October 22 - Births

Births

• 1071 – William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (d. 1126)
• 1197 – Emperor Juntoku of Japan (d. 1242)
• 1511 – Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1553)
• 1558 – Jacques Sirmond, French scholar (d. 1651)
• 1592 – Gustav Horn, Count of Pori, Swedish soldier and politician (d. 1657)
• 1659 – Georg Ernst Stahl, German chemist and physician (d. 1734)
• 1689 – John V of Portugal (d. 1750)
• 1701 – Maria Amalia of Austria (d. 1756)
• 1729 – Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist (d. 1798)
• 1734 – Daniel Boone, American explorer and hunter (d. 1820)
• 1749 – Cornelis van der Aa, Dutch bookseller (d. 1816)
• 1809 – Volney Howard, American lawyer, politician, and jurist (d. 1889)
• 1811 – Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 1886)
• 1818 – Leconte de Lisle, French poet (d. 1894)
• 1821 – Collis Potter Huntington, American businessman (d. 1900)
• 1844 – Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (d. 1923)
• 1844 – Louis Riel, Canadian politician (d. 1885)
• 1856 – Dominique Gardères, French horse rider
• 1858 – Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1921)
• 1865 – Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter (d. 1943)
• 1870 – Ivan Bunin, Russian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
• 1870 – Alfred Douglas, English partner (d. 1945)
• 1873 – Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finland-Swedish linguist and diplomat (d. 1950)
• 1875 – David van Embden, Dutch politician (d. 1962)
• 1881 – Clinton Davisson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
• 1881 – Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz, German geophysicist (d. 1908)
• 1882 – Géza Kiss, Hungarian swimmer (d. 1952)
• 1882 – Edmund Dulac, French illustrator (d. 1953)
• 1886 – Erik Bergman, Swedish minister (d. 1970)
• 1887 – John Reed, American journalist (d. 1920)
• 1891 – Parker Fennelly, American comedian and actor (d. 1988)
• 1894 – Mei Lanfang, Chinese opera singer (d. 1961)
• 1896 – Charles Glen King, American biochemist (d. 1988)
• 1900 – Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1927)
• 1903 – George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
• 1903 – Curly Howard, American actor and comedian (d. 1952)
• 1904 – Constance Bennett, American actress (d. 1965)
• 1905 – Joseph Kosma, Hungarian-French composer (d. 1969)
• 1906 – Kees van Baaren, Dutch composer (d. 1970)
• 1907 – Jimmie Foxx, American baseball player (d. 1967)
• 1908 – John Gould, American columnist (d. 2003)
• 1912 – Frances Drake, American actress (d. 2000)
• 1912 – George N. Leighton, American judge
• 1913 – Robert Capa, Hungarian-American photographer (d. 1954)
• 1913 – Bao Dai, Vietnamese emperor (d. 1997)
• 1913 – Tamara Desni, German-English actress (d. 2008)
• 1913 – Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss politician, President of Switzerland (d. 2002)
• 1917 – Joan Fontaine, Japanese-American actress
• 1918 – Lou Klein, American baseball player (d. 1976)
• 1919 – Kathleen Ankers, American set designer (d. 2001)
• 1919 – Doris Lessing, Iranian-English author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1920 – Timothy Leary, American psychologist and author (d. 1996)
• 1921 – Georges Brassens, French singer-songwriter and poet (d. 1981)
• 1921 – Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician (d. 1986)
• 1922 – Juan Carlos Lorenzo, Argentine footballer (d. 2001)
• 1923 – Bert Trautmann, German footballer
• 1925 – Slater Martin, American basketball player and coach (d. 2012)
• 1925 – Robert Rauschenberg, American painter and illustrator (d. 2008)
• 1927 – Allan Hendrickse, South African politician (d. 2005)
• 1928 – Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Brazilian director
• 1929 – Dory Previn, American singer-songwriter (d. 2012)
• 1929 – Lev Yashin, Soviet footballer (d. 1990)
• 1933 – Helmut Senekowitsch, Austrian footballer (d. 2007)
• 1934 – Rita Sakellariou, Greek singer (d. 1999)
• 1935 – Ann Rule, American author
• 1936 – John Blashford-Snell, English army officer, explorer, and author
• 1936 – Bobby Seale, American activist, co-founded the Black Panther Party
• 1937 – Manos Loïzos, Greek composer (d. 1982)
• 1938 – Derek Jacobi, English actor
• 1938 – Christopher Lloyd, American actor
• 1938 – Timos Perlegas, Greek actor (d. 1993)
• 1939 – Joaquim Chissano, Mozambican politician, 2nd President of Mozambique
• 1939 – George Cohen, English footballer
• 1939 – Jean-Pierre Desthuilliers, French author and poet
• 1939 – Susumu Kurobe, Japanese actor
• 1939 – Tony Roberts, American actor
• 1942 – Bobby Fuller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Bobby Fuller Four) (d. 1966)
• 1942 – Annette Funicello, American actress
