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December 22 Birthdays in History - December 22 Deaths - December 22 Events
December 22, 1986 Jeffery Wood, actor, Austin Warren-In The House
December 22, 1977 Joanna Hughes, Victoria Australia, gymnast 1996 Olympics
December 22, 1975 Stanislav Neckar, Pisek CZ, NHL defenseman, Ottawa Senators, Oly-G-98
December 22, 1973 Annie Pelletier, born in Montreal, Quebec, 3m diver 1996 Olympics bronze
December 22, 1973 Jamel Williams, safety for the Washington Redskins
December 22, 1972 Andrew Moore, WLAF tackle for the Frankfurt Galaxy
December 22, 1972 Anthony Edwards, Australian rower 1996 Olympics
December 22, 1972 Kirk Maltby, Guelph, NHL right wing for the Edmonton Oilers
December 22, 1972 Mike Thompson, NFL defensive tackle for the Jacksonville Jaguars
December 22, 1972 Vanessa Paradis, France, model, Channel, /actress, White Wedding
December 22, 1970 Brooks Findlay, CFL linebacker for the BC Lions
December 22, 1969 Andrew Scott, Australian baseball infielder 1996 Olympics
December 22, 1969 Marcie Aguilar, born in Tucson, Arizona, female infielder, Colo Silver Bullets
December 22, 1968 Lauralee "Bug" Bell, born in Chicago, Illinois, actress, Cricket-Young and Restless
December 22, 1967 Mike Sullivan, NFL center for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
December 22, 1967 Roland Holder, cricketer, West Indian batsman in ODI's 1993-
December 22, 1967 Sean Foster, WLAF wide reciever for the Rhein Fire
December 22, 1964 Mike Jackson, born in Houston, Texas, pitcher for the Seattle Mariners
December 22, 1963 Bryan McMillan, cricketer, brilliant South African all-rounder since 1992
December 22, 1962 Ralph Fiennes, born in Suffolk, England, actor, English Patient
December 22, 1961 Yuri Ivanovich Malinchenko, Russian Lt-colonel/cosmonaut, Soyuz TM-19
December 22, 1960 Jean-Michel Basquiat, Haiti/US graffiti artist/painter, Gray, SAMO
December 22, 1960 Tyrell Biggs, Philadelphia, super HW boxer 1984 Olympics gold
December 22, 1958 Lenny Von Dohlen, Augusta Georgia, actor, Love Kills, Electric Dreams
December 22, 1957 Ricky Ross, British rock vocalist, Deacon Blue-Raintown
December 22, 1957 Susan Powter, diet guru/author/talk show host, Susan Powter Show
December 22, 1956 Marcy Hanson, Galveston, Texas, playmate, Oct, 1978
December 22, 1954 Derick Parry, cricketer, WI off-spinner early 80's
December 22, 1954 Jayaseelan Naidoo, South African worker's union leader
December 22, 1953 Bernnadette Stanis, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, Thelma-Good Times
December 22, 1953 David Leisner, composer
December 22, 1951 Charles de Lint, Neth, sci-fi author, Moonhear, Mulengro, Yarrow
December 22, 1951 Gerald Grosvenor, English 6th duke of Westminster/billionaire
December 22, 1951 Jan Stephenson, Sydney Australia, golfer, LPGA Rookie of Year-1974
December 22, 1949 Manfred Burgsmuller, WLAF kicker for the Rhein Fire
December 22, 1949 Maurice Gibb, Manchester Eng, rocker, Bee Gees-Saturday Night Fever
December 22, 1949 Michael Osborne, rock guitarist and vocalist, Axe
December 22, 1949 Robin Gibb, born in Manchester, England, rocker, Bee Gees-Saturday Night Fever
December 22, 1948 Chris Old, cricketer, England medium-pacer of 70's
December 22, 1948 Noel Edmonds, British TV personality, Foul-ups, Bleeps and Blunders
December 22, 1948 Steve Garvey, 1st baseman, Los Angeles Dodgers, San Diego Padres
December 22, 1948 Lynne Thigpen, Joliet, Illinois, actress, Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?, Nancy-Love Sidney
December 22, 1947 Brian C Daley, U.S., sci-fi author, Exploits of Han Solo, Tron
