February 22

2024 Calendar

February 22 is the 53rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 312 days remaining until the end of the year (313 in leap years).

Events

Up to 1900

556 - Maximilianus of Ravenna, Italian bishop (b. 499)
606 - Pope Sabinian
965 - Otto, Duke of Burgundy (b. 944)
1071 - Arnulf III, Count of Flanders (b. 1055)
1111 - Roger Borsa, King of Sicily
1371 – King David II of Scotland (b. 1324)
1512 – Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer (b. 1451)
1627 - Olivier van Noort, Dutch navigator (b. 1558)
1674 - Jean Chapelain, French writer (b. 1595)
1690 - Charles Le Brun, French painter (b. 1619)
1727 - Francesco Gasparini, Italian composer (b. 1661)
1731 - Frederik Ruysch, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1638)
1732 - Francis Atterbury, English bishop and man of letters (b. 1663)
1750 - Pietro Filippo Scarlatti, Italian composer (b. 1679)
1797 - Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Munchhausen, German officer and adventurer (b. 1720)
1799 - Heshen, Chinese official (b. 1750)
1816 – Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher (b. 1723)
1819 - Thomas Johnson, Governor of Maryland (b. 1752)
1875 – Charles Lyell, British geologist (b. 1797)
1875 – Jean-Baptiste Corot, French painter (b. 1796)
1890 – John Jacob Astor III, American businessman (b. 1822)
1897 - Charles Blondin, French tightrope walker (b. 1824)
1898 - Haungseon Daewongun, Korean king (b. 1820)

1901 – 2000

1903 - Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (b. 1860)
1913 – Francisco I. Madero, President of Mexico (b. 1873)
1914 - Thillaiaadi Valliammai, South African activist (b. 1898)
1919 – Perito Moreno, Argentine geographer and explorer (b. 1852)
1921 - Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1864)
1923 - Théophile Delcasse, French statesman (b. 1852)
1927 - Judson Harmon, Governor of Ohio (b. 1846)
1930 - William Jeremiah Tuttle, American freestyle swimmer and water polo (b. 1882)
1934 - Willem Kes, Dutch conductor (b. 1856)
1939 – Antonio Machado, Spanish writer (b. 1875)
1942 – Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer (b. 1881)
1943 - White Rose Resistance Activists executed:
- Christoph Probst, German resistance activist (b. 1919)
- Hans Scholl, German resistance activist (b. 1918)
- Sophie Scholl, German resistance activist (b. 1921)
1944 – Kasturba Gandhi, wife of Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1869)
1945 - Osip Brik, Russian author and critic (b. 1888)
1958 - Abul Kalam Azad, Indian independence movement leader (b. 1888)
1961 - Nick LaRocca, American jazz musician (b. 1889)
1970 - Edward Selzer, American movie producer (b. 1893)
1973 - Jean-Jacques Bertrand, Premier of Quebec (b. 1916)
1973 - Winthrop Rockefeller, American politician, 37th Governor of Arkansas (b. 1912)
1974 - Samuel Byck, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (b. 1930)
1976 - Florence Ballard, American singer (b. 1943)
1980 – Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian painter (b. 1886)
1985 – Efrem Zimbalist, American violinist and composer (b. 1889)
1987 – Andy Warhol, American artist, director, and writer (b. 1928)
1989 - Moises da Costa Amaral, East Timorese politician (b. 1938)
1994 – Papa John Creach, American musician (b. 1917)
1995 – Ed Flanders, American actor (b. 1934)
1998 - Donald S. Russell, 107th Governor of South Carolina (b. 1906)
1998 - Abraham A. Ribicoff, 80th Governor of Connecticut (b. 1910)

From 2001

2002 - Roden Cutler, 32nd Governor of New South Wales (b. 1916)
2002 – Chuck Jones, American cartoonist (b. 1912)
2002 – Jonas Savimbi, Angolan politician and rebel leader (b. 1934)
2002 - Daniel Pearl, American journalist (b. 1963)
2004 - Roqué Maspoli, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1917)
2005 – Simone Simon, French actress (b. 1910)
2012 – Marie Colvin, American journalist (b. 1956)
2012 – Rémi Ochlik, French photojournalist (b. 1983)
2013 - Hasse Jeppson, Swedish footballer (b. 1925)
2013 - Wolfgang Sawallisch, German pianist and conductor (b. 1923)
2014 - Charlotte Dawson, New Zealand-born Australian television personality (b. 1966)
2014 - Leo Vroman, Dutch-American hematologist, poet and illustrator (b. 1915)
2015 - Kim Kyung-roul, South Korean billiards player (b. 1980)
2016 - Wesley A. Clark, American computer engineer (b. 1927)
2016 - Sonny James, American country singer-songwriter (b. 1929)
2016 - Hans Reffert, German musician (b. 1946)
2016 - Douglas Slocombe, English cinematographer (b. 1913)
2016 - Yochanan Sofer, Hungarian-Israeli rabbi (b. 1922)
2016 - Cara McCollum, American journalist and beauty queen (b. 1992)
2016 - Cristiana Corsi, Italian taekwondo martial artist (b. 1976)
2016 - Yolande Fox, American beauty queen, singer and activist (b. 1928)
2017 - Frank Delaney, Irish author (b. 1942)
2017 - Ricardo Dominguez, Mexican boxer (b. 1985)
2017 - Eni Faleomavaega, American Samoan politician (b. 1943)
2017 - Aleksei Petrenko, Russian actor (b. 1938)
2017 - Ed Garvey, American lawyer and politician (b. 1940)
2017 - John McCormack, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925)
2018 - Nanette Fabray, American actress and dancer (b. 1920)
2018 - Forges, Spanish cartoonist (b. 1942)
2018 - Richard E. Taylor, Canadian physicist (b. 1929)

