| Year |
Month & Date |
Day |
Name |
|---|
| 1601 |
August 22 |
Wednesday |
Georges de Scudery |
French writer (d. 1667) |
| 1624 |
August 22 |
Thursday |
Jean Renaud de Segrais |
French writer (d. 1701) |
| 1647 |
August 22 |
Thursday |
Denis Papin |
French physicist and inventor (d. c. 1712) |
| 1679 |
August 22 |
Tuesday |
Pierre Guerin de Tencin |
French cardinal (d. 1758) |
| 1764 |
August 22 |
Wednesday |
Charles Percier |
French architect (d. 1838) |
| 1771 |
August 22 |
Thursday |
Henry Maudslay |
English inventor (d. 1831) |
| 1773 |
August 22 |
Sunday |
Aime Bonpland |
French explorer (d. 1858) |
| 1779 |
August 22 |
Sunday |
James Kirke Paulding |
American author (d. 1860) |
| 1800 |
August 22 |
Friday |
William S. Harney |
U.S. general (d. 1889) |
| 1800 |
August 22 |
Friday |
Samuel David Luzzatto |
Italian-Jewish scholar (d. 1865) |
| 1811 |
August 22 |
Thursday |
William Kelly |
American inventor (d. 1888) |
| 1822 |
August 22 |
Thursday |
Virginia Clemm Poe |
wife of Edgar Allan Poe (d. 1847) |
| 1827 |
August 22 |
Wednesday |
Ezra Butler Eddy |
Canadian businessman‚ industrialist and politician (d. 1906) |
| 1834 |
August 22 |
Friday |
Samuel Pierpont Langley |
American astronomer (d. 1906) |
| 1836 |
August 22 |
Monday |
Archibald MacNeal Willard |
American artist (d. 1918) |
| 1845 |
August 22 |
Friday |
William Lewis Douglas |
42nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1924) |
| 1848 |
August 22 |
Tuesday |
Melville E. Stone |
American newspaper publisher (d. 1929) |
| 1854 |
August 22 |
Tuesday |
Milan I |
King of Serbia (d. 1901) |
| 1857 |
August 22 |
Saturday |
Ned Hanlon |
American baseball player and manager (d. 1937) |
| 1860 |
August 22 |
Wednesday |
Paul Gottlieb Nipkow |
German inventor (d. 1940) |
| 1860 |
August 22 |
Wednesday |
Eleonore of Reuss-Kostritz |
tsaritsa of Bulgaria (d. 1917) |
| 1862 |
August 22 |
Friday |
Claude Debussy |
French composer (d. 1918) |
| 1867 |
August 22 |
Thursday |
Maximilian Bircher-Benner |
Swiss physician and nutritionist (d. 1939) |
| 1873 |
August 22 |
Friday |
Alexander Bogdanov |
Russian physician and philosopher (d. 1928) |
| 1874 |
August 22 |
Saturday |
Max Scheler |
German philosopher (d. 1928) |
| 1880 |
August 22 |
Sunday |
George Herriman |
American cartoonist (d. 1944) |
| 1880 |
August 22 |
Sunday |
Gorch Fock |
German author and poet (d. 1916) |
| 1887 |
August 22 |
Monday |
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk |
German minister of finance (d. 1977) |
| 1891 |
August 22 |
Saturday |
Jacques Lipchitz |
Lithuanian/American sculptor (d. 1973) |
| 1893 |
August 22 |
Tuesday |
Dorothy Parker |
American writer (d. 1967) |
| 1893 |
August 22 |
Tuesday |
Wilfred Kitching |
British Salvation Army general (d. 1977) |
| 1895 |
August 22 |
Thursday |
Paul Comtois |
French Canadian politician (d. 1966) |
| 1900 |
August 22 |
Wednesday |
Sergei Ozhegov |
Russian lexicographer (d. 1964) |
| 1902 |
August 22 |
Friday |
Leni Riefenstahl |