December 22, 1947 Dilip Doshi, cricketer, India's main slow lefty post-Bedi
December 22, 1946 Rick Nielsen, Rockford, Illinois, rock vocalist and guitarist, Cheap Trick
December 22, 1946 Roberta Speer, LPGA golfer
December 22, 1945 Diane Sawyer, born in Glasgow, Kentucky, newscaster, 60 Minutes, ABC Prime Time
December 22, 1945 Joris J C Voorhoeve, Dutch Defense minister, 1994-, VVD
December 22, 1945 Marianne van Wijnkoop, [Bosscher], Dutch actress, Les Miserables
December 22, 1944 Barry Jenkins, rocker, Animals-House of the Rising Sun
December 22, 1944 Steve Carlton, Phillies' pitcher, Cy Young '72, '77, '80, '82
December 22, 1943 Billie Jean King, born in Long Beach, California, tennis pro
December 22, 1937 Marco J de Castro, Dutch Antillian politician
December 22, 1936 Hector Elizondo, New York City, actor, American Gigolo, Young Doctors in Love
December 22, 1935 John L Finley, USAF/astronaut
December 22, 1935 Oleg Alekseyevich Protopopov, Russia, pairs skater, Oly-gold-1964, 68
December 22, 1932 Joe Clark, born in Los Angeles, California, WLAF off coordinator coach for the Amsterdam Admirals
December 22, 1930 Peter Hall, born in Suffolk, England, director, Royal Shakespeare Company
December 22, 1929 Jan Wiegel, director/producer, Classroom of Anne Frank, Myrada
December 22, 1929 Wazir Mohammad, cricketer, eldest of Pakistan's 4 Mohammed brothers
December 22, 1928 Piero Angelo, Italian writer, Control
December 22, 1926 Peggy Castle, Appalachia, Virginia, actress, Lily Merrill-Lawman
December 22, 1925 Gunther Schuller, New York City, jazz composer
December 22, 1925 Thomas Christian David, composer
December 22, 1924 Frank Corsaro, New York harbor, opera director
December 22, 1924 Geraldine Page, Kirksville, Missouri, actress, Interiors, Beguiled
December 22, 1923 Heinz Bernard Lowenstein, actor and director
December 22, 1922 Barbara Billingsley, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, June-Leave it to Beaver
December 22, 1922 Calder Willingham, novelist/scriptwriter
December 22, 1922 James C Wright, Jr., Rep-D-Texas, Speaker of House, 1987-89
December 22, 1921 Hawkshaw Hawkins, Huntington, West Virginia, country singer, Ozark Jubilee
December 22, 1921 Robert Frank Kurka, composer
December 22, 1918 Frankie Darro, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Radio Ranch, Valley of Wanted Men
December 22, 1918 William Kennedy, baseball player
December 22, 1917 Andrew Fielding Huxley, born in London, England, physiologist, Nobel 1963
December 22, 1917 Gene Rayburn, born in Christopher, Illinois, TV game show host, Match Game
December 22, 1917 Piet De Somer, Belgian rector, University of Leuven
December 22, 1913 Anthony Barber Doncaster, bookseller
December 22, 1913 Benjamin Britten, born in Suffolk, England, opera composer
December 22, 1912 Claudia A. "Lady Bird" Taylor Johnson, 1st lady, 1963-1969
December 22, 1912 Doris Duke, New York City, heiress, American Tobacco Co
December 22, 1912 Henry Armstrong, held feather/light/welterweight boxing titles, 1938
December 22, 1912 Lady Bird Johnson, American First Lady
December 22, 1911 Grote Reber, U.S., astronomer, 1st parabolic radio telescope
December 22, 1910 Richard Ainley, Middlesex England, actor, I Dood It, Above Suspicion
December 22, 1909 Alan Carney, [David Boughal], born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Zombies on Broadway
December 22, 1908 Giacomo Manzu, Italy, sculptor, St. Peter, Laurenskerk, Lenin Prize
December 22, 1908 Marius F Duintjer, Dutch architect
December 22, 1908 Max Bill, Swiss painter/sculptor/politician, Ruban Sans Fin
