Events before 1922 which have relevance to Walt Disney, Walt Disney Productions, or The Walt Disney Company.
15th century
- January 6, 1412 - Joan of Arc is born.
- May 30, 1431 - Joan of Arc dies.
- October 31, 1451 - Christopher Columbus is born.
- April 15, 1452 - Leonardo da Vinci is born.
16th century
- May 20, 1506 - Christopher Columbus dies.
- May 2, 1519 - Leonardo da Vinci dies.
- April 26, 1564 - William Shakespeare is baptized (actual birth date unknown).
- Date unknown, 1596 - Pocahontas is born.
17th century
18th century
- January 17, 1706 - Benjamin Franklin is born.
- February 22, 1732 - George Washington is born.
- April 13, 1743 - Thomas Jefferson is born.
- January 27, 1756 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is born.
- August 15, 1769 - Napoleon Bonaparte is born.
- September 25, 1780 - Jean Lafitte is born.
- January 4, 1785 - Jacob Grimm is born.
- February 24, 1786 - Wilhelm Grimm is born.
- August 17, 1786 - Davy Crockett is born.
- April 17, 1790 - Benjamin Franklin dies.
- December 5, 1791 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies.
- December 14, 1799 - George Washington dies.
1800s
- July 24, 1802 - Alexandre Dumas is born.
- April 2, 1805 - Hans Christian Andersen is born.
- January 19, 1809 - Edgar Allan Poe is born.
- February 12, 1809 - Abraham Lincoln is born.
1820s
- May 12, 1820 - Florence Nightingale is born.
- May 5, 1821 - Napoleon Bonaparte dies.
- February 5, 1823 - Jean Lafitte dies.
- July 4, 1826 - Thomas Jefferson dies.
- February 9, 1828 - Jules Verne is born.
1830s
- November 30, 1835 - Mark Twain is born.
- March 6, 1836 - Davy Crockett dies.
1840s
- February 11, 1847 - Thomas Edison is born.
- October 7, 1849 - Edgar Allan Poe dies.
1850s
- October 27, 1858 - Theodore Roosevelt is born.
- December 16, 1859 - Wilhelm Grimm dies.
1860s
- September 20, 1863 - Jacob Grimm dies.
- April 15, 1865 - Abraham Lincoln dies.
- December 29, 1865 - Otis Harlan is born.
- September 21, 1866 - H.G. Wells is born.
- April 16, 1867 - Wilbur Wright is born.
- April 22, 1868 - Flora Disney is born.
1870s
- December 5, 1870 - Alexandre Dumas dies.
- August 19, 1871 - Orville Wright is born.
- November 7, 1872 - Lucille La Verne is born.
- March 24, 1874 - Harry Houdini is born.
- November 30, 1874 - Winston Churchill is born.
- August 4, 1875 - Hans Christian Andersen dies.
- September 1, 1875 - Edgar Rice Burroughs is born.
- July 27, 1877 - Florence Gill is born.
- May 2, 1878 - Roy Atwell is born.
- May 16, 1878 - Taylor Holmes is born.
- March 14, 1879 - Albert Einstein is born.
1880
- September 14 - Earl Hurd is born.
- October 19 - Scotty Mattraw is born.
1881
- August 28 - Ferdinand Horvath is born.
1882
- January 30 - Franklin D. Roosevelt is born.
- April 18 - Leopold Stokowski is born.
- August 17 - Charles Judels is born.
1883
- January 30 - Eddie Collins is born.
- May 11 - Albert Hurter is born.
1884
- June 23 - Charlotte Clark is born.
1885
- December 22 - Deems Taylor is born.
1886
- February 8 - Charlie Ruggles is born.
- November 9 - Ed Wynn is born.
1887
- August 5 - Reginald Owen is born.
- August 6 - Oliver Wallace is born.
1888
- September 12 - Maurice Chevalier is born.
1889
- April 16 - Charlie Chaplin is born.
- June 10 - Sessue Hayakawa is born.
- June 27 - Moroni Olsen is born.
- November 5 - Charles Mintz is born.
1890
- June 18 - Junius Matthews is born.
- July 20 - Verna Felton is born.
1891
- October 15 - Burt Gillett is born.
