List of Famous people born on December 24th
Sir Henry Richard Legge Newdigate
Geraldine Blennerhassett
Susannah Barton
Sir Andrew Ramsay of Abbotshall, 2nd Bt.
Constantine Francis Arthur Dillon
Theodore de Smeth
Peter Cornelius
Carl August Peter Cornelius was a German composer, writer about music, poet and translator.
Gratian Emily Fyffe
George Gilbert Hoskins
George Gilbert Hoskins was an American politician who served as the Lieutenant Governor of New York and United States Representative for the state of New York.
Gourgen Yanikian
Gourgen Mkrtich Yanikian or in Western Armenian Kourken Mgrditch Yanigian was an Armenian genocide survivor best known for the assassination of two Turkish consular officials, Los Angeles Consul General Mehmet Baydar and Consul Bahadır Demir, in California in 1973. Sentenced to life imprisonment, Yanikian was released on parole in January 1984. It is widely believed that Yanikian's act was the inspiration for the founding of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, the Armenian militant organization of the 1970s and 1980s which staged attacks on Turkish diplomats in an effort to obtain recognition and reparations for the genocide from the government of Turkey.