December 22, 1907 Peggy Ashcroft, Croydon England, actress, Dear Brutus, Happy Days
December 22, 1907 Yoshio Hasegawa, composer
December 22, 1905 Kenneth Rexroth, U.S., poet, critic and translator Birds in the Bush
December 22, 1905 Pierre Brasseur, [Espinasse], French actor, Enfants du Paradis
December 22, 1904 Louis-Eugene-Felix Neel, Lyon France, physicist, Nobel 1970
December 22, 1903 Barbara Moore, doctor, walked across U.S. in 86 days in 1960
December 22, 1903 H Keffer Hartline, U.S., biophysicist, Nobel 1967
December 22, 1903 Marc Lavry, composer
December 22, 1902 Jacques-Philippe Leclerc, France, WW II hero, liberator of Paris
December 22, 1902 Joe Adonis, Italy, American crime-syndicate boss in New York and NJ
December 22, 1901 Andre Kostelanetz, St. Petersburg Russia, conductor, Lincoln Portrari
December 22, 1901 Joaquin Rodrigo, Spain, composer
December 22, 1900 Alan Dudley Bush, composer pianist/teacher
December 22, 1899 Gustaf Gruendgens, Duesseldorf Germany, actor and director, M
December 22, 1899 Hoagy Carmichael, Bloomington, Indiana, pianist/composer
December 22, 1899 Wiley Post, Texas, aviation pioneer
December 22, 1898 Lionel Charles Robbins, Middlesex England, economist
December 22, 1896 Nikolay Semyonovich Tikhonov, St. Petersburg Russia, poet
December 22, 1891 Edward L Bernays, Vienna Austria, 1st public relations agent
December 22, 1890 Charles de Gaulle, Lille France, premier of France
December 22, 1890 Mark Tobey, U.S. abstract painter, Broadway Norm
December 22, 1889 Mikha'il Na'imah, Lebanon, playwright
December 22, 1889 Minor Watson, Marianna AR, actor, Woman of the Year, Viva Cisco Kid
December 22, 1888 Joseph Arthur Rank, English film magnate/baron
December 22, 1887 Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indies mathematician, ã/Notebooks
December 22, 1885 Joseph Deems Taylor, New York City, composer, Peter Ibbetson
December 22, 1883 Arthur James Cook, England, union leader, coal miners
December 22, 1883 Edgard Victor Achille C Varese, Paris, France, composer, Innisation
December 22, 1882 Charles Vildrac, Paris, France, poet/playwright
December 22, 1881 Enver Pasa, Istanbul Turkey, Turkish politician
December 22, 1879 Ralph Hawtrey, Buckinghamshire England, economist, multiplier
December 22, 1879 Stanislas Bizot, French world checker champion, 1925
December 22, 1877 Endre Ady, Hungary, lyric poet
December 22, 1876 Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Ital writer, Futurism e Futurista
December 22, 1875 Antoine Mariotte, composer
December 22, 1875 John P "Jan" Musch, Dutch actor, Dead Water
December 22, 1874 Franz Schmidt, composer
December 22, 1874 Herman Harrell Horne, Clayton, North Carolina, philosopher, idealism
December 22, 1873 L[eopold] S[tennett] Amery, British politician
December 22, 1873 Matteo Giulio Bartoli, Austria-Hungary, linguist
December 22, 1869 Edwin Arlington Robinson, U.S., poet, Richard Corey
December 22, 1869 Andre Gide, French Novelist
December 22, 1868 John Nance Garner, Texas, VP-D-1933-41
December 22, 1867 Frantisek X. Salda, Czech writer/critic
December 22, 1867 Joseph [Maria] Olbrich, Silesia, German architect, Wiener Sezession
December 22, 1867 [Karl Eduard] Wilhelm Groener, Germany, general
December 22, 1866 Mieczyslaw Surzynski, composer
December 22, 1863 Ch'i Pai-shih, China, traditional Chinese painter
December 22, 1863 Jean-Baptiste Marchand, Thoissey France, soldier/explorer, Sudan
December 22, 1862 Connie Mack, HOF baseball executive/manager, Philadelphia A's 1900-1950
December 22, 1861 Erich Schaeder, German theologist, Theocentric Theology
