On This Day — December 22
3716 noted people were born and 2108 died on December 22 in our archive, including John Obadiah Westwood, Ossian Bonnet and Patrick Marshall.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on December 22
John Obadiah Westwood
1805 – 1893
Ossian Bonnet
1819 – 1892
Patrick Marshall
1869 – 1950
Thomas C. Südhof
b. 1955
Abel Pacheco
b. 1933
Antonio Martino
1942 – 2022
B. Carroll Reece
1889 – 1961
Boris Levin
1906 – 1993
Cesare Mori
1871 – 1942
Charles Peters
1926 – 2023
Christian Møller
1904 – 1980
César A. Hidalgo
b. 1979
Doku Zavgayev
b. 1940
Domenico Montesano
1863 – 1930
Edwin E. Moise
1918 – 1998
Edwin Linkomies
1894 – 1963
Ernest Moniz
b. 1944
Francesc Serés
b. 1972
Francesco Brioschi
1824 – 1897
Grote Reber
1911 – 2002
Gyula Kornis
1885 – 1958
Haldan Keffer Hartline
1903 – 1983
Hugh Edward Richardson
1905 – 2000
Jaan Tõnisson
1868 – 1941
Jean Claude Ameisen
b. 1951
Jean Malaurie
1922 – 2024
Jean Tulard
b. 1933
Jim Wright
1922 – 2015
John C. Slater
1900 – 1976
John Kappler
b. 1943
Joris Voorhoeve
b. 1945
Kevin Ford
b. 1967
M. Stanley Whittingham
b. 1941
Marcello Semeraro
b. 1947
Mary Archer
b. 1944
Mikhail Margelov
b. 1964
Neil H. Shubin
b. 1960
Norman Christ
b. 1943
Oscar Alin
1846 – 1900
Otto Hölder
1859 – 1937
Ralph Fiennes
b. 1962
René Alexandre
1885 – 1946
Srinivasa Ramanujan
1887 – 1920
Tommy Flowers
1905 – 1998
Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
1848 – 1931
Vojtěch Jarník
1897 – 1970
Agnieszka Ścigaj
b. 1975
Alberts Kviesis
1881 – 1944
Alexandros Diomidis
1875 – 1950
Alfred Edward Taylor
1869 – 1945
Alfredo Urdaci
b. 1959
Anabel Ford
b. 1951
Andrew Orr-Ewing
b. 1965
Antônio Martins Filho
1904 – 2002
Ardalion Ignatyev
1930 – 1998
Arthur Jaffe
b. 1937
Ağaxan Ağabəyli
1904 – 1980
Barbara L. McQuade
b. 1964
Bert Kelly
1912 – 1997
Betty Tola
b. 1965
Billie Lee Turner II
b. 1945
Boris Kerner
b. 1947
Borys Liatoshynsky
1894 – 1968
Britta Heidemann
b. 1982
Camille Guérin
1872 – 1961
Carl Wesenberg-Lund
1867 – 1955
Charles Gilbert Tourret
1795 – 1858
Chau Tsun-nin
1893 – 1971
Christophe Lacroix
b. 1966
Chuang Ching-cheng
b. 1980
Ciprià Ciscar
b. 1946
Colin Hannah
1914 – 1978
David Daokui Li
b. 1963
David Parks
b. 1943
Diane Sawyer
b. 1945
Donald Mackay, 11th Lord Reay
1839 – 1921
Donald Rowe
1929 – 2021
Eduard Schönfeld
1828 – 1891
Edward Mortimer
1943 – 2021
Edward Ott
b. 1941
Faraj Guliyev
b. 1962
Felicitas Hoppe
b. 1960
Frank Schäffler
b. 1968
Fredrik Barth
1928 – 2016
Gary Hickinbottom
b. 1955
Gene Rayburn
1917 – 1999
Genichiro Sata
b. 1952
George Edward Paget
1809 – 1892
George Farwell
1845 – 1915
George Monro Grant
1835 – 1902
Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster
1951 – 2016
Giuseppe Pitrè
1841 – 1916
Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort
1766 – 1835
Hermann Schwarz
1864 – 1951
Hermes Lima
1902 – 1978
Hugh Molyneux, 7th Earl of Sefton
1898 – 1972
Hugo Loetscher
1929 – 2009
Irina Rakobolskaya
1919 – 2016
Jacob Leonard de Bruyn Kops
