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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 22nd of December 0069 | EVENT | Emperor Vitellius is captured and murdered at the Gemonian stairs in Rome. |
| 22nd of December 1769 | EVENT | Sino-Burmese War (1765 : 1769) ends with an uneasy truce. |
| 22nd of December 1790 | EVENT | The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies. |
| 22nd of December 1807 | EVENT | The Embargo Act, forbidding trade with all foreign countries, is passed by the U.S. Congress, at the urging of President Thomas Jefferson. |
| 22nd of December 1808 | EVENT | Ludwig 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 (performed by Beethoven himself) and Choral Fantasy (with Beethoven at the piano). |
| 22nd of December 1809 | EVENT | The Non-Intercourse Act, lifting the Embargo Act except for the United Kingdom and France, is passed by the U.S. Congress. |
| 22nd of December 1851 | EVENT | The first freight train is operated in Roorkee, India. |
| 22nd of December 1864 | EVENT | Savannah, Georgia falls to General William Tecumseh Sherman, concluding his "March to the Sea". |
| 22nd of December 1885 | EVENT | Ito Hirobumi, a samurai, became the first Prime Minister of Japan. |
| 22nd of December 1890 | EVENT | Cornwallis Valley Railway begins operation between Kingsport and Kentville, Nova Scotia. |
| 22nd of December 1894 | EVENT | The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason. |
| 22nd of December 1920 | EVENT | The GOELRO economic development plan is adopted by the 8th Congress of Soviets of the Russian SFSR. |
| 22nd of December 1937 | EVENT | The Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic in New York City. |
| 22nd of December 1940 | EVENT | World War II: Himare is captured by the Greek army. |
| 22nd of December 1942 | EVENT | World War II: Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon. |
| 22nd of December 1944 | EVENT | World War II: Battle of the Bulge : German troops demand the surrender of United States troops at Bastogne, Belgium, prompting the famous one word reply by General Anthony McAuliffe: "Nuts!" |
| 22nd of December 1944 | EVENT | World War II: The People's Army of Vietnam is formed to resist Japanese occupation of Indo-China, now Vietnam. |
| 22nd of December 1947 | EVENT | The Constituent Assembly of Italy approves the Constitution of Italy. |
| 22nd of December 1951 | EVENT | The Selangor Labour Party is founded in Selangor, Malaya. |
| 22nd of December 1956 | EVENT | Colo is born, the first gorilla to be bred in captivity. |
| 22nd of December 1963 | EVENT | The cruise ship Lakonia burns 180 miles north of Madeira with the loss of 128 lives. |
| 22nd of December 1964 | EVENT | First flight of the SR-71 (Blackbird). |
| 22nd of December 1965 | EVENT | In the United Kingdom, a 70 mph speed limit is applied to all rural roads including motorways for the first time. Previously, there had been no speed limit. |
| 22nd of December 1974 | EVENT | Grande Comore, Anjouan and Moheli vote to become the independent nation of Comoros. Mayotte remains under French administration. |
| 22nd of December 1974 | EVENT | The house of former British Prime Minister Ted Heath is attacked by members of the Provisional IRA. |
| 22nd of December 1978 | EVENT | The pivotal Third Plenum of the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is held in Beijing, with Deng Xiaoping reversing Mao-era policies to pursue a program for Chinese economic reform. |
| 22nd of December 1984 | EVENT | Bernhard Hugo Goetz shoots four African-American would-be muggers on an express train in Manhattan, New York City. |
| 22nd of December 1988 | EVENT | Chico Mendes, a Brazilian rubber tapper, unionist and environmental activist, is assassinated. |
| 22nd of December 1989 | EVENT | After a week of bloody demonstrations, Ion Iliescu takes over as president of Romania, ending Nicolae Ceausescu's Communist dictatorship. |
| 22nd of December 1989 | EVENT | Berlin's Brandenburg Gate re-opens after nearly 30 years, effectively ending the division of East and West Germany. |
| 22nd of December 1990 | EVENT | The Parliament of Croatia adopts the current Constitution of Croatia. |
| 22nd of December 1990 | EVENT | Final independence of Marshall Islands and Federated States of Micronesia after termination of trusteeship. |
| 22nd of December 1992 | EVENT | The Archives of Terror are discovered. |
| 22nd of December 1997 | EVENT | Acteal massacre: Attendees at a prayer meeting of Roman Catholic activists for indigenous causes in the small village of Acteal in the Mexican state of Chiapas are massacred by paramilitary forces. |
| 22nd of December 1997 | EVENT | Hussein Aidid relinquishes the disputed title of President of Somalia by signing the Cairo Declaration, in Cairo, Egypt. It is the first major step towards reconciliation in Somalia since 1991. |
