25 December: today's birthdays

• Íngrid Betancourt - Colombian-French politician and anti-corruption activist. She was kidnapped by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and kept prisoner for six years
• Humphrey Bogart - American actor, born Humphrey DeForest Bogart. He won an Oscar for Best Actor in 1952
• Louise Bourgeois - French-born American artist and sculptor
• Dido - English singer-songwriter, born Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong
• Sheila Heti - Canadian writer. She wrote The Middle Stories, a collection of short stories 
• Conrad Nicholson Hilton - American entrepreneur, founder of the Hilton Hotels chain
• Friedensreich Hundertwasser - Austrian painter, sculptor and architect
• Annie Lennox - Scottish musician and singer-songwriter. She has been part of music duo Eurythmics with David A. Stewart
• Isaac Newton - English physicist, mathematician and astronomer, one of the greatest scientists of all time
• Charles Pathé - French filmmaker and producer
• Noel Redding - English guitarist and bassist
• Sissy Spacek - American actress and singer
• Justin Trudeau - Canadian politician, currently the 23rd Prime Minister of Canada