Minoru Yamasaki (1912–1986) : Japanese American.

 Rosa Parks Day : African American.

 World AIDS Day : International.

 Independence Day : Portugal.

 Independence Day : Laos.

 Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski) (1857–1924) : Polish British.

 Farmers' Day : Ghana. (m)

 Josef Pilsudski (1867–1935) : Polish.

 Saint Nicholas Day : Netherlands.

 Discovery Day : Haiti.

 Constitution Day : Spain.

 Independence Day : Finland.

 Independence of Quito : Ecuador.

 National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day : United States.

 National Day (King's Birthday) observed : Thailand.

 Diego Rivera (1886–1957) : Mexican.

 Bodhi Day (Buddha's Enlightenment) : Buddhist.

 Feast of the Immaculate Conception : Roman Catholic.

 Mother's Day : Panama.

 Battle of Ayacucho : Peru.

 Independence Day : Tanzania.

 T[homas] H[opkins] Gallaudet (1787–1851) : French, People with Disabilities.

 Human Rights Day : United Nations.

 Constitution Day : Thailand.

 Fiorello LaGuardia (1882–1947) : Italian American.

 Naguib Mahfouz (1911–2006) : Egyptian.

 Hanukkah begins at sundown : Jewish. (m)

 Frank Sinatra (1915–1998) : Italian American.

 Constitution Day : Russia.

 Fiesta de Guadalupe (fee-esta-guahd-ah-loohpā) : Mexico.

 Hanukkah (12/12–12/19) : Jewish. (m)

 Independence Day : Kenya.

 Younghill Kang (1903–1972) : Korean American.

 Santa Lucia : Sweden.

 Tatanka-Yatanka (Sitting Bull) (1830s–1890) : American Indian (Sioux).

 Las Posadas (12/16–12/24) : Mexico.

 Independence Day : Kazakhstan.

 Reconciliation Day : South Africa.

 Victory Day : Bangladesh.

 Al Hijrah begins at sighting of crescent moon : Islamic. (m)

 Al Hijrah (New Year) : Islamic. (m)

 Carter G. Woodson (1875–1950) : African American.

 J[oseph] M[arion] Haggar Sr. (1892–1987) : Lebanese American.

 Sacagawea (?–1812) : American Indian (Shoshone).

 Yule begins at sundown : Pagan and Wiccan. (m)

 Henrietta Szold (1860–1945) : Jewish American.

 Yule (Winter Solstice) : Pagan and Wiccan. (m)

 Winter Solstice : General. (m)

 Tomás Rivera (1935–1984) : Mexican American.

 Joseph Smith (1805–1844) : The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

 Sarah Breedlove Walker (1867–1919) : African American.

 Emperor's Birthday (Tenno Tanjo Bi) : Japan.

 Victory Day : Egypt.

 Eduardo “Lalo” Guerrero (1916–2005) : Mexican American.

 Scott Joplin (1868–1917) : African American.

 Wendell Chino (1923–1998) : American Indian (Mescalero Apache).

 Philip Vera Cruz (1904–1994) : Filipino American.

 Filippo Mazzei (1730–1810) : Italian.

 Christmas : Christian.

 Qaid-i-Azam's Birthday : Pakistan.

 Kwanzaa (quanza) (rhymes with wanza) : African American.

 Ashura begins at sundown : Islamic. (m)

 St. Stephen's Day : Roman Catholic.

 Day of Goodwill : South Africa.

 Ashura : Islamic. (m)

 Holy Innocents' Day : Mexico, Morocco.

 Boxing Day observed : United Kingdom.

 Rizal Day (reezahl-day) : Philippines.