December 25
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Art and culture
- Christmas Day
- 1917 - Why Marry?, dramatic play opens in New York City.
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Births
- 1709 - Julien Offray de La Mettrie, French physician and philosopher (d. 1751)
- 1874 - Lina Cavalieri, Italian soprano (d. 1944)
- 1899 - Humphrey Bogart, American actor (d. 1957)
- 1907 - Cab Calloway, American bandleader (d. 1994)
- 1911 - Louise Bourgeois, sculptor (d. 2010)
- 1925 - Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-born author (d. 1998)
- 1928 - Dick Miller, American actor
- 1943 - Hanna Schygulla, German actress
- 1949 - Sissy Spacek, American actress
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Deaths
- 1898 - Georges Rodenbach, Belgian Symbolist poet and novelist. (b. 1855)
- 1925 - Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst (b. 1877)
- 1935 - Paul Bourget, French novelist and critic (b. 1852)
- 1946 - W. C. Fields, American comedian (b. 1880)
- 1956 - Robert Walser, German-speaking Swiss writer. (b. 1878)
- 1963 - Tristan Tzara, Romanian-born writer (b. 1896)
- 1975 - Gaston Gallimard, French publisher (b. 1881)
- 1977 - Charlie Chaplin, English actor (b. 1889)
- 1995 - Emmanuel Levinas, French Philosopher (b. 1906)
- 2006 - James Brown, American singer (b. 1933)
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