Famous People Born on Christmas

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Born on Christmas (day/eve):


Kit Carson 12/24/1809
Clara Barton 12/25/1821
Eugenie Besserer 12/25/1868
Helena Rubinstein 12/25/1872

William Conklin 12/25/1872
Charles Waldron 12/24/1874

Joseph Schenck 12/25/1876
Evelyn Nesbit 12/25/1884

John David 12/25/1886 
Michael Curtiz 12/24/1886
Conrad Hilton Sr. 12/25/1887

Jack Rube Clifford 12/25/1888

Ruth Chatterton 12/24/1892
Harry Warren 12/24/1893

Azarene Rogers 12/25/1896
Dorothy Peterson 12/25/1897
Humphrey Bogart 12/25/1899
Barton MacLane 12/25/1902
J. Edward Bromberg 12/25/1903
Howard Hughes 12/24/1905
Frank Ferguson 12/25/1906
Cab Calloway 12/25/1907
Mike Mazurki 12/25/1907
Helen Twelvetrees 12/25/1908

Quentin Crisp 12/25/1908 

Jeanne Herviale 12/24/1908
Mitchell Ayres 12/24/1909
Tony Martin 12/25/1913
Candy Candido 12/25/1913
Helen Brown 12/24/1915

Edward Burnham 12/25/1916
Margaret Early 12/25/1919

Peter Turgeon 12/25/1919

John Barron 12/24/1920
Ava Gardner 12/24/1922
Jonas Mekas 12/24/1922
Rod Serling 12/25/1924
Mary Higgins Clark 12/24/1927

Diana Herbert 12/25/1928
Dick Miller 12/25/1928

Norman Rossington 12/24/1928

Robert Ridgely 12/24/1931 

Charles "Lefty" Driesell 12/25/1931 
Mabel King 12/25/1932
John Ashley 12/25/1934
Irene Fenwick 12/24/1936

Ismail Merchant 12/25/1936
John Bowers 12/25/1936
Philippe Nahon 12/24/1938

Christiane Schmidtmer 12/24/1939 

Sharon Farrell 12/24/1940
John Capodice 12/25/1941

Michael Billington 12/24/1941 

David Arkin 12/24/1941

Paul Wilson 12/25/1945 
Jimmy Buffet 12/25/1946
Sissy Spacek 12/25/1949
CCH Pounder 12/25/1952

Timothy Carhart 12/24/1953
Annie Lennox 12/25/1954

Clarence Gilyard Jr. 12/24/1955

Paul Bates 12/24/1958

Lee Daniels 12/24/1959

Perry Lang 12/24/1959 
Kate Spade 12/24/1962

Anna Dewdney 12/25/1965 
Diedrich Bader 12/24/1966
Helena Christensen 12/25/1968

Adam Haslett 12/24/1970
Ricky Martin 12/24/1971
Dido 12/25/1971
Noelle Parker 12/25/1971
Stephanie Meyer 12/24/1973
Ryan Seacrest 12/24/1974

Edward Aschoff 12/24/1985

Louis Tomlinson 12/24/1991


(Sucks) Died on Christmas:

Jacob Marley 12/24/1836
Johns Hopkins 12/24/1873
John Muir 12/24/1914
Fred Thomson 12/25/1928
Agnes Ayres 12/25/1940

Blanche Bates 12/25/1941 

William Irving 12/25/1943

Hanna Schygulla 12/25/1943
Gustav von Seyffertitz 12/25/1943 

Russell Gleason 12/25/1945

D'Arcy Corrigan 12/25/1945
W.C. Fields 12/25/1946
Leon Schlesinger 12/25/1949

Levi Schubart 12/25/1953 
Nana Bryant 12/24/1955
Norma Talmadge 12/24/1957
Edmund Goulding 12/24/1959

Cheerio Meredith 12/25/1964 
Burt Baskin 12/24/1967
Mel Ruick 12/24/1972
Adrian Scott 12/25/1972
Bernard Herrmann 12/24/1975
Frankie Darro 12/25/1976
Charlie Chaplin 12/25/1977

Chuck Hamilton 12/24/1978
Joan Blondell 12/25/1979

Lee Bowman 12/25/1979 

Fred Emney 12/25/1980

Tommy Bupp 12/24/1983 
Peter Lawford 12/24/1984
Betty Garde 12/25/1989

Curt Bois 12/25/1991

Virginia Sorenson 12/24/1991 
Norman Vincent Peale 12/24/1993

Rossano Brazzi 12/24/1994 
Julie Haydon 12/24/1994
Dean Martin 12/25/1995
Toshiro Mifune 12/24/1997
Denver Pyle 12/25/1997

