| 143821 | December 22 | Birth | 1853 – Teresa Carreño, Venezuelan-American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1917) |
| 143822 | December 22 | Birth | 1853 – Evgraf Fedorov, Russian mathematician, crystallographer, and mineralogist (d. 1919) |
| 143823 | December 22 | Birth | 1853 – Sarada Devi, Indian mystic and philosopher (d. 1920) |
| 143824 | December 22 | Birth | 1856 – Frank B. Kellogg, American lawyer and politician, 45th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1937) |
| 143825 | December 22 | Birth | 1858 – Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer (d. 1924) |
| 143826 | December 22 | Birth | 1862 – Connie Mack, American baseball player and manager (d. 1956) |
| 143827 | December 22 | Birth | 1865 – Charles Sands, American golfer and tennis player (d. 1945) |
| 143828 | December 22 | Birth | 1868 – Jaan Tõnisson, Estonian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Estonia (d. 1941?) |
| 143829 | December 22 | Birth | 1869 – Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1931) |
| 143830 | December 22 | Birth | 1869 – Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet and playwright (d. 1935) |
| 143831 | December 22 | Birth | 1872 – Camille Guérin, French veterinarian and bacteriologist (d. 1961) |
| 143832 | December 22 | Birth | 1874 – Franz Schmidt, Austrian cellist, pianist, and composer (d. 1939) |
| 143833 | December 22 | Birth | 1876 – Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Egyptian-Italian poet and composer (d. 1944) |
| 143834 | December 22 | Birth | 1878 – Myer Prinstein, Polish-American jumper (d. 1925) |
| 143835 | December 22 | Birth | 1883 – Marcus Hurley, American cyclist (d. 1941) |
| 143836 | December 22 | Birth | 1883 – Edgard Varèse, French-American composer (d. 1965) |
| 143837 | December 22 | Birth | 1885 – Abe Manley, American businessman (d. 1952) |
| 143838 | December 22 | Birth | 1885 – Deems Taylor, American conductor and critic (d. 1966) |
| 143839 | December 22 | Birth | 1887 – Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and theorist (d. 1920) |
| 143840 | December 22 | Birth | 1888 – J. Arthur Rank, 1st Baron Rank, English businessman, founded Rank Organisation (d. 1972) |
| 143841 | December 22 | Birth | 1889 – George Hutson, English runner and soldier (d. 1914) |
| 143842 | December 22 | Birth | 1889 – Minor Watson, American actor (d. 1965) |
| 143843 | December 22 | Birth | 1892 – Herman Potočnik, Croatian-Austrian engineer (d. 1929) |
| 143844 | December 22 | Birth | 1898 – Vladimir Fock, Russian physicist and mathematician (d. 1974) |
| 143845 | December 22 | Birth | 1899 – Gustaf Gründgens, German actor and director (d. 1963) |
| 143846 | December 22 | Birth | 1900 – Marc Allégret, French director and screenwriter (d. 1973) |
| 143847 | December 22 | Birth | 1901 – Andre Kostelanetz, Russian-American conductor and composer (d. 1980) |
| 143848 | December 22 | Birth | 1903 – Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1983) |
| 143849 | December 22 | Birth | 1905 – Pierre Brasseur, French-Italian actor and screenwriter (d. 1972) |
| 143850 | December 22 | Birth | 1905 – Pierre Levegh, Frencg racing driver (d. 1955) |