German film director (d. 2003) |
| 1902 |
August 22 |
Friday |
Thomas Pelly |
American politician (d. 1973) |
| 1904 |
August 22 |
Monday |
Deng Xiaoping |
Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 1997) |
| 1908 |
August 22 |
Saturday |
Henri Cartier-Bresson |
French photographer (d. 2004) |
| 1908 |
August 22 |
Saturday |
Erwin Thiesies |
German rugby player and coach (d. 1993) |
| 1909 |
August 22 |
Sunday |
Julius J. Epstein |
American screenwriter (d. 2000) |
| 1909 |
August 22 |
Sunday |
Mel Hein |
American football player (d. 1992) |
| 1909 |
August 22 |
Sunday |
Lucille Ricksen |
American actress (d. 1925) |
| 1913 |
August 22 |
Friday |
Bruno Pontecorvo |
Italian physicist (d. 1993) |
| 1915 |
August 22 |
Sunday |
David Dellinger |
American social rights and peace movement leader (d. 2004) |
| 1915 |
August 22 |
Sunday |
Hugh Paddick |
British actor (d. 2000) |
| 1915 |
August 22 |
Sunday |
James Hillier |
Co-inventor of the electron microscope (d. 2007) |
| 1915 |
August 22 |
Sunday |
Edward Szczepanik |
Polish Prime Minister (d. 2005) |
| 1917 |
August 22 |
Wednesday |
John Lee Hooker |
American musician (d. 2001) |
| 1918 |
August 22 |
Thursday |
Mary McGrory |
American journalist (d. 2004) |
| 1920 |
August 22 |
Sunday |
Ray Bradbury |
American writer |
| 1920 |
August 22 |
Sunday |
Denton Cooley |
American heart surgeon |
| 1921 |
August 22 |
Monday |
Dinos Dimopoulos |
Greek film director and screenwriter (d. 2003) |
| 1922 |
August 22 |
Tuesday |
Micheline Presle |
French actress |
| 1925 |
August 22 |
Saturday |
Honor Blackman |
English actress |
| 1925 |
August 22 |
Saturday |
James Kirkwood‚ Jr. |
American playwright and author (d. 1989) |
| 1928 |
August 22 |
Wednesday |
Tinga Seisay |
Sierra Leonean diplomat and pro-democracy advocate |
| 1928 |
August 22 |
Wednesday |
Karlheinz Stockhausen |
German composer (d. 2007) |
| 1930 |
August 22 |
Friday |
Gilmar |
Brazilian football player |
| 1932 |
August 22 |
Monday |
Gerald P. Carr |
American astronaut |
| 1934 |
August 22 |
Wednesday |
Norman Schwarzkopf |
U.S. general |
| 1934 |
August 22 |
Wednesday |
Sir Donald McIntyre |
English bass-baritone |
| 1935 |
August 22 |
Thursday |
E. Annie Proulx |
American author |
| 1936 |
August 22 |
Saturday |
Dale Hawkins |
American singer and songwriter |
| 1936 |
August 22 |
Saturday |
Werner Stengel |
German roller coaster designer and engineer |
| 1938 |
August 22 |
Monday |
Paul Maguire |
American football commentator |
| 1939 |
August 22 |
Tuesday |
George Reinholt |
American actor |
| 1939 |
August 22 |
Tuesday |
Carl Yastrzemski |
American baseball player |
| 1940 |
August 22 |
Thursday |
Valerie Harper |
American actress |
| 1940 |
August 22 |
Thursday |
Bill McCartney |
American football coach |
| 1941 |
August 22 |
Friday |
Bill Parcells |
American football coach |
| 1941 |
August 22 |
Friday |
Hannspeter Winter |
Austrian plasma physicist |
| 1942 |
August 22 |
Saturday |
U?ur Mumcu |
Turkish journalist and writer (d. 1993) |