Ivan Beavis 12/24/1997 

Hjordis Genberg 12/24/1997 

Richard Paul 12/25/1998
Bill Bowerman 12/24/1999

Peter Jeffrey 12/25/1999 
Nick Massi 12/24/2000

Davina Whitehouse 12/25/2002

William T. Orr 12/25/2002

Roy Stuart 12/25/2005 
James Brown 12/25/2006

Marc Smith 12/24/2006 
Eartha Kitt 12/25/2008
Ann Savage 12/25/2008
Jack Klugman 12/24/2012
Charles Durning 12/24/2012
Jason Wingreen 12/25/2015
Paul Gregory 12/25/2015
Liz Smith 12/24/2016

Jeffrey Hayden 12/24/2016 
Richard Adams 12/24/2016

George Michael 12/25/2016
Sandra Giles 12/25/2016
Heather Menzies 12/24/2017
Lee Mendelson 12/25/2019

Edward Aschoff 12/24/2019

Barry Lopez 12/25/2020 

Wayne Thiebaud 12/25/2021 

Richard Franklin 12/25/2023 

Kamar de los Reyes 12/24/2023 

Married on Christmas:

Thomas Edison and Mary Stilwell 12/25/1871 

Agatha and Archibald Christie 12/24/1914 (divorced) 

Henry Fonda and Margaret Sullavan 12/25/1931 (divorced) 

Claudette Colbert and Dr. James John Pressman 12/24/1935

Louis and Mary Leakey 12/24/1936 

Carl Reiner and Estelle Lebost 12/24/1943 

Robert H. Harris and Viola Harris 12/24/1943 

Mary Astor and Thomas Gordon Wheelock 12/24/1945 (divorced)

Leif Erickson and Annie Ruth Diamond 12/24/1945 

Noam Chomsky and Carol Schatz 12/24/1949 

Cary Grant and Betsy Drake 12/25/1949 (divorced)

Waylon Jennings and Maxine Lawrence 12/24/1955 (divorced) 

Joe Louis and Rose Morgan 12/25/1955 (divorced) 

Stockard Channing and Peter Schmidt 12/24/1969 (divorced) 

George Foreman and Adrienne Calhoun 12/24/1971 (divorced) 

Erica Jong and Jonathan Fast 12/24/1977 (divorced) 

Johnny Depp and Lori Anne Allison 12/24/1983 (divorced) 

Anne Lockhart and Adam C. Taylor 12/24/1986 

Louis Gossett Jr. and Cindy Reese 12/25/1987 (divorced) 

Nancy Cartwright and Warren Murphy 12/24/1988 (divorced) 

Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman 12/24/1990  (divorced) 

Sofia Vergara and Joseph Gonzalez 12/25/1991 (divorced) 

Judd Hirsch and Bonni Chalkin 12/24/1992 (divorced) 

Rue McClanahan and Morrow Wilson 12/25/1997 

Jerry Seinfeld and Jessica Sklar 12/25/1999 

Gregory Paul Martin and Cherie Grassi 12/25/2012 

Pamela Anderson and Dan Hayhurst 12/24/2020 (divorced) 

         
Best Christmas Movies to Watch:

Bad Santa

The Berenstain Bears' Christmas Tree

It's a Bundyful Life

A Castle For Christmas 

A Charlie Brown Christmas

A Christmas Carol (2009, 1951)

Christmas Eve (1986)

Christmas Eve (2015)

A Christmas Memory (1966)

A Christmas Story

A Christmas Story Christmas 

The Christmas Tree (1996)

A Claymation Christmas

Deck the Halls

Ernest Saves Christmas

Four Christmases

Fred Claus

Frosty the Snowman

Garfield's Christmas

Get Santa

Here Comes Santa Claus

Home Alone

A Homecoming

It's A Wonderful Life

Little Women (1994)

Love, Actually

The Man in the Santa Claus Suit

March of the Wooden Soldiers

Mickey's Christmas Carol

A Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol
A Muppet Christmas Carol

Noel (2004)

Noelle

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Prancer

Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer

The Santa Claus
Scrooged

SNL Christmas Special

Stubby Pringle's Christmas

'Twas the Night Before Christmas (animated)
Yogi's First Christmas

Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too!

