| 144931 | December 25 | Birth | 1716 – Johann Jakob Reiske, German physician and scholar (d. 1774) |
| 144932 | December 25 | Birth | 1717 – Pope Pius VI (d. 1799) |
| 144933 | December 25 | Birth | 1728 – Johann Adam Hiller, German composer and conductor (d. 1804) |
| 144934 | December 25 | Birth | 1730 – Philip Mazzei, Italian-American physician and philosopher (d. 1816) |
| 144935 | December 25 | Birth | 1742 – Charlotte von Stein, German assistant of Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (d. 1827) |
| 144936 | December 25 | Birth | 1745 – Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Caribbean-French violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1799) |
| 144937 | December 25 | Birth | 1757 – Benjamin Pierce, American general and politician, 17th Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1839) |
| 144938 | December 25 | Birth | 1763 – Claude Chappe, French engineer (d. 1805) |
| 144939 | December 25 | Birth | 1771 – Dorothy Wordsworth, English author and poet (d. 1855) |
| 144940 | December 25 | Birth | 1776 – Sydney, Lady Morgan, Irish-English author (d. 1859) |
| 144941 | December 25 | Birth | 1817 – John Hewitt Jellett, Irish priest and academic (d. 1888) |
| 144942 | December 25 | Birth | 1821 – Clara Barton, American nurse and humanitarian, founded the American Red Cross (d. 1912) |
| 144943 | December 25 | Birth | 1825 – Stephen F. Chadwick, American lawyer and politician, 5th Governor of Oregon (d. 1895) |
| 144944 | December 25 | Birth | 1829 – Patrick Gilmore, Irish-American composer and bandleader (d. 1892) |
| 144945 | December 25 | Birth | 1856 – Pud Galvin, American baseball player and manager (d. 1902) |
| 144946 | December 25 | Birth | 1856 – Hans von Bartels, German painter (d. 1913) |
| 144947 | December 25 | Birth | 1860 – Manwel Dimech, Maltese journalist, author, and philosopher (d. 1921) |
| 144948 | December 25 | Birth | 1861 – Madan Mohan Malaviya, Indian educator, lawyer, and politician, President of the Indian National Congress (d. 1946) |
| 144949 | December 25 | Birth | 1864 – Thomas Cahill, American soccer player and coach (d. 1951) |
| 144950 | December 25 | Birth | 1865 – Evangeline Booth, English 4th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1950) |
| 144951 | December 25 | Birth | 1869 – Charles Finger, English-American journalist and author (d. 1941) |
| 144952 | December 25 | Birth | 1870 – Lloyd Hildebrand, English cyclist (d. 1924) |
| 144953 | December 25 | Birth | 1870 – Helena Rubinstein, Polish-American businesswoman (d. 1965) |
| 144954 | December 25 | Birth | 1871 – Katherine McKinley, American daughter of William McKinley (d. 1875) |
| 144955 | December 25 | Birth | 1873 – Otto Frederick Hunziker, Swiss-American agriculturalist and educator (d. 1959) |
| 144956 | December 25 | Birth | 1874 – Lina Cavalieri, Italian soprano and actress (d. 1944) |
| 144957 | December 25 | Birth | 1875 – Francis Aveling, Canadian psychologist and Roman Catholic priest (d. 1941) |
| 144958 | December 25 | Birth | 1875 – Theodor Innitzer, Austrian cardinal (d. 1955) |
| 144959 | December 25 | Birth | 1876 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder and first Governor-General of Pakistan (d. 1948) |
| 144960 | December 25 | Birth | 1876 – Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959) |