Born on March 22
March 22 birthdays & history
If you were born on March 22, you share a birthday with Robert Andrews Millikan, Reese Witherspoon and William I. March 22 babies are Aries, with aquamarine as their birthstone and the daffodil as their birth flower. March 22 is the 82nd day of the year in leap years (81st in other years).
Famous people born on March 22
- 1868Robert Andrews Millikan, American colonel and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1976Reese Witherspoon, American actress
- 1797William I, German Emperor
- 1599Anthony van Dyck, Flemish-English painter and etcher
- 1931William Shatner, Canadian actor
- 1931Burton Richter, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1948Andrew Lloyd Webber, English composer and director
- 1929P. Ramlee, Malaysian actor, director, singer, songwriter, composer, and producer
- 1941Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor
- 1949Fanny Ardant, French actress
What happened on March 22
- 106The Bostran era, the official era of the Roman province of Arabia Petraea, began.
- 1765The Parliament of Great Britain passed the Stamp Act, requiring that many printed materials in the Thirteen Colonies in British America carry a tax stamp.
- 1784The Emerald Buddha, considered to be the sacred palladium of Thailand, was installed in its current location at Wat Phra Kaew on the grounds of the Grand Palace in Bangkok.
- 1829In the London Protocol, the three protecting powers (United Kingdom, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece.
- 1894The Stanley Cup ice hockey competition is held for the first time, in Montreal, Canada.
- 1895Before the Société pour L'Encouragement à l'Industrie, brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology publicly for the first time.
- 1896Charilaos Vasilakos won the first modern marathon in preparation for the inaugural Summer Olympics.
- 1906The first England vs France rugby union match is played at Parc des Princes in Paris.
- 1934In golf, the first Masters Tournament was held at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia, United States.
- 1963Please Please Me, the first album recorded by the Beatles, was released.
- 1995Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returned from the space station Mir aboard Soyuz TM-20 after 437 days in space, setting a record for the longest spaceflight.
- 1997Comet Hale–Bopp reached its closest approach to Earth at 1.315 AU.
Also observed on March 22
- Bihar Day (Bihar, India)
- Emancipation Day or Día de la Abolición de la Esclavitud (Puerto Rico)
- World Water Day (International)
Questions, answered
What star sign is March 22?
People born on March 22 are Aries. Their birthstone is aquamarine and their birth flower is the daffodil.
Which famous people were born on March 22?
Robert Andrews Millikan (1868), Reese Witherspoon (1976), William I (1797), Anthony van Dyck (1599), William Shatner (1931), Burton Richter (1931) were all born on March 22.
What happened on March 22 in history?
Among other things: in 1963, Please Please Me, the first album recorded by the Beatles, was released; in 1995, Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returned from the space station Mir aboard Soyuz TM-20 after 437 days in space, setting a record for the longest spaceflight; in 1997, Comet Hale–Bopp reached its closest approach to Earth at 1.315 AU.
Can I get a newspaper front page from March 22?
Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any March 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, “March 22”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.