1892
- April 8 - Mary Pickford is born.
- September 11 - Pinto Colvig is born.
- December 26 - Don Barclay is born.
1893
- June 24 - Roy Oliver Disney is born.
1894
- March 18 - Stuart Buchanan is born.
- July 25 - Walter Brennan is born
- September 12 - Billy Gilbert is born.
- September 24 - Billy Bletcher is born.
1895
- April 22 - Margaret J. Winkler is born.
- May 19 - Albert Hay Malotte is born.
- June 14 - Cliff Edwards is born.
- November 4
- Jack King is born.
- Ben Sharpsteen is born.
- November 24 - Dessie Flynn is born.
1896
- May 3 - Dodie Smith is born.
- November 3 - Gustaf Tenggren is born.
1897
1898
- January 2 - Dick Huemer is born.
- April 2 - Earl Duvall is born.
- May 11 - C.O. Slyfield is born.
- June 18 - Dink Trout is born.
- July 4 - Johnny Lee is born.
1899
- February 15 - Lillian Disney is born.
- July 1 - Charles Laughton is born.
- September 17 - Perce Pearce is born.
1900
Walt Disney as a baby.
- January 23 - David Hand is born.
- February 6 - Ted Osborne is born.
- February 17 - Ruth Clifford is born.
- March 13 - Ted Sears is born.
- June 2 - Joseph Dubin is born.
- September 1 - Don Wilson is born.
- October 9 - Alastair Sim is born.
- October 10 - Helen Hayes is born.
- October 15 - Fritz Feld is born.
1901
- March 24 - Ub Iwerks is born.
- March 27 - Carl Barks is born.
- June 1 - Homer Brightman is born.
- June 12 - Clyde Geronimi is born.
- August 4 - Louis Armstrong is born.
- August 15 - Ned Washington is born.
- September 28 - Ed Sullivan is born.
- October 20 - Frank Churchill is born.
- December 5 - Walt Disney is born.
1902
- January 20 - Leon Ames is born.
- April 27 - Harry Stockwell is born.
- May 3 - Seton I. Miller is born.
- June 17 - Sammy Fain is born.
- September 2 - Norman Ferguson is born.
- September 25 - Al Hoffman is born.
- October 28 - Elsa Lanchester is born.
1903
- February 16 - Edgar Bergen is born.
- May 3 - Bing Crosby is born.
- May 29 - Bob Hope is born.
- August 7 - Rudolf Ising is born.
- August 31 - Hugh Harman is born.
- October 16 - Hamilton Luske is born.
- September 27 - Robert O. Cook is born.
- November 7 - Ary Barroso is born.
- December 10 - Una Merkel is born.
1904
- January 10 - Ray Bolger is born.
- February 11 - José Oliveira is born.
- February 16 - James Baskett is born.
- February 21 - Hazel George is born.
- March 15 - J. Pat O'Malley is born.
- May 1 - Fred Spencer is born.
- May 6 - Raymond Bailey is born.
- June 14 - Gil Lamb is born.
- June 24 - Phil Harris is born.
- September 15 - Tom Conway is born.
- September 17 - Jerry Colonna is born.
- September 19 - Elvia Allman is born.
- October 25 - Vladimir "Bill" Tytla is born.
- December 7 - Clarence Nash is born.
1905
- January 4 - Sterling Holloway is born.
- January 15 - Allie Wrubel is born.
- January 17 - Erdman Penner is born.
- January 26 - Charles Lane is born.
- February 18 - Queenie Leonard is born.
- March 10 - Richard Haydn is born.
- March 24 - Jules Verne dies.
- March 26 - Larry Morey is born.
- March 31 - Robert Stevenson is born.
- May 5 - Floyd Gottfredson is born.
- June 1 - Robert Newton is born.
- August 29 - Al Taliaferro is born.
- September 3 - Eric Larson is born.
- October 7 - Andy Devine is born.
- November 19 - Eleanor Audley is born.
- December 7 - Leonard H. Goldenson is born.
1906
- January 24 - Wilfred Jackson is born.
- February 6 - Guido Martina is born.
- February 9 - Harry Reeves is born.
- February 17 - Otto Englander is born.
- March 3 - Donald Novis is born.
- May 19 - Jimmy MacDonald is born.
