December 22

December 22 is known in checkiday.com and daysoftheyear.com as "National Date Nut Bread Day".

Births

 * 1885 - Deems Taylor (composer, music critic and promoter of classical music)
 * 1917 - Frankie Darro (actor and stuntman)
 * 1936 - Héctor Elizondo (actor)
 * 1948 - Lynne Thigpen (actress)
 * 1962 - Ralph Fiennes (live-actionvoice actor, director and producer)
 * 1989 - Jordin Sparks (singer, songwriter and actress)
 * 1998 - G. Hannelius (actress)
 * 2003 - Neel Sethi (child actor)
 * 2008 - Madeleine McGraw (actress)

Deaths

 * 1987 - José Oliveira (voice actor)
 * 2005 - Aurora Miranda (entertainer)
 * 2014 - Christine Cavanaugh (live-action/voice actress)
 * 2015 - Carson Van Osten (comics creator, animator and musician)
 * 2017 - Gerald B. Greenberg (film editor)
 * 2019 - Tony Britton (actor)

Television

 * 1954 - The Disneyland episode "A Present for Donald" premieres.
 * 1968 - The Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color episode "The Mickey Mouse Anniversary Show" premieres.
 * 1995 - The first and second segments, "Yosemite Remedy" and "The Sky Is Calling", from the twenty-fourth episode of Timon and Pumbaa, premiere.
 * 1996 - The television film, The Christmas Tree is released.
 * 1998 - The Bear in the Big Blue House episode "Change is in The Air" premieres on Playhouse Disney.
 * 2009 - The final episode of Little Einsteins, "Little Elephant's Big Parade", premieres on Playhouse Disney.
 * 2017 - The Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode "Rewind" premieres on ABC.

Films

 * 1955 - The Littlest Outlaw is released by Buena Vista Distribution.
 * 1995 - Tom and Huck is released in the U.S. and Canada.

Video games

 * 1993 - Mickey Mouse: Magic Wands! is released for the Game Boy in Japan.
 * 2000 - The Lion King: Simba's Mighty Adventure was released for PlayStation and Game Boy Color.
 * 2005 - Kingdom Hearts II is released for the PlayStation 2 in Japan.

Shorts

 * 1995 - The short music video Stand by Me, featuring Timon and Pumbaa, airs before Tom and Huck in theaters.

VHS & DVD releases

 * 2009 - The Secret Life Of The American Teenager: Volume Three (ABC Family)