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| December 22nd, 2007 (December 22 2007) | Death | Adrian Cristobal, Filipino writer (born in 1932) | |
| 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, 1977 (December 22 1977) | Birth | Steve Kariya, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| 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, 1957 (December 22 1957) | Birth | Carole James, Canadian politician | |
| 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, 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, 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, 1907 (December 22 1907) | Birth | Dame Peggy Ashcroft, English actress (died in 1991) | |
| December 22nd, 1887 (December 22 1887) | Birth | Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (died in 1920) | |
| December 22nd, 1867 (December 22 1867) | Death | Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (born in 1788) | |
| 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, 1767 (December 22 1767) | Death | John Newbery, English publisher (born in 1713) | |
