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| December 22nd, 2007 (December 22 2007) | Death | Adrian Cristobal, Filipino writer (born in 1932) | |
| December 22nd, 2006 (December 22 2006) | Death | Galina Ustvolskaya, Russian composer (born in 1919) | |
| December 22nd, 2006 (December 22 2006) | Death | Dennis Linde, American songwriter (born in 1943) | |
| December 22nd, 2004 (December 22 2004) | Death | Doug Ault, American baseball player (born in 1950) | |
| December 22nd, 2003 (December 22 2003) | Event | A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits near San Simeon, California. | |
| December 22nd, 2003 (December 22 2003) | Death | Dave Dudley, American singer (born in 1928) | |
| December 22nd, 2002 (December 22 2002) | Death | Desmond Hoyte, President of Guyana (born in 1929) | |
| December 22nd, 2002 (December 22 2002) | Death | Joe Strummer, English musician (The Clash) (born in 1952) | |
| December 22nd, 2001 (December 22 2001) | Event | Burhanuddin Rabbani, political leader of the Afghan Northern Alliance, hands over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President Hamid Karzai. | Hamid Karzai Quotes |
| December 22nd, 2001 (December 22 2001) | Event | Richard Reid attempts to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes aboard American Airlines Flight 63. | |
| December 22nd, 1999 (December 22 1999) | Event | The Spanish Civil Guard finds near Calatayud (Zaragoza) another van loaded by ETA with 750 kg of explosives (see related event on December 21, 1999). | |
| December 22nd, 1998 (December 22 1998) | Death | Michelle Thomas, American actress (born in 1969) | |
| December 22nd, 1997 (December 22 1997) | Event | Acteal massacre: Attendees at a prayer meeting of Roman Catholic activists for indigenous causes in the small village of Acteal in the Mexican state of Chiapas are massacred by paramilitary forces. | |
| December 22nd, 1995 (December 22 1995) | Death | Butterfly McQueen, American actress (born in 1911) | |
| December 22nd, 1995 (December 22 1995) | Death | James Meade, English economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (born in 1907) | |
| December 22nd, 1993 (December 22 1993) | Birth | Aliana Lohan, American actress | |
| December 22nd, 1993 (December 22 1993) | Death | Don DeFore, American actor (born in 1913) | |
| December 22nd, 1992 (December 22 1992) | Death | Frederick Franz, Watchtower president (born in 1893) | |
| December 22nd, 1990 (December 22 1990) | Event | Final independence of Marshall Islands and Federated States of Micronesia after termination of trusteeship. | |
| December 22nd, 1990 (December 22 1990) | Birth | Jean-Baptiste Maunier, French actor | |
| December 22nd, 1989 (December 22 1989) | Event | After a week of bloody demonstrations, Ion Iliescu takes over as president of Romania, ending Nicolae Ceausescu s Communist dictatorship. | |
| December 22nd, 1989 (December 22 1989) | Event | Berlin s Brandenburg Gate re-opens after nearly 30 years, effectively ending the division of East and West Germany. | |
| December 22nd, 1989 (December 22 1989) | Event | Kempsey bus crash: Two tourist coaches collide on the Pacific Highway north of Kempsey, New South Wales | |
| December 22nd, 1989 (December 22 1989) | Birth | Jordin Sparks, American singer and American Idol winner | |
| December 22nd, 1989 (December 22 1989) | Death | Samuel Beckett, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1906) | Samuel Beckett Quotes |
| December 22nd, 1988 (December 22 1988) | Event | Chico Mendes, a Brazilian rubber tapper, unionist and environmental activist, is assassinated. | |
| December 22nd, 1988 (December 22 1988) | Death | Chico Mendes, Brazilian rubber tapper, unionist, and environmental activist (assassinated) (born in 1944) | |
| December 22nd, 1985 (December 22 1985) | Death | D. Boon, American singer and guitarist (The Minutemen) (born in 1958) | |
| December 22nd, 1984 (December 22 1984) | Event | Subway vigilante Bernhard Hugo Goetz shoots four African-American men on an express train in The Bronx borough of New York City. | |
| December 22nd, 1984 (December 22 1984) | Birth | Basshunter, popular Swedish singer | |
| December 22nd, 1983 (December 22 1983) | Birth | Jennifer Hawkins, Australian Miss Universe | |
| December 22nd, 1980 (December 22 1980) | Birth | Chris Carmack, American actor | |
| December 22nd, 1979 (December 22 1979) | Death | Darryl F. Zanuck, American producer (born in 1902) | |
