The Birthday Gazette

Born on December 22

December 22 birthdays & history

If you were born on December 22, you share a birthday with Basshunter, Giacomo Puccini and Jean Racine. December 22 babies are Sagittarius, with turquoise as their birthstone and the narcissus as their birth flower. December 22 is the 357th day of the year in leap years (356th in other years).

Famous people born on December 22

  • 1984Basshunter, Swedish singer, record producer and DJ
  • 1858Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer and educator
  • 1639Jean Racine, French poet and playwright
  • 1887Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and theorist
  • 2000Joshua Bassett, American actor and singer
  • 1962Ralph Fiennes, English actor
  • 1972Vanessa Paradis, French singer-songwriter and actress
  • 1666Guru Gobind Singh, Indian guru and poet
  • 1970Ted Cruz, Canadian-American lawyer and politician
  • 1876Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Egyptian-Italian poet and composer

What happened on December 22

  • 401Pope Innocent I began his papacy, succeeding Anastasius I.
  • 1808Ludwig van Beethoven conducts and performs in concert at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna, with the premiere of his Fifth Symphony, Sixth Symphony, Fourth Piano Concerto and Choral Fantasy.
  • 1825The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., burns.
  • 1885Itō Hirobumi, a samurai, becomes the first Prime Minister of Japan.
  • 1888The Christmas Meeting of 1888, considered to be the official start of the Faroese independence movement.
  • 1890Cornwallis Valley Railway begins operation between Kentville and Kingsport, Nova Scotia.
  • 1891Asteroid 323 Brucia becomes the first asteroid discovered using photography.
  • 1921Opening of Visva-Bharati College, also known as Santiniketan College, now Visva Bharati University, India.
  • 1937The Lincoln Tunnel, connecting New York City to Weehawken, New Jersey, opened.
  • 1964The first test flight of the SR-71 (Blackbird) takes place at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, United States.
  • 1965In the United Kingdom, a 70 miles per hour (110 km/h) speed limit is applied to all rural roads including motorways for the first time.
  • 1997Hussein Farrah Aidid relinquished the disputed title of President of Somalia.

Also observed on December 22

  • Dongzhi Festival
  • Armed Forces Day (Vietnam)
  • Mother's Day (Indonesia)
  • National Mathematics Day (India)
  • Teachers' Day (Cuba)
  • Unity Day (Zimbabwe)

Questions, answered

What star sign is December 22?

People born on December 22 are Sagittarius. Their birthstone is turquoise and their birth flower is the narcissus.

Which famous people were born on December 22?

Basshunter (1984), Giacomo Puccini (1858), Jean Racine (1639), Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887), Joshua Bassett (2000), Ralph Fiennes (1962) were all born on December 22.

What happened on December 22 in history?

Among other things: in 1964, The first test flight of the SR-71 (Blackbird) takes place at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, United States; in 1965, In the United Kingdom, a 70 miles per hour (110 km/h) speed limit is applied to all rural roads including motorways for the first time; in 1997, Hussein Farrah Aidid relinquished the disputed title of President of Somalia.

Can I get a newspaper front page from December 22?

Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any December 22 birth year, with their name in the headline, events, famous birthdays and typical US prices. The preview is free and the print files cost $9.

Events, birthdays and observances are adapted from Wikipedia contributors, “December 22”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.