October 22
October 22 is the 295th day of the year (296th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 70 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
Up to 1900
- 741 – Charles Martel, leader of the Franks (b. 686)
- 1383 – King Fernando I of Portugal (b. 1345)
- 1625 - Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese daimyo (b. 1561)
- 1708 - Hermann Witsius, Dutch theologian (b. 1636)
- 1751 – William IV, Prince of Orange (b. 1711)
- 1792 - Guillaume Gentil, French astronomer (b. 1725)
- 1818 - Johann Heinrich Campe, German journalist and editor (b. 1746)
- 1847 - Sahle Selassie, Ethiopian royal (b. 1795)
- 1853 - Juan Antonio Lavalleja, President of Uruguay (b. 1784)
- 1859 – Louis Spohr, German violinist and composer (b. 1784)
1901 – 2000
- 1906 – Paul Cézanne, French painter (b. 1839)
- 1914 - Konishiki Yasokichi I, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1866)
- 1917 - Bob Fitzsimmons, English-American boxer (b. 1863)
- 1918 - Myrtle Gonzalez, American actress (b. 1891)
- 1928 – Andrew Fisher, fifth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1862)
- 1935 – Komitas Vardapet, Armenian musician and composer (b. 1869)
- 1946 - Phillips Lee Goldsborough, American politician, Governor of Maryland (b. 1865)
- 1952 - Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist and eugenicist (b. 1874)
- 1953 - Albert Meyer, Swiss politician (b. 1870)
- 1956 - Hannah Mitchell, English activist (b. 1872)
- 1965 - Paul Tillich, German theologian (b. 1886)
- 1973 - Pablo Casals, Catalan cellist and conductor (b. 1876)
- 1975 - Arnold J. Toynbee, British politician and historian (b. 1889)
- 1979 – Nadia Boulanger, French composer (b. 1887)
- 1986 – Albert Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt, Hungarian scientist, won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1893)
- 1986 - Ye Jianying, Chinese general and politician (b. 1897)
- 1987 – Lino Ventura, Italian actor (b. 1919)
- 1989 - Ewan MacColl, British singer-songwriter, producer, actor and playwright (b. 1915)
- 1990 - Louis Althusser, French philosopher (b. 1918)
- 1995 – Sir Kingsley Amis, English writer (b. 1922)
- 1995 - Mary Wickes, American actress (b. 1910)
- 1997 – Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator (b. 1905)
From 2001
- 2002 – Countess Geraldine Appónyi de Nagy-Appónyi, Hungarian-born Queen of Albania (b. 1915)
- 2002 - Richard Helms, American intelligence agent and diplomat (b. 1913)
- 2003 – Elliott Smith, American musician (b. 1969)
- 2006 – Choi Kyu-ha, President of South Korea (b. 1919)
- 2007 – Eve Curie, French writer (b. 1904)
- 2009 – Soupy Sales, American comedian and television personality (b. 1926)
- 2011 – Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, Crown prince of Saudi Arabia (b. 1928)
- 2012 - Russell Means, American actor and activist (b. 1939)
- 2012 - Shubha Phutela, Indian actress (b. 1991)
- 2014 - John-Roger Hinkins, American author and public speaker (b. 1934)
- 2014 - Deaths in the 2014 shootings at Parliament Hill, Ottawa:
- Nathan Cirillo, Canadian soldier (b. 1989)
- Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, Canadian murderer (b. 1982)
- 2015 - Willem Aantjes, Dutch politician (b. 1923)
- 2015 - Arnold Klein, American dermatologist (b. 1945)
- 2015 - Mark Murphy, American jazz singer (b. 1932)
- 2017 - Al Hurricane, American singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1936)