| December 22nd, 1978 (December 22 1978) | Event | The pivotal Third Plenum of the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is held in Beijing, with Deng Xiaoping reversing Mao-era policies to pursue a program for Chinese economic reform. | Deng Xiaoping Quotes |
| December 22nd, 1977 (December 22 1977) | Birth | Steve Kariya, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| December 22nd, 1976 (December 22 1976) | Birth | Brian A. Alexander, American screenwriter and director | |
| December 22nd, 1976 (December 22 1976) | Birth | Katleen De Caluwe, Belgian athlete | |
| December 22nd, 1976 (December 22 1976) | Birth | Jason Lane, American Baseball Player | |
| December 22nd, 1975 (December 22 1975) | Birth | Chris Adler, American actor | |
| December 22nd, 1975 (December 22 1975) | Birth | Crissy Moran, American erotic actress | |
| December 22nd, 1975 (December 22 1975) | Birth | Dmitri Khokhlov, Russian footballer | |
| December 22nd, 1975 (December 22 1975) | Birth | Stanislav Neckar, Czech ice hockey player | |
| December 22nd, 1974 (December 22 1974) | Event | Grande Comore, Anjouan and Moheli vote to become the independent nation of Comoros. Mayotte remains under French administration. | |
| December 22nd, 1974 (December 22 1974) | Event | Ted Heath s house is attacked by members of the Provisional IRA. | |
| December 22nd, 1974 (December 22 1974) | Birth | Heather Donahue, American actress | |
| December 22nd, 1972 (December 22 1972) | Birth | Big Tigger, television host | |
| December 22nd, 1972 (December 22 1972) | Birth | Vanessa Paradis, French singer | |
| December 22nd, 1971 (December 22 1971) | Birth | Pat Mastroianni, Canadian actor | |
| December 22nd, 1971 (December 22 1971) | Death | Godfried Bomans, Dutch author and television personality (born in 1913) | |
| December 22nd, 1969 (December 22 1969) | Birth | Myriam Bedard, Canadian athlete | |
| December 22nd, 1968 (December 22 1968) | Birth | Dina Meyer, American actress | |
| December 22nd, 1968 (December 22 1968) | Birth | Lauralee Bell, American actress | |
| December 22nd, 1967 (December 22 1967) | Birth | Dan Petrescu, Romanian footballer | |
| December 22nd, 1967 (December 22 1967) | Birth | Richey James Edwards, Welsh musician (Manic Street Preachers) (disappeared in 1995) | |
| December 22nd, 1967 (December 22 1967) | Birth | Stephane Gendron, Quebec politician | |
| December 22nd, 1967 (December 22 1967) | Birth | Paul Morris, Australian racing driver | |
| December 22nd, 1966 (December 22 1966) | Birth | Dmitry Bilozerchev, Soviet gymnast | |
| December 22nd, 1966 (December 22 1966) | Birth | Marcel "Schmier" Schirmer, German singer and bassplayer (Destruction) | |
| December 22nd, 1965 (December 22 1965) | Event | In the United Kingdom, a 70mph speed limit is applied to all rural roads including motorways for the first time. Previously, there had been no speed limit. | |
| December 22nd, 1965 (December 22 1965) | Death | Richard Dimbleby, English journalist and broadcaster (born in 1913) | |
| December 22nd, 1964 (December 22 1964) | Event | Comedian Lenny Bruce is convicted of obscenity. | Lenny Bruce Quotes |
| December 22nd, 1964 (December 22 1964) | Event | First flight of the SR-71 (Blackbird). | |
| December 22nd, 1963 (December 22 1963) | Event | Cruise ship Lakonia burns 180 miles north of Madeira with the loss of 128 lives. | |
| December 22nd, 1963 (December 22 1963) | Birth | Giuseppe Bergomi, Italian footballer | |
| December 22nd, 1963 (December 22 1963) | Birth | Luna H. Mitani, Japanese American surrealism painter | |
| December 22nd, 1962 (December 22 1962) | Birth | Ralph Fiennes, English actor | |
| December 22nd, 1961 (December 22 1961) | Birth | Andrew Fastow, American businessman | |
| December 22nd, 1960 (December 22 1960) | Birth | Wakin Chau, Chinese singer | |
| December 22nd, 1960 (December 22 1960) | Birth | Jean-Michel Basquiat, American artist (died in 1988) | |
| December 22nd, 1960 (December 22 1960) | Birth | Luther Campbell (Luke), American rap artist (2 Live Crew) | |
| December 22nd, 1960 (December 22 1960) | Birth | Patrick Fitzgerald, American attorney | Patrick Fitzgerald Quotes |
| December 22nd, 1959 (December 22 1959) | Birth | Bernd Schuster, German footballer | |
| December 22nd, 1959 (December 22 1959) | Death | Gilda Gray, Polish-born American dancer and actress (born in 1901) | |
| December 22nd, 1958 (December 22 1958) | Birth | Frank Gambale, Australian musician | |
