December 22nd Events in History | |
| 1997 | Hunter Tylo awarded $4 million in Melrose Place breach of contract |
| 1997 | Merck baldness pill for men approved by FDA |
| 1997 | Nancy Kerring and Tonya Harding pre-record a show to air on FOX on Feb 5 |
| 1996 | Steelers' Kordell Stewart runs quarterback record 80 yards for TD |
| 1996 | Wendy's Three Tour Golf Challenge |
| 1996 | Zimbabwe and England draw Bulawayo Test Cricket with England need 1 to win |
| 1995 | David Cone signs $19.5 million 3 year contract with New York Yankees |
| 1994 | Christmas Carol opens at Richard Rodgers Theater New York City for 18 performances |
| 1994 | Italian government of Berlusconi resigns |
| 1992 | Libyan MIG-23UB attacks Boeing 727 at Souk al-Sabt, 158 die |
| 1990 | Iraq announces it will never give up Kuwait |
| 1990 | Israeli ferry capsizes killing 21 U.S. servicemen |
| 1990 | Lech Walesa sworn in as Poland's 1st popularly elected president |
| 1989 | After 23 years of dictatorial rule, Romania ousts Nicolea Ceausescu |
| 1989 | Chad adopts its Constitution |
| 1989 | Cold wave: -4 degrees F in Oklahoma City, -6 degrees F in Tulsa, -12 degrees F in Pitts, |
| 1989 | -18 degrees F in Denver, -23 degrees F in Kansas City, Missouri, -42 degrees F in Scottsbluff Nebraska -47 degrees F in Hardin Mont and -60 degrees F in Black Hills South Dakota |
| 1988 | 2 robbers wearing police uniforms rob armored truck of $3 M in NJ |
| 1988 | South Africa signs accord granting independence to South West Africa |
| 1988 | Tug hits oil barge, spreads 231,000 gal on 300 mi of WA and BC coast |
| 1986 | India score 7-676 vs. Sri Lanka at Kanpur in Cricket |
| 1985 | Wind in the Willows closes at Nederlander Theater New York City after 4 performances |
| 1985 | 74th Davis Cup: Sweden beats Germany in Munich (3-2) |
| 1985 | STS-51-L vehicle moves to Launch Pad 39B |
| 1984 | Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 black muggers on New York City subway train |
| 1984 | Madonna's "Like a Virgin," single goes #1 for 6 weeks |
| 1984 | Test Cricket debut of Craig McDermott, vs. WI at the MCG |
| 1983 | Egyptian president Mubarak meets with PLO leader Yasser Arafat |
| 1983 | Islanders score 3 shorthanded goals against Caps |
| 1982 | William Mastrosimones "Extremities," premieres in New York City |
| 1981 | Argentine general Leopoldo Galtieri sworn in as president |
| 1981 | Belgium's 5th government of Martens forms |
| 1980 | Cardinals release outfielder Bobby Bonds |
| 1980 | President-elect Reagan appoints J Kirkpatrick (UN) and James Watt (Interior) |
| 1978 | Kenny Jones becomes The Who's new drummer |
| 1978 | Thailand adopts constitution |
| 1977 | 36 die as grain elevator at Continental Grain Company plant explodes |
| 1976 | Your Arm's Too Short... opens at Lyceum New York City for 429 performances |
| 1976 | 35 Unification church couples wed in New York City |
| 1976 | East Germany banishes singer Nina Hagen |
| 1974 | 2nd cease-fire between IRA and British; lasts until approx April 1975 |
| 1974 | Phil Esposito, Boston, became 6th NHLer to score 500 goals |
| 1974 | Referenda in Comoros-3 islands for independence, 1 stays French |
| 1972 | 6.25 earthquake strikes Managua Nicaragua, 12,000+ killed |
| 1971 | KUAC TV channel 9 in Fairbanks/College, AK (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1971 | U.N. General Assembly ratifies Kurt Waldheim as Secretary-General |
| 1971 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1970 | Treblinka SS commander Franz Stangl sentenced to life imprisonment |
| 1969 | Pete Marovich sets NCAA record of hitting 30 of 31 foul shots |
| 1968 | Julie Nixon weds Dwight David Eisenhower |