- 2017 - Scott Putesky, American musician (b. 1968)
- 2017 - George Young, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1946)
- 2017 - Atle Hammer, Norwegian jazz trumpeter (b. 1932)
- 2018 - Horacio Cardo, Argentine painter and illustrator (b. 1944)
- 2018 - Boris Kokorev, Russian pistol shooter (b. 1959)
- 2018 - Friedrich Ostermann, German Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1932)
- 2018 - Eugene H. Peterson, American clergyman and biblical scholar (b. 1932)
- 2018 - Robert Saladrigas, Spanish writer, journalist and critic (b. 1940)
- 2018 - José Varacka, Argentine footballer (b. 1932)
- 2019 - Manfred Bruns, German lawyer and LGBTQ activist (b. 1934)
- 2019 - Vicki Ann Funk, American botanist and researcher (b. 1947)
- 2019 - Til Gardeniers-Berendsen, Dutch politician (b. 1925)
- 2019 - Gustav Gerneth, German supercentenarian (b. 1905)
- 2019 - Ole Hervik Laub, Danish novelist (b. 1937)
- 2019 - Raymond Leppard, British-American conductor and composer (b. 1927)
- 2019 - Sadako Ogata, Japanese diplomat (b. 1927)
- 2019 - Rolando Panerai, Italian baritone singer (b. 1924)
- 2019 - Miguel Saiz, Uruguayan-Argentine politician (b. 1949)
- 2019 - Marieke Vervoort, Belgian wheelchair racer and Paralympic athlete (b. 1979)
- 2019 - Jo Ann Zimmerman, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Iowa (b. 1936)
Births
1901 – 1950
- 1903 – George Wells Beadle, American geneticist (d. 1989)
- 1903 - Curly Howard, American actor and singer (d. 1952)
- 1904 – Constance Bennett, American actress (d. 1965)
- 1907 - Emilie Schindler, German activist (d. 2001)
- 1907 - Jimmie Foxx, American baseball player, coach and manager (d. 1967)
- 1912 - George N. Leighton, American chess player and judge (d. 2018)
- 1913 – Bao Dai, Vietnamese Emperor (d. 1997)
- 1913 – Robert Capa, American photographer (d. 1954)
- 1915 - Yitzhak Shamir, 7th Prime Minister of Israel (d. 2012)
- 1917 – Joan Fontaine, Japan-born British-American actress (d. 2013)
- 1919 – Doris Lessing, British writer (d. 2013)
- 1920 – Timothy Leary, American writer and psychologist (d. 1996)
- 1921 – Georges Brassens, French singer and songwriter (d. 1981)
- 1921 - Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician and computer scientist (d. 1986)
- 1921 - Harald Nugiseks, Estonian soldier (d. 2014)
- 1923 – Bert Trautmann, German footballer (d. 2013)
- 1925 - Slater Martin, American basketball player (d. 2012)
- 1925 - Robert Rauschenberg, American painter and illustrator (d. 2008)
- 1928 - Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Brazilian movie director (d. 2018)
- 1929 - Michael Birkett, British movie producer
- 1929 – Lev Yashin, Soviet-Russian footballer (d. 1990)
- 1931 - Ann Rule, American writer (d. 2015)
- 1932 - Donald McIntyre, New Zealand operatic bass baritone
- 1933 - Helmut Senekowitsch, Austrian footballer and manager (d. 2007)
- 1936 - John Blashford Snell, English soldier and politician
- 1936 - Bobby Seale, American activist
- 1938 - Alan Gilzean, Scottish footballer (d. 2018)
- 1938 – Christopher Lloyd, American actor
- 1938 – Derek Jacobi, English actor
- 1939 – Joaquim Chissano, former President of Mozambique
- 1939 - George Cohen, English footballer
- 1941 - Charles Keating, English-American actor (d. 2014)
- 1942 - Count Christian of Rosenborg, Danish royal (d. 2013)
- 1942 - Annette Funicello, American actress and singer (d. 2013)
- 1942 - Bruno Buchberger, Austrian mathematician