- July 3 - George Sanders is born.
- August 21 - Friz Freleng is born.
- September 2 - Barbara Jo Allen is born.
- September 29 - Charles Wolcott is born.
- October 30 - Paul Smith is born.
- November 13 - Hermione Baddeley is born.
- November 19 - William Cottrell is born.
- November 25 - Larry Clemmons is born.
- November 29 - Luis van Rooten is born.
1907
- February 15 - Cesar Romero is born.
- March 5 - Thomas McKimson is born.
- March 26 - Leigh Harline is born.
- June 6 - Edward H. Plumb is born.
- June 15 - James Robertson Justice is born.
- June 16 - Jack Albertson is born.
- June 27 - John McIntire is born.
- July 27 - Jesse Marsh is born.
- July 30 - Roy Williams is born.
- August 14 - Dick Lundy is born.
- September 15 - Jack Bailey is born.
- October 8 - Art Babbitt is born.
- November 16 - Burgess Meredith is born.
- November 17 - Les Clark is born.
- December 25 - Andrew Cruickshank is born.
1908
- January 7 - Eliot Daniel is born.
- February 13 - Patrick Barr is born.
- February 22 - John Mills is born.
- April 2 - Buddy Ebsen is born.
- April 5 - Bette Davis is born.
- May 15 - Joe Grant is born.
- May 17 - Ralph Wright is born.
- May 25 - Barbara Luddy is born.
- May 30 - Mel Blanc is born.
- May 31 - Don Ameche is born.
- June 7 - Ken O'Connor is born.
- June 29 - John Hench is born.
- July 23 - Karl Swenson is born.
- August 30 - Fred MacMurray is born.
- September 30 - Judge Whitaker is born.
- October 24 - Preston Blair is born.
- November 12 - Shamus Culhane is born.
1909
- February 9 - Heather Angel is born.
- March 16 - Don Raye is born.
- March 17 - Ken Anderson is born.
- March 22 - Milt Kahl is born.
- March 25 - Jerry Livingston is born.
- March 29 - Jack Kinney is born.
- May 13 - Ken Darby is born.
- May 15 - James Mason is born.
- June 14 - Burl Ives is born.
- June 26 - Wolfgang "Woolie" Reitherman is born.
- September 11 - Anne Seymour is born.
- October 31 - Thelma Boardman is born.
- December 20 - Amby Paliwoda is born.
1910
- March 1 - David Niven is born.
- March 15 - Nick Stewart is born.
- March 28 - Jimmie Dodd is born.
- April 5 - Richard Irvine is born.
- April 21 - Mark Twain dies.
- June 13 - Mary Wickes is born.
- June 16 - Judd Conlon is born.
- June 28 - Herbert Ryman is born.
- July 3 - Marcellite Garner is born.
- July 22 - Ruthie Tompson is born.
- July 26 - Kenneth Muse is born.
- August 13 - Florence Nightingale dies.
- August 16 - Gloria Blondell is born.
- September 3 - Yale Gracey is born.
- September 11 - John Sutherland is born.
- September 15 - Charles A. Nichols is born.
- October 8 - Winston Hibler is born.
- October 13 - Robert McKimson is born.
- October 25 - Tyrus Wong is born.
- December 7 - Louis Prima is born.
- December 14 - George Nicholas is born.
- December 21 - Marvin Davis is born.
1911
- January 28 - Basil Davidovich is born.
- February 6 - Ronald Reagan is born.
- March 5 - Bob Karp is born.
- March 9 - John Lounsbery is born.
- March 18 - William Lava is born.
- March 26 - T. Hee is born.
- April 2 - Bill Days is born.
- May 1 - Maurice Noble is born.
- May 27 - Vincent Price is born.
- July 6 - LaVerne Sophia Andrews is born.
- July 14 - Terry-Thomas is born.
- July 16 - Ginger Rogers is born.
- July 18 - Bernard Wolf is born.
- September 7 - Fred Moore is born.
- September 20 - Frank De Vol is born.
- September 29 - Don DaGradi is born.
- October 1
- Lee Blair is born.
- Irwin Kostal is born.
- October 8 - Cotton Warburton is born.
- October 11 - Michael Hordern is born.
