42 Jared Leto Hot Actor/singer Lead singer of 30 Seconds to Mars
Beth Behrs, Actress ("2 Broke Girls"), turns 29
34 Chris Daughtry Former contestant on American Idol and frontman for Daughtry
57 David Sedaris Humorist Will make you pee with his humor
68 John Walsh
73 Phil Spector record producer a and bad hair styles Is currently in prison for murder and having the worse set of mens wigs!
80 Caroll Spinney Actor (Big Bird on "Sesame Street")
Mao Tse-tung 12/26/1893 - 9/9/1976 Chinese statesman and leader of his nation's communist revolution
Joyce Jillson (December 26, 1946-October 1, 2004)
Richard Widmark (December 26, 1914 – March 24, 2008)
Steve Allen (1921–2000) Actor, Comedian, Composer, Author. First host of the NBC "Tonight Show
and TODAY is BOXING DAY.........
Boxing Day is traditionally the day following Christmas Day, when servants and tradesmen would receive gifts, known as a "Christmas box", from their bosses[1] or employers. Today, Boxing Day is the bank holiday that generally takes place on 26 December. It is observed in the United Kingdom, Canada, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Malta and some other Commonwealth nations. In Australia, Boxing Day is a federal public holiday.
1972 Harry S. Truman, the 33rd president of the United States, died in Kansas City, Mo., at age 88.
1973…Doobie Brothers guitarist Tom Johnston was arrested in Visalia, California, for marijuana possession
1974 Comedian Jack Benny died at age 80.
1974…James Taylor, Carly Simon, Linda Ronstadt and Joni Mitchell got into the Christmas spirit by traveling around Los Angeles singing carols.
1996 Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey was found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family's home in Boulder, Colo. The slaying remains unsolved.
2000…Convicts at a Denver County Jail in Colorado went on the rampage after the VCR broke during a screening of the Jennifer Lopez film The Cell.
2004 A tsunami triggered by a powerful earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean left more than 216,000 people dead or missing, mostly in southern Asia.
2004 Peyton Manning of the Indianapolis Colts broke Dan Marino's single-season touchdown pass record when he threw his 48th and 49th of the season in a victory over San Diego.
2005…Iggy Pop was fined by the Swiss city of Lucerne for performing his music too loud at the Blue Balls festival in July. Pop and The Stooges were clocked at 102.5 decibels.
In 2005…Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker became a father again, as wife Shanna Moakler gave birth to seven pound, one ounce daughter Alabama Louella Barker
2006 Gerald R. Ford, the 38th president of the United States, died in Rancho Mirage, Calif., at age 93.