Famous Birthdays In December - 22

1095  On this day in history birth of roger II of Sicily, King of Sicily (d. 1154)   

1178  Emperor Antoku of Japan (d. 1185) was born on December - 22.   

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

1428  On December - 22 birth of richard Neville Warwick, 2nd earl of Salisbury   

1452  On this day in history birth of jakob Obrecht, Brabant, composer   

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  Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (d. 1631) was born on this day in history.   

1573  On December - 22 birth of ernst Casimir, count of Nassau-Dietz/mayor of Frisia/Groningen   

1624  On this day in history birth of tomas Micieres, composer   

1639  Jean Racine, French dramatist (d. 1699) was born on this day in history.   

1643  Rene-Robert Cavelier La Salle, France, French explorer (Louisiana) was born on this day in history.   

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

1684  Johann J Dillenius, [Dillen], German botanist (Historia Muscorum) was born on December - 22.   

1690  On December - 22 birth of meidingnu Pamheiba, King of Manipur (d. 1751)   

1694  Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (d. 1768) was born on this day in history.   

1696  On December - 22 birth of james Oglethorpe, England, General/author/colonizer (Georgia)   

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

1702  On this day in history birth of jean E Liotard, [Turk], Swiss painter (Madame d'Epinay)   

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

1723  Carl Friedrich Abel, German/British viola-da-gamba-player/composer was born on this day in history.   

1727  William Ellery, US attorney/signer (Declar of Independence) was born on this day in history.   

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 December - 22.   

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  Andreas Hofer, South Tirol, milt leader (fought Napoleon's France) was born on December - 22.   

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

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1100  On December - 22 death of duke Bretislaus II of Bohemia   

1337  On this day in history daito Kokushi, leader of O-To-Kan Rinzai school in Japan, dies at 54   

1419  John XXIII, [Baldassare Cossa], Italian Pope (1410-15), dies on December - 22.   

1440  Death of Bluebeard, pirate, executed on this day in history.   

1550  On December - 22 death of richard Plantagenet (Richard of Eastwell) possibly a son of Richard III   

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  On this day in history death of andré Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (b. 1612)