22nd January — World Day of Snow
Welcome to 22nd January! It's World Day of Snow. Explore 46 historical events, birthdays, deaths, and milestones that shaped this day. From remarkable moments in local and world history to the people who left their mark — find out what makes today special. Tonight's moon is in its waning gibbous phase, and the zodiac sign of the day is Aquarius. If you're curious about the history of a day — this page brings together everything worth knowing about this 22nd January.
Thursday, 22 January falls under the zodiac sign of Aquarius, the water bearer, associated with innovation and intellectual pursuits. The moon is in its waning gibbous phase, having recently passed full and gradually decreasing in illumination as it moves towards the new moon.
On this day
On 22 January 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark decision in Roe v. Wade, striking down laws that had restricted abortion during the first two trimesters of pregnancy. This ruling fundamentally reshaped American constitutional law and remains one of the most consequential judicial decisions in the nation's history.
More than a decade earlier, on 22 January 1970, the Boeing 747 entered commercial service, revolutionising air travel as the world's first wide-body passenger airliner. The aircraft launched on the New York–London route for Pan Am, establishing a new standard for long-haul aviation that would define decades of international travel.
In more recent times, 22 January 2012 marked Croatia's pivotal step towards European integration when the country held a referendum in which voters approved membership of the European Union, paving the way for the nation's accession later that year.
World Day of Snow
World Day of Snow, established by the International Ski Federation in 2012, falls on 22 January each year to promote winter sports and outdoor recreation. The date was chosen to coincide with the opening of the first Winter Olympic Games in Chamonix, France in 1924. The day encourages participation in snow-based activities and raises awareness of winter's environmental and cultural significance. Since its inception, it has become a global observance that unites communities through skiing, snowboarding, and other snow sports.
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Fortune of the Day
22nd January in the Stars – Star Sign Aquarius
Personality Profile
Personality Those born on January 22nd blend Capricorn steadiness with Mercurial sharpness. They appear thoughtful and methodical, yet possess keen intellect that grasps abstract concepts easily. This rare combination creates practical thinkers who merge structure with intellectual curiosity.
Strengths & Weaknesses Their strength lies in discipline, strategic thinking, and unwavering perseverance. However, they may seem emotionally guarded and prone to overthinking. The number 5 brings restlessness that sometimes conflicts with Capricorn's stable nature.
Love These individuals love deliberately and seek depth over superficiality. They need partners who share their intellectual curiosity and exercise emotional patience. Trust builds slowly, but their loyalty becomes rock-solid once established.
Caree & Finance Ideal careers blend intellect with practicality: science, finance, law, or writing. Financial security matters deeply; they plan wisely and avoid impulsive choices. Advancement comes through competence and steady effort.
Health Regular exercise and mental engagement keep them balanced. They tend toward tension from overthinking; yoga or mindfulness help. Adequate sleep and structured routines strengthen both physical and mental resilience.
That night, the moon was in its waning gibbous phase.
Chinese year of the Snake (Wood).
Fun Facts About 22nd January
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Someone born on this day would be just 145 days old today — roughly 3,485 hours, 209,151 minutes, or 12,549,107 seconds spent on Earth so far.
It's the 22. day of the year. In 2026, 22nd January falls on a Thursday.
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Famous Birthdays on 22nd January
On this day, 212 notable people were born on 22nd January — spanning from 1263 to 2025. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.
22/01/2025
Athena Mapelli Mozzi, daughter of Princess Beatrice, born 11th in line of succession to the British throne
Princess Beatrice, Mrs Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, is a member of the British royal family. She is the elder daughter of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Sarah Ferguson, and a niece of King Charles III. Born fifth in the line of succession to the British throne, she is ninth as of 2026.
22/01/2007
Pau Cubarsí, Spanish footballer
Pau Cubarsí Paredes is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for La Liga club Barcelona and the Spain national team. In July 2025, Sports Illustrated and ESPN ranked Cubarsí as the sixth-best centre-back in world football.
22/01/2002
Caitlin Clark, American basketball player
Caitlin Elizabeth Clark is an American professional basketball player for the Indiana Fever of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Regarded as one of the greatest female collegiate players, Clark was twice named national college basketball player of the year while playing for the Iowa Hawkeyes; she remains the NCAA Division I all-time leading scorer. Known for her shooting range, playmaking, and flair, she has helped popularize women's basketball, a phenomenon dubbed the "Caitlin Clark effect".