| 1943 |
August 22 |
Sunday |
Masatoshi Shima |
Japanese computer scientist |
| 1945 |
August 22 |
Wednesday |
Ron Dante |
American songwriter and record producer (The Archies) |
| 1945 |
August 22 |
Wednesday |
Erol Gelenbe |
Turkish computer scientist and mathematician |
| 1947 |
August 22 |
Friday |
Cindy Williams |
American actress |
| 1947 |
August 22 |
Friday |
Donna Godchaux |
singer (Grateful Dead) |
| 1948 |
August 22 |
Sunday |
Eleonora Brown |
Italian actress |
| 1949 |
August 22 |
Monday |
Diana Nyad |
American swimmer |
| 1949 |
August 22 |
Monday |
Doug Bair |
baseball player |
| 1949 |
August 22 |
Monday |
?rarinn Eldjarn |
Icelandic writer |
| 1950 |
August 22 |
Tuesday |
Ray Burris |
baseball player |
| 1950 |
August 22 |
Tuesday |
"I. Lewis ""Scooter"" Libby" |
White House Chief of Staff |
| 1951 |
August 22 |
Wednesday |
Chandra Prakash Mainali |
Nepalese politician |
| 1952 |
August 22 |
Friday |
Peter Laughner |
American musician (Rocket From the Tombs‚ Pere Ubu) (d. 1977) |
| 1953 |
August 22 |
Saturday |
Paul Ellering |
American wrestling manager |
| 1955 |
August 22 |
Monday |
Will Shetterly |
writer |
| 1955 |
August 22 |
Monday |
Chiranjeevi |
Telugu filmsIndian film actor |
| 1956 |
August 22 |
Wednesday |
Paul Molitor |
baseball player |
| 1957 |
August 22 |
Thursday |
Steve Davis |
English snooker player |
| 1958 |
August 22 |
Friday |
Colm Feore |
American actor |
| 1958 |
August 22 |
Friday |
Lane Huffman |
American professional wrestler |
| 1958 |
August 22 |
Friday |
Vernon Reid |
American musician (Living Colour) |
| 1959 |
August 22 |
Saturday |
Juan Croucier |
American musician |
| 1959 |
August 22 |
Saturday |
Pia Gjellerup |
Danish politician |
| 1961 |
August 22 |
Tuesday |
Andres Calamaro |
Argentine musician |
| 1961 |
August 22 |
Tuesday |
Roland Orzabal |
British musician (Tears for Fears) |
| 1961 |
August 22 |
Tuesday |
Debbi Peterson |
American musician (The Bangles) |
| 1963 |
August 22 |
Thursday |
Tori Amos |
American singer/songwriter |
| 1963 |
August 22 |
Thursday |
Terry Catledge |
American basketball player |
| 1964 |
August 22 |
Saturday |
Mats Wilander |
Swedish tennis player |
| 1965 |
August 22 |
Sunday |
Tom Gibis |
American voice actor |
| 1965 |
August 22 |
Sunday |
Courtney Gains |
American actor |
| 1966 |
August 22 |
Monday |
Eric Andolsek |
American football player (d. 1992) |
| 1966 |
August 22 |
Monday |
GZA |
American rapper |
| 1966 |
August 22 |
Monday |
Rob Witschge |
Dutch footballer |
| 1967 |
August 22 |
Tuesday |
Layne Staley |
American musician (Alice in Chains) (d. 2002) |
| 1967 |
August 22 |
Tuesday |
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje |
British actor |
| 1967 |
August 22 |
Tuesday |
Ant |
American comedian |
| 1967 |
August 22 |
Tuesday |
Ty Burrell |
American actor |
| 1967 |
August 22 |
Tuesday |
Alfred Gough |
American screenwriter |
| 1967 |
August 22 |
Tuesday |
Yukiko Okada |
Japanese singer (d. 1986) |
| 1968 |
