Famous People Born on January 22
Famous people born on January 22 include Lord Byron (1788), Francis Bacon (1561) and Sergei Eisenstein (1898).
BORN ON THIS DAY
MORE FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
Francis Bacon
English philosopher and statesman (1561–1626)
Sergei Eisenstein
Soviet-Russian filmmaker and theorist (1898–1948)
Antonio Gramsci
Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, and politician (1891–1937)
August Strindberg
Swedish writer and painter (1849–1912)
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German Enlightenment writer (1729–1781)
Lev Landau
Soviet theoretical physicist (1908–1968)
U Thant
UN Secretary-General from 1961 to 1971
D. W. Griffith
American filmmaker (1875–1948)
Ibn Taymiyya
Islamic scholar and jurist (1263–1328)
Hidetoshi Nakata
Japanese footballer (born 1977)
Ivan III of Russia
Grand Prince of Moscow from 1462 to 1505
John Hurt
English actor (1940–2017)
Jim Jarmusch
American filmmaker (born 1953)
Diane Lane
American actress (born 1965)
Robert E. Howard
American pulp fiction writer (1906–1936)
DIED ON THIS DAY
Queen Victoria
Longest-reigning British monarch of her era
Lyndon B. Johnson
36th US president, signed the Civil Rights Act
Heath Ledger
The Dark Knight's Joker
MORE FAMOUS DEATHS
Pope Benedict XV
Head of the Catholic Church from 1914 to 1922
Ursula K. Le Guin
American author (1929–2018)
Shah Jahan
Mughal emperor from 1628 to 1658
Kōbō Abe
Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor
Fredrik Bajer
Danish politician (1837–1922)
Thích Nhất Hạnh
Vietnamese Buddhist monk and activist (1926–2022)
Jean Simmons
British actress (1929–2010)
Hank Aaron
American baseball player (1934–2021)
Else Lasker-Schüler
German poet and playwright (1869–1945)
Mike Hawthorn
British racing driver (1929–1959)
Sources
- January 22 — Wikipedia. Births and deaths on this date
- Lord Byron — Wikipedia
- Queen Victoria — Wikipedia
- Lyndon B. Johnson — Wikipedia
- Heath Ledger — Wikipedia
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation. Birth years under More famous deaths