| 1966 | WCVW TV channel 57 in Richmond, Virginia (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1965 | Belgian government shuts 6 coal mine |
| 1965 | Director David Lean's "Dr. Zhivago," premieres |
| 1965 | Great Britain sets maximum speed at 70 MPH |
| 1965 | Radio Mil (Domincan Republic) transmitter blown up |
| 1964 | Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet) |
| 1963 | Oakland Raider Tom Flores passes for 6 touchdowns vs Houston (52-49) |
| 1963 | Official 30-day mourning period for President John F. Kennedy ends |
| 1962 | 1,000,000th NBA point scored |
| 1962 | Harris County voters approve all-weather stadium for Houston Colt .45s |
| 1962 | Kinderman Place in the Bronx named |
| 1962 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1961 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1959 | Continental League awards its last franchise to Dallas-Ft. Worth |
| 1959 | NY Ranger goalie Marcel Paille wears a customized mask |
| 1958 | Chipmunk Song reaches #1 |
| 1958 | Whoop-Up opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 56 performances |
| 1958 | 2nd Dutch Beel government forms |
| 1957 | KWRB (now KFNE) TV channel 10 in Lander-Riverton, WY (ABC) begins |
| 1956 | New Faces of 1956 closes at Barrymore Theater New York City after 221 performances |
| 1956 | Last British/French troops leave Egypt |
| 1953 | Jack Dunn III, owner of Baltimore Orioles in International League, turns name over to newly relocated St. Louis Browns |
| 1952 | French government of Pinay, resigns |
| 1952 | WSBA (now WPMT) TV channel 43 in York, Pennsylvania (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1951 | Australia cricket all out 82 vs. West Indies at Adelaide |
| 1950 | 2 self-propelled trains of Long Island RR collide, killing 77 |
| 1948 | KPIX TV channel 5 in San Francisco, California (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1947 | Italian constituent assembly adopts new constitution |
| 1946 | Bal Negre closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 54 performances |
| 1946 | Cleveland Browns beat New York Yankees 14-9 in AAFC championship game |
| 1945 | Utrecht: Catholic People's party (KVP) established |
| 1944 | Germans demand surrender of American troops at Bastogne, Belgium |
| 1944 | Sub Swordfish departs Pearl Harbor for Japan |
| 1943 | Manufacturers get permission to use synthetic rubber for baseball core |
| 1943 | WEB Du Bois elected 1st black member, National Inst of Arts and Letters |
| 1941 | Japans invasion leader lands on Luzon, Philippines |
| 1941 | Tito establishes 1st Proletarian Brigade in Yugoslavia |
| 1941 | Winston Churchill arrives in Washington for a wartime conference |
| 1939 | 125 die in train wreck at Magdeburg Germany |
| 1939 | Bradman scores 138 in South Australia's 7-821 vs. Queensland |
| 1939 | Finnish counter offensive at Petsamo |
| 1939 | 99 die in 2nd wreck at Friedrichshafen Germany |
| 1937 | Lincoln Tunnel, in New York City, opens to traffic |
| 1936 | 1st common carrier license issued by ICC, Scranton, Pa |
| 1935 | Yaeko Iwasaki, student of D S Harada Roshi, 1st awakening in Kamakura |
| 1934 | 1st flight from Netherland to Curacao (Christmas flight 1934) |
| 1934 | Miss Theo Trowbridge sets female bowling record 702 pins in games |
| 1930 | 6 West europe lands signs Convention of Oslo |
| 1924 | Babe Dye of NHL's Toronto St. Patricks scores 5 goals beat Bruins 10-2 |
| 1924 | Philip Barry's "Youngest," premieres in New York City |
| 1923 | Bill Ponsford and Edgar Mayne make 456 opening stand for Vict |
| 1922 | Belgian parliament rejects Dutch university in Ghent |
| 1919 | Government of Ireland Act of Power (Home Rule for Ireland) |
| 1919 | U.S. deports 250 alien radicals, including anarchist Emma Goldman |