22/01/2000
Laia Codina, Spanish footballer
Laia Codina Panedas is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Women’s Super League club Arsenal and the Spain national team. Prior to her move to the English side, she played for Spanish team Barcelona and had a loan spell with AC Milan. She has represented Spain in multiple youth national teams.
22/01/1999
Andrew Thomas, American football player
Andrew Ken Thomas is an American professional football offensive tackle for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Georgia Bulldogs and was selected by the Giants fourth overall in the 2020 NFL draft.
22/01/1998
Silento, American rapper, singer and songwriter
Richard Lamar Hawk, known professionally as Silentó, is an American former rapper. Raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Hawk is best known for his 2015 debut single "Watch Me ", which peaked at number three on the US Billboard Hot 100 when he was 17 years old.
Walid Cheddira, Moroccan footballer
Walid Cheddira is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for Serie A club Lecce, on loan from Napoli. Born in Italy, he plays for the Morocco national team.
22/01/1997
Fan Zhendong, Chinese table tennis player
Fan Zhendong is a Chinese professional table tennis player. He is the reigning Olympic gold medallist in men's singles, with his victory at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris making him the 6th male player to achieve a Grand Slam. He is also a two-time World Champion and four-time World Cup champion in men's singles.
22/01/1996
Dillon Brooks, Canadian basketball player
Dillon Brooks is a Canadian professional basketball player for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Oregon Ducks, where he was named a consensus second-team All-American and earned conference player of the year honors in the Pac-12 in 2017. Brooks was selected in the second round of the 2017 NBA draft. He began his career with the Memphis Grizzlies, earning NBA All-Defensive Second Team honors in 2023. He was traded to the Houston Rockets in July 2023 and was later dealt to the Suns after two seasons with Houston. In the same year, Brooks was named the Best Defensive Player after helping the Canada national team to bronze in the FIBA Basketball World Cup.
Sami Gayle, American actress
Samantha Gail Klitzman is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Nicky Reagan in the CBS series Blue Bloods.
Joshua Ho-Sang, Canadian ice hockey player
Joshua Navarro Ho-Sang is a Canadian rapper and professional ice hockey forward who is currently an unrestricted free agent. He was selected by the New York Islanders in the first round, 28th overall, in the 2014 NHL entry draft.
Kumi Sasaki, Japanese singer and model
Kumi Sasaki is a Japanese television personality. She is a former founding member and captain of Japanese girl group Hinatazaka46.
22/01/1994
Tyrone Taylor, American baseball player
Tyrone Anthony Taylor is an American professional baseball outfielder for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Milwaukee Brewers, with whom he made his MLB debut in 2019.
22/01/1992
Vincent Aboubakar, Cameroonian footballer
Vincent Paté Aboubakar is a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays as striker, most recently for Azerbaijani Premier League club Neftçi and captains the Cameroon national team.
22/01/1991
Stefan Kolb, German footballer
Stefan Kolb is a German football striker who plays for TSV Neudrossenfeld.
22/01/1990
Alizé Cornet, French tennis player
Alizé Cornet is a French former professional tennis player. She has won six singles and three doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as three singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 16 February 2009, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of world No. 11. Cornet has also made the second week at each of the four Grand Slam events, having reached the quarterfinals at the 2022 Australian Open, and the fourth round at the 2014 Wimbledon Championships, the 2015 and 2017 French Opens, and the 2020 US Open. She holds the record for the most consecutive Grand Slam appearances with 69 and also in third place for overall appearances with 72.
Mike Hauschild, American baseball player
Michael Hauschild is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays and Texas Rangers.
Logic, American rapper
Sir Robert Bryson Hall II, known professionally as Logic, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer from Gaithersburg, Maryland. He released his debut mixtape, Psychological: The Mixtape in December 2009 under the name Psychological, which he later shortened to Logic. He gained popularity following his Young Sinatra (2011) mixtape series; its third installment, Young Sinatra: Welcome to Forever (2013) received critical acclaim and led him to secure a recording contract with Def Jam Recordings. Logic's first two studio albums—Under Pressure (2014) and The Incredible True Story (2015)—both peaked within the top five of the U.S. Billboard 200 and received platinum certifications by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
22/01/1989
Oscar Möller, Swedish ice hockey player
Oscar Möller is a Swedish former professional ice hockey right winger who last played for Skellefteå AIK of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL).
Theo Robinson, English footballer
Theo Larayan Ronaldo Shadiki Robinson is a footballer who plays as a striker for Southern League Premier Division Central club Bromsgrove Sporting.
