May 22 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on May 22, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♊︎ Gemini
May 21 – Jun 20
Birth stone
Emerald
Birth flower
Lily of the valley
How common
#124 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous May 22 birthdays
Gérard de Nerval · French writer, poet, essayist and translator1808
Richard Wagner · German composer1813
Mary Cassatt · American painter and printmaker1844
Arthur Conan Doyle · British writer and physician1859
Symon Petliura · Ukrainian military leader1879
Laurence Olivier · English actor and director1907
Hergé · Belgian comics writer1907
Herbert C. Brown · American chemist1912
Sun Ra · American jazz composer and bandleader1914
Harvey Milk · American politician and gay rights activist1930
Betty Williams · Northern Irish peace activist1943
George Best · Northern Irish footballer1946
Shuji Nakamura · Japanese doctor of Engineering1954
Naomi Campbell · British model1970
Ginnifer Goodwin · American actress1978
Maggie Q · American actress1979
Bryan Danielson · American professional wrestler1981
Novak Djokovic · Serbian tennis player1987
Arturo Vidal · Chilean association football player1987
Paulina Chávez · American actress2002
On this day in history
1849Abraham Lincoln was issued a patent for an invention to lift boats over obstacles in a river, making him the only U.S. president ever to hold a patent.
1856Senator Charles Sumner was assaulted by Representative Preston Brooks in the United States Senate chamber in retaliation for a speech in which Sumner fiercely criticized slaveholders.
1915California's Lassen Peak violently erupted, the only volcanic eruption in the contiguous U.S. in the 20th century until Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980.
2017United States President Donald Trump visits the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and becomes the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Western Wall.
1972The Dominion of Ceylon changed its name to Sri Lanka, adopted a new constitution, and officially became a republic within the Commonwealth.
1980Location testing for Pac-Man, a Japanese arcade game that became an icon of 1980s popular culture, began in Shibuya, Tokyo.
1998In Public Prosecutor v Taw Cheng Kong, the Court of Appeal of Singapore overruled a High Court decision in the only time a statute in Singapore had been ruled unconstitutional.
2014Prayut Chan-o-cha, the commander-in-chief of the Royal Thai Army, launched a coup d'état against the caretaker government following six months of political crisis.
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