| 1917 | Flanders declares it's independence, under Pieter Tack |
| 1915 | Federal Baseball League disolved |
| 1915 | Organized baseball and Federal League sign a peace treaty at Cincinnati |
| 1910 | U.S. postal savings stamps 1st issued |
| 1907 | Saint-Saens/Fokines ballet "Le Cygne," premieres in St. Petersburg |
| 1894 | Dutch coast hit by hurricane |
| 1894 | Debussy's "Prelude l'apres-midi d'un faune," premieres |
| 1894 | United States Golf Association forms (New York City) |
| 1894 | French officer Alfred Dreyfus court-martialed for treason, triggers worldwide charges of anti-Semitism (Dreyfus later vindicated) |
| 1888 | Heavyweight boxing champ John L Sullivan challenges Jake Kilrain |
| 1886 | 1st national accountants' society in U.S. formed (New York City) |
| 1885 | Pope Leo XIII proclaims extraordinary jubilee |
| 1883 | August Strindberg's "Lycko-Pers Reja," premieres |
| 1882 | 1st string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison |
| 1877 | American Bicycling Journal begins publishing (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| 1870 | Jules Janssen, flys in a balloon in order to study a solar eclipse |
| 1832 | HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin reaches Barnevelts Islands |
| 1815 | Spaniards execute Mexican revolutionary priest Jose Maria Morelos |
| 1810 | British frigate Minotaur sinks killing 480 |
| 1807 | Congress passes Embargo Act, to force peace between Britain and France |
| 1790 | Russian troops occupy Ismail on Turks |
| 1775 | Continental Navy organized with 7 ships |
| 1772 | Moravian missionary constructs 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny |
| 1731 | Dutch people revolt against meat tax |
| 1715 | English pretender to the throne James III lands at Peterhead |
| 1689 | Heavy earthquake strikes Innsbruck |
| 1688 | Pro-James II, Earl of Danby occupies York |
| 1642 | Pope Urbanus VIII publishes degree In eminente |
| 1596 | Ferryboat Meuniers crashes in Paris, 150 die |
| 1536 | English scholar Reginald Pole appointed cardinal |
| 1465 | Peace of St. Truiden: Louis van Bourbon becomes bishop of Luik |
| 1216 | Pope Honorius III delegates degree "Religiosam vitam eligentibus" |
| 1135 | Norman nobles recognize Stefanus van Blois as English king |
| 795 | Leo III succeeds pope Adrianus I |
| 401 | St. Innocent I begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
December 22nd Birthdays in History | |
| 1986 | Jeffery Wood, actor, Austin Warren-In The House |
| 1977 | Joanna Hughes, Victoria Australia, gymnast 1996 Olympics |
| 1975 | Stanislav Neckar, Pisek CZ, NHL defenseman, Ottawa Senators,Gold Meda 1998 Olympics |
| 1974 | Heather Donahue, American Actress |
| 1973 | Annie Pelletier, born in Montreal, Quebec, 3m diver 1996 Olympics bronze |
| 1973 | Jamel Williams, safety for the Washington Redskins |
| 1972 | Andrew Moore, WLAF tackle for the Frankfurt Galaxy |
| 1972 | Anthony Edwards, Australian rower 1996 Olympics |
| 1972 | Kirk Maltby, Guelph, NHL right wing for the Edmonton Oilers |
| 1972 | Mike Thompson, NFL defensive tackle for the Jacksonville Jaguars |
| 1972 | Vanessa Paradis, France, model, Channel, actress, White Wedding |
| 1970 | Brooks Findlay, CFL linebacker for the BC Lions |
| 1969 | Andrew Scott, Australian baseball infielder 1996 Olympics |
| 1969 | Marcie Aguilar, born in Tucson, Arizona, female infielder, Colorado Silver Bullets |
| 1968 | Lauralee "Bug" Bell, born in Chicago, Illinois, actress, Cricket-Young and Restless |
| 1967 | Mike Sullivan, NFL center for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers |
| 1967 | Roland Holder, cricketer, West Indian batsman in ODI's 1993- |
