| 144961 | December 25 | Birth | 1877 – Noël Bas, French gymnast (d. 1960) |
| 144962 | December 25 | Birth | 1878 – Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-American race car driver (d. 1941) |
| 144963 | December 25 | Birth | 1878 – Noëlle, Countess of Rothes (d. 1956) |
| 144964 | December 25 | Birth | 1878 – Joseph M. Schenck, Russian-American film producer (d. 1961) |
| 144965 | December 25 | Birth | 1883 – Hugo Bergmann, Czech-Israeli philosopher and academic (d. 1975) |
| 144966 | December 25 | Birth | 1883 – Hana Meisel, Jewish agronomist, feminist and Zionist (d. 1972) |
| 144967 | December 25 | Birth | 1884 – Samuel Berger, American boxer (d. 1925) |
| 144968 | December 25 | Birth | 1884 – Evelyn Nesbit, American actress (d. 1967) |
| 144969 | December 25 | Birth | 1886 – Malak Hifni Nasif, Egyptian feminist (d. 1918) |
| 144970 | December 25 | Birth | 1886 – Kid Ory, American trombonist and bandleader (d. 1973) |
| 144971 | December 25 | Birth | 1887 – Conrad Hilton, American businessman, founded the Hilton Hotels & Resorts (d. 1979) |
| 144972 | December 25 | Birth | 1889 – Octave Garnier, French anarchist (d. 1912) |
| 144973 | December 25 | Birth | 1889 – Lila Bell Wallace, American publisher, co-founded Reader's Digest (d. 1984) |
| 144974 | December 25 | Birth | 1890 – Noel Odell, English geologist and mountaineer (d. 1987) |
| 144975 | December 25 | Birth | 1890 – Robert Ripley, American anthropologist and publisher founded Ripley's Believe It or Not! (d. 1949) |
| 144976 | December 25 | Birth | 1891 – Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson, India-born, English soldier and Governor of Gibraltar (d. 1959) |
| 144977 | December 25 | Birth | 1891 – Clarrie Grimmett, New Zealand-Australian cricketer (d. 1980) |
| 144978 | December 25 | Birth | 1899 – Humphrey Bogart, American actor and singer (d. 1957) |
| 144979 | December 25 | Birth | 1901 – Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (d. 2004) |
| 144980 | December 25 | Birth | 1902 – Barton MacLane, American actor, singer, and playwright (d. 1969) |
| 144981 | December 25 | Birth | 1902 – William Bell, American tuba player and educator (d. 1971) |
| 144982 | December 25 | Birth | 1903 – Antiochos Evangelatos, Greek composer and conductor (d. 1981) |
| 144983 | December 25 | Birth | 1904 – Gerhard Herzberg, German-Canadian physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999) |
| 144984 | December 25 | Birth | 1906 – Lew Grade, Ukrainian-English film producer (d. 1998) |
| 144985 | December 25 | Birth | 1906 – Ernst Ruska, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988) |
| 144986 | December 25 | Birth | 1907 – Cab Calloway, American singer-songwriter and bandleader (The Cab Calloway Orchestra) (d. 1994) |
| 144987 | December 25 | Birth | 1907 – Mike Mazurki, Ukrainian-American wrestler and actor (d. 1990) |
| 144988 | December 25 | Birth | 1907 – Glenn McCarthy, American businessman, founded the Shamrock Hotel (d. 1988) |
| 144989 | December 25 | Birth | 1908 – Quentin Crisp, English actor, author, and illustrator (d. 1999) |
| 144990 | December 25 | Birth | 1908 – Ernest L. Massad, American general (d. 1993) |