| December 22nd, 1958 (December 22 1958) | Birth | David Heavener, American actor and musician | |
| December 22nd, 1957 (December 22 1957) | Birth | Carole James, Canadian politician | |
| December 22nd, 1956 (December 22 1956) | Event | Colo is born, the first gorilla to be bred in captivity. | |
| December 22nd, 1955 (December 22 1955) | Birth | Lonnie Smith, American baseball player | Seba Smith Quotes |
| December 22nd, 1954 (December 22 1954) | Birth | Hideshi Matsuda, Japanese racing driver | |
| December 22nd, 1953 (December 22 1953) | Birth | BernNadette Stanis, actress | |
| December 22nd, 1953 (December 22 1953) | Birth | Ian Turnbull, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| December 22nd, 1951 (December 22 1951) | Birth | Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, Duke of Westminster | |
| December 22nd, 1949 (December 22 1949) | Birth | Maurice Gibb, English musician (The Bee Gees) (died in 2003) | |
| December 22nd, 1949 (December 22 1949) | Birth | Robin Gibb, English musician (The Bee Gees) | |
| December 22nd, 1948 (December 22 1948) | Birth | Noel Edmonds, English game show host | |
| December 22nd, 1948 (December 22 1948) | Birth | Steve Garvey, American baseball player | |
| December 22nd, 1948 (December 22 1948) | Birth | Lynne Thigpen, American actress (died in 2003) | |
| December 22nd, 1947 (December 22 1947) | Event | The Constituent Assembly of Italy approves its constitution. | |
| December 22nd, 1947 (December 22 1947) | Death | Hans Aumeier, German Nazi official and concentration camp commandant (born in 1906) | |
| December 22nd, 1947 (December 22 1947) | Death | Therese Brandl, Nazi concentration camp guard (born in 1902) | |
| December 22nd, 1946 (December 22 1946) | Birth | Rick Nielsen, American musician (Cheap Trick) | |
| December 22nd, 1945 (December 22 1945) | Birth | Diane Sawyer, American journalist | Diane Sawyer Quotes |
| December 22nd, 1944 (December 22 1944) | Event | World War II: Battle of the Bulge--German troops demand the surrender of United States troops at Bastogne, Belgium, prompting the famous one word reply by General Anthony McAuliffe: "Nuts!" | Anthony McAuliffe Quotes |
| December 22nd, 1944 (December 22 1944) | Event | World War II: Vietnam People s Army is formed to resist Japanese occupation of Indo-China, now Vietnam. | |
| December 22nd, 1944 (December 22 1944) | Birth | Steve Carlton, American baseball player | |
| December 22nd, 1944 (December 22 1944) | Death | Harry Langdon, American silent film actor (born in 1884) | |
| December 22nd, 1943 (December 22 1943) | Birth | Paul Wolfowitz, American politician | Paul Wolfowitz Quotes |
| December 22nd, 1943 (December 22 1943) | Death | Beatrix Potter, English writer (born in 1866) | Beatrix Potter Quotes |
| December 22nd, 1942 (December 22 1942) | Event | World War II: Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon. | Adolf Hitler Quotes |
| December 22nd, 1942 (December 22 1942) | Birth | Dick Parry, English musician (Pink Floyd) | |
| December 22nd, 1942 (December 22 1942) | Death | Franz Boas, German anthropologist (born in 1858) | Franz Boas Quotes |
| December 22nd, 1940 (December 22 1940) | Event | World War II: Himare is captured by the Greek army. | |
| December 22nd, 1940 (December 22 1940) | Death | Nathanael West, American writer (born in 1903) | |
| December 22nd, 1939 (December 22 1939) | Birth | James Gurley, American musician | |
| December 22nd, 1939 (December 22 1939) | Death | Ma Rainey, American singer (born in 1886) | |
| December 22nd, 1938 (December 22 1938) | Birth | Matty Alou, Dominican baseball player | |
| December 22nd, 1938 (December 22 1938) | Birth | Lucien Bouchard, Quebec politician | |
| December 22nd, 1937 (December 22 1937) | Event | The Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic in New York City. | |
| December 22nd, 1937 (December 22 1937) | Birth | Eduard Uspensky, Russian writer | |
| December 22nd, 1936 (December 22 1936) | Birth | James Burke, British writer | |
| December 22nd, 1936 (December 22 1936) | Birth | Hector Elizondo, American actor | |
| December 22nd, 1936 (December 22 1936) | Birth | Wojciech Frykowski, Polish actor (died in 1969) | |
| December 22nd, 1934 (December 22 1934) | Birth | David Pearson, American racecar driver | |
| December 22nd, 1925 (December 22 1925) | Birth | Lewis Glucksman, American financier (died in 2006) | |
| December 22nd, 1924 (December 22 1924) | Birth | Frank Corsaro, American stage director | |
