| 145351 | December 26 | Birth | 1536 – Yi I, Korean philosopher and scholar (d. 1584) |
| 145352 | December 26 | Birth | 1581 – Philip III, Landgrave of Hesse-Butzbach (d. 1643) |
| 145353 | December 26 | Birth | 1646 – Robert Bolling, English-American merchant and planter (d. 1709) |
| 145354 | December 26 | Birth | 1687 – Johann Georg Pisendel, German violinist and composer (d. 1755) |
| 145355 | December 26 | Birth | 1716 – Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French soldier and philosopher (d. 1803) |
| 145356 | December 26 | Birth | 1716 – Thomas Gray, English poet and scholar (d. 1771) |
| 145357 | December 26 | Birth | 1723 – Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, German-French author and playwright (d. 1807) |
| 145358 | December 26 | Birth | 1737 – Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (d. 1815) |
| 145359 | December 26 | Birth | 1751 – Lord George Gordon, English politician (d. 1793) |
| 145360 | December 26 | Birth | 1751 – Clemens Maria Hofbauer, Austrian priest, missionary, and saint (d. 1820) |
| 145361 | December 26 | Birth | 1771 – Julie Clary, French wife of Joseph Bonaparte (d. 1845) |
| 145362 | December 26 | Birth | 1780 – Mary Somerville, Scottish mathematician, astronomer, and author (d. 1872) |
| 145363 | December 26 | Birth | 1785 – Étienne Constantin de Gerlache, Belgian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 1871) |
| 145364 | December 26 | Birth | 1782 – Philaret Drozdov, Russian metropolitan (d. 1867) |
| 145365 | December 26 | Birth | 1791 – Charles Babbage, English mathematician and engineer, invented the Difference engine (d. 1871) |
| 145366 | December 26 | Birth | 1803 – Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Estonian physician and author (d. 1882) |
| 145367 | December 26 | Birth | 1819 – E. D. E. N. Southworth, American author and educator (d. 1899) |
| 145368 | December 26 | Birth | 1820 – Dion Boucicault, Irish actor and playwright (d. 1890) |
| 145369 | December 26 | Birth | 1837 – Morgan Bulkeley, American soldier and politician, 54th Governor of Connecticut (d. 1922) |
| 145370 | December 26 | Birth | 1837 – George Dewey, American admiral (d. 1917) |
| 145371 | December 26 | Birth | 1852 – Johannes François Snelleman, Dutch zoologist, orientalist, and ethnographer (d. 1938) |
| 145372 | December 26 | Birth | 1853 – René Bazin, French author and academic (d. 1932) |
| 145373 | December 26 | Birth | 1859 – William Stephens, American lawyer and politician, 24th Governor of California (d. 1944) |
| 145374 | December 26 | Birth | 1863 – Charles Pathé, French record producer, co-founded Pathé Records (d. 1957) |
| 145375 | December 26 | Birth | 1864 – Yun Chi-ho, Korean activist and politician (d. 1945) |
| 145376 | December 26 | Birth | 1867 – Phan Bội Châu, Vietnamese activist (d. 1940) |
| 145377 | December 26 | Birth | 1869 – Mathieu Cordang, Dutch cyclist (d. 1942) |
| 145378 | December 26 | Birth | 1872 – Norman Angell, English journalist, academic, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967) |
| 145379 | December 26 | Birth | 1873 – Thomas Wass, English cricketer (d. 1953) |
| 145380 | December 26 | Birth | 1874 – Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah, Bangladeshi theologist and academic (d. 1965) |