1822 – 1887
James Oglethorpe
1696 – 1785
Jawad A. Salehi
b. 1956
Jean Hyacinthe Vincent
1862 – 1950
Jean-Baptiste Janssens
1889 – 1964
Jianqing Fan
b. 1962
Jim McColl
b. 1951
Johann Amman
1707 – 1741
Johann Friedrich Pfaff
1765 – 1825
Johann Jakob Bachofen
1815 – 1887
John Hattendorf
b. 1941
John M. Abowd
b. 1951
John Strong Newberry
1822 – 1892
José A. Cabranes
b. 1940
José Luis Pérez Pastor
b. 1978
Julian Savulescu
b. 1963
Jérôme Chappellaz
b. 1964
Katrin Böhning-Gaese
b. 1964
Kaulak
1862 – 1933
Károly Makk
1925 – 2017
Lady Bird Johnson
1912 – 2007
Leila Schneps
b. 1961
Levi Woodbury
1789 – 1851
Louise Cowan
1916 – 2015
Lucien Bouchard
b. 1938
Lulu Wang
b. 1960
Magdalena Avietėnaitė
1892 – 1984
Marianne Kärrholm
1921 – 2018
María José Alonso Fernández
b. 1958
Matt Cowdrey
b. 1988
Matt Parker
b. 1980
Max Bill
1908 – 1994
Maxwell Mkwezalamba
b. 1959
Melva Noeline Philipson
1925 – 2015
Mircea Grabovschi
1952 – 2024
Mo Foster
1944 – 2023
Mohapatra Nilamani Sahu
1926 – 2016
Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah
b. 1940
Natalia Nazarova
b. 1953
Nichifor Crainic
1889 – 1972
Nicolae Timofti
b. 1948
Nicolas Meizonnet
b. 1983
Nikolai Olovyannikov
1922 – 2021
Nikolay Makarov
b. 1955
Néstor Osuna
b. 1962
Omurbek Tekebayev
b. 1958
Paul Jamot
1863 – 1939
Paul Wolfowitz
b. 1943
Pedro de Araújo Lima
1793 – 1870
Percival Everett
b. 1956
Peregrine Worsthorne
1923 – 2020
Peter Lorenz
1922 – 1987
Phoebe Gloeckner
b. 1960
Ramil Usubov
b. 1948
Reinhold Stecher
1921 – 2013
Richard Parker
1810 – 1893
Richard Webster, 1st Viscount Alverstone
1842 – 1915
Robert Hotung
1862 – 1956
Robert I. Soare
b. 1940
Sandra Kalniete
b. 1952
Shmuel Moreh
1932 – 2017
Solomon Passy
b. 1956
Steffi Jones
b. 1972
Stephen Wong
b. 1975
Sílvia Paneque i Sureda
b. 1972
Takako Ebata
b. 1959
Thomas Stockham
1933 – 2004
Tiit Pääsuke
b. 1941
Timothy P. Broglio
b. 1951
Tomasz Piotr Nowak
b. 1956
Tommaso Boggio
1877 – 1963
Walter Pfrimer
1881 – 1968
Wiesław Lechowicz
b. 1962
William Milbourne James
1881 – 1973
Władysław Bukowiński
1904 – 1974
Yanick Lahens
b. 1953
Yoshiaki Takaki
b. 1945
Yuri Malenchenko
b. 1961
Zalman Shazar
1889 – 1974
Álvaro Cunqueiro
1911 – 1981
Adrian Holman
1895 – 1974
Adriano Bausola
1930 – 2000
Akio Kaminaga
1936 – 1993
Alan Bush
1900 – 1995
Albert D. Kirwan
1904 – 1971
Alex Antic
b. 1974
Alexander B. Morrison
1930 – 2018
Alexander Barclay de Tolly-Weymarn
1824 – 1905
Alexander Valentine
1899 – 1977
Alfi Kabiljo
1935 – 2025
Alfred Earle
1827 – 1918
Alércio Dias
1942 – 2020
Amany Lubis
b. 1963
Ambaji Shinde
1917 – 2003
Amiram Goldblum
b. 1945
Ana Reeves
b. 1946
Andre Kostelanetz
1901 – 1980
Andreas Hallén
1846 – 1925
Andreja Katič
b. 1969
Angela James
b. 1964
Ann Hasseltine Judson
1789 – 1826
Antoine Mariotte
1875 – 1944
… and 3,516 more
Died on December 22
August Davidov
1823 – 1885
William Hyde Wollaston
1766 – 1828
Carl Mundt
1802 – 1873
Clarence Cook Little
1888 – 1971
Donald Gibson
1908 – 1991
Edmund M. Clarke
1945 – 2020
Franca Sozzani