| 1967 | Sean Foster, WLAF wide reciever for the Rhein Fire |
| 1964 | Mike Jackson, born in Houston, Texas, pitcher for the Seattle Mariners |
| 1963 | Bryan McMillan, cricketer, brilliant South African all-rounder since 1992 |
| 1962 | Ralph Fiennes, born in Suffolk, England, actor, English Patient |
| 1961 | Yuri Ivanovich Malinchenko, Russian Lt-colonel/cosmonaut, Soyuz TM-19 |
| 1960 | Jean-Michel Basquiat, Haiti/US graffiti artist/painter, Gray, SAMO |
| 1960 | Tyrell Biggs, Philadelphia, super HW boxer 1984 Olympics gold |
| 1958 | Lenny Von Dohlen, Augusta Georgia, actor, Love Kills, Electric Dreams |
| 1957 | Ricky Ross, British rock vocalist, Deacon Blue-Raintown |
| 1957 | Susan Powter, diet guru/author/talk show host, Susan Powter Show |
| 1956 | Marcy Hanson, born in Galveston, Texas, playmate, October 1978 |
| 1954 | Derick Parry, cricketer, WI off-spinner early 80's |
| 1954 | Jayaseelan Naidoo, South African worker's union leader |
| 1953 | Bernnadette Stanis, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, Thelma-Good Times |
| 1953 | David Leisner, born in America, teacher, classical guitarist, composer, taught at Manhattan School of Music, expert in focal dystonia |
| 1951 | Charles de Lint, Netherlands, sci-fi author, Moonhear, Mulengro, Yarrow |
| 1951 | Gerald Grosvenor, English 6th duke of Westminster/billionaire |
| 1951 | Jan Stephenson, Sydney Australia, golfer, LPGA Rookie of Year-1974 |
| 1949 | Manfred Burgsmuller, WLAF kicker for the Rhein Fire |
| 1949 | Maurice Gibb, Manchester Eng, rocker, Bee Gees-Saturday Night Fever |
| 1949 | Michael Osborne, rock guitarist and vocalist, Axe |
| 1949 | Robin Gibb, born in Manchester, England, rocker, Bee Gees-Saturday Night Fever |
| 1948 | Chris Old, cricketer, England medium-pacer of 70's |
| 1948 | Noel Edmonds, British TV personality, Foul-ups, Bleeps and Blunders |
| 1948 | Steve Garvey, 1st baseman, Los Angeles Dodgers, San Diego Padres |
| 1948 | Lynne Thigpen, Joliet, Illinois, actress, Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?, Nancy-Love Sidney |
| 1947 | Brian C Daley, U.S., sci-fi author, Exploits of Han Solo, Tron |
| 1947 | Dilip Doshi, cricketer, India's main slow lefty post-Bedi |
| 1946 | Rick Nielsen, Rockford, Illinois, rock vocalist and guitarist, Cheap Trick |
| 1946 | Roberta Speer, LPGA golfer |
| 1945 | Diane Sawyer, born in Glasgow, Kentucky, newscaster, 60 Minutes, ABC Prime Time |
| 1945 | Joris J C Voorhoeve, Dutch Defense minister, 1994-, VVD |
| 1945 | Marianne van Wijnkoop, Bosscher, Dutch actress, Les Miserables |
| 1944 | Barry Jenkins, rocker, Animals-House of the Rising Sun |
| 1944 | Steve Carlton, Phillies' pitcher, Cy Young 1972, 1977, 1980, 1982 |
| 1944 | Mary Archer, British Scientist |
| 1943 | Billie Jean King, born in Long Beach, California, tennis pro |
| 1943 | Paul Wolfowitz, American Celebrity |
| 1938 | Lucien Bouchard, Canadian Lawyer |
| 1937 | Marco J de Castro, Dutch Antillian politician |
| 1936 | Hector Elizondo, New York City, actor, American Gigolo, Young Doctors in Love |
| 1935 | John L Finley, USAF/astronaut |
| 1935 | Oleg Alekseyevich Protopopov, Russia, pairs skater, Gold Medals 1964, 1968 Olympics |
| 1932 | Joe Clark, born in Los Angeles, California, WLAF off coordinator coach for the Amsterdam Admirals |
| 1930 | Peter Hall, born in Suffolk, England, director, Royal Shakespeare Company |
| 1929 | Jan Wiegel, director/producer, Classroom of Anne Frank, Myrada |
| 1929 | Wazir Mohammad, cricketer, eldest of Pakistan's 4 Mohammed brothers |
| 1928 | Piero Angelo, Italian writer, Control |
| 1926 | Peggy Castle, Appalachia, Virginia, actress, Lily Merrill-Lawman |
| 1925 | Gunther Schuller, New York City, jazz composer |
