April 22 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on April 22, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♉︎ Taurus
Apr 20 – May 20
Birth stone
Diamond
Birth flower
Daisy
How common
#330 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous April 22 birthdays
Vladimir Lenin · founding leader of the Soviet Union1870
Robert Bárány · Austri-Hungarian otologist and Nobel Prize laureate1876
J. Robert Oppenheimer · American theoretical physicist1904
Rita Levi-Montalcini · Italian neurologist1909
Yehudi Menuhin · American violinist and conductor1916
Donald J. Cram · American chemist1919
Charles Mingus · American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader1922
Estelle Harris · American actress1928
Glen Campbell · American musician1936
Jack Nicholson · American actor and filmmaker1937
Louise Glück · U.S. poet and Nobel laureate1943
John Waters · American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer1946
Donald Tusk · Prime Minister of Poland1957
Jeffrey Dean Morgan · American actor1966
Shavo Odadjian · Armenian-American bassist1974
Kaká · Brazilian association football player1982
Sam Altman · American entrepreneur and investor1985
Amber Heard · American actress1986
David Luiz · Brazilian association football player1987
MGK · American musician1990
On this day in history
1864U.S. Congress passed the Coinage Act, which authorized the minting of the two-cent piece, the first U.S. coin to bear the phrase "In God We Trust".
2000In a pre-dawn raid, U.S. federal agents seized six-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami and returned him to his Cuban father.
2016The Paris Agreement, an international treaty on climate change, opened for signature and was signed by 175 parties.
2022American climate activist Wynn Bruce set himself on fire outside the United States Supreme Court Building in an apparent protest against the climate crisis.
1918The short-lived Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic was established on territory formerly part of the Russian Empire.
1930The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.
1948Civil War in Mandatory Palestine: The Jewish paramilitary group Haganah captured Haifa from the Arab Liberation Army.
1970Chicano residents in San Diego, California occupy a site under the Coronado Bridge, leading to the creation of Chicano Park.
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