22/01/1988
Greg Oden, American basketball player
Gregory Wayne Oden Jr. is an American former professional basketball player. Oden, a 7 ft 0 in (2.13 m) center, played college basketball for the Ohio State Buckeyes for one season, during which the team was the Big Ten Conference regular season champion and Big Ten Conference men's basketball tournament champion with Oden as the tournament MOP. Additionally, the Buckeyes were the tournament runner-up in the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship.
Marcel Schmelzer, German footballer
Marcel Schmelzer is a German former professional footballer who played mainly as a left-back.
22/01/1987
Astrid Jacobsen, Norwegian skier
Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen is a Norwegian former cross-country skier and a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). She skied with the IL Heming club in Oslo, near Holmenkollen. Her greatest achievement is winning the gold medal in sprint at the 2007 World Championships. On 22 April 2020, she announced her retirement from cross-country skiing in favour of medical studies.
Shane Long, Irish footballer
Shane Patrick Long is an Irish former professional footballer who played as a striker.
Angel Olsen, American singer-songwriter
Angel Olsen is an American singer-songwriter from St. Louis, Missouri who lives in Asheville, North Carolina.
Ray Rice, American football player
Raynell Mourice Rice is an American former professional football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for six seasons with the Baltimore Ravens. He played college football for the Rutgers Scarlet Knights, earning first-team All-American honors in 2007, and was selected by the Ravens in the second round of the 2008 NFL draft. During his career, Rice was named to three Pro Bowls and was a member of the team that won Super Bowl XLVII. He is second in franchise rushing yards, rushing attempts, and rushing touchdowns, and he is third in the franchise in combined touchdowns.
22/01/1986
Maher Magri, Tunisian footballer
Maher Magri is a Tunisian footballer.
Matt Simon, Australian footballer
Matthew Blake Simon is an Australian former soccer player who played as a striker. He is best known for playing for Central Coast Mariners.
22/01/1985
Nicklas Grossmann, Swedish ice hockey player
Nicklas Grossmann is a Swedish former professional ice hockey defenceman.
Fotios Papoulis, Greek footballer
Fotis Papoulis is a retired professional footballer who last played for Omonia in the Cypriot First Division. Born in Greece, he played for the Cyprus national team.
Yan Xu, Singaporean table tennis player
Xu Yan is a Singaporean table tennis player.
22/01/1984
Ben Eager, Canadian ice hockey player
Benjamin Arthur Eager is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He won the Stanley Cup with the Chicago Blackhawks in 2010.
Ubaldo Jiménez, Dominican baseball player
Ubaldo Jiménez García is a Dominican-American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Colorado Rockies, Cleveland Indians and Baltimore Orioles. Jiménez started the 2010 MLB All-Star Game. That year, he pitched the first no-hitter in Rockies' franchise history.
Maceo Rigters, Dutch footballer
Maceo Rigters is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a striker for SC Heerenveen, Dordrecht, NAC Breda and Willem II in the Netherlands, for Blackburn Rovers, Norwich City and Barnsley in England, and for Gold Coast United in Australia. He is also a former player for the Netherlands Under-21 team.
22/01/1983
Étienne Bacrot, French chess player
Étienne Bacrot is a French chess grandmaster, and as a child, a chess prodigy.
22/01/1982
Fabricio Coloccini, Argentine footballer
Fabricio Tomás Coloccini is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He is the current assistant coach of Fernando Gago for Universidad de Chile.
Jason Peters, American football player
Jason Raynard Peters is an American former professional football player who was an offensive tackle for 21 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Arkansas Razorbacks and was signed as an offensive tackle by the Buffalo Bills as an undrafted free agent after the 2004 NFL draft. He was later traded to the Philadelphia Eagles in 2009 and spent the next twelve seasons playing for them. He would later be a member of the Chicago Bears in 2021, the Dallas Cowboys in 2022, and the Seattle Seahawks in 2023. Peters was a nine-time Pro Bowler, a six-time All-Pro, and was named to the NFL 2010s All-Decade Team.
22/01/1981
Willa Ford, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
Amanda Lee Williford, known by her stage name Willa Ford, is an American interior decorator, singer, songwriter, television personality, film actress, dancer, and model. She released her debut album, Willa Was Here, in 2001. Ford also has appeared in movies such as Friday the 13th (2009), hosted several reality television shows, posed for Playboy and competed on ABC's Dancing with the Stars.
