October 22 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on October 22, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♎︎ Libra
Sep 23 – Oct 22
Birth stone
Opal
Birth flower
Marigold
How common
#164 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous October 22 birthdays
Franz Liszt · Hungarian romantic composer and virtuoso pianist1811
Ivan Bunin · Russian writer and poet1870
Clinton Davisson · American physicist1881
George Beadle · American geneticist1903
Karl Guthe Jansky · American physicist and radio engineer1905
Robert Capa · American photographer1913
Yitzhak Shamir · 7th Prime Minister of Israel1915
Joan Fontaine · British actress1917
Doris Lessing · British novelist1919
Timothy Leary · American psychologist1920
Robert Rauschenberg · American painter and graphic artist1925
Christopher Lloyd · American actor1938
Catherine Deneuve · French actress1943
Deepak Chopra · Indian-born American author and alternative-medicine advocate1946
Arsène Wenger · French football manager1949
Jeff Goldblum · American actor and musician1952
Bob Odenkirk · American actor, comedian and filmmaker1962
Carlos Mencia · American stand-up comedian1967
Spike Jonze · American filmmaker1969
Javier Milei · Economist, politician and president of Argentina since 20231970
On this day in history
1907A bank run forced New York's Knickerbocker Trust Company to suspend operations, triggering the Panic of 1907.
1924The educational non-profit organization Toastmasters International was founded at a YMCA in Santa Ana, California.
1945Workers at the Cigar Factory in Charleston, South Carolina, began a labor strike against the American Tobacco Company that lasted more than five months.
1987John Adams' opera Nixon in China premiered.
1936The Royal Navy cutlass was withdrawn from combat service.
1940After evading Vichy French and Francoist Spanish authorities, Belgian prime minister Hubert Pierlot arrived in London, marking the beginning of the Belgian government in exile.
1964The first volume of Ian Fleming's children's novel Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang was published posthumously.
1966With their album The Supremes A' Go-Go, the Supremes became the first all-female group to reach number one on the Billboard 200 chart.
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