- October 12 - Bill Anderson is born.
- October 14 - Thor Putnam is born.
- October 21 - Mary Blair is born.
- November 10 - Marjorie Ralston is born.
- November 21 - Andy Engman is born.
- November 25 - Paul Murry is born.
- December 30 - Jeanette Nolan is born.
1912
- March 22 - Karl Malden is born.
- March 23 - Jeff York is born.
- April 7
- Frank V. Phillips is born.
- Jack Lawrence is born.
- May 29 - Iris Adrian is born.
- May 30 - Wilbur Wright dies.
- June 11 - James Algar is born.
- July 5 - Mack David is born.
- July 15 - Al Bertino is born.
- August 23
- Ed Benedict is born.
- Gene Kelly is born.
- September 5
- Frank Thomas is born.
- Ray Gilbert is born.
- September 13 - Reta Shaw is born.
- September 21 - Chuck Jones is born.
- October 5 - Riley Thomson is born.
- October 31 - Ollie Johnston is born.
- November 11 - Grant Simmons is born.
- November 23 - George O'Hanlon is born.
1913
- January 5 - Jack Hannah is born.
- January 9 - Richard Nixon is born.
- January 17 - Claude Coats is born.
- February 1 - Leo Salkin is born.
- February 19 - Frank Tashlin is born.
- February 25 - Jim Backus is born.
- March 3 - Manuel Gonzales is born.
- March 12 - Loulie Jean Norman is born.
- March 22 - James Westerfield is born.
- March 30 - Marc Davis is born.
- May 5 - Hal King is born.
- May 8 - Bob Clampett is born.
- May 11 - Salvador Camarata is born.
- May 24 - Peter Ellenshaw is born.
- May 26 - Peter Cushing is born.
- June 13 - Sammy Cahn is born.
- June 15 - Tom Adair is born.
- July 8 - Bill Thompson is born.
- July 18 - Marvin Miller is born.
- July 31 - Eda Reiss Merin is born.
- August 1 - Hal Ambro is born.
- August 10 - Noah Beery, Jr. is born.
- August 25 - Walt Kelly is born.
- September 30 - Bill Walsh is born.
- October 28
- Douglas Seale is born.
- Don Lusk is born.
- November 2 - Burt Lancaster is born.
- December 25 - Candy Candido is born.
1914
- February 6 - Thurl Ravenscroft is born.
- February 9 - Bill Justice is born.
- March 4 - Ward Kimball is born.
- March 22 - Sonny Burke is born.
- April 2 - Alec Guinness is born.
- April 20 - Betty Lou Gerson is born.
- May 21 - John Hubley is born.
- July 3 - George Bruns is born.
- August 1 - Joe Rinaldi is born.
- August 10 - Ken Annakin is born.
- September 11 - Phil DeLara is born.
- October 9 - Edward Andrews is born.
- November 6 - Jonathan Harris is born.
- November 11 - Mel Leven is born.
- December 19 - Mel Shaw is born.
- December 27 - Jack Bradbury is born.
1915
- January 21
- Alan Hewitt is born.
- Ray Erlenborn is born.
- January 29 - Bill Peet is born.
- February 1 - The Fox Film Corporation is founded, which would later merge with 20th Century Pictures in 1935 to form 20th Century Fox.
- April 10 - Harry Morgan is born.
- April 21 - Lloyd Richardson is born.
- May 1 - Art Stevens is born.
- May 5 - Ben Wright is born.
- May 6 - Orson Welles is born.
- May 12 - Tony Strobl is born.
- May 26 - Sam Edwards is born.
- June 19 - Pat Buttram is born.
- November 14 - Martha Tilton is born.
- November 23 - John Dehner is born.
- December 7 - Eli Wallach is born.
- December 19 - Ken O'Brien is born.
1916
- January 3 - Maxene Angelyn Andrews is born.
- January 9 - Card Walker is born.
- February 14 - Edward Platt is born.
- February 23 - Retta Scott is born.
- February 29 - Dinah Shore is born.
- March 19 - Eric Christmas is born.
- March 31 - Lucille Bliss is born.
- April 2 - Don Duckwall is born.
- April 26 - Eyvind Earle is born.
- May 6 - Adriana Caselotti is born.
