) |
| 144777 | December 24 | Death | 1938 – Bruno Taut, German architect and urban planner (b. 1880) |
| 144778 | December 24 | Death | 1941 – Siegfried Alkan, German composer (b. 1858) |
| 144779 | December 24 | Death | 1942 – François Darlan, French admiral and politician, 122nd Prime Minister of France (b. 1881) |
| 144780 | December 24 | Death | 1947 – Charles Gondouin, French rugby player and tug of war competitor (b. 1875) |