| 145201 | December 25 | Death | 1921 – Vladimir Korolenko, Russian journalist, author, and activist (b. 1853) |
| 145202 | December 25 | Death | 1925 – Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst and author (b. 1877) |
| 145203 | December 25 | Death | 1926 – Emperor Taishō of Japan (b. 1879) |
| 145204 | December 25 | Death | 1928 – Miles Burke, American boxer (b. 1885) |
| 145205 | December 25 | Death | 1930 – Jakob Mändmets, Estonian writer and journalist (b. 1871) |
| 145206 | December 25 | Death | 1933 – Francesc Macià i Llussà, Catalan colonel and politician, 122nd President of Catalonia (b. 1859) |
| 145207 | December 25 | Death | 1935 – Paul Bourget, French author and critic (b. 1852) |
| 145208 | December 25 | Death | 1938 – Karel Čapek, Czech author and playwright (b. 1890) |
| 145209 | December 25 | Death | 1940 – Agnes Ayres, American actress (b. 1898) |
| 145210 | December 25 | Death | 1941 – Richard S. Aldrich, American lawyer and politician (b. 1884) |
| 145211 | December 25 | Death | 1944 – George Steer, South African-English journalist and author (b. 1909) |
| 145212 | December 25 | Death | 1945 – Franz Kröwerath, German rower (b. 1880) |
| 145213 | December 25 | Death | 1946 – W. C. Fields, American comedian, actor, juggler and writer (b. 1880) |
| 145214 | December 25 | Death | 1947 – Gaspar G. Bacon, American politician, 51st Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1886) |
| 145215 | December 25 | Death | 1949 – Leon Schlesinger, American animator and producer, founded Warner Bros. Cartoons (b. 1884) |
| 145216 | December 25 | Death | 1950 – Neil Francis Hawkins, English politician (b. 1903) |
| 145217 | December 25 | Death | 1952 – Margrethe Mather, American photographer (b. 1886) |
| 145218 | December 25 | Death | 1953 – Patsy Donovan, Irish-American baseball player and manager (b. 1865) |
| 145219 | December 25 | Death | 1953 – William Haselden, Spanish-English cartoonist (b. 1872) |
| 145220 | December 25 | Death | 1954 – Johnny Ace, American singer (b. 1929) |
| 145221 | December 25 | Death | 1956 – Robert Walser, Swiss author (b. 1878) |
| 145222 | December 25 | Death | 1957 – Charles Pathé, French record producer, founded Pathé Records (b. 1863) |
| 145223 | December 25 | Death | 1961 – Owen Brewster, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 54th Governor of Maine (b. 1888) |
| 145224 | December 25 | Death | 1961 – Otto Loewi, German-American pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873) |
| 145225 | December 25 | Death | 1963 – Tristan Tzara, Romanian-French poet, playwright, painter, and critic (b. 1896) |
| 145226 | December 25 | Death | 1970 – Michael Peto, Hungarian-English photographer and journalist (b. 1908) |
| 145227 | December 25 | Death | 1973 – İsmet İnönü, Turkish general and politician, 2nd President of Turkey (b. 1884) |
| 145228 | December 25 | Death | 1973 – Gabriel Voisin, French pilot and engineer (b. 1880) |
| 145229 | December 25 | Death | 1975 – Gaston Gallimard, French publisher, founded Éditions Gallimard (b. 1881) |
| 145230 | December 25 | Death | 1975 – Gunnar Kangro, Estonian mathematician and author (b. 1913) |