- May 10 - John McLeish is born.
- May 21 - Dennis Day is born.
- June 14 - Dorothy McGuire is born.
- June 17 - Terry Gilkyson is born.
- July 27 - Keenan Wynn is born.
- August 2 - Bill Keil is born.
- August 17 - Pat McNalley is born.
- August 21 - Bill Lee is born.
- August 24 - Hal Smith is born.
- September 13 - Roald Dahl is born.
- September 25 - Jack Boyd is born.
- November 4 - Walter Cronkite is born.
- November 12 - Liam Dunn is born.
- November 16 - Daws Butler is born.
- November 23 - Michael Gough is born.
- December 6 - Judson Pratt is born.
- December 9 - Kirk Douglas is born.
- December 15 - Dick Kinney is born.
1917
- January 5 - Jane Wyman is born.
- January 24 - Ernest Borgnine is born.
- April 15 - Hans Conried is born.
- May 7 - David Tomlinson is born.
- June 30 - Lena Horne is born.
- July 17 - Phyllis Diller is born.
- July 22 - Lois Hardwick is born.
- August 5 - Don Chaffey is born.
- August 28 - Jack Kirby is born.
- September 11
- Herbert Lom is born.
- Bill Berg is born.
- September 18 - June Foray is born.
- December 22 - Frankie Darro is born.
1918
- January 4 - Buddy Baker is born.
- January 26 - Vito Scotti is born.
- January 28 - Bob Hilliard is born.
- January 29 - John Forsythe is born.
- February 3 - Don Griffith is born.
- February 11 - Blaine Gibson is born.
- February 16 - Patricia Marie "Patty" Andrews is born.
- March 2 - Michael Rye is born.
- March 12 - Alan Dinehart is born.
- April 5 - Faz Fazakas is born.
- April 17 - Anne Shirley is born
- May 25 - Henry Calvin is born.
- July 6 - Sebastian Cabot is born.
- September 15 - Nipsey Russell is born.
- September 20 - Dale Barnhart is born.
- October 19 - Bob Sweeney is born.
- November 11 - Stubby Kaye is born.
- November 30 - Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. is born.
- December 31 - Virginia Davis is born.
1919
- January 6 - Theodore Roosevelt dies.
- February 4 - Janet Waldo is born.
- February 5 - Red Buttons is born.
- February 11 - Eva Gabor is born.
- February 17 - Kathleen Freeman is born.
- February 20 - Dick Wesson is born.
- February 25 - John W. Dunn is born.
- June 11 - Richard Todd is born.
- June 17 - Gene de Paul is born.
- June 21- Margie Gay is born
- June 29 - Slim Pickens is born.
- July 14 - Walt Stanchfield is born.
- July 19 - Dallas McKennon is born.
- July 27 - David Swift is born.
- September 2 - Marge Champion is born.
- September 4
- Howard Morris is born.
- Xavier Atencio is born.
- November 19 - Alan Young is born.
- November 25 - Norman Tokar is born.
- December 14 - Dale Oliver is born.
- December 17 - Ted Berman is born.
1920
- January 3 - Eric Cleworth is born.
- February 22 - Pete Alvarado is born.
- March 16 - Leo McKern is born.
- May 26 - Peggy Lee is born.
- June 13 - Rex Everhart is born.
- June 22 - Paul Frees is born.
- June 29 - Ray Harryhausen is born.
- August 2 - Bill Scott is born.
- August 17 - Maureen O'Hara is born.
- August 22 - Ray Bradbury is born.
- September 13 - Wally Boag is born.
- September 18 - Jack Warden is born.
- September 23 - Mickey Rooney is born.
- November 25 - Ricardo Montalbán is born.
- December 31 - Rex Allen is born.
1921
- March 20 - Newman Laugh-O-Grams are released.
- April 16 - Peter Ustinov is born.
- July 6 - Bill Shirley is born.
- July 29 - Richard Egan is born.
- August 28 - Nancy Kulp is born.
- October 20 - Bob Gregory is born.
- November 1 - Retta Davidson is born.
- November 14 - Brian Keith is born.
- November 15 - Joaquin Garay is born.
- November 22 - Rodney Dangerfield is born.
- December 21 - Steve Allen is born.