December 22, 1859 Cecil [James] Sharp, born in London, England, folk musician
December 22, 1858 Giacomo Puccini, Lucca Italy, opera composer, La Boheme, La Tosca
December 22, 1857 George [Robert] Gissing, England, novelist
December 22, 1856 Frank Kellogg, Secretary of State, 1925-29, try to outlaw war, Nobel 1929
December 22, 1853 Maria Teresa Carreno, composer
December 22, 1849 Fritz Mauthner, Bohemia, German author/philosopher, skepticism
December 22, 1847 Heihatjiro Tojo, Japan, Admiral, Russian-Japanese war
December 22, 1846 Andreas Hallen, composer
December 22, 1846 Oscar Carre, Dutch circus director
December 22, 1844 Izydor Lotto, composer
December 22, 1842 Jose Maria de Heredia, Cuba, French sonnet poet
December 22, 1842 Nicola d' Arienzo, composer
December 22, 1832 Edward Hatch, Bvt Major General Union volunteers, died in 1889
December 22, 1831 Mark Rutherford, writer
December 22, 1831 Robert Ogden Tyler, Bvt Major General Union Army, died in 1874
December 22, 1830 Justin M'Carthy, Ireland, Irish politician/novelist, Miss Misanthrope
December 22, 1826 James Scott Negley, Union volunteers Major General, died in 1901
December 22, 1821 Giovanni Bottesini, composer
December 22, 1819 Franz Wilhelm Abt, German composer/choir conductor
December 22, 1819 George Eliot, England, Victorian novelist, Adam Bede
December 22, 1815 Johann J Bachofen, Swiss judicial historian
December 22, 1815 Lucien Petipa, French dancer/choreographer/ballet leader
December 22, 1812 Johanne Luise Heiberg, Copenhagen Denmark, actress, Romeo and Juliet
December 22, 1809 Benedict Augustin Morel, Vienna, Fren psychologist, dementia praecox
December 22, 1808 Thomas Cook, England, tour director, Thomas Cook and Son
December 22, 1803 Joseph King Fenno Mansfield, Mjr Gen Union volunteers, died in 1862
December 22, 1795 Thomas Ainsworth, English/Neth industrialist, Twentse textile
December 22, 1787 Rasmus Rask, Denmark, language scholar
December 22, 1768 John Crome, [Old Crome], English landscape painter/etcher
December 22, 1767 Andreas Hofer, South Tirol, milt leader, fought Napoleon's France
December 22, 1764 Barbara Juliane Krudener, Latvia, mystic visionary renounced nobility
December 22, 1761 Dorothea Jordan, Ireland, French comedic actress
December 22, 1753 Dugald Stewart, Edinburgh Scot, philosopher, Scottish common sense
December 22, 1735 Ulrich Braker, writer
December 22, 1728 Charles Frederick, Baden, liberal ruler of Baden
December 22, 1727 William Ellery, U.S. attorney/signer, Declar of Independence
December 22, 1723 Carl Friedrich Abel, German/British viola-da-gamba-player/composer
December 22, 1710 Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composer, son of J.S. Bach
December 22, 1702 Jean E Liotard, [Turk], Swiss painter, Madame d'Epinay
December 22, 1700 Egbert de Vrij Temminck, Amsterdam regent
December 22, 1696 James Oglethorpe, England, General/author/colonizer, Georgia
December 22, 1684 Johann J Dillenius, [Dillen], German botanist, Historia Muscorum
December 22, 1643 Rene-Robert Cavelier La Salle, France, French explorer, Louisiana
December 22, 1624 Tomas Micieres, composer
December 22, 1573 Ernst Casimir, count of Nassau-Dietz/mayor of Frisia/Groningen
December 22, 1523 Charles "Cardinal" of Bourbon, archbishop Rouen
December 22, 1515 Mary of Lorraine, France, pro-French Regent of Scotland
December 22, 1459 Djem Sultan, son of Turks sultan Mehmed II
December 22, 1452 Jakob Obrecht, Brabant, composer
December 22, 1428 Richard Neville Warwick, 2nd earl of Salisbury
December 22, 1400 Luca della Robbia, Italy, sculptor, Madonna of Rose Garden



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