January 22
(Redirected from 22 January)
January 22 is the 22nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 343 days remaining until the end of the year (344 in leap years).
Events
Up to 1900
- 239 - Cao Rui, Chinese Emperor (b. 205)
- 1341 - Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1279)
- 1531 – Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter (b. 1487)
- 1592 – Elisabeth of Austria, Queen of France (b. 1554)
- 1599 - Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian organist and composer (b. 1547)
- 1666 – Shah Jahan, Mughal Emperor (b. 1592)
- 1767 – Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German scientist (b. 1719)
- 1779 – Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (b. 1733)
- 1840 – Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (b. 1752)
- 1892 - Joseph P. Bradley, American jurist (b. 1813)
- 1900 - David Edward Hughes, Welsh-American physicist and inventor (b. 1831)
1901 – 2000
- 1901 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (b. 1819)
- 1919 – Carl Larsson, Swedish painter (b. 1853)
- 1922 – Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician and pacifist (b. 1837)
- 1922 – Pope Benedict XV (b. 1854)
- 1922 – Camille Jordan, French mathematician (b. 1838)
- 1929 - R. C. Lehmann, English journalist, writer and politician (b. 1856)
- 1942 – Walter Sickert, German painter (b. 1860)
- 1945 – Else Lasker-Schüler, German poet (b. 1869)
- 1950 – Alan Hale, Sr., American actor (b. 1892)
- 1950 - Corinne Luchaire, French actress (b. 1921)
- 1951 - Karl Nessler, German-American hairdresser (b. 1872)
- 1951 - Lawson Robertson, Scottish-American high jumper (b. 1883)
- 1954 - Princess Margaret of Prussia (b. 1872)
- 1957 - Ralph Barton Perry, American philosopher (b. 1876)
- 1959 – Mike Hawthorn, English racing driver (b. 1929)
- 1963 - William Godfrey, English cardinal (b. 1889)
- 1968 – Duke Kahanamoku, Hawaiian-American swimmer and surfer (b. 1890)
- 1971 - Harry Frank Guggenheim, American businessman and publisher (b. 1890)
- 1973 – Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States (b. 1908)
- 1978 - Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer (b. 1894)
- 1982 – Eduardo Frei Montalva, President of Chile (b. 1911)
- 1982 - Tommy Tucker, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1933)
- 1990 – Mariano Rumor, Italian politician (b. 1915)
- 1990 – Roman Vishniac, Russian-American photographer (b. 1897)
- 1991 – Kenas Aroi, Nauruan politician (b. 1942)
- 1994 – Telly Savalas, American entertainer (b. 1924)
- 1994 - Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor and director (b. 1910)
- 1995 – Jerry Blackwell, American professional wrestler (b. 1949)
- 1995 – Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, mother of John F. Kennedy (b. 1890)
- 1998 - C. Elmer Anderson, Governor of Minnesota (b. 1912)
From 2001
- 2002 – Stanley Marcus, American businessman (b. 1905)
- 2003 - Bill Mauldin, American cartoonist (b. 1921)
- 2005 - Carlo Orelli, Italian soldier and supercentenarian (b. 1894)
- 2007 - Abbé Pierre, French priest and monk (b. 1912)
- 2008 – Claude Piron, Swiss translator (b. 1931)
- 2008 – Heath Ledger, Australian actor (b. 1979)
- 2010 – Sultan Iskandar of Johor, Malaysian Head of State (b. 1932)
- 2010 – Jean Simmons, British actress (b. 1929)
- 2012 – Joe Paterno, American college football coach (b. 1926)
- 2014 - Carlo Mazzacurati, Italian movie director (b. 1956)
- 2015 - Wendell H. Ford, American politician, Governor of Kentucky (b. 1924)
- 2015 - Joan Hinde, English trumpeter and entertainer (b. 1933)
- 2015 - Dacia Valent, Somali-Italian politician (b. 1963)
- 2016 - Homayoun Behzadi, Iranian footballer (b. 1941)
- 2016 - Miloslav Ransdorf, Czech politician (b. 1953)
- 2016 - Rik Wilson, American ice hockey player (b. 1962)
- 2016 - Cecil Parkinson, English politician (b. 1931)
- 2016 - Kamer Genç, Turkish politician (b. 1940)
- 2017 - Dan Caspi, Romanian-Israeli media theorist and academic (b. 1945)
- 2017 - Chen Yu-mei, Taiwanese politician (b. 1966)
- 2017 - Moshe Gershuni, Israeli painter and sculptor (b. 1936)
- 2017 - Jaki Liebezeit, German musician (b. 1938)
- 2017 - Andy Marte, Dominican baseball player (b. 1983)
- 2017 - Yordano Ventura, Dominican baseball player (b. 1991)
- 2017 - Pete Overend Watts, English musician (b. 1947)
- 2018 - Jimmy Armfield, English footballer (b. 1935)
- 2018 - Billy Hancock, American singer and guitarist (b. 1946)
- 2018 - Reinier Kreijermaat, Dutch footballer (b. 1935)
- 2018 - Ursula K. Le Guin, American science fiction writer (b. 1929)
Births
1901 – 1950
- 1901 - Walther Sommerlath, German businessman, father of Queen Silvia of Sweden (d. 1990)
- 1901 - Ken G. Hall, Australian movie producer, director and screenwriter (d. 1994)
- 1904 – George Balanchine, Georgian-born choreographer (d. 1983)
- 1904 – Arkady Gaidar, Russian writer (d. 1941)
