| 145441 | December 26 | Birth | 1941 – Şener Şen, Turkish actor |
| 145442 | December 26 | Birth | 1942 – Vinicio Cerezo, Guatemalan politician, 28th President of Guatemala |
| 145443 | December 26 | Birth | 1942 – Catherine Coulter, American author |
| 145444 | December 26 | Birth | 1942 – Gray Davis, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 37th Governor of California |
| 145445 | December 26 | Birth | 1942 – Rob de Nijs, Dutch singer and actor |
| 145446 | December 26 | Birth | 1942 – Dan Massey, American activist and author (d. 2013) |
| 145447 | December 26 | Birth | 1944 – Jane Lapotaire, English actress and singer |
| 145448 | December 26 | Birth | 1945 – John Walsh, American television host, producer, and activist created America's Most Wanted |
| 145449 | December 26 | Birth | 1946 – Alan Frumin, American lawyer and politician |
| 145450 | December 26 | Birth | 1946 – Tiit Rosenberg, Estonian historian and academic |
| 145451 | December 26 | Birth | 1946 – Rini Wagtmans, Dutch cyclist |
| 145452 | December 26 | Birth | 1947 – James T. Conway, American general |
| 145453 | December 26 | Birth | 1947 – Jean Echenoz, French author |
| 145454 | December 26 | Birth | 1947 – Carlton Fisk, American baseball player |
| 145455 | December 26 | Birth | 1947 – Josef Janíček, Czech singer-songwriter, guitarist, and keyboard player (The Plastic People of the Universe) |
| 145456 | December 26 | Birth | 1947 – Richard Levis McCormick, American historian and academic |
| 145457 | December 26 | Birth | 1948 – Candy Crowley, American journalist |
| 145458 | December 26 | Birth | 1949 – Mikhail Boyarsky, Russian actor and singer |
| 145459 | December 26 | Birth | 1949 – Bob Hartman, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Petra) |
| 145460 | December 26 | Birth | 1949 – José Ramos-Horta, East Timorese lawyer and politician, 2nd President of East Timor, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 145461 | December 26 | Birth | 1950 – Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, Pakistani businessman and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Pakistan |
| 145462 | December 26 | Birth | 1951 – C.J. Henderson, American author and critic (d. 2014) |
| 145463 | December 26 | Birth | 1951 – John Scofield, American guitarist and composer (Trio Beyond) |
| 145464 | December 26 | Birth | 1951 – Richard Skinner, English radio and television host |
| 145465 | December 26 | Birth | 1953 – Leonel Fernández, Dominican lawyer and politician, 51st President of the Dominican Republic |
| 145466 | December 26 | Birth | 1953 – Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Swedish-Estonian journalist and politician, 4th President of Estonia |
| 145467 | December 26 | Birth | 1953 – Makis Katsavakis, Greek footballer and manager |
| 145468 | December 26 | Birth | 1953 – Henning Schmitz, German drummer (Kraftwerk) |
| 145469 | December 26 | Birth | 1954 – Peter Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer and philanthropist |
| 145470 | December 26 | Birth | 1954 – Tony Rosato, Italian-Canadian actor and screenwriter |