Births

Up to 1850

1300 BC - Ramesses II, Egyptian pharaoh (d. 1213 BC)
1403 – King Charles VII of France (d. 1461)
1440 - Ladislaus the Posthumous, King of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1470)
1500 - Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian cardinal (d. 1564)
1514 - Tahmasp I, Persian shah (d. 1576)
1631 - Peder Syv, Danish philologist, folklorist and priest (d. 1702)
1645 – Johann Ambrosius Bach, German composer (d. 1695)
1645 - Johann Christoph Bach, German musician (d. 1693)
1705 - Peter Arbedi, Swedish naturalist (d. 1735)
1732 – George Washington, first President of the United States (d. 1799)
1756 - Georg Friedrich von Martens, German diplomat (d. 1821)
1761 - Erik Tulindberg, Finnish composer (d. 1814)
1778 - Rembrandt Peale, American painter (d. 1860)
1785 - Jean Peltier, French physicist (d. 1845)
1788 – Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (d. 1860)
1796 - Alexis Bachelot, French missionary (d. 1837)
1796 - Adolphe Quetelet, Belgian mathematician (d. 1874)
1806 - Jozef Kremer, Polish philosopher (d. 1875)
1817 - Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician (d. 1880)
1819 - James Russell Lowell, American poet (d. 1891)
1823 - Robert B. Ogilvie, Governor of Illinois (d. 1888)
1824 - Pierre Janssen, French astronomer (d. 1907)
1836 - Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya, Indian Sanskrit scholar and social reformer (d. 1906)
1840 - August Bebel, German political activist (d. 1913)
1847 - Duchess Sophie Charlotte of Bavaria (d. 1897)
1849 - Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin, Russian mathematician (d. 1915)

1851 – 1900

1857 – Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, German physicist (d. 1894)
1857 – Robert Baden-Powell, British founder of the Scout movement (d. 1941)
1864 - Jakob Jakobsen, Faroese linguist (d. 1918)
1878 - Walter Ritz, Swiss physicist (d. 1909)
1879 - Johannes Nicolaus Bronsted, Danish physical chemist (d. 1947)
1880 - Eric Lemming, Swedish athlete (d. 1930)
1881 - Joseph B. Ely, 52nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1956)
1882 – Eric Gill, British sculptor (d. 1940)
1883 - Marguerite Clark, American actress (d. 1940)
1887 - Savielly Tartakower, Polish chess player (d. 1956)
1888 - Owen Brewster, Governor of Maine (d. 1961)
1889 – Olave Baden-Powell, British co-founder of the Girl Guides (d. 1977)
1890 - Beatriz Michelena, Latin American movie actor (d. 1942)
1891 - Vlas Chubar, Soviet politician (d. 1937)
1892 – Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet (d. 1950)
1895 - Victor Raul Haya del Torre, Peruvian politician (d. 1979)
1897 - Karol Swierczewski, Polish general (d. 1947)
1898 - Thillaiaadi Valliammai, South African activist (d. 1914)
1899 - George O'Hara, American actor (d. 1966)
1900 – Luis Buñuel, Spanish movie producer (d. 1983)
1900 - James Sisnett, Barbadian supercentenarian (d. 2013)