Beverley Mitchell, American actress
Beverley Ann Mitchell is an American actress and singer. She began her career with multiple guest roles on television programs, as well as portraying a young Nancy Sinatra in the CBS biographical miniseries Sinatra (1992). Mitchell received mainstream recognition for her main role as Lucy Camden-Kinkirk on the WB and CW drama television series 7th Heaven (1996–2007).
Ben Moody, American musician, songwriter, and producer
Benjamin Moody is an American guitarist, songwriter and record producer. He co-founded rock band Evanescence, which he departed in 2003 after the release of their debut album Fallen (2003). After leaving Evanescence, Moody co-wrote and co-produced songs for Kelly Clarkson, Avril Lavigne, Anastacia, Lindsay Lohan, Bo Bice, Daughtry, and Celine Dion.
Ibrahima Sonko, French footballer
Ibrahima Sonko is a Senegalese former professional footballer who played as a centre back.
22/01/1980
Christopher Masterson, American actor
Christopher Kennedy Masterson is an American actor and disc jockey known best for his role as Francis on the Fox sitcom Malcolm in the Middle (2000–2006). His younger half-siblings, Alanna Masterson and Jordan Masterson are also actors. His older brother is Danny Masterson.
Jonathan Woodgate, English footballer
Jonathan Simon Woodgate is an English football coach and former player who is a first-team coach at Premier League club Manchester United.
Lizz Wright, American singer-songwriter
Elizabeth LaCharla Wright professionally known as Lizz Wright, is an American jazz and gospel singer.
22/01/1979
Carlos Ruiz, Panamanian baseball player
Carlos Joaquín Ruiz, nicknamed "Chooch", is a Panamanian former professional baseball catcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Seattle Mariners. Ruiz stands 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) tall, and weighs 215 pounds (98 kg). He bats and throws right-handed.
22/01/1978
Robert Esche, American ice hockey player and sports executive
Robert L. Esche is an American former professional ice hockey goaltender who is the current president of the Utica Comets of the American Hockey League (AHL) and the Utica City FC of the Major Arena Soccer League (MASL). He previously played eight seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Phoenix Coyotes and Philadelphia Flyers.
Chone Figgins, American baseball player
Desmond DeChone Figgins, nicknamed "Figgy", is an American former professional baseball utilty player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Seattle Mariners, and Los Angeles Dodgers.
22/01/1977
Mario Domm, Mexican singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
Mario Alberto Domínguez Zarzar, known as Mario Domm, is a Mexican singer, songwriter and record producer. A founding member of the pop rock band Camila, he has won four Latin Grammy Awards; four Billboard Awards; 11 Premios Lo Nuestro; 14 SACM awards; five Juventud Awards, five Telehit awards, four MTV Awards, eight ASCAP Awards, three Gaviotas de Plata Awards and three Gaviotas de Oro Awards, seven Monitor Latino Awards, two Los 40 Principales Awards, one Orgullosamente Latino Award, and a recognition as a musical genius by Telehit.
Hidetoshi Nakata, Japanese footballer
Hidetoshi Nakata, OSSI is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Considered as one of the greatest Asian football players of all time and coming from an Asian Football Confederation (AFC) country in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Nakata became the first ever AFC player to be nominated for the Ballon d'Or.
22/01/1975
Balthazar Getty, American actor and musician
Paul Balthazar Getty is an American actor, musician, and DJ, and a member of the Getty family. His acting debut was in Lord of the Flies (1990) as Ralph. He went on to appear in Lost Highway (1997) and had a recurring role as Richard Montana in Charmed (2003–04), Thomas Grace on the American action drama Alias (2005–06), and Tommy Walker on the American drama Brothers & Sisters (2006–11).
David Výborný, Czech ice hockey player
David Výborný is a Czech former professional ice hockey player who last played for BK Mladá Boleslav of the Czech Extraliga. He played for the Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League (NHL). Internationally, he played for the Czech Republic men's national team and won five World Championships, and a bronze medal in ice hockey at the 2006 Winter Olympics. He was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame in 2025.
22/01/1974
Cameron McConville, Australian racing driver and sportscaster
Cameron Eric "Conkers" McConville is an Australian racing driver and motorsport celebrity. While retired from full-time competition, McConville still races occasionally and is an in-demand endurance event co-driver. McConville spent 14 years as a professional driver, ten of those in the largest Australian domestic category, Supercars Championship. McConville has also written for several magazines and presented several television programs and up until the end of the 2009 season was the colour commentator for Network Ten's Australian coverage of Formula One. McConville announced