| 22nd of December 1999 | EVENT | Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509, a Boeing 747-200F crashes shortly after take-off from London Stansted Airport due to pilot error. All 4 crew members are killed. |
| 22nd of December 2001 | EVENT | Burhanuddin Rabbani, political leader of the Afghan Northern Alliance, hands over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President Hamid Karzai. |
| 22nd of December 2001 | EVENT | Richard Reid attempts to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes aboard American Airlines Flight 63. |
| 22nd of December 2008 | EVENT | An ash dike ruptured at a solid waste containment area in Roane County, Tennessee, releasing 1.1 billion gallons (4.2 million m?) of coal fly ash slurry. |
| 22nd of December 2010 | EVENT | The repeal of the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy, the 17-year-old policy banning on homosexuals serving openly in the United States military, is signed into law by President Barack Obama. |
| 22nd of December 0244 | BIRTHDAY | Diocletian, Roman Emperor (d. 311) |
| 22nd of December 1095 | BIRTHDAY | Roger II of Sicily, King of Sicily (d. 1154) |
| 22nd of December 1178 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Antoku of Japan (d. 1185) |
| 22nd of December 1546 | BIRTHDAY | Kuroda Yoshitaka, Japanese Daimyo (d. 1604) |
| 22nd of December 1550 | BIRTHDAY | Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (d. 1631) |
| 22nd of December 1639 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Racine, French dramatist (d. 1699) |
| 22nd of December 1666 | BIRTHDAY | Guru Gobind Singh, Sikh guru (d. 1708) |
| 22nd of December 1690 | BIRTHDAY | Meidingnu Pamheiba, King of Manipur (d. 1751) |
| 22nd of December 1694 | BIRTHDAY | Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (d. 1768) |
| 22nd of December 1696 | BIRTHDAY | James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia (d. 1785) |
| 22nd of December 1723 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Friedrich Abel, German composer (d. 1787) |
| 22nd of December 1765 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathematician (d. 1825) |
| 22nd of December 1805 | BIRTHDAY | John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist (d. 1893) |
| 22nd of December 1807 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian poet (d. 1873) |
| 22nd of December 1819 | BIRTHDAY | Franz Wilhelm Abt, German composer (d. 1870) |
| 22nd of December 1819 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician (d. 1892) |
| 22nd of December 1853 | BIRTHDAY | Teresa Carreno, Venezuelan pianist (d. 1917) |
| 22nd of December 1853 | BIRTHDAY | Yevgraf Fyodorov, Russian mathematician (d. 1919) |
| 22nd of December 1856 | BIRTHDAY | Frank B. Kellogg, 45th U.S. Secretary of State, Nobel laureate (d. 1937) |
| 22nd of December 1858 | BIRTHDAY | Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer (d. 1924) |
| 22nd of December 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Austin Norman Palmer, American penmanship innovator (d. 1927) |
| 22nd of December 1862 | BIRTHDAY | Connie Mack, American baseball executive (d. 1956) |
| 22nd of December 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet (d. 1935) |
| 22nd of December 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician (d. 1931) |
| 22nd of December 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Camille Guerin, French veterinarian and bacteriologist (d. 1961) |
| 22nd of December 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Franz Schmidt, Austrian composer (d. 1939) |
| 22nd of December 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian poet and editor (d. 1944) |
| 22nd of December 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Edgard Varese French-born composer (d. 1965) |
| 22nd of December 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Deems Taylor American conductor and music critic (d. 1966) |
| 22nd of December 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Abe Manley, Negro League Baseball owner (d. 1952) |
| 22nd of December 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (d. 1920) |
| 22nd of December 1888 | BIRTHDAY | J. Arthur Rank, British film producer (d. 1972) |
| 22nd of December 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock, Russian physicist (d. 1974) |
| 22nd of December 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Gustav Grundgens, German actor (d. 1963) |
| 22nd of December 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Allegret, French film director and screenwriter (d. 1973) |
| 22nd of December 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Kostelanetz, American popular music orchestra leader and arranger (d. 1980) |
| 22nd of December 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1983) |
