L. L. Langstroth, American apiarist, clergyman and teacher (died 1895)

Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth was an American apiarist, clergyman, and teacher, who has been called the father of American beekeeping. He recognized the concept of bee-space, a minimum distance that bees avoid sealing up. Although not his own discovery, the use of this principle allowed for the use of frames that the bees leave separate and this allowed the use of rectangular frames within the design of what is now called the Langstroth hive.

December 25 is the 359th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; six days remain until the end of the year.