Famous Birthdays In December - 22

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

1178  Emperor Antoku of Japan (d. 1185) was born on this day in history.  

1400  On this day in history birth of luca della Robbia, Italy, sculptor (Madonna of Rose Garden)  

1428  On this day in history birth of richard Neville Warwick, 2nd earl of Salisbury  

1452  Jakob Obrecht, Brabant, composer was born on December - 22.  

1459  Djem Sultan, son of Turks sultan Mehmed II was born on December - 22.  

1515  Mary of Lorraine, France, pro-French Regent of Scotland was born on this day in history.  

1523  Charles "Cardinal" of Bourbon, archbishop Rouen was born on this day in history.  

1546  Kuroda Yoshitaka, Japanese Daimyo (d. 1604) was born on December - 22.  

1550  On December - 22 birth of cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (d. 1631)  

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1573  On this day in history birth of ernst Casimir, count of Nassau-Dietz/mayor of Frisia/Groningen  

1624  On December - 22 birth of tomas Micieres, composer  

1639  On December - 22 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  On December - 22 birth of guru Gobind Singh, Sikh guru (d. 1708)  

1684  Johann J Dillenius, [Dillen], German botanist (Historia Muscorum) was born on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

1700  Egbert de Vrij Temminck, Amsterdam regent was born on this day in history.  

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

1710  On this day in history birth of wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composer, son of J.S. Bach  

1723  Carl Friedrich Abel, German/British viola-da-gamba-player/composer was born on December - 22.  

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  On December - 22 birth of abigail Adams, Weymouth Mass, 2nd first lady (1797-1801)  

1753  On December - 22 birth of dugald Stewart, Edinburgh Scot, philosopher (Scottish common sense)  

1761  On December - 22 birth of dorothea Jordan, Ireland, French comedic actress  

1764  On December - 22 birth of barbara Juliane Krudener, Latvia, mystic visionary renounced nobility  

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  On December - 22 birth of john Crome, [Old Crome], English landscape painter/etcher  

1787  Rasmus Rask, Denmark, language scholar was born on December - 22.  

1795  On this day in history birth of thomas Ainsworth, English/Neth industrialist (Twentse textile)  

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1100  On this day in history death of duke Bretislaus II of Bohemia  

1337  Daito Kokushi, leader of O-To-Kan Rinzai school in Japan, dies at 54 on December - 22.  

1419  John XXIII, [Baldassare Cossa], Italian Pope (1410-15), dies on this day in history.  

1440  Death of Bluebeard, pirate, executed on December - 22.  

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

1603  Mehmed III, sultan of Turkey (1595-1603), dies at 37 on this day in history.  

1646  On this day in history death of peter Mogila, Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (b. 1596)  

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