August 22 |
Thursday |
Paul Colman |
Australian guitarist (Newsboys) |
| 1968 |
August 22 |
Thursday |
Casper Christensen |
Danish comedian |
| 1968 |
August 22 |
Thursday |
Rich Lowry |
American magazine editor |
| 1968 |
August 22 |
Thursday |
Alexander Mostovoi |
Russian footballer |
| 1968 |
August 22 |
Thursday |
Horst Skoff |
Austrian tennis player (d. 2008) |
| 1970 |
August 22 |
Saturday |
Charlie Connelly |
English writer |
| 1970 |
August 22 |
Saturday |
Giada De Laurentiis |
Italian/American chef and television host |
| 1971 |
August 22 |
Sunday |
Richard Armitage |
English actor |
| 1971 |
August 22 |
Sunday |
Rick Yune |
American actor |
| 1972 |
August 22 |
Tuesday |
Steve Kline |
American baseball player |
| 1972 |
August 22 |
Tuesday |
Okkert Brits |
South African pole vaulter |
| 1972 |
August 22 |
Tuesday |
Paul Doucette |
American drummer (Matchbox 20) |
| 1972 |
August 22 |
Tuesday |
Max Wilson |
Brazilian racing driver |
| 1973 |
August 22 |
Wednesday |
Kristen Wiig |
American comedian |
| 1973 |
August 22 |
Wednesday |
Howie Dorough |
American singer (Backstreet Boys) |
| 1974 |
August 22 |
Thursday |
Brimstone |
American professional wrestler |
| 1974 |
August 22 |
Thursday |
Agustin Pichot |
Argentine rugby player |
| 1974 |
August 22 |
Thursday |
Stefano Verderi |
Italian guitarist |
| 1975 |
August 22 |
Friday |
Clint Bolton |
Australian footballer |
| 1975 |
August 22 |
Friday |
Sheree Murphy |
British actress |
| 1975 |
August 22 |
Friday |
Rodrigo Santoro |
Brazilian actor |
| 1977 |
August 22 |
Monday |
Hei?ar Helguson |
Icelandic footballer |
| 1977 |
August 22 |
Monday |
Jenna Leigh Green |
American actress |
| 1978 |
August 22 |
Tuesday |
Giannis Gagaloudis |
Greek basketball player |
| 1978 |
August 22 |
Tuesday |
Jeff Stinco |
Canadian musician (Simple Plan) |
| 1979 |
August 22 |
Wednesday |
Brandon Quintin Adams |
American actor |
| 1979 |
August 22 |
Wednesday |
Matt Walters |
American football player |
| 1979 |
August 22 |
Wednesday |
Jennifer Finnigan |
Canadian-born actress |
| 1980 |
August 22 |
Friday |
Christi Shake |
American model and actress |
| 1980 |
August 22 |
Friday |
Roland Benschneider |
German footballer |
| 1980 |
August 22 |
Friday |
Nicolas Macrozonaris |
French-Canadian track-and-field athlete |
| 1981 |
August 22 |
Saturday |
Alex Holmes |
American football player |
| 1981 |
August 22 |
Saturday |
Saito Takumi |
Japanese actor and model |
| 1983 |
August 22 |
Monday |
Theo Bos |
Dutch cyclist |
| 1983 |
August 22 |
Monday |
Laura Breckenridge |
American actress |
| 1984 |
August 22 |
Wednesday |
Lee Camp |
English footballer |
| 1985 |
August 22 |
Thursday |
Kether Donahue |
American voice actress |
| 1986 |
August 22 |
Friday |
Keiko Kitagawa |
Japanese actress |
| 1987 |
August 22 |
Saturday |
Leonardo Moracci |
Italian footballer |
| 1991 |
August 22 |
Thursday |
Federico Macheda |
Italian footballer |
| 1991 |
August 22 |
Thursday |
Brayden Schenn |
Canadian hockey player |
