Born on January 22
January 22 birthdays & history
If you were born on January 22, you share a birthday with Lord Byron, Francis Bacon and Sergei Eisenstein. January 22 babies are Aquarius, with garnet as their birthstone and the carnation as their birth flower. January 22 is the 22nd day of the year in leap years.
Famous people born on January 22
- 1788Lord Byron, English poet and playwright
- 1561Francis Bacon, English philosopher and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales
- 1898Sergei Eisenstein, Russian director and screenwriter
- 1849August Strindberg, Swedish novelist, poet, and playwright
- 1729Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German philosopher and author
- 1908Lev Landau, Azerbaijani-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1875D. W. Griffith, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1977Hidetoshi Nakata, Japanese footballer
- 1940John Hurt, English actor
- 1953Jim Jarmusch, American director and screenwriter
What happened on January 22
- 1689The Convention Parliament met to decide the fate of the throne after James II, the last Catholic monarch of England, fled to France following the Glorious Revolution.
- 1890The United Mine Workers of America is founded in Columbus, Ohio.
- 1919Act Zluky is signed, unifying the Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian National Republic.
- 1924Ramsay MacDonald took office as the first prime minister of the United Kingdom from the Labour Party.
- 1946Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.
- 1947KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood.
- 1957Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula.
- 1963The Élysée Treaty of cooperation between France and West Germany is signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer.
- 1973The U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision in Roe v. Wade struck down laws restricting abortion during the first two trimesters of pregnancy.
- 1984During Super Bowl XVIII, Apple Computer introduced the Macintosh, the first successful personal computer to use a graphical user interface, with the television commercial "1984".
- 2006Evo Morales was inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president.
- 2012Croatia held a referendum in which it voted to become a member of the European Union.
Also observed on January 22
- Day of Unity of Ukraine (Ukraine)
- Grandfather's Day (Poland)
Questions, answered
What star sign is January 22?
People born on January 22 are Aquarius. Their birthstone is garnet and their birth flower is the carnation.
Which famous people were born on January 22?
Lord Byron (1788), Francis Bacon (1561), Sergei Eisenstein (1898), August Strindberg (1849), Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729), Lev Landau (1908) were all born on January 22.
What happened on January 22 in history?
Among other things: in 1984, During Super Bowl XVIII, Apple Computer introduced the Macintosh, the first successful personal computer to use a graphical user interface, with the television commercial "1984"; in 2006, Evo Morales was inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president; in 2012, Croatia held a referendum in which it voted to become a member of the European Union.
Can I get a newspaper front page from January 22?
Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any January 22 birth year, with their name in the headline, events, famous birthdays and typical US prices. The preview is free and the print files cost $9.
Events, birthdays and observances are adapted from Wikipedia contributors, “January 22”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.