| 22nd of December 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Kenneth Rexroth, American poet (d. 1982) |
| 22nd of December 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Brasseur, French actor (d. 1972) |
| 22nd of December 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Dame Peggy Ashcroft, English actress (d. 1991) |
| 22nd of December 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Patricia Hayes, English actress (d. 1998) |
| 22nd of December 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady of the United States (d. 2007) |
| 22nd of December 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Elias Degiannis, Greek navy officer and Resistance fighter (d. 1943) |
| 22nd of December 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Swami Satchidananda, Yogi and Spiritual teacher (d. 2002) |
| 22nd of December 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Billingsley, American actress (d. 2010) |
| 22nd of December 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Gene Rayburn, American game show host (d. 1999) |
| 22nd of December 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Hawkshaw Hawkins, American country singer (d. 1963) |
| 22nd of December 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Brooks, American politician |
| 22nd of December 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Ruth Roman, American actress (d. 1999) |
| 22nd of December 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Corsaro, American stage director |
| 22nd of December 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Lewis Glucksman, American financier (d. 2006) |
| 22nd of December 1934 | BIRTHDAY | David Pearson, American racecar driver |
| 22nd of December 1936 | BIRTHDAY | James Burke, British writer |
| 22nd of December 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Hector Elizondo, American actor |
| 22nd of December 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Wojciech Frykowski, Polish actor (d. 1969) |
| 22nd of December 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Eduard Uspensky, Russian writer |
| 22nd of December 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Matty Alou, Dominican baseball player |
| 22nd of December 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Lucien Bouchard, Quebec politician |
| 22nd of December 1939 | BIRTHDAY | James Gurley, American musician (d. 2009) |
| 22nd of December 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Francisco Cuellar, Colombian politician (d. 2009) |
| 22nd of December 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Parry, English musician (Pink Floyd) |
| 22nd of December 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Stefan Janos, Slovak-Swiss physicist |
| 22nd of December 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Wolfowitz, American politician |
| 22nd of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Guido De Angelis, Italian musician |
| 22nd of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Carlton, American baseball player |
| 22nd of December 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Diane Sawyer, American journalist |
| 22nd of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Nielsen, American musician (Cheap Trick) |
| 22nd of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Daley, American science-fiction writer (d. 1996) |
| 22nd of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Noel Edmonds, English game show host |
| 22nd of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Old, English cricketer |
| 22nd of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Lynne Thigpen, American actress (d. 2003) |
| 22nd of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Garvey, American baseball player |
| 22nd of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Gibb, English musician (The Bee Gees) (d. 2003) |
| 22nd of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Robin Gibb, English musician (The Bee Gees) |
| 22nd of December 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Martin, American voice actor |
| 22nd of December 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, Duke of Westminster |
| 22nd of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Turnbull, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 22nd of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Bern Nadette Stanis, actress |
| 22nd of December 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Hideshi Matsuda, Japanese racing driver |
| 22nd of December 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Lonnie Smith, American baseball player |
| 22nd of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Carole James, Canadian politician |
| 22nd of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Gambale, Australian musician |
| 22nd of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | David Heavener, American actor and musician |