1950 – 2016
Francisco Cavalcanti Pontes de Miranda
1892 – 1979
Gottlieb Gluge
1812 – 1898
Heinrich Waentig
1870 – 1943
Ioan-Ioviț Popescu
1932 – 2023
James C. Fletcher
1919 – 1991
Jean Bourgain
1954 – 2018
Jean-Victor Poncelet
1788 – 1867
Louis-Charles Malassez
1842 – 1909
Mikio Mizuta
1905 – 1976
Paddy Ashdown
1941 – 2018
Thierry Magon de La Villehuchet
1943 – 2008
Yitzhak Baer
1888 – 1980
Abd El Aziz Muhammad Hegazi
1923 – 2014
Albert Wolff
1825 – 1891
Alikram Hummatov
1948 – 2022
Andrey Alexandrovich Verbitsky
1941 – 2020
Arlin M. Adams
1921 – 2015
Armand Sabatier
1834 – 1910
Arvid Harnack
1901 – 1942
Augusto Rollandin
1949 – 2024
Banwari Lal Joshi
1936 – 2017
Boy Capel
1881 – 1919
Cai Hegermann-Lindencrone
1807 – 1893
Carl Wilhelm Böttiger
1807 – 1878
Christopher Davidge
1929 – 2014
Cyril Cameron
1857 – 1941
David Hosack
1769 – 1835
Desmond Hoyte
1929 – 2002
Dmitry Zimin
1933 – 2021
Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough
1790 – 1871
Eino Jutikkala
1907 – 2006
Elia Dalla Costa
1872 – 1961
Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden
1829 – 1887
Fernando Asuero
1887 – 1942
Franklin A. Thomas
1934 – 2021
Franz von Paula Schrank
1747 – 1835
Georg Christian, Prince of Lobkowicz
1835 – 1908
George Clavering-Cowper, 3rd Earl Cowper
1738 – 1789
George Wegner Paus
1882 – 1923
Gerhard Schürer
1921 – 2010
Hans Hækkerup
1945 – 2013
Hans Ussing
1911 – 2000
Henri Abraham
1868 – 1943
Henri Fazy
1842 – 1920
Henry Burchard Fine
1858 – 1928
Herman Feshbach
1917 – 2000
Hermann Theodor Simon
1870 – 1918
Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster
1825 – 1899
J. A. Todd
1908 – 1994
Jack Silver
1942 – 2016
James Francis Stephens
1792 – 1852
James Harris
1709 – 1780
James Meade
1907 – 1995
Jean Bichelonne
1904 – 1944
Jean Chamant
1913 – 2010
Johann Nepomuk David
1895 – 1977
John Mairai
1945 – 2023
Julien Gracq
1910 – 2007
K. Dwight Venner
1946 – 2016
Karl Dönitz
1891 – 1980
Lars Herman Gyllenhaal
1790 – 1858
Lella Vignelli
1934 – 2016
Lucy Burns
1879 – 1966
Lucy Osburn
1835 – 1891
Mieczysław Michałowicz
1876 – 1965
Myrtle Cagle
1925 – 2019
Nikolai Ostrovsky
1904 – 1936
Nils Christoffer Bøckman
1880 – 1973
Oscar Alende
1909 – 1996
Paul Tournon
1881 – 1964
Peter Paul Alexander von Baranoff
1843 – 1924
Philip Toosey
1904 – 1975
Richard Dimbleby
1913 – 1965
Richard von Krafft-Ebing
1840 – 1902
Ronald Melzack
1929 – 2019
Rudolf von Scheliha
1897 – 1942
Sidney Pestka
1936 – 2016
Sir Trevor Lawrence, 2nd Baronet
1831 – 1913
Solomon Gaon
1912 – 1994
Tamerlan Thorell
1830 – 1901
Thomas D. White
1901 – 1965
Thomas Kinsella
1928 – 2021
Thor Bjarne Bore
1938 – 2019
Tokitoshi Taketomi
1856 – 1938
Tom Williams
1930 – 2023
Vlastimil Rada
1895 – 1962
Willem Vrolik
1801 – 1863
William Hung
1893 – 1980
Étienne Parent
1802 – 1874
Abbas Sheibani
1931 – 2022
Abram S. Isaacs
1851 – 1920
Achmad Djajadiningrat
1877 – 1943
Albert Oppel
1831 – 1865
Aleksei Ignatiev
1842 – 1906
Anatoly Vlasov
1908 – 1975
André Tacquet
1612 – 1660
