Approximately 147,985 people died worldwide on December 25, 1991. Natural disasters in 1991 * Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak * 1991 Bangladesh cyclone * Halloween Blizzard * Mount Pinatubo * Ormoc tragedy * 1991 Racha earthquake * Southern Great Lakes Derecho of 1991 * West Virginia Derecho People who died on December 25 (various years) * 2006 - James Brown, American singer * 2005 - Robert Barbers, Philippine senator * 2005 - Birgit Nilsson, Swedish singer * 2005 - Derek Bailey, English guitar virtuoso * 2004 - Gennady Strekalov, Russian cosmonaut * 2003 - Nicholas Mavroules, American politician * 2002 - William T. Orr, American television producer * 2000 - Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher * 1999 - Peter Jeffrey, English actor * 1998 - John Pulman, English snooker player * 1997 - Denver Pyle, American actor * 1995 - Dean Martin, American singer * 1994 - Zail Singh, President of India * 1993 - Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist * 1992 - Monica Dickens, British writer * 1989 - Billy Martin, American baseball manager * 1989 - Elena Ceauşescu, Romanian politician (executed) * 1989 - Nicolae Ceauşescu, Romanian dictator (executed) * 1988 - Edward Pelham-Clinton, 10th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne * 1988 - Ooka Shohei, Japanese novelist * 1983 - Joan Miró, Catalan painter * 1979 - Joan Blondell, American actress * 1977 - Charlie Chaplin, English actor * 1973 - Gabriel Voisin, French aviation pioneer * 1973 - İsmet İnönü, Turkish statesman * 1971 - Maria Koepcke, ornithologist * 1963 - Tristan Tzara, Romanian-born writer * 1961 - Owen Brewster, U.S. Senator from Maine * 1961 - Otto Loewi, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine * 1953 - Patsy Donovan, Irish-born American baseball player * 1950 - Neil Francis Hawkins, British fascist * 1947 - Gaspar G. Bacon, was Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts * 1946 - W. C. Fields, American comedian * 1940 - Agnes Ayres, American actress * 1938 - Karel Capek, Czech author * 1935 - Paul Bourget, French novelist and critic * 1933 - Francesc Macià, Catalonian statesman * 1926 - Emperor Taishō of Japan * 1925 - Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst * 1921 - Vladimir Korolenko, Russian writer * 1916 - St. Albert Chmielowski, Polish Catholic saint * 1880 - Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss Federal Councillor * 1868 - Linus Yale, Jr., American mechanical engineer and inventor * 1824 - Barbara Juliana, Baroness von Krüdener, Russian writer * 1784 - Yosa Buson, Japanese painter * 1765 - Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian and natural scientist * 1758 - James Hervey, English clergyman * 1683 - Kara Mustafa, Ottoman general * 1676 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English soldier * 1676 - Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Justice of England * 1635 - Samuel de Champlain, French explorer and founder of Quebec City * 1156 - Peter the Venerable, Benedictine abbot of Cluny (b. c. 1092) * 795 - Pope Adrian I