Famous Birthdays In December - 22

1899  On December - 22 birth of gustaf Gruendgens, Duesseldorf Germany, actor/director (M)   

1899  On December - 22 birth of hoagy Carmichael, Bloomington Ind, pianist/composer   

1899  Wiley Post, Texas, aviation pioneer was born on December - 22.   

1899  On this day in history birth of gustav Gründgens, German actor (d. 1963)   

1900  Alan Dudley Bush, composer pianist/teacher was born on this day in history.   

1901  On December - 22 birth of andre Kostelanetz, St Petersburg Russia, conductor (Lincoln Portrari)   

1901  Joaquin Rodrigo, Spain, composer was born on December - 22.   

1902  On this day in history birth of jacques-Philippe Leclerc, France, WW II hero (liberator of Paris)   

1902  Joe Adonis, Italy, American crime-syndicate boss in NY & NJ was born on this day in history.   

1903  Barbara Moore, doctor, walked across US in 86 days in 1960 was born on December - 22.   

1903  H Keffer Hartline, US, biophysicist (Nobel 1967) was born on December - 22.   

1903  On December - 22 birth of marc Lavry, composer   

1904  On December - 22 birth of louis-Eugene-Felix Neel, Lyon France, physicist (Nobel 1970)   

1905  Kenneth Rexroth, US, poet/critic/translator (Birds in the Bush) was born on December - 22.   

1905  Pierre Brasseur, [Espinasse], French actor (Enfants du Paradis) was born on December - 22.   

1907  Peggy Ashcroft, Croydon England, actress (Dear Brutus, Happy Days) was born on December - 22.   

1907  Yoshio Hasegawa, composer was born on December - 22.   

1908  Marius F Duintjer, Dutch architect was born on December - 22.   

1908  On this day in history birth of max Bill, Swiss painter/sculptor/politician (Ruban Sans Fin)   

1909  Alan Carney, [David Boughal], Brooklyn NY, actor (Zombies on Broadway) was born on this day in history.   

1909  On this day in history birth of patricia Hayes, English actress (d. 1998)   

1910  Richard Ainley, Middlesex England, actor (I Dood It, Above Suspicion) was born on this day in history.   

1911  On this day in history birth of grote Reber, US, astronomer (1st parabolic radio telescope)   

1912  Claudia A "Lady Bird" Taylor Johnson, 1st lady (1963-1969) was born on December - 22.   

1912  Doris Duke, NYC, heiress (American Tobacco Co) was born on this day in history.   

1912  On December - 22 birth of henry Armstrong, held feather/light/welterweight boxing titles (1938)   

1913  Anthony Barber Doncaster, bookseller was born on this day in history.   

1913  Benjamin Britten, Suffolk England, opera composer was born on December - 22.   

1915  On this day in history birth of barbara Billingsley, American actress   

1917  Andrew Fielding Huxley, London England, physiologist (Nobel 1963) was born on December - 22.   

1917  Gene Rayburn, Christopher Ill, TV game show host (Match Game) was born on December - 22.   

1917  On this day in history birth of piet De Somer, Belgian rector (U of Leuven)   

1918  Frankie Darro, Chicago IL, actor (Radio Ranch, Valley of Wanted Men) was born on this day in history.   

1918  On this day in history birth of william Kennedy, baseball player   

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1100  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1440  On December - 22 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  On this day in history death of andré Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (b. 1612)