Andy Brandt
1938 – 2023
Angélica García Arrieta
1958 – 2018
Aniela Steinsbergowa
1896 – 1988
Anselme-Homère Pâquet
1830 – 1891
Anthony Van Wyck
1822 – 1900
Aníbal Rodríguez
1868 – 1941
Arthur A. Leeper
1855 – 1931
Arthur Agar-Robartes, 8th Viscount Clifden
1887 – 1974
Arthur Korn
1870 – 1945
Arthur Thost
1854 – 1937
Asen Zlatarov
1885 – 1936
Atte Pakkanen
1912 – 1994
Awang Faroek Iskhak
1948 – 2024
Beverly B. Douglas
1822 – 1878
Butterfly McQueen
1911 – 1995
Carlos Alberto Sacheri
1933 – 1974
Carlos Ramírez Ulloa
1903 – 1980
Catharine H. T. Avery
1844 – 1911
Charles Champagne
1838 – 1907
Charles Court
1911 – 2007
Charles Herbert Mackintosh
1843 – 1931
Charles L. Richards
1877 – 1953
Charles Moore, 1st Marquess of Drogheda
1730 – 1822
Charles de Tournemine
1812 – 1872
Chrysostomos I of Cyprus
1927 – 2007
Claude Brasseur
1936 – 2020
Claude de Baissac
1907 – 1974
Claude de Bullion
1569 – 1640
Colin Ford
1934 – 2025
Cornelio Villareal
1904 – 1992
Cornelius Springer Hamilton
1821 – 1867
Courtney W. Campbell
1895 – 1971
D. Alan Stevenson
1891 – 1971
Daisy Elliott
1916 – 2015
Daniel Giraud Elliot
1835 – 1915
Darryl F. Zanuck
1902 – 1979
David Cockayne
1942 – 2010
Don DeFore
1913 – 1993
Dorothy M. Needham
1896 – 1987
Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger
1856 – 1936
Edgar H. Brown
1926 – 2021
Edouard Lanteri
1848 – 1917
Elizabeth L. Gardner
1921 – 2011
Eni Njoku
1917 – 1974
Enrique Peñaranda
1893 – 1969
Enriqueta González Baz
1915 – 2002
Ernesto Grassi
1902 – 1991
Ervin Lázár
1936 – 2006
Ethel Wilson
1888 – 1980
Eugène Leterrier
1842 – 1884
Fabio Maria Asquini
1802 – 1878
Fanil Sarvarov
1969 – 2025
Francesco Fiorentino
1834 – 1884
Francesco IV Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua
1586 – 1612
Francis Owen
1886 – 1975
Frank Riggs
1950 – 2023
Frank Thiess
1890 – 1977
Freda Meissner-Blau
1927 – 2015
Frederick Freake
1876 – 1950
Frederick William Franz
1893 – 1992
Fremont Wood
1856 – 1940
George Clayton Johnson
1929 – 2015
Georges Bellenger
1878 – 1977
Georges Chevalier
1854 – 1938
Giacomo Orefice
1865 – 1922
Gilda Gray
1901 – 1959
Giles of Rome
1243 – 1316
Godfried Bomans
1913 – 1971
Gottlob Linck
1858 – 1947
Grigoriy Rechkalov
1920 – 1990
Grzegorz Ciechowski
1957 – 2001
Gurumukh Nihal Singh
1895 – 1969
Gérard Thurnauer
1926 – 2014
Henry Cotton
1907 – 1987
Henry Francis Sullivan
1892 – 1955
Henry G. Bennett
1886 – 1951
Henry Lane Wilson
1857 – 1932
Henry Van Dyke
1928 – 2011
Henry W. Livingston
1768 – 1810
Herbert J. Brees
1877 – 1958
Herbert James Palmer
1851 – 1939
Howard A. Howe
1901 – 1976
Hugh Charles Boyle
1873 – 1950
Hugh James Rose
1795 – 1838
Ignace Gelb
1907 – 1985
Ilse Stöbe
1911 – 1942
Iris Barry
1895 – 1969
Isaac Atwater
1818 – 1906
Ivan Stupnytskyi
1816 – 1890
Ivison Macadam
1894 – 1974
J. Jeff Hays
1929 – 2008
Jack Lenor Larsen
1927 – 2020
Jacques Basnage
1653 – 1723
Jacques Chancel
1928 – 2014
Jakob Becker
1810 – 1872
James E. Bunce
1924 – 2015
Jane Dabney Shackelford
1895 – 1979
… and 1,908 more