| 1925 | Thomas Christian David, composer |
| 1924 | Frank Corsaro, New York harbor, opera director |
| 1924 | Geraldine Page, Kirksville, Missouri, actress, Interiors, Beguiled |
| 1924 | Dan Devine, American Coach |
| 1923 | Heinz Bernard Lowenstein, actor and director |
| 1922 | Barbara Billingsley, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, June-Leave it to Beaver |
| 1922 | Calder Willingham, novelist/scriptwriter |
| 1922 | Jim Wright, born in Fort Worth, Texas, Representative-D-Texas 1987 - 1989, Speaker of House |
| 1921 | Hawkshaw Hawkins, Huntington, West Virginia, country singer, Ozark Jubilee |
| 1921 | Robert Frank Kurka, composer |
| 1918 | Frankie Darro, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Radio Ranch, Valley of Wanted Men |
| 1918 | William Kennedy, baseball player |
| 1917 | Andrew Fielding Huxley, born in London, England, physiologist, Nobel 1963 |
| 1917 | Gene Rayburn, born in Christopher, Illinois, TV game show host, Match Game |
| 1917 | Piet De Somer, Belgian rector, University of Leuven |
| 1913 | Anthony Barber Doncaster, bookseller |
| 1913 | Benjamin Britten, born in Suffolk, England, opera composer |
| 1912 | Doris Duke, New York City, heiress, American Tobacco Co |
| 1912 | Henry Armstrong, held feather/light/welterweight boxing titles, 1938 |
| 1912 | Lady Bird Johnson, born in Texas, First Lady of the United States, called "Lady Bird", beautified Washington, D.C. |
| 1912 | Claudia Johnson, American First Lady |
| 1911 | Grote Reber, U.S., astronomer, 1st parabolic radio telescope |
| 1910 | Richard Ainley, Middlesex England, actor, I Dood It, Above Suspicion |
| 1909 | Alan Carney, David Boughal, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Zombies on Broadway |
| 1908 | Giacomo Manzu, Italy, sculptor, St. Peter, Laurenskerk, Lenin Prize |
| 1908 | Marius F Duintjer, Dutch architect |
| 1908 | Max Bill, Swiss painter/sculptor/politician, Ruban Sans Fin |
| 1907 | Peggy Ashcroft, Croydon England, actress, Dear Brutus, Happy Days |
| 1907 | Yoshio Hasegawa, composer |
| 1905 | Kenneth Rexroth, U.S., poet, critic and translator Birds in the Bush |
| 1905 | Pierre Brasseur, Espinasse, French actor, Enfants du Paradis |
| 1904 | Louis-Eugene-Felix Neel, Lyon France, physicist, Nobel 1970 |
| 1903 | Barbara Moore, doctor, walked across U.S. in 86 days in 1960 |
| 1903 | H Keffer Hartline, U.S., biophysicist, Nobel 1967 |
| 1903 | Marc Lavry, composer |
| 1903 | Haldan Keffer Hartline, American Scientist |
| 1902 | Jacques-Philippe Leclerc, France, WW II hero, liberator of Paris |
| 1902 | Joe Adonis, Italy, American crime-syndicate boss in New York and NJ |
| 1901 | Andre Kostelanetz, St. Petersburg Russia, conductor, Lincoln Portrari |
| 1901 | Joaquin Rodrigo, Spain, composer |
| 1900 | Alan Dudley Bush, composer pianist/teacher |
| 1899 | Gustaf Gruendgens, Duesseldorf Germany, actor and director, M |
| 1899 | Hoagy Carmichael, Bloomington, Indiana, pianist/composer |
| 1899 | Wiley Post, Texas, aviation pioneer |
| 1898 | Lionel Charles Robbins, Middlesex England, economist |
| 1896 | Nikolay Semyonovich Tikhonov, St. Petersburg Russia, poet |
| 1891 | Edward L Bernays, Vienna Austria, 1st public relations agent |
| 1890 | Charles de Gaulle, Lille France, premier of France |
| 1890 | Mark Tobey, U.S. abstract painter, Broadway Norm |
| 1889 | Mikha'il Na'imah, Lebanon, playwright |
| 1889 | Minor Watson, Marianna AR, actor, Woman of the Year, Viva Cisco Kid |
| 1889 | B. Carroll Reece, American Politician |
| 1888 | Joseph Arthur Rank, English film magnate/baron |
| 1887 | Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indies mathematician |
| 1885 | Joseph Deems Taylor, New York City, composer, Peter Ibbetson |