| 22nd of December 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Bernd Schuster, German footballer |
| 22nd of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Michel Basquiat, American artist (d. 1988) |
| 22nd of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Wakin Chau, Chinese singer |
| 22nd of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Brydon, British musician (Moloko) |
| 22nd of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Luther Campbell (Luke), American rap artist (2 Live Crew) |
| 22nd of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Fitzgerald, American attorney |
| 22nd of December 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Fastow, American businessman |
| 22nd of December 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Ralph Fiennes, English actor |
| 22nd of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Giuseppe Bergomi, Italian footballer |
| 22nd of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Luna H. Mitani, Japanese American surrealism painter |
| 22nd of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Brian McMillan, South African cricketer |
| 22nd of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Marcel "Schmier" Schirmer, German singer and bassplayer (Destruction) |
| 22nd of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Dmitry Bilozerchev, Soviet gymnast |
| 22nd of December 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Stephane Gendron, Quebec politician |
| 22nd of December 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Richey James Edwards, Welsh musician (Manic Street Preachers) (disappeared in 1995) |
| 22nd of December 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Morris, Australian racing driver |
| 22nd of December 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Petrescu, Romanian footballer |
| 22nd of December 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Dina Meyer, American actress |
| 22nd of December 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Lauralee Bell, American actress |
| 22nd of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Biffle, American racecar driver |
| 22nd of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Myriam Bedard, Canadian athlete |
| 22nd of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Anderson, Scottish darts player |
| 22nd of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Mastroianni, Canadian actor |
| 22nd of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Big Tigger, television host |
| 22nd of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Vanessa Paradis, French singer |
| 22nd of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Heather Donahue, American actress |
| 22nd of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Adler, American actor |
| 22nd of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Stanislav Neckar, Czech ice hockey player |
| 22nd of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Dmitri Khokhlov, Russian footballer |
| 22nd of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Sergei Aschwanden, Swiss judoka |
| 22nd of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Lane, American baseball player |
| 22nd of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Katleen De Caluwe, Belgian athlete |
| 22nd of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Kariya, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 22nd of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Emmanuel Olisadebe, Nigerian/Polish footballer |
| 22nd of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Jamie Langfield, Scottish football player |
| 22nd of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Carmack, American actor |
| 22nd of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Brooke Nevin, Canadian actress |
| 22nd of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Drew Hankinson, American professional wrestler |
| 22nd of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Hawkins, Australian beauty pageant contestant |
| 22nd of December 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Basshunter, Swedish singer |
| 22nd of December 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Armfield, Australian footballer |
| 22nd of December 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Nigerian terrorist suspect |
| 22nd of December 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Leigh Halfpenny, Welsh rugby player |
| 22nd of December 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Logan Huffman, American actor |
| 22nd of December 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Jordin Sparks, American singer |
| 22nd of December 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Jharal Yow Yeh, professional rugby league player |
| 22nd of December 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Baptiste Maunier, French actor and singer |