| December 22nd, 1922 (December 22 1922) | Birth | Jack Brooks, American politician | |
| December 22nd, 1922 (December 22 1922) | Birth | Ruth Roman, American actress (died in 1999) | |
| December 22nd, 1921 (December 22 1921) | Birth | Hawkshaw Hawkins, American country singer (died in 1963) | |
| December 22nd, 1920 (December 22 1920) | Event | The GOELRO economic development plan is adopted by the 8th Congress of Soviets of the Russian SFSR. | |
| December 22nd, 1917 (December 22 1917) | Birth | Gene Rayburn, American game show host (died in 1999) | Gene Ray Quotes |
| December 22nd, 1917 (December 22 1917) | Death | Mother Cabrini, first American citizen canonized by the Catholic Church (born in 1850) | |
| December 22nd, 1915 (December 22 1915) | Birth | Barbara Billingsley, American actress | |
| December 22nd, 1912 (December 22 1912) | Birth | Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady of the United States (died in 2007) | |
| December 22nd, 1909 (December 22 1909) | Birth | Patricia Hayes, English actress (died in 1998) | |
| December 22nd, 1907 (December 22 1907) | Birth | Dame Peggy Ashcroft, English actress (died in 1991) | |
| December 22nd, 1905 (December 22 1905) | Birth | Kenneth Rexroth, American poet (died in 1982) | Kenneth Rexroth Quotes |
| December 22nd, 1905 (December 22 1905) | Birth | Pierre Brasseur, French actor (died in 1972) | |
| December 22nd, 1903 (December 22 1903) | Birth | Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (died in 1983) | |
| December 22nd, 1902 (December 22 1902) | Death | Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German psychiatrist (born in 1840) | |
| December 22nd, 1901 (December 22 1901) | Birth | Andre Kostelanetz, American popular music orchestra leader and arranger (died in 1980) | |
| December 22nd, 1900 (December 22 1900) | Birth | Marc Allegret, French film director and screenwriter (died in 1973) | |
| December 22nd, 1899 (December 22 1899) | Birth | Gustav Grundgens, German actor (died in 1963) | |
| December 22nd, 1899 (December 22 1899) | Death | Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist (born in 1837) | |
| December 22nd, 1898 (December 22 1898) | Birth | Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock, Russian physicist (died in 1974) | |
| December 22nd, 1894 (December 22 1894) | Event | The Dreyfus affair begins, in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason, on antisemitic grounds. | |
| December 22nd, 1890 (December 22 1890) | Event | Cornwallis Valley Railway begins operation between Kingsport and Kentville, Nova Scotia. | |
| December 22nd, 1888 (December 22 1888) | Birth | J. Arthur Rank, British film producer (died in 1972) | |
| December 22nd, 1887 (December 22 1887) | Birth | Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (died in 1920) | |
| December 22nd, 1885 (December 22 1885) | Event | Ito Hirobumi, a samurai, became the first Prime Minister of Japan. | |
| December 22nd, 1883 (December 22 1883) | Birth | Edgard Varese French-born composer (died in 1965) | Edgard Varese Quotes |
| December 22nd, 1880 (December 22 1880) | Death | George Eliot, English writer (born in 1819) | George Eliot Quotes |
| December 22nd, 1876 (December 22 1876) | Birth | Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian poet and editor (died in 1944) | Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Quotes |
| December 22nd, 1874 (December 22 1874) | Birth | Franz Schmidt, Austrian composer (died in 1939) | |
| December 22nd, 1872 (December 22 1872) | Birth | Camille Guerin, French veterinarian and bacteriologist (died in 1961) | |
| December 22nd, 1870 (December 22 1870) | Death | Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, Spanish poet and writer (born in 1836) | |
| December 22nd, 1869 (December 22 1869) | Birth | Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet (died in 1935) | Edwin Arlington Robinson Quotes |
| December 22nd, 1869 (December 22 1869) | Birth | Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (died in 1931) | |
| December 22nd, 1867 (December 22 1867) | Death | Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (born in 1788) | |
| December 22nd, 1864 (December 22 1864) | Event | Savannah, Georgia falls to General William Tecumseh Sherman, concluding his "March to the Sea". | William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes |
| December 22nd, 1862 (December 22 1862) | Birth | Connie Mack, American baseball executive (died in 1956) | |
