August 22 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on August 22, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♌︎ Leo
Jul 23 – Aug 22
Birth stone
Peridot
Birth flower
Gladiolus
How common
#14 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous August 22 birthdays
Samuel Langley · American physicist1834
Claude Debussy · French classical composer1862
Max Scheler · German philosopher1874
Dorothy Parker · American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist1893
Deng Xiaoping · Chinese politician and paramount leader from 1978 to 19891904
Henri Cartier-Bresson · French photographer1908
John Lee Hooker · American blues musician1917
Ray Bradbury · American author and screenwriter1920
Karlheinz Stockhausen · German composer1928
Annie Proulx · American novelist, short story and non-fiction author1935
Tori Amos · American singer-songwriter1963
Mats Wilander · Swedish tennis player1964
Layne Staley · American rock musician1967
Ty Burrell · American actor and comedian1967
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje · English actor1967
Kristen Wiig · American actress and comedian1973
Artem Dzyuba · Russian footballer1988
Laura Dahlmeier · German biathlete1993
Dua Lipa · British singer-songwriter1995
Lautaro Martínez · Argentine association football player1997
On this day in history
1973The Congress of Chile votes in favour of a resolution condemning President Salvador Allende's government and demands that he resign or else be unseated through force and new elections.
1978The District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment is passed by the U.S. Congress, although it is never ratified by a sufficient number of states.
1984The constitution of Singapore was amended to apportion seats to defeated opposition candidates in Parliament, which had hitherto entirely comprised members of the People's Action Party.
2006Grigori Perelman was awarded the Fields Medal for his proof of the Poincaré conjecture in mathematics but refused to accept the medal.
1851The yacht America won the race for the Cup of One Hundred Sovereigns (trophy pictured), later renamed the America's Cup, near the Isle of Wight, England.
1894Mahatma Gandhi forms the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in order to fight discrimination against Indian traders in Natal.
1902Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.
1914First World War: German forces captured Rossignol in Belgium, taking more than 3,800 French prisoners.
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