Great Books To Read Around X-Mas:

A Christmas Carol- By Charles Dickens

The Christmas Joy Ride- Melody Carlson 

A Christmas Memory- Truman Capote

The Gift of the Magi- O. Henry

How The Grinch Stole Christmas- Dr. Seuss

Last Night at the Lobster- Stewart O'Nan

'Twas the Night Before Christmas- Clement Clarke Moore

The Paper Bag Christmas- Kevin Alan Milne 

Seven Stories of Christmas Love- Leo Buscaglia

The Shepherd, the Angel and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog- Dave Barry
Skipping Christmas- John Grisham
Snow Angels- Stewart O'Nan

Spending the Holidays With People I Want to Punch in the Throat - Jen Mann

2 A.M. at the Cat's Pajamas- Marie-Helene Bertino
Wishin' and Hopin'- Wally Lamb
Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus- Francis P. Church

All the Christmas themed mysteries by Mary Higgins Clark 


My Favorite Christmas Songs:

Oh Holy Night
What Child is This?
Caroling, Caroling
Oh Come All Ye Faithful
I Wonder As I Wander
The Christmas Song
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
Blue Christmas
Carol of the Bells
Santa Baby
All I Want for Christmas is You
Last Christmas
Christmas Wrapping
Happy Xmas
Marshmallow World
Wonderful Christmastime
Ava Maria
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
Celebrate Me Home


Rating the MANY different versions of "A Christmas Carol"  (by year of release) 

 A Christmas Carol 1910 * :  silent, black and white version. 10 minutes long. Primitive, as you can imagine. nice costumes. Marc McDermott as Scrooge. Rated PG

Scrooge 1935 * :  not every entertaining due to filming limits in that era, pretty forgettable. Seymour Hicks as Scrooge. Black and white. Rated PG

A Christmas Carol 1938 ** : mediocre version but very, very dated. Reginald Owen as Scrooge. Black and white. Rated PG

A Christmas Carol 1949 * : pretty painful to watch. It was a low budget TV short so it was only 25 minutes.  The lines and scenes were rushed, dialogue was directly from the book. Seemed slapped together. Taylor Holmes as Scrooge. Vincent Price narrates so of course that's creepy. Black and white. Rated PG

A Christmas Carol 1951 ** Alastair Sim makes an excellent Scrooge. well done for the time era. Black and white. Rated PG

Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol 1962 **** : one of my favorite versions.  animated. great, fun version. Wonderfully written songs. A family classic.  Only version that has The Ghostt of Present as the first ghost.  Rumor has it was due to the TV commercial breaks.  Jim Backus voices Scrooge. Amazingly talented cast and crew.  Rated G

Carol For Another Christmas  1964 * : dreary TV version brought to you from "The Twilight Zone" creator Rod Serling.  It drags and tends to be too preachy about the repercussions of war.  It really doesn't have much to do Christmas.  Sterling Hayden as Scrooge, although  the character's called Daniel Grudge.  Has some other great stars from the past such as Peter Sellers and Robert Shaw. Black and white. Rated PG

A Christmas Carol 1969 ** : animated version.  Made for television.  kinda forgettable.  Dialogue is pretty exact to the book.  Animation is pretty rudimentary.  The drawing of Marley may be scary to small children.  Ron Haddrick voices Scrooge. Rated G

Scrooge 1970 **** : one of my top rated versions. this Musical version is very entertaining, full of catchy songs, such as "December the 25th" and "Thank You Very Much". A little annoying that some of the characters names are altered.  Albert Finney is a very good Scrooge.  Plus he dresses as Santa in the end which is different. Rated PG

A Christmas Carol 1971 ** : another animated short made for TV. Very dark and gloomy. Not drawn with many colors and no music so it is very joyless. Alastair Sim returns to do the voice of Scrooge. Rated G

A Christmas Carol 1977 * : extremely bland acting. I felt like the book was being read to me line for line.  Low budget. Skip. Michael Hordern as Scrooge. Rated PG

The Stingiest Man in Town 1978 ** : traditional drawings you'd expect from a Rankin/Bass Production.  A Musical version but the songs seem out of tune and clunky.  They do not flow nicely, very forced.  Not memorable, I suppose that's why no one has ever heard of this version.  Shame cause it has some great voices from Tom Bosley and Walter Matthau. Rated G

Rich Little's Christmas Carol 1978 **** : by far the funniest version of this story.  It's a one man show starring the impersonator Rich Little playing all the roles.  He acts as C.W. Field's as Scrooge, Johnny Carson as Fred, Peter Sellers as the Ghost of Christmas Present, Richard Nixon as Marley, Groucho Marx as Fezziwig and many more.  Very witty. Classic. Rated PG

An American Christmas Carol 1979 *** : great American, modern take on the classic. Very good acting and original script.  Henry Winkler as Scrooge, although Scrooge's name is changed to Benedict Slade in this movie.  He is a bitter furniture salesman. Takes place in New England. Watch! Rated PG

Mickey's Christmas Carol 1983 **** : one of my favorite versions. Fabulous, heart-felt version. animated. nicely explains the tale for children. Short, running time is 26 minutes. Alan Young as the voice of Scrooge. Rated G

A Christmas Carol 1984 *** : good version. little drab and dark. George C. Scott obviously, makes for a terrifying Scrooge. Directed by Clive Donner Rated PG

