Did you know
Jimmy Buffett's other popular songs include "Son of a Son of a Sailor" (1978), "One Particular Harbour" (1983), and "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" with Alan Jackson (2003).
Famous Birthdays on December 25
1946 — Jimmy Buffett
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (died 2023)
December 25 has 229 recorded notable births across history, from 1250 to 2000. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Major events on December 25
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- 1951 A bomb explodes at the home of Harry T. Moore and Harriette V. S. Moore, early leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, killing Harry instantly and fatally wounding Harriette. Source
- 1968 Apollo program: Apollo 8 performs the first successful Trans-Earth injection (TEI) maneuver, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit. Source
- 1915 The National Protection War breaks out against the Empire of China, as military leaders Cai E and Tang Jiyao proclaim the independence of Yunnan and begin a campaign to restore the Republic. Source
- 1989 Romanian Revolution: Deposed President of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife, Elena, are condemned to death and executed after a summary trial. Source
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In 2009, he was inducted to the Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility.
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Starting in 1968, Castaneda published a series of books that describe alleged training in shamanism that he received under the tutelage of a Yaqui "Man of Knowledge" named Don Juan Matus.
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Alastair Cook is England's second most-capped Test batsman and captained the England team in 59 Tests, as well as in 69 ODIs.
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Since 1999, he is the president of the Republican Party of India (A), a splinter group of the Republican Party of India, which has its roots in the Scheduled Castes Federation led by Dr.
More major people born on December 25
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1958
Rickey Henderson
American baseball player and coach (died 2024)
Rickey Nelson Henley Henderson, nicknamed "Man of Steal", was an American professional baseball left fielder who played 25 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for nine teams from 1979 to 2003, including four separate…
1925
Carlos Castaneda
Peruvian-American anthropologist and author (died 1998)
Carlos Castaneda was a Peruvian-American writer, trained as an anthropologist.
1984
Alastair Cook
English cricketer
Sir Alastair Nathan Cook is an English commentator and a former cricketer and captain of the England Test and One-Day International (ODI) cricket teams.
1959
Ramdas Athawale
Indian poet and politician
Ramdas Bandu Athawale is an Indian politician, social activist and trade unionist from Maharashtra.
1964
Bob Stanley
British musician and writer
Bob Stanley is a British musician, journalist, author, and film producer.
1937
Maung Aye
Burmese military officer
Maung Aye is a retired Burmese army general who played a significant role in Myanmar's military government.
1904
Philip Vera Cruz
Filipino-American labor leader and farmworker (died 1994)
Philip Villamin Vera Cruz was a Filipino American labor leader and farmworker.
1674
Thomas Halyburton
Scottish minister and theologian (died 1712)
Rev Prof Thomas Halyburton was a Scottish divine. Thomas was educated there at Erasmus's school, in Rotterdam, where his mother had taken him to avoid persecution.
1873
Otto Frederick Hunziker
Swiss-American agriculturalist and educator (died 1959)
Otto Frederick Hunziker was a pioneer in the American and international dairy industry, as both an educator and a technical innovator.
1652
Archibald Pitcairne
Scottish physician, anatomist, and scholar (died 1713)
Archibald Pitcairne or Pitcairn was a Scottish physician. He was a physician and poet who first studied law at Edinburgh and Paris graduating with an M.A. from Edinburgh in 1671.
1942
Enrique Morente
Spanish singer-songwriter (died 2010)
Enrique Morente Cotelo, known as Enrique Morente, was a Spanish flamenco singer and a celebrated figure within the world of contemporary flamenco.
1924
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Indian poet and politician, 10th Prime Minister of India (died 2018)
Atal Bihari Vajpayee was an Indian writer, poet and statesman who served as the prime minister of India, from 1998 to 2004, and previously for two weeks in 1996.
1992
Mitakeumi Hisashi
Japanese sumo wrestler
Mitakeumi Hisashi is a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Agematsu, Nagano. He is in the Dewanoumi stable. He is a pusher thruster-type wrestler.
1914
Oscar Lewis
American anthropologist of Latin America (died 1970)
Oscar Lewis, born Lefkowitz was an American anthropologist. He is best known for his vivid depictions of the lives of slum dwellers and his argument that a cross-generational culture of poverty transcends national…
1887
Conrad Hilton
American entrepreneur (died 1979)
Conrad Nicholson Hilton was an American hotel magnate and politician who founded the Hilton Hotels chain.
1936
Ismail Merchant
Indian-English director and producer (died 2005)
Ismail Merchant was an Indian film producer. He worked for many years in collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions which included film director James Ivory as well as screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
1583
Orlando Gibbons
English organist and composer (died 1625)
Orlando Gibbons was an English composer and keyboard player who was one of the last masters of the English Virginalist School and English Madrigal School.
1642
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician (died 1727)
Sir Isaac Newton was an English polymath who was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, author and inventor. He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed.
1911
Louise Bourgeois
French-American sculptor and painter (died 2010)
Louise Joséphine Bourgeois was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker.