February 22 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on February 22, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♓︎ Pisces
Feb 19 – Mar 20
Birth stone
Amethyst
Birth flower
Violet
How common
#160 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous February 22 birthdays
James Russell Lowell · American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat1819
Heinrich Hertz · German physicist1857
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell · Lieutenant-general in the British Army1857
Jules Renard · French author1864
Edna St. Vincent Millay · American poet1892
Luis Buñuel · Spanish-Mexican filmmaker1900
Renato Dulbecco · Italian-born American virologist1914
Robert Wadlow · American who was the tallest recorded person in history1918
Jean-Bédel Bokassa · 2nd president and emperor of the Central African Republic1921
Ted Kennedy · United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1962 to 20091932
J. Michael Bishop · American immunologist and microbiologist1936
Horst Köhler · German politician1943
Jonathan Demme · American filmmaker1944
Niki Lauda · Austrian former Formula 1 driver1949
Julius Erving · American basketball player1950
Kyle MacLachlan · American actor1959
Steve Irwin · Australian zookeeper, conservationist and TV personality1962
Michael Chang · American tennis player1972
Drew Barrymore · American actress1975
Timothy Weah · American soccer player2000
On this day in history
1909The sixteen United States Navy battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by Connecticut, completed a circumnavigation of the globe.
1980At the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, the United States ice hockey team defeated the Soviet team in an unlikely victory that became known as the Miracle on Ice.
2014President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine is impeached by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine by a vote of 328–0, fulfilling a major goal of the Euromaidan rebellion.
2019A group broke into the North Korean embassy in Madrid, Spain, and stole several mobile telephones and digital storage devices.
1994Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
1997Scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland announced the existence of Dolly, a female sheep who was the first mammal to have successfully been cloned from an adult cell.
1998The cherry-throated tanager, a critically endangered bird which had not been definitively sighted in over a century, was rediscovered in Conceição do Castelo, Brazil.
2006Seven men staged the largest cash robbery in Britain at a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent, United Kingdom.
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