Famous People Born on May 22
Famous people born on May 22 include Richard Wagner (1813), Arthur Conan Doyle (1859) and Novak Djokovic (1987).
BORN ON THIS DAY
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Novak Djokovic
Serbian tennis player (born 1987)
Charles Aznavour
French singer and songwriter (1924–2018)
Laurence Olivier
English actor and director (1907–1989)
Mary Cassatt
American painter and printmaker (1844–1926)
George Best
Northern Irish footballer (1946–2005)
Naomi Campbell
British model (born 1970)
Ted Kaczynski
American domestic terrorist (1942–2023)
Betty Williams
Northern Irish peace activist and Nobel laureate
Arturo Vidal
Chilean footballer (born 1987)
Shuji Nakamura
Japanese–American electrical engineer (born 1954)
Gérard de Nerval
French writer, poet, essayist and translator (1808–1855)
Harvey Milk
American gay rights activist (1930–1978)
Hergé
Belgian cartoonist (1907–1983)
Symon Petliura
Ukrainian military leader (1879–1926)
Arseniy Yatsenyuk
Prime Minister of Ukraine from 2014 to 2016
DIED ON THIS DAY
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Constantine the Great
Roman emperor from 306 to 337
Langston Hughes
American writer and social activist (1901–1967)
Pope Alexander VII
Head of the Catholic Church from 1655 to 1667
Jules Renard
French author (1864–1910)
Martha Washington
First Lady of the United States from 1789 to 1797
Cevdet Sunay
President of Turkey from 1966 to 1973
Albert Claude
Belgian-American cell biologist (1899–1983)
Francesco Guicciardini
Italian writer, historian, and politician (1483–1540)
Alfred Hershey
American bacteriologist and geneticist (1908–1997)
Martin Gardner
American mathematics and science writer (1914–2010)
Sources
- May 22 — Wikipedia. Births and deaths on this date
- Richard Wagner — Wikipedia
- Arthur Conan Doyle — Wikipedia
- Victor Hugo — Wikipedia
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation. Birth years under More famous deaths