- 1943 – Catherine Deneuve, French actress
- 1943 - Wolfgang Thierse, German politician
- 1943 - Annamaria Cancellieri, Italian politician
- 1946 - Deepak Chopra, Indian-American physician and author
- 1946 - Kelvin MacKenzie, English journalist
- 1947 - Haley Barbour, American politician, 63rd Governor of Mississippi
- 1947 - Godfrey Chitalu, Zambian footballer (d. 1993)
- 1948 - Lynette Fromme, American attempted assassin of Gerald Ford
- 1948 - Paola Severino, Italian lawyer and politician
- 1949 – Stiv Bators, American musician (d. 1990)
- 1949 – Arsène Wenger, French footballer and manager
- 1949 - Butch Goring, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1949 - Vasilios Magginas, Greek politician (d. 2015)
- 1949 - John Shadegg, American politician
- 1950 - Donald Ramotar, 7th President of Guyana
1951 – 1975
- 1951 - William David Sanders, American educator (d. 1999)
- 1952 – Jeff Goldblum, American actor
- 1952 - Dennis "Fly" Amero, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and musician (Orleans)
- 1954 - Graham Joyce, British writer (d. 2014)
- 1959 - Todd Graff, American actor, director and writer
- 1959 - Marc Shaiman, American composer
- 1961 - Dietmar Woidke, German politician
- 1962 - Bob Odenkirk, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
- 1964 – Craig Levein, Scottish footballer and manager
- 1965 - John Wesley Harding, English singer-songwriter
- 1965 - A. L. Kennedy, Scottish writer and comedienne
- 1966 - Valeria Golino, Italian actress
- 1967 – Ulrike Maier, Austrian skier (d. 1994)
- 1967 - Salvatore Di Vittorio, Italian composer and conductor
- 1967 - Carlos Mencia, Honduran-American comedian, actor, producer and screenwriter
- 1967 - Oona King, English politician
- 1968 – Shaggy, Jamaican rapper and musician
- 1968 - Jay Johnston, American actor, producer and screenwriter
- 1968 - Jimmy Schulz, German businessman and politician (d. 2019)
- 1969 - Spike Jonze, American director and producer
- 1969 - Helmut Lotti, Belgian singer
- 1970 – Amy Redford, American actress, director and producer
- 1972 – Saffron Burrows, English actress
- 1973 – Ichiro Suzuki, Japanese baseball player
- 1975 – Michel Salgado, Spanish footballer
- 1975 - Jesse Tyler Ferguson, American actor and singer
From 1976
- 1978 – Chaswe Nsofwa, Zambian footballer (d. 2007)
- 1978 – Dion Glover, American basketball player
- 1979 – Doni, Brazilian footballer
- 1980 – Luke O'Donnell, Australian rugby player
- 1983 – Plan B, English rapper, singer, musician and actor
- 1984 – Horacio Agullo, Argentine rugby player
- 1985 – Zac Hanson, American singer-songwriter and musician (Hanson)
- 1985 – Hadise, Belgian-Turkish singer
- 1985 – Deontay Wilder, American boxer
- 1986 – Stefan Radu, Romanian footballer
- 1986 – Kara Lang, Canadian footballer
- 1987 – Tiki Gelana, Ethiopian long-distance runner
- 1988 - Mikkel Hansen, Danish handball player
- 1988 – Parineeti Chopra, Indian actress and model
- 1988 – Sharon Rooney, Scottish actress
- 1988 – Kesha Wizzart, English singer (d. 2007)
- 1990 – Jonathan Lipnicki, American actor
- 1990 – Paul McGinn, Scottish footballer
- 1991 - Levi Sherwood, New Zealand motocross racer
- 1992 – 21 Savage, British-born rapper
- 1992 – Sofia Vassilieva, American actress
- 1995 – Stevie Lynn Jones, American actress
- 1998 - Harry Souttar, Scottish-Australian footballer
Deaths
Observances
- Roman Catholic Feast Day for Pope John Paul II
- International Stuttering Awareness Day