| 1883 | Arthur James Cook, England, union leader, coal miners |
| 1883 | Edgard Victor Achille C Varese, Paris, France, composer, Innisation |
| 1882 | Charles Vildrac, Paris, France, poet/playwright |
| 1881 | Enver Pasa, Istanbul Turkey, Turkish politician |
| 1879 | Ralph Hawtrey, Buckinghamshire England, economist, multiplier |
| 1879 | Stanislas Bizot, French world checker champion, 1925 |
| 1877 | Endre Ady, Hungary, lyric poet |
| 1876 | Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian writer, Futurism e Futurista |
| 1875 | Antoine Mariotte, composer |
| 1875 | John P "Jan" Musch, Dutch actor, Dead Water |
| 1874 | Franz Schmidt, composer |
| 1874 | Herman Harrell Horne, Clayton, North Carolina, philosopher, idealism |
| 1873 | Leopold Stennett Amery, British politician |
| 1873 | Matteo Giulio Bartoli, Austria-Hungary, linguist |
| 1869 | Edwin Arlington Robinson, U.S., poet, Richard Corey |
| 1869 | Andre Gide, French Novelist |
| 1869 | Bainbridge Colby, American Public Servant |
| 1868 | John Nance Garner, Texas, Vice President-D-1933-41 |
| 1867 | Frantisek X. Salda, Czechoslovakian writer/critic |
| 1867 | Joseph [Maria] Olbrich, Silesia, German architect, Wiener Sezession |
| 1867 | Wilhelm Groener, Germany, general |
| 1866 | Mieczyslaw Surzynski, composer |
| 1863 | Ch'i Pai-shih, China, traditional Chinese painter |
| 1863 | Jean-Baptiste Marchand, Thoissey France, soldier and explorer, Sudan |
| 1862 | Connie Mack, born in East Brookfield, Massachusetts, HOF baseball executive/manager, Philadelphia A's 1900 - 1950 |
| 1861 | Erich Schaeder, German theologist, Theocentric Theology |
| 1859 | Cecil [James] Sharp, born in London, England, folk musician |
| 1858 | Giacomo Puccini, Lucca Italy, opera composer, La Boheme, La Tosca |
| 1857 | George Gissing, England, novelist |
| 1856 | Frank Kellogg, Secretary of State, 1925 - 1929, try to outlaw war, Nobel 1929 |
| 1856 | Frank B. Kellogg, American Politician |
| 1853 | Maria Teresa Carreno, composer |
| 1849 | Fritz Mauthner, Bohemia, German author/philosopher, skepticism |
| 1847 | Heihatjiro Tojo, Japan, Admiral, Russian-Japanese war |
| 1846 | Andreas Hallen, composer |
| 1846 | Oscar Carre, Dutch circus director |
| 1844 | Izydor Lotto, composer |
| 1842 | Jose Maria de Heredia, Cuba, French sonnet poet |
| 1842 | Nicola d' Arienzo, composer |
| 1832 | Edward Hatch, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1831 | Mark Rutherford, writer |
| 1831 | Robert Ogden Tyler, Major General Union Army |
| 1831 | Charles Stuart Calverley, English Poet |
| 1830 | Justin M'Carthy, Ireland, Irish politician/novelist, Miss Misanthrope |
| 1826 | James Scott Negley, Union volunteers Major General |
| 1821 | Giovanni Bottesini, composer |
| 1819 | Franz Wilhelm Abt, German composer/choir conductor |
| 1819 | George Eliot, England, Victorian novelist, Adam Bede |
| 1815 | Johann J Bachofen, Swiss judicial historian |
| 1815 | Lucien Petipa, French dancer/choreographer/ballet leader |
| 1812 | Johanne Luise Heiberg, Copenhagen Denmark, actress, Romeo and Juliet |
| 1809 | Benedict Augustin Morel, Vienna, French psychologist, dementia praecox |
| 1808 | Thomas Cook, England, tour director, Thomas Cook and Son |
| 1803 | Joseph King Fenno Mansfield, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1795 | Thomas Ainsworth, English/Netherlands industrialist, Twentse textile |
| 1787 | Rasmus Rask, Denmark, language scholar |
| 1768 | John Crome, Old Crome, English landscape painter/etcher |
| 1767 | Andreas Hofer, South Tirol, military leader, fought Napoleon's France |
| 1764 | Barbara Juliane Krudener, Latvia, mystic visionary renounced nobility |
| 1761 | Dorothea Jordan, Ireland, French comedic actress |