1901 – 1950

1903 – Frank Plumpton Ramsey, British mathematician (d. 1930)
1906 - Donald S. Russell, 107th Governor of South Carolina (d. 1998)
1907 - Georg Braun, Austrian footballer (d. 1963)
1907 - Sheldon Leonard, American actor (d. 1997)
1907 - Robert Young, American actor (d. 1998)
1908 - Romulo Betancourt, President of Venezuela (d. 1981)
1913 - Buddy Tate, American jazz musician (d. 2001)
1914 – Renato Dulbecco, Italian virologist (d. 2012)
1917 - Jane Bowles, American writer and playwright (d. 1973)
1918 - Sid Abel, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2000)
1918 – Robert Wadlow, tallest person in history (d. 1940)
1918 - Don Pardo, American television and radio announcer (d. 2014)
1921 - Giulietta Masina, Italian actress (d. 1994)
1921 - Sune Andersson, Swedish footballer (d. 2002)
1921 - Wayne C. Booth, American literary critic (d. 2005)
1921 - Jean-Bédel Bokassa, leader of the Central African Republic (d. 1996)
1921 - David Greene, British director (d. 2003)
1922 - Joe Wilder, American jazz trumpeter (d. 2014)
1923 - Bleddyn Williams, Welsh rugby player (d. 2009)
1925 - Kenneth Williams, English actor (d. 1988)
1925 - Cyril Leonoff, Canadian civil engineer and historian (d. 2016)
1925 - Gerald Stern, American poet
1927 – Florencio Campomanes, Filipino chess player and official (d. 2010)
1927 - Gus Douglass, American politician (d. 2015)
1928 – Bruce Forsyth, British entertainer (d. 2017)
1928 - Paul Dooley, American actor
1929 - James Hong, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
1930 - Giuliano Montaldo, Italian movie director
1930 - Bill Mitchell, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2014)
1930 - Marni Nixon, American singer (d. 2016)
1932 – Ted Kennedy, United States Senator from Massachusetts (d. 2009)
1933 – Sheila Hancock, British actress
1933 - Katharine, Duchess of Kent
1934 - Sparky Anderson, American baseball player and manager (d. 2010)
1936 - J. Michael Bishop, American biologist
1940 - Judy Cornwell, English actress
1940 - Billy Name, American photographer and filmmaker (d. 2016)
1940 - Chet Walker, American basketball player
1941 - Hipolito Mejia, former President of the Dominican Republic
1942 - Christine Keeler, English model and showgirl (d. 2017)
1943 – Horst Koehler, former President of Germany
1944 - Robert Kardashian, American lawyer (d. 2003)
1944 - Jonathan Demme, American movie producer and screenwriter (d. 2017)
1944 - Tom Okker, Dutch tennis player
1945 - Leslie Charleson, English actress
1946 - Kresten Bjerre, Danish footballer (d. 2014)
1947 - Maurizio De Angelis, Italian singer
1949 - Olga Morozova, Russian tennis player
1949 – Niki Lauda, Austrian racing driver
1950 – Julie Walters, British actress
1950 - Julius Erving, American basketball player
1950 - Miou-Miou, French actress

1951 – 1975

1951 - Ellen Greene, American singer and actress
1952 - Bill Frist, United States Senator
1952 - Bernard Silverman, English minister, statistician and academic
1953 - Nigel Planer, English actor
1955 - David Axelrod, American political advisor
1956 - Philip Kerr, British author (d. 2018)
1958 - Dave Spitz, American musician
1959 – Kyle MacLachlan, American actor
1961 - Akira Takahashi, Japanese guitarist
1962 – Steve Irwin, Australian wildlife expert and TV personality (d. 2006)
1963 – Vijay Singh, Fijian golfer
1963 - Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis, British politician
1963 - Devon Malcolm, English cricketer
1964 - Gigi Fernandez, Puerto Rican tennis player
1965 - Chris Dudley, American basketball player
1965 - Pat Lafontaine, American ice hockey player
1965 - Kieren Fallon, Irish jockey
1968 - Shawn Graham, Canadian politician, 31st Premier of New Brunswick
1968 - Jayson Williams, American basketball player
1969 – Brian Laudrup, Danish footballer
1969 – Marc Wilmots, Belgian footballer
1969 - Clinton Kelly, American television personality
1972 – Claudia Pechstein, German speed skater
1973 - Philippe Gaumont, French cyclist (d. 2013)
1973 - Claus Lundekvam, Norwegian footballer
1973 – Juninho Paulista, Brazilian footballer
1973 – Archil Arveladze, Georgian footballer
1973 - Shota Arveladze, Georgian footballer
1974 – Chris Moyles, British radio presenter
1974 – Markus Schopp, Austrian footballer
1974 – James Blunt, British singer
1975 – Drew Barrymore, American actress

From 1976

1977 – Hakan Yakin, Swiss footballer
1978 – Jenny Frost, British singer (Atomic Kitten), TV presenter (Snog Marry Avoid?) and model
1979 – Brett Emerton, Australian footballer
1979 - Lee Na-young, South Korean actress
1980 - Jeanette Biedermann, German singer and actress
1983 - Shaun Tait, Australian cricketer
1983 - Ragna Ingolfsdottir, Icelandic badminton player
1984 - Tommy Bowe, Irish rugby player
1984 - Branislav Ivanovic, Serbian footballer
1985 – Hameur Bouazza, Algerian footballer
1985 - Ross Hutchins, British tennis player
1985 - Larissa Riquelme, Paraguayan model
1986 - Rajon Rondo, American basketball player
1987 - Han Hyo-joo, South Korean actress and model
1987 - Sergio Romero, Argentine footballer
1987 - Enzo Pérez, Argentine footballer
1988 - Efrain Juarez, Mexican footballer
1988 - Ximena Navarrete, Mexican model and actress
1989 - Anna Sundstrand, Swedish singer
1991 - Robin Stjernberg, Swedish singer

Deaths

Observances

Independence Day (Saint Lucia)
World Thinking Day (Girl Scouts)
Founder's Day (Scout Movement)