• 1943 – Allen Coage, American wrestler (d. 2007)
• 1943 – Jan de Bont, Dutch director
• 1943 – Catherine Deneuve, French actress
• 1943 – Seif Sharif Hamad, Zanzibari politician
• 1943 – Robert Long, Dutch singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2006)
• 1945 – Yvan Ponton, Canadian actor
• 1945 – Buzz Potamkin, American television producer, founded Buzzco Associates (d. 2012)
• 1945 – Sheila Sherwood, English long jumper
• 1945 – Leslie West, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Mountain, The Vagrants, and West, Bruce and Laing)
• 1946 – Eddie Brigati, American singer-songwriter (The Rascals)
• 1946 – Claude Charron, Canadian politician
• 1946 – Deepak Chopra, Indian-American physician and author
• 1946 – Kelvin MacKenzie, English journalist and businessman
• 1946 – Richard McGonagle, American actor
• 1947 – Raymond Bachand, Canadian politician
• 1947 – Haley Barbour, American politician, 63rd Governor of Mississippi
• 1947 – Apostolos Kontos, Greek basketball player
• 1948 – Lynette Fromme, American attempted assassin of Gerald Ford
• 1948 – Debbie Macomber, American author
• 1949 – Stiv Bators, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (The Dead Boys and The Lords of the New Church) (d. 1990)
• 1949 – Vasilios Magginas, Greek politician
• 1949 – Arsène Wenger, French footballer and manager
• 1952 – Jeff Goldblum, American actor
• 1956 – Frank DiPino, American baseball player
• 1959 – Arto Salminen, Finnish author (d. 2005)
• 1959 – Marc Shaiman, American composer
• 1960 – Darryl Jenifer, American bass player (Bad Brains)
• 1960 – Cris Kirkwood, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Meat Puppets)
• 1961 – Robert Torti, American actor
• 1962 – Hüseyin Kenan Aydın, German politician
• 1962 – Bob Odenkirk, American actor and comedian
• 1963 – Brian Boitano, American figure skater
• 1964 – TobyMac, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1964 – Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball player (d. 1993)
• 1965 – John Wesley Harding, English singer-songwriter
• 1965 – Otis Smith, American football player
• 1965 – Piotr Wiwczarek, Polish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Vader)
• 1966 – Valeria Golino, Italian actress
• 1967 – Salvatore Di Vittorio, Italian composer and conductor
• 1967 – Rita Guerra, Portuguese singer
• 1967 – Ulrike Maier, Austrian skier (d. 1994)
• 1967 – Carlos Mencia, Honduran-American comedian and actor
• 1967 – Ron Tugnutt, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1968 – Shaggy, Jamaican singer-songwriter
• 1968 – Stephanie Cutter, American political consultant
• 1968 – Jay Johnston, American actor and comedian
• 1968 – Shelby Lynne, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1968 – Stéphane Quintal, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1969 – Héctor Carrasco, Dominican baseball player
• 1969 – Spike Jonze, American director and producer
• 1969 – Helmut Lotti, Belgian tenor
• 1970 – Winston Bogarde, Dutch footballer
• 1970 – Amy Redford, American actress, director, and producer
• 1971 – Kornel David, Hungarian basketball player
• 1972 – D'Lo Brown, American wrestler
• 1972 – Saffron Burrows, English Actress
• 1973 – Andrés Palop, Spanish footballer
• 1973 – Ichiro Suzuki, Japanese baseball player
• 1973 – Mark van der Zijden, Dutch swimmer
• 1974 – Tim Kinsella, American singer-songwriter (Cap'n Jazz, Joan of Arc, Owls, Make Believe, and Everyoned)
• 1974 – Giorgos Koltzos, Greek footballer
• 1974 – Jeff McInnis, American basketball player
• 1974 – Miroslav Šatan, Slovak ice hockey player
• 1975 – Martín Cardetti, Argentine footballer
• 1975 – Jesse Tyler Ferguson, American actor
• 1975 – Míchel Salgado, Spanish footballer
• 1976 – Jon Foreman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Switchfoot and Fiction Family)
• 1976 – Helen Svedin, Swedish model
• 1977 – Dan Chan, American magician
• 1978 – Dion Glover, American basketball player
• 1978 – Chaswe Nsofwa, Zambian footballer (d. 2007)
• 1978 – Owais Shah, English cricketer
• 1979 – Doni, Brazilian footballer
• 1980 – Luke O'Donnell, Australian rugby player
• 1981 – Michael Fishman, American actor
• 1981 – Olivier Pla, French race car driver
• 1982 – Robinson Canó, Dominican baseball player
• 1982 – Tim Erfen, German footballer
• 1982 – Heath Miller, American football player
• 1982 – Mark Renshaw, Australian cyclist
• 1983 – Plan B, English rapper, producer, and actor
• 1983 – Anton Müller, German footballer
• 1984 – Aleks Marić, Australian basketball player
• 1985 – Zac Hanson, American drummer (Hanson)
• 1986 – Kara Lang, Canadian footballer
• 1986 – Ștefan Radu, Romanian footballer
• 1988 – Matt Evans, Filipino actor
• 1990 – Jonathan Lipnicki, American actor
• 1992 – Sofia Vassilieva, American actress