| 22nd of December 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Ali Lohan, American singer |
| 22nd of December 1996 | BIRTHDAY | Makisig Morales, Filipino child actor |
| 22nd of December 1998 | BIRTHDAY | G. Hannelius, American child actress |
| 22nd of December 0069 | DEATH | Vitellius (Born 15) |
| 22nd of December 1100 | DEATH | Duke Bretislaus II of Bohemia |
| 22nd of December 1550 | DEATH | Richard Plantagenet, British bricklayer and claimant to the House of Plantagenet |
| 22nd of December 1603 | DEATH | Mehmed III of the Ottoman Empire (Born 1566) |
| 22nd of December 1646 | DEATH | Peter Mogila, Moldavian religious figure (Born 1596) |
| 22nd of December 1660 | DEATH | Andre Tacquet, Flemish mathematician (Born 1612) |
| 22nd of December 1681 | DEATH | Richard Alleine, English Puritan clergyman (Born 1611) |
| 22nd of December 1708 | DEATH | Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish writer (Born 1681) |
| 22nd of December 1738 | DEATH | Constantia Jones, British prostitute (Born c. 1708) |
| 22nd of December 1767 | DEATH | John Newbery, English publisher (Born 1713) |
| 22nd of December 1788 | DEATH | Percivall Pott, English physician and surgeon (Born 1714) |
| 22nd of December 1806 | DEATH | William Vernon, American merchant (Born 1719) |
| 22nd of December 1828 | DEATH | William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist (Born 1766) |
| 22nd of December 1867 | DEATH | Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (Born 1788) |
| 22nd of December 1870 | DEATH | Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, Spanish poet and writer (Born 1836) |
| 22nd of December 1880 | DEATH | George Eliot, English writer (Born 1819) |
| 22nd of December 1899 | DEATH | Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist (Born 1837) |
| 22nd of December 1902 | DEATH | Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German psychiatrist (Born 1840) |
| 22nd of December 1917 | DEATH | Mother Cabrini, American Catholic saint (Born 1850) |
| 22nd of December 1939 | DEATH | Ma Rainey, American singer (Born 1886) |
| 22nd of December 1940 | DEATH | Nathanael West, American writer (Born 1903) |
| 22nd of December 1942 | DEATH | Franz Boas, German anthropologist (Born 1858) |
| 22nd of December 1943 | DEATH | Beatrix Potter, English writer (Born 1866) |
| 22nd of December 1944 | DEATH | Harry Langdon, American film actor (Born 1884) |
| 22nd of December 1959 | DEATH | Gilda Gray, Polish-born American dancer and actress (Born 1901) |
| 22nd of December 1960 | DEATH | Ninian Comper, Scottish architect (Born 1864) |
| 22nd of December 1965 | DEATH | Richard Dimbleby, English journalist and broadcaster (Born 1913) |
| 22nd of December 1971 | DEATH | Godfried Bomans, Dutch author and television personality (Born 1913) |
| 22nd of December 1974 | DEATH | Sterling North, American author (Born 1906) |
| 22nd of December 1979 | DEATH | Darryl F. Zanuck, American producer (Born 1902) |
| 22nd of December 1985 | DEATH | D. Boon, American singer and guitarist (The Minutemen) (Born 1958) |
| 22nd of December 1986 | DEATH | Ida Cook, British novelist (Born 1904) |
| 22nd of December 1987 | DEATH | Luca Prodan, Italian-Scottish singer (Sumo) (Born 1953) |
| 22nd of December 1988 | DEATH | Chico Mendes, Brazilian rubber tapper and environmental activist (Born 1944) |
| 22nd of December 1989 | DEATH | Samuel Beckett, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1906) |
| 22nd of December 1992 | DEATH | Frederick Franz, Watchtower president (Born 1893) |
| 22nd of December 1992 | DEATH | Harry Bluestone, Film music Composer (Born 1907) |
| 22nd of December 1995 | DEATH | James Meade, English economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (Born 1907) |
| 22nd of December 1995 | DEATH | Butterfly McQueen, American actress (Born 1911) |
| 22nd of December 2001 | DEATH | Ovidiu Iacov, Romanian footballer (Born 1981) |
| 22nd of December 2002 | DEATH | Desmond Hoyte, Guyanan politician (Born 1929) |
| 22nd of December 2002 | DEATH | Joe Strummer, English musician (The Clash) (Born 1952) |
| 22nd of December 2003 | DEATH | Dave Dudley, American singer (Born 1928) |
| 22nd of December 2004 | DEATH | Doug Ault, American baseball player (Born 1950) |
| 22nd of December 2006 | DEATH | Galina Ustvolskaya, Russian composer (Born 1919) |
| 22nd of December 2006 | DEATH | Elena Mukhina, Russian gymnast (Born 1960) |
| 22nd of December 2006 | DEATH | Dennis Linde, American songwriter (Born 1943) |
| 22nd of December 2007 | DEATH | Adrian Cristobal, Filipino writer (Born 1932) |
| 22nd of December 2009 | DEATH | Luis Francisco Cuellar, Colombian politician (Born 1940) |
| 22nd of December 2009 | DEATH | Albert Scanlon, English footballer (Born 1935) |
| 22nd of December 2010 | DEATH | Fred Foy, American radio and television announcer (Born 1921) |