September 22 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on September 22, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♍︎ Virgo
Aug 23 – Sep 22
Birth stone
Sapphire
Birth flower
Aster
How common
#50 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous September 22 birthdays
Wilhelm Keitel · German field marshal1882
Erich von Stroheim · Austrian actor and director1885
Paul Muni · Austrian-born American stage and film actor1895
Charles Brenton Huggins · American physiologist1901
John Houseman · Romanian-born British–American actor and film producer1902
Algirdas Brazauskas · Lithuanian politician1932
Junko Tabei · Japanese mountain climber1939
Anna Karina · Danish-French actress1940
David Coverdale · English rock singer1951
Ségolène Royal · French politician1953
Nick Cave · Australian musician and singer1957
Andrea Bocelli · Italian tenor and singer-songwriter1958
Joan Jett · American rock musician1958
Saul Perlmutter · American astrophysicist and Nobel laureate1959
Isaac Herzog · President of Israel since 20211960
Bonnie Hunt · American actress and comedian1961
Serdar Berdimuhamedow · 3rd President of Turkmenistan since 20221981
Maarten Stekelenburg · Dutch footballer1982
Thiago Silva · Brazilian association football player1984
Tom Felton · British actor, singer and musician1987
On this day in history
1948Led by Gail Halvorsen, the United States Air Force began Operation "Little Vittles", delivering candy to children as part of the Berlin Airlift.
1957François Duvalier, nicknamed Papa Doc, was elected President of Haiti as a populist before consolidating power and ruling as a dictator for the rest of his life.
1979An American Vela satellite detected an unidentified flash of light near the Prince Edward Islands in the Indian Ocean, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.
2014The NASA spacecraft MAVEN entered into orbit around Mars to study the planet's atmosphere.
1586Eighty Years' War: Spanish forces defeated an Anglo-Dutch army at the Battle of Zutphen.* 1789 – The office of United States Postmaster General was formally established.
1994The Nordhordland Bridge, crossing Salhusfjorden between Klauvaneset and Flatøy in Vestland, and Norway's second-longest bridge, officially opened.
2003Dolphin, the first emulator for the GameCube that could run commercial video games, was released.
2024Anura Kumara Dissanayake is elected as the 9th President Of Sri Lanka.
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