December 22 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on December 22, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♑︎ Capricorn
Dec 22 – Jan 19
Birth stone
Turquoise
Birth flower
Narcissus
How common
#141 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous December 22 birthdays
Frank B. Kellogg · American politician1856
Giacomo Puccini · Italian opera composer1858
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti · Italian poet and editor, founder of the Futurist movement1876
Srinivasa Ramanujan · Indian mathematician1887
Haldan Keffer Hartline · American neuroscientist1903
Lady Bird Johnson · First Lady of the United States from 1963 to 19691912
M. Stanley Whittingham · Nobel laureate in chemistry & American chemist1941
Paul Wolfowitz · American politician and diplomat1943
Nicolae Timofti · 4th President of Moldova1948
Thomas C. Südhof · German biochemist1955
Jean-Michel Basquiat · American artist1960
Ralph Fiennes · English actor, director and producer1962
Giuseppe Bergomi · Italian association football player1963
Ted Cruz · American politician1970
Vanessa Paradis · French singer, model and actress1972
Fermín IV · Mexican rapper and pastor1974
Basshunter · Swedish singer, record producer, and DJ1984
Jordin Sparks · American singer1989
Meghan Trainor · American singer-songwriter1993
Joshua Bassett · American actor and singer-songwriter2000
On this day in history
1937The Lincoln Tunnel, connecting New York City to Weehawken, New Jersey, opened.
1997Hussein Farrah Aidid relinquished the disputed title of President of Somalia.
2010The United States repealed its "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gay, lesbian and bisexual people in the military (signing pictured).
2014The United States Copyright Office stated that works lacking human authorship, such as a photograph taken by a monkey, could not be registered for copyright in the United States.
1807In an effort to avoid engaging in the Napoleonic Wars, the United States Congress passed the Embargo Act, forbidding American ships from engaging in trade with foreign nations.
1920The Congress of Soviets approved the GOELRO plan, the first Soviet plan for national economic recovery and development.
2001Burhanuddin Rabbani of the Northern Alliance handed over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by Hamid Karzai.
2018The 2018–2019 United States federal government shutdown, the second-longest shutdown of the U.S. federal government in history, begins.
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