List of Famous people born on December 24th

Hilary Adair Marquand, was a British economist and Labour Party politician.

Stefan Mario Maul is a German Assyriologist and holder of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize.

Thorvald Nicolai Thiele was a Danish astronomer and director of the Copenhagen Observatory. He was also an actuary and mathematician, most notable for his work in statistics, interpolation and the three-body problem.

Harold Mattingly was a British art historian and numismatist, who specialised in the history of Ancient Rome, especially Etruscan and Roman currency. His son, Harold B. Mattingly (1923-2015) was also a celebrated numismatist, and President of the Royal Numismatic Society 1999-2004.

Mikołaj Kozakiewicz was a Polish politician, publicist and sociologist.

William Hayward Pickering was a New Zealand-born rocket scientist who headed Pasadena, California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for 22 years, retiring in 1976. He was a senior NASA luminary and pioneered the exploration of space. Pickering was also a founding member of the United States National Academy of Engineering.