About the day » Saturday December 25, 2004Calender converter

• Ferdy Jarno Neef, Groningen, Nederland († 2005)
• Jarno Voet
• Sarina van Noord, Groningen, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 2005)

• Arthur Fredrick Martens (85)
• Armand Dehennin (93), Mortsel, 2640, België
• Angenieta Hendrica Pielanen (79), Leiden
• Dawn Audrey Mason (78), Parkes
• Antonius Petrus van der Voorn (88), Reeuwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Clasina van der Heiden (95)
• Donald Foremaster SCHMUTZ (86), Saint George, Washington County, Utah, United States Of America
• Allegonda Elisabeth Schoemaker (96), Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bertes Brinkman (82), Zutphen
• Cornelia Henriëtte KARSTENS (97), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1984 » Alastair Cook, English cricketer
• 1984 » Chris Cahill, Samoan footballer
• 1985 » Martin Mathathi, Kenyan runner
• 1985 » Rusev, Bulgarian-American professional wrestler
• 1987 » Ceyhun Gülselam, Turkish footballer
• 1987 » Demaryius Thomas, American football player
• 1988 » Eric Gordon, American basketball player
• 1988 » Joãozinho, Brazilian footballer
• 1988 » Lukas Hinds-Johnson, German rugby player
• 1992 » Mitakeumi Hisashi, Japanese sumo wrestler

• 2001 » Alfred A. Tomatis, French otolaryngologist and academic (b. 1920)
• 2003 » Nicholas Mavroules, American politician (b. 1929)
• 2004 » Gennadi Strekalov, Russian engineer and astronaut (b. 1940)
• 2005 » Birgit Nilsson, Swedish operatic soprano (b. 1918)
• 2005 » Derek Bailey, English guitarist (b. 1930)
• 2005 » Joseph Pararajasingham, Sri Lankan journalist, businessman, and politician (b. 1934)
• 2005 » Robert Barbers, Filipino police officer, lawyer, and politician, 15th Filipino Secretary of the Interior (b. 1944)
• 2006 » James Brown, American singer-songwriter (b. 1933)
• 2007 » Des Barrick, English cricketer (b. 1927)
• 2007 » Jim Beauchamp, American baseball player and coach (b. 1939)

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
• January 4 » Mikheil Saakashvili is elected President of Georgia following the November 2003 Rose Revolution.
• February 28 » Over one million Taiwanese participate in the 228 Hand-in-Hand rally form a 500-kilometre (310mi) long human chain to commemorate the February 28 Incident in 1947.
• May 2 » The Yelwa massacre concludes. It began on 4 February 2004 when armed Muslims killed 78 Christians at Yelwa. In response, about 630 Muslims were killed by Christians on May 2nd.
• May 14 » Rico Linhas Aéreas Flight 4815 crashes into the Amazon rainforest during approach to Eduardo Gomes International Airport in Manaus, Brazil, killing 33 people.
• September 15 » National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman announces lockout of the players' union and cessation of operations by the NHL head office.
• November 22 » The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections.

The temperature on December 25, 2004 was between -0.1 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 3.2 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.