| December 22nd, 1860 (December 22 1860) | Birth | Austin Norman Palmer, American penmanship innovator (died in 1927) | |
| December 22nd, 1858 (December 22 1858) | Birth | Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer (died in 1924) | |
| December 22nd, 1856 (December 22 1856) | Birth | Frank B. Kellogg, U.S. Secretary of State, Nobel laureate (died in 1937) | |
| December 22nd, 1853 (December 22 1853) | Birth | Teresa Carreno, Venezuelan pianist (died in 1917) | |
| December 22nd, 1853 (December 22 1853) | Birth | Yevgraf Fyodorov, Russian mathematician (died in 1919) | |
| December 22nd, 1851 (December 22 1851) | Event | The first freight train is operated in Roorkee, India. | |
| December 22nd, 1849 (December 22 1849) | Event | The execution of Fyodor Dostoevsky is called off at the last second. | Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes |
| December 22nd, 1828 (December 22 1828) | Death | William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist (born in 1766) | |
| December 22nd, 1819 (December 22 1819) | Birth | Franz Wilhelm Abt, German composer (died in 1870) | |
| December 22nd, 1819 (December 22 1819) | Birth | Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician (died in 1892) | |
| December 22nd, 1809 (December 22 1809) | Event | The Non-Intercourse Act, lifting the Embargo Act except for the United Kingdom and France, passes the U.S. Congress. | |
| December 22nd, 1807 (December 22 1807) | Event | The Embargo Act, forbidding trade with all foreign countries, is passed by the U.S. Congress, at the urging of President Thomas Jefferson. | Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
| December 22nd, 1807 (December 22 1807) | Birth | Johann Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian poet (died in 1873) | |
| December 22nd, 1806 (December 22 1806) | Death | William Vernon, American merchant (born in 1719) | |
| December 22nd, 1805 (December 22 1805) | Birth | John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist (died in 1893) | |
| December 22nd, 1790 (December 22 1790) | Event | The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies. | |
| December 22nd, 1788 (December 22 1788) | Death | Percivall Pott, English physician and surgeon (born in 1714) | |
| December 22nd, 1767 (December 22 1767) | Death | John Newbery, English publisher (born in 1713) | |
| December 22nd, 1765 (December 22 1765) | Birth | Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathematician (died in 1825) | |
| December 22nd, 1738 (December 22 1738) | Death | Constantia Jones, British prostitute (executed) | |
| December 22nd, 1723 (December 22 1723) | Birth | Carl Friedrich Abel, German composer (died in 1787) | |
| December 22nd, 1708 (December 22 1708) | Death | Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (born in 1681) | |
| December 22nd, 1696 (December 22 1696) | Birth | James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia (died in 1785) | |
| December 22nd, 1694 (December 22 1694) | Birth | Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (died in 1768) | Philo Quotes |
| December 22nd, 1690 (December 22 1690) | Birth | Meidingnu Pamheiba, King of Manipur (died in 1751) | |
| December 22nd, 1681 (December 22 1681) | Death | Richard Alleine, English Puritan clergyman (born in 1611) | |
| December 22nd, 1666 (December 22 1666) | Birth | Guru Gobind Singh, Sikh guru (died in 1708) | |
| December 22nd, 1660 (December 22 1660) | Death | Andre Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (born in 1612) | |
| December 22nd, 1646 (December 22 1646) | Death | Peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (born in 1596) | |
| December 22nd, 1639 (December 22 1639) | Birth | Jean Racine, French dramatist (died in 1699) | Jean Racine Quotes |
| December 22nd, 1603 (December 22 1603) | Death | Mehmed III, Ottoman Emperor (born in 1566) | |
| December 22nd, 1550 (December 22 1550) | Birth | Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (died in 1631) | Philo Quotes |
| December 22nd, 1550 (December 22 1550) | Death | Richard Plantagenet (Richard of Eastwell) possibly a son of Richard III | |
| December 22nd, 1546 (December 22 1546) | Birth | Kuroda Yoshitaka, Japanese Daimyo (died in 1604) | |
| December 22nd, 1178 (December 22 1178) | Birth | Emperor Antoku of Japan (died in 1185) | |
| December 22nd, 1100 (December 22 1100) | Death | Duke Bretislaus II of Bohemia | |
| December 22nd, 1095 (December 22 1095) | Birth | Roger II of Sicily, King of Sicily (died in 1154) | |
