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Birthdays occurring on December, 22
| 1913 |
Benjamin Britten was born on December 22, 1913
English composer, 1913-1976It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony. More quotations from Benjamin Britten |  |
| 1917 |
Gene Rayburn was born on December 22, 1917
We're sorry you didn't win any money but you will be receiving a broken clavicle and a jar of olives courtesy of Match Game. More quotations from Gene Rayburn |
Deaths occurring on December, 22
| 1815 |
Jose Maria Morelos y Pavón died on December 22, 1815
Mexican priest, military leader, revolutionary and patriot, 1765-1815May slavery be banished forever together with the distinction between castes, all remaining equal, so Americans may only be distinguished by vice or virtue... In the new laws, may torture not be allowed.
(Castillian Spanish: Que la esclavitud se proscriba para siempre y lo mismo la distinción de castas, quedando todos iguales, y sólo distinguirá a un americano de otro el vicio y la virtud…Que en la nueva legislación no se admita la tortura.) More quotations from Jose Maria Morelos y Pavón |
| 1902 |
Richard Von Krafft-Ebing died on December 22, 1902
Purely sensual love is never true or lasting, for which reason first love is, as a rule, but a passing infatuation, a fleeting passion More quotations from Richard Von Krafft-Ebing |
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