Famous Birthdays In December - 22

1095  Roger II of Sicily, King of Sicily (d. 1154) was born on this day in history.  

1178  On December - 22 birth of emperor Antoku of Japan (d. 1185)  

1400  On December - 22 birth of luca della Robbia, Italy, sculptor (Madonna of Rose Garden)  

1428  Richard Neville Warwick, 2nd earl of Salisbury was born on this day in history.  

1452  On December - 22 birth of jakob Obrecht, Brabant, composer  

1459  On this day in history birth of djem Sultan, son of Turks sultan Mehmed II  

1515  On this day in history birth of mary of Lorraine, France, pro-French Regent of Scotland  

1523  Charles "Cardinal" of Bourbon, archbishop Rouen was born on December - 22.  

1546  On this day in history birth of kuroda Yoshitaka, Japanese Daimyo (d. 1604)  

1550  Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (d. 1631) was born on December - 22.  

1573  Ernst Casimir, count of Nassau-Dietz/mayor of Frisia/Groningen was born on this day in history.  

1624  Tomas Micieres, composer was born on December - 22.  

1639  On this day in history birth of jean Racine, French dramatist (d. 1699)  

1643  On this day in history birth of rene-Robert Cavelier La Salle, France, French explorer (Louisiana)  

1666  Guru Gobind Singh, Sikh guru (d. 1708) was born on this day in history.  

1684  On this day in history birth of johann J Dillenius, [Dillen], German botanist (Historia Muscorum)  

1690  Meidingnu Pamheiba, King of Manipur (d. 1751) was born on this day in history.  

1694  On this day in history birth of hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (d. 1768)  

1696  James Oglethorpe, England, General/author/colonizer (Georgia) was born on December - 22.  

1700  On December - 22 birth of egbert de Vrij Temminck, Amsterdam regent  

1702  Jean E Liotard, [Turk], Swiss painter (Madame d'Epinay) was born on December - 22.  

1710  Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composer, son of J.S. Bach was born on this day in history.  

1723  On December - 22 birth of carl Friedrich Abel, German/British viola-da-gamba-player/composer  

1727  William Ellery, US attorney/signer (Declar of Independence) was born on December - 22.  

1728  On this day in history birth of charles Frederick, Baden, liberal ruler of Baden  

1744  Abigail Adams, Weymouth Mass, 2nd first lady (1797-1801) was born on this day in history.  

1753  Dugald Stewart, Edinburgh Scot, philosopher (Scottish common sense) was born on December - 22.  

1761  On this day in history birth of dorothea Jordan, Ireland, French comedic actress  

1764  Barbara Juliane Krudener, Latvia, mystic visionary renounced nobility was born on December - 22.  

1765  On December - 22 birth of johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathematician (d. 1825)  

1767  On this day in history birth of andreas Hofer, South Tirol, milt leader (fought Napoleon's France)  

1768  John Crome, [Old Crome], English landscape painter/etcher was born on this day in history.  

1787  On December - 22 birth of rasmus Rask, Denmark, language scholar  

1795  Thomas Ainsworth, English/Neth industrialist (Twentse textile) was born on this day in history.  

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1100  Death of Duke Bretislaus II of Bohemia on December - 22.  

1337  Daito Kokushi, leader of O-To-Kan Rinzai school in Japan, dies at 54 on this day in history.  

1419  On this day in history john XXIII, [Baldassare Cossa], Italian Pope (1410-15), dies  

1440  On this day in history death of bluebeard, pirate, executed  

1550  Death of Richard Plantagenet (Richard of Eastwell) possibly a son of Richard III on this day in history.  

1603  On December - 22 mehmed III, sultan of Turkey (1595-1603), dies at 37  

1646  Death of Peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (b. 1596) on December - 22.  

1660  Death of André Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (b. 1612) on December - 22.