Editing December 24 (section)

===Pre-1600===
*[[3 BC]] &ndash; [[Galba]], Roman emperor (d. 69)<ref>{{cite book|author=Samuel Farmar Jarvis|title=A Chronological Introduction to the History of the Church: Being a New Inquiry Into the Birth and Death of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ; and Containing an Original Harmony of the Four Gospels|url=https://archive.org/details/chronologicalint00jarv|year=1845|publisher=Harper & brothers|pages=[https://archive.org/details/chronologicalint00jarv/page/313 313]}}</ref>
*[[1166]] &ndash; [[John, King of England]] (d. 1216)<ref>{{cite book|author=Richard Thomson|title=An Historical Essay on the Magna Charta of King John: To which are Added, the Great Charter in Latin and English; the Charters of Liberties and Confirmations, Granted by Henry III. and Edward I.; the Original Charter of the Forests; and Various Authentic Instruments Connected with Them: Explanatory Notes on Their Several Privileges; a Descriptive Account of the Principal Originals and Editions Extant, Both in Print and Manuscript; and Other Illustrations, Derived from the Most Interesting and Authentic Sources|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CsYsAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA461|year=1829|publisher=J. Major|pages=461}}</ref>
*[[1389]] &ndash; [[John V, Duke of Brittany]] (d. 1442)<ref>{{cite book|author=Michael Jones|title=Creation of Brittany|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XfgHKGYI92kC&pg=PA163|date=1 July 1988|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-0-8264-3450-0|pages=163}}</ref>
*[[1474]] &ndash; [[Bartolomeo degli Organi]], Italian musician (d. 1539)<ref>{{cite book|title=Journal of the American Musicological Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-kwvAAAAMAAJ|year=1970|publisher=American Musicological Society}}</ref>
*[[1475]] &ndash; [[Thomas Murner]], German poet and translator (d. 1537)<ref>{{cite book|author=Tyll Eulenspiegel|title=The marvellous adventures and rare conceits of master Tyll Owlglass, newly collected, chronicled and set forth, in our Engl. tongue, by K.R.H. Mackenzie|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KrcBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA244|year=1860|pages=244}}</ref>
*[[1508]] &ndash; [[Pietro Carnesecchi]], Italian scholar (d. 1567)<ref>{{cite book|author=Philip M. J. McNair|title=Peter Martyr in Italy: An Anatomy of Apostasy|url=https://archive.org/details/petermartyrinita0000mcna|url-access=registration|year=1967|publisher=Clarendon Press}}</ref>
*[[1520]] &ndash; [[Martha Leijonhufvud]], Swedish noble (d. 1584)
*[[1537]] &ndash; [[Willem IV van den Bergh]], Stadtholder of Guelders and Zutphen (d. 1586)
*[[1549]] &ndash; [[Kaspar Ulenberg]], German theologian (d. 1617)
*[[1588]] &ndash; [[Constance of Austria]] (d. 1631)
*[[1596]] &ndash; [[Leonaert Bramer]], Dutch painter (d. 1674)
*[[1597]] &ndash; [[Honoré II, Prince of Monaco]] (d. 1662)