January 22 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on January 22, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♒︎ Aquarius
Jan 20 – Feb 18
Birth stone
Garnet
Birth flower
Carnation
How common
#326 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous January 22 birthdays
August Strindberg · Swedish writer and painter1849
D. W. Griffith · American filmmaker1875
Hjalmar Schacht · German politician and economist1877
Francis Picabia · French painter and writer1879
George Balanchine · American choreographer, dancer and ballet master1904
Robert E. Howard · American author1906
Lev Landau · Soviet theoretical physicist1908
U Thant · UN Secretary-General from 1961 to 19711909
Bruno Kreisky · Austrian diplomat and chancellor1911
Sam Cooke · American singer and songwriter1931
Piper Laurie · American actress1932
Alan J. Heeger · American chemist, physicist1936
John Hurt · British actor1940
Jim Jarmusch · American film director, screenwriter and actor1953
Linda Blair · American actress1959
Diane Lane · American actress1965
Gabriel Macht · American actor1972
Hidetoshi Nakata · Japanese association football player1977
Vincent Aboubakar · Cameroonian association football player1992
Netta Barzilai · Israeli singer1993
On this day in history
1968Apollo 5, the first flight of NASA's Lunar Module, lifted off from Cape Kennedy Air Force Station.
1970The Boeing 747, the world's first wide-body commercial airliner, entered service for Pan Am on the New York–London route.
1973The U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision in Roe v. Wade struck down laws restricting abortion during the first two trimesters of pregnancy.
2006Evo Morales was inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president.
1924Ramsay MacDonald took office as the first prime minister of the United Kingdom from the Labour Party.
1943World War II: Australian and American forces defeat Japanese army and navy units in the bitterly fought Battle of Buna–Gona.
1984During Super Bowl XVIII, Apple Computer introduced the Macintosh, the first successful personal computer to use a graphical user interface, with the television commercial "1984".
2012Croatia held a referendum in which it voted to become a member of the European Union.
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