Scrooged 1988 **** : one of my favorite versions. such a funny and original modern version of the story. Bill Murray makes a hilarious, sarcastic, arrogant Scrooge. Scrooge's name is Frank Cross in this version.  He is a ruthless CEO of a television station. Takes place in NYC. Directed by Richard Donner  Rated PG-13 

A Muppet Christmas Carol 1992 **** : one of my favorite versions. wonderful sets and costumes. Very well composed songs for this Musical version. Mixes real people with puppets. Michael Caine is very memorable as Scrooge. Directed by Jim's son Brian Henson. Rated G

A Flintstones Christmas Carol 1994 ** : not very original. Maybe two jokes.  trying to be like Mr. Magoo's version.  The dialogue is literally right from the pages of the book.  Henry Corden who voices Fred Flintstone as Scrooge. Rated G

Ebbie 1995 *** : very good modernization version with a female as the main role.  Starring Susan Lucci as Scrooge and Jeffrey DeMunn.

A Christmas Carol 1997 ***  : animated.  Very well done version.  With a great cast, including Ed Asner, Whoopi Goldberg and Tim Curry as Scrooge. Rated G

Ms. Scrooge 1997 * : just miserable.  Hallmark movie.  Cicely Tyson as Scrooge.  I am perplexed about so much...like why did they have her mumble through the film seems like poor acting from a pro.  It was very difficult to hear what she was saying.  So odd.  good premise and cast but it missed the mark.  Also stars Katherine Helmond and Michael Beach. Rated G

A Christmas Carol 1999 ** : dull version, Patrick Stewart is forgettable as Scrooge. Rated PG

A Christmas Carol 2001 * : the worst version I've ever watched. Writing is dreadful. Animated. Waste of some great voice-overs by known actors such as Kate Winslet and Nicholas Cage. Simon Callow as Scrooge. Rated G

A Christmas Carol: the Musical 2004 ** : terrible musical TV movie version. No enjoyable songs. Some of the acting is rough. Very odd casting choices such as Jennifer Love Hewitt as Belle and Jason Alexander as Marley. What a joke. Kelsey Grammar is good as Scrooge. Rated PG

A Christmas Carol 2009 ***  : animated version of the story. Can be very dark for little kids. Very good cast such as Jim Carrey as Scrooge, Robin Wright as Belle, Gary Oldman as Cratchit, Colin Firth as Fred and Bob Hoskins as Fezziwig. Directed by Robert Zemeckis.  Rated PG

A Christmas Carol 2012 * : I don't want to be too harsh because this was an extremely independent Irish version and I'm sure they had no budget.  The special effects are as good as they can be without any money.  It does feel like the actors are just reading the book to you.  However, the acting is not bad, in fact it is better than some of the stars from the big budget versions.  Actor Vincent Fegan as Scrooge. (Brendan O'Carroll makes a cameo as Old Joe.  Uncredited)   Rated G. 

All American Christmas Carol 2013 ** : interesting modern white-trash version of the story. Rare version that has a woman as Scrooge. Her name is Cindy in this movie, she is a hair dresser,  Played by Taryn Manning. Rated PG-13

The Man Who Invented Christmas 2017 *** : not exactly a version of "A Christmas Carol" but is a movie based on true events and the life that Charles Dickens was living at the time that he wrote the novel. Very well done and entertaining. Heart-warming tale. Dan Stevens as Charles Dickens and Christopher Plummer as Scrooge. Rated PG

A Christmas Carol *** 2019 : very dark version.  Definitely not for kids.  I liked the new take on the story, some literally liberties.  Some new twists and turns.  Very well acted and great scenery.  As usual London is extremely dreary looking.  Guy Pearce plays a great dismal and gaunt Scrooge, A bit younger looking than most versions.  Rated R

A Christmas Carol * 2020: one of the worst versions.  very strange British version.  very amateur technology.  It's a lot of interpretive dance and old illustrations.  It is narrated by an Sian Phillips who plays a grandmother.  Simon Russell Beale as Scrooge.  Many talented British actors lent their voices such as Martin Freeman as Cratchit, Andy Serkis as Marley and Carey Mulligan as Belle.  Oh boy, I feel like they did this as a favor for this director.  This version is almost unwatchable. 

Scrooge: A Christmas Carol ** 2022 :  Animated children's version of the 1970 British Musical by the same name.  Should have left the Classic alone. Not impressed with animation.  The updated versions of the classic songs are lousy and not as catchy.  The characters names are altered like the 1970 film, which has no purpose.   Good acting from a cast with Luke Evans as Scrooge and other talents such as Olivia Coleman, Jessica Buckley, and Jonathan Pryce. Rated G