| 1753 | Dugald Stewart, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, philosopher, Scottish common sense |
| 1735 | Ulrich Braker, writer |
| 1728 | Charles Frederick, Baden, liberal ruler of Baden |
| 1727 | William Ellery, U.S. attorney/signer Declaration of Independence |
| 1723 | Carl Friedrich Abel, German/British viola-da-gamba-player/composer |
| 1710 | Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composer, son of J.S. Bach |
| 1702 | Jean E Liotard, Turk, Swiss painter, Madame d'Epinay |
| 1700 | Egbert de Vrij Temminck, Amsterdam regent |
| 1696 | James Oglethorpe, England, General/author/colonizer, Georgia |
| 1684 | Johann J Dillenius, Dillen, German botanist, Historia Muscorum |
| 1643 | Rene-Robert Cavelier La Salle, France, French explorer, Louisiana |
| 1639 | Jean Racine, born in La Ferte-Milon, France, French playwright, 'Andromaque' and 'Mithridate' |
| 1624 | Tomas Micieres, composer |
| 1573 | Ernst Casimir, count of Nassau-Dietz/mayor of Frisia/Groningen |
| 1523 | Charles "Cardinal" of Bourbon, archbishop Rouen |
| 1515 | Mary of Lorraine, France, pro-French Regent of Scotland |
| 1459 | Djem Sultan, son of Turks sultan Mehmed II |
| 1452 | Jakob Obrecht, Brabant, composer |
| 1428 | Richard Neville Warwick, 2nd earl of Salisbury |
| 1400 | Luca della Robbia, Italy, sculptor, Madonna of Rose Garden |
December 22nd Deaths in History | |
| 2005 | T. Cooper Evans, Representative-R-Iowa, 1981 - 1987 |
| 2002 | Joe Strummer, rocker, The Clash, dies at 50 |
| 2002 | Kenneth Tobey, actor, dies at 85 |
| 2001 | Lance Loud, "actor/early ""reality show"" star", An American Family, dies at 50 |
| 2000 | Florynce Rae Kennedy, lawyer/lecturer, dies at 84 |
| 1998 | Virginia Graham, talk show host/writer, dies at 86 |
| 1997 | Douglas Ranger, surgeon, dies at 81 |
| 1997 | John Pinkerton, compuer scientist, dies at 78 |
| 1997 | Johnny Coles, trumpeter, dies at 71 |
| 1997 | Juzo Itami, Japanese director, commits suicide at 64 |
| 1997 | Hugh Seymour, 8th Marquess of Hertford, Peerage of Great Britain, dies at 67 |
| 1996 | Hetta Empson, artist, dies at 81 |
| 1995 | Butterfly McQueen, actress (Gone With the Wind), dies in a fire at 84 |
| 1995 | James Meade, English Economist |
| 1993 | Alexander Mackendrick, director (Whiskey Galore!), dies at 81 |
| 1993 | Don DeFore, actor (George Baxter-Hazel), dies of cardiac arrest at 76 |
| 1992 | Frederick W. Franz, CEO (Watch Tower), dies at 99 |
| 1991 | Ernst Krenek, Austrian/US composer (Orpheus and Eurydike), dies at 91 |
| 1990 | Cecil Effinger, composer, dies at 76 |
| 1990 | Helene Stanley, actress (Carnival Story, Roar of the Crowd), dies |
| 1989 | Samuel Beckett, Irish/French writer (Molloy, Nobel 1969), dies at 83 |
| 1988 | Tucker Smith, singer/dancer (Cool-West Side Story), dies |
| 1987 | Alice Terry, Taaffe, actress (4 Horsemen of Apocalypse), dies |
| 1987 | Leonidas Zoras, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1986 | Celius Dougherty, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1980 | Dick Kallman, actor (Hank Dearborn-Hank), murdered at 47 |
| 1979 | Darryl F Zanuck, film producer (20th Century Fox), dies at 77 |
| 1977 | Johann Nepomuk David, composer, dies at 82 |
| 1974 | Fosco Giachetti, entertainer, dies at 70 |
| 1974 | Lorraine Gauguin, entertainer, dies at 50 |
| 1974 | Richard Long, actor (Prof-Nanny and Professor), dies at 47 |
| 1973 | Domingo Julio Gomez Garcia, composer, dies at 87 |
| 1973 | Irna Phillips, creator of 5 TV soap operas, dies at 72 |
| 1971 | Godfried Jan Arnold Bomans, Dutch writer (Eric), dies at 58 |
| 1971 | Renee Evans, entertainer, dies of heart attack at 63 |
| 1969 | Donald Foster, actor (Herbert Johnson-Hazel), dies at 80 |
