Born on October 22
October 22 birthdays & history
If you were born on October 22, you share a birthday with Sarah Bernhardt, Doris Lessing and Franz Liszt. October 22 babies are Libra, with opal as their birthstone and the marigold as their birth flower. October 22 is the 296th day of the year in leap years (295th in other years).
Famous people born on October 22
- 1844Sarah Bernhardt, French actress and manager
- 1919Doris Lessing, British novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1811Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist and composer
- 1870Ivan Bunin, Russian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1943Catherine Deneuve, French actress and singer
- 1949Arsène Wenger, French footballer and manager
- 1970Javier Milei, Argentine politician and economist, President of Argentina
- 1929Lev Yashin, Russian footballer
- 1881Clinton Davisson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1917Joan Fontaine, English-American actress
What happened on October 22
- 2137 BCA solar eclipse occurred over China, one of the earliest recorded eclipses in history.
- 1724J. S. Bach led the first performance of the chorale cantata Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele (Adorn yourself, O dear soul), based on the communion hymn of the same name, in Leipzig.
- 1727George II and Caroline of Ansbach were crowned king and queen of Great Britain in Westminster Abbey.
- 1836Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.
- 1883The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Charles Gounod's Faust.
- 1884The International Meridian Conference designates the Royal Observatory, Greenwich as the world's prime meridian.
- 1924The educational non-profit organization Toastmasters International was founded at a YMCA in Santa Ana, California.
- 1946Over twenty-two hundred engineers and technicians from eastern Germany are forced to relocate to the Soviet Union, along with their families and equipment.
- 1964The first volume of Ian Fleming's children's novel Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang was published posthumously.
- 1964Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, though he does not accept the prize.
- 1966With their album The Supremes A' Go-Go, the Supremes became the first all-female group to reach number one on the Billboard 200 chart.
- 1987John Adams' opera Nixon in China premiered.
Also observed on October 22
- International Stuttering Awareness Day
- Jidai Matsuri (Kyoto, Japan)
Questions, answered
What star sign is October 22?
People born on October 22 are Libra. Their birthstone is opal and their birth flower is the marigold.
Which famous people were born on October 22?
Sarah Bernhardt (1844), Doris Lessing (1919), Franz Liszt (1811), Ivan Bunin (1870), Catherine Deneuve (1943), Arsène Wenger (1949) were all born on October 22.
What happened on October 22 in history?
Among other things: in 1964, Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, though he does not accept the prize; in 1966, With their album The Supremes A' Go-Go, the Supremes became the first all-female group to reach number one on the Billboard 200 chart; in 1987, John Adams' opera Nixon in China premiered.
Can I get a newspaper front page from October 22?
Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any October 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, “October 22”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.