- 1907 – Dixie Dean, English footballer (d. 1980)
- 1908 – Lev Davidovich Landau, Soviet physicist (d. 1968)
- 1909 – U Thant, Burmese diplomat and United Nations Secretary-General (d. 1974)
- 1909 - Ann Sothern, American actress (d. 2004)
- 1911 – Bruno Kreisky, Chancellor of Austria (d. 1990)
- 1913 - Henry Bauchau, Belgian psychoanalyst (d. 2012)
- 1913 - William Conway, Irish cardinal (d. 1977)
- 1915 - Heinrich Albertz, Mayor of Berlin (d. 1993)
- 1916 - Bill Durnan, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1972)
- 1916 - Henri Dutilleux, French composer (d. 2013)
- 1918 - Elmer Lach, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015)
- 1918 - Bruno Zevi, Italian architect, historian and professor (d. 2000)
- 1920 – Irving Kristol, American political commentator (d. 2009)
- 1920 – Chiara Lubich, Italian religious leader (d. 2008)
- 1920 – Alf Ramsey, English football manager (d. 1999)
- 1922 - Howard Moss, American poet, playwright and critic (d. 1987)
- 1923 - Diana Douglas, Bermudan-American actress (d. 2015)
- 1924 - Ortvin Sarapu, New Zealand chess player (d. 1999)
- 1925 – Bobby George, American baseball player (d. 1985)
- 1929 - Petr Eben, Czech composer, organist and choirmaster (d. 2007)
- 1931 - Galina Zybina, Russian shot putter and javelin thrower
- 1932 – Piper Laurie, American actress
- 1934 - Vijay Anand, Indian actor, director, screenwriter and producer (d. 2004)
- 1934 – Bill Bixby, American actor (d. 1993)
- 1935 - Seymour Cassel, American actor
- 1936 – Ong Teng Cheong, President of Singapore (d. 2002)
- 1936 – Alan J. Heeger, American chemist
- 1936 - Valerio Zanone, Italian politician (d. 2016)
- 1938 – Altair Gomes de Figueiredo, Brazilian footballer
- 1939 - J. C. Trembley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1994)
- 1939 – Alfredo Palacio, former President of Ecuador
- 1940 – John Hurt, British actor (d. 2017)
- 1940 - Gillian Shepherd, British educator and politician
- 1941 - Jaan Kaplinski, Estonian writer and philosopher
- 1942 - Mimis Domazos, Greek footballer
- 1945 - Jean-Pierre Nicolas, French rally driver
- 1945 - Alojz Uran, former Roman Catholic Archbishop of Ljubljana
- 1945 - Christoph Schönborn, Austrian cardinal
- 1946 – Malcolm McLaren, British music manager (d. 2010)
- 1946 - Serge Savard, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1948 - Gilbert Levine, American conductor
- 1949 - Steve Perry, American singer, composer and musician
1951 – 1975
- 1951 - Ondrej Nepela, Slovakian figure skater (d. 1989)
- 1953 - Myung-whun Chung, South Korean pianist and conductor
- 1954 – Chris Lemmon, American actor
- 1955 - Keiko Takahashi, Japanese actress
- 1955 - Thomas David Jones, American astronaut
- 1955 - Neil Bush, American businessman, brother of George W. Bush
- 1957 – Francis Wheen, English writer and journalist
- 1958 - Nikos Anastopoulos, Greek footballer
- 1959 – Linda Blair, American actress
- 1959 – Urs Meier, Swiss football referee
- 1960 – Michael Hutchence, Australian musician (d. 1997)
- 1962 – Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu, Malaysian Head of State
- 1963 - Neeraj Vora, Indian actor (d. 2017)
- 1964 – Nigel Benn, English boxer
- 1965 – Steven Adler, American drummer (Guns N' Roses)
- 1965 - Diane Lane, American actress
- 1968 - Guy Fieri, American television host, chef and restaurateur
- 1968 - Heath, Japanese singer-songwriter and bass player
- 1968 – Mauricio Serna, Colombian footballer
- 1970 - Abraham Olano, Spanish cyclist
- 1971 - Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, Australian musician (d. 2017)
- 1971 – Stan Collymore, English footballer
- 1971 - Sergei Zamorski, Russian-Estonian footballer
- 1972 - Namrata Shirodkar, Indian actress
- 1973 – Rogério Ceni, Brazilian footballer
- 1974 - Joseph Muscat, 13th Prime Minister of Malta
From 1976
- 1977 – Hidetoshi Nakata, Japanese footballer
- 1977 - Mario Domm, Mexican singer-songwriter, pianist and producer
- 1980 – Jonathan Woodgate, English footballer
- 1981 – Ben Moody, American musician
- 1981 – Beverley Mitchell, American actress
- 1981 - Ibrahima Sonko, French footballer
- 1982 – Fabricio Coloccini, Argentine footballer
- 1984 – Ben Eager, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1984 - Todor Slavov, Bulgarian rally driver (d. 2015)
- 1985 – Mohamed Sissoko, Malian footballer
- 1986 - Lee Pa-ni, South Korean model
- 1987 – Astrid Jacobsen, Norwegian skier
- 1987 – Shane Long, Irish footballer
- 1988 - Greg Oden, American basketball player
- 1990 - Alizé Cornet, French tennis player
- 1991 - Elizabeth Simmonds, British swimmer
- 1993 - Rio Haryanto, Indonesian racing driver
- 1993 - Tommy Knight, English actor
- 1994 - Hendrik Bonmann, German footballer
Deaths
Holidays and observances
- New Zealand – Wellington Anniversary
- Ukraine - Reunion Day
- Poland - Grandfather's Day