| 1969 | Ilse Steppat, actress (Invisible Terror), dies at 52 |
| 1969 | Josef von Sternberg, Austrian director (Shanghai Express), dies at 75 |
| 1968 | Louise Granville, entertainer, dies of influenza at 73 |
| 1967 | Lee Krieger, actor (Clambake, One Way Wahini), dies at 48 |
| 1965 | Al Ritz, actor (Gorilla, Hi Ya Chum), dies at 62 |
| 1964 | Bonifacio Gil Garcia, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1959 | Gilda Gray, actress (Piccadilly), dies of heart attack at 60 |
| 1958 | Fjodor W. Gladkow, Russian author (Cement), dies at 75 |
| 1958 | Lion Feuchtwanger, Germ/US philosopher (Judische Krieg), dies at 74 |
| 1951 | Powell Weaver, composer, dies at 61 |
| 1950 | Julius Weismann, composer, dies at 70 |
| 1950 | Walter Johannes Damrosch, composer, dies at 88 |
| 1945 | Otto Neurath, Austrian/British philosopher, dies at 63 |
| 1944 | Antoine Mariotte, composer, dies on 69th birthday |
| 1944 | Harry Langdon, U.S. comic/director (Heart Trouble), dies at 60 |
| 1941 | Leopoldo Mugnone, composer, dies at 83 |
| 1940 | Nathanael West, Weinstein, U.S. writer (Cool Million), dies at 37 |
| 1939 | Ma Rainey, "Mother of the Blues", U.S. blues singer/composer, dies at 53 |
| 1937 | Daito Kokushi, Zen founder of Daitokuji, dies in Kyoto at 55 |
| 1923 | Arthur H Bird, composer, dies at 67 |
| 1918 | Albijn van de Abeele, Flemish author/mayor/painter, dies at 83 |
| 1917 | Francesca Saveria Cabrini, U.S. saint/patron of immigrant, dies at 67 |
| 1913 | Menelik II, King of Ethiopia (1896-1913), dies at 69 |
| 1908 | Marie Jungius, Dutch teacher/fairy tale writer, dies at 44 |
| 1906 | Robert Rainy, minister, professor of Church history at New College, theological seminary, principal of New College, argued against Dean Stanley's Broad Church views, dies |
| 1902 | Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, psychiatrist, dies at 62 |
| 1899 | Dwight L Moody, U.S. evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement), dies |
| 1899 | Dwight L. Moody, American Clergyman |
| 1893 | Benedikt Randhartinger, composer, dies at 91 |
| 1893 | Johann Czerski, German chaplain, dies at 80 |
| 1890 | Harry Pollitt, chairman British communist (1956-60), dies |
| 1880 | George Eliot, Victorian novelist (Adam Bede), dies on 61st birthday |
| 1875 | Nikolay Alexeyevich Titov, composer, dies at 75 |
| 1874 | Johann Peter Pixis, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1870 | Constantine D Uschinsky, Russian educator, dies at 46 |
| 1867 | Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (kinematics), dies at 79 |
| 1863 | Michael Corcoran, Union Brigadier-General, dies at 36 |
| 1832 | Ishmail Spicer, composer, dies at 72 |
| 1828 | Rachel Jackson, wife of 7th U.S. President Andrew Jackson, dies |
| 1815 | Jose Maria Morelos, Mexican revolutionary priest executed by Spaniards |
| 1797 | Giovanni Marco Rutini, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1767 | John Newberry, English publisher, dies |
| 1745 | Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer, dies at 66 |
| 1738 | Jean-Joseph Mouret, composer, dies at 56 |
| 1723 | Jacques Basnage, French/Dutch historian/vicar, dies at 70 |
| 1721 | Nathaniel Hawes, tortured and executed in England for robbery |
| 1668 | Stephen Day, 1st British colonial printer, dies |
| 1641 | Maximilien de Bethune duke of Sully, Prime Minister of France, dies at 81 |
| 1603 | Mehmed III, sultan of Turkey (1595-1603), dies at 37 |
| 1440 | Bluebeard, pirate, executed |
| 1419 | John XXIII, Baldassare Cossa, Italian Pope (1410-15), dies |
| 1337 | Daito Kokushi, leader of O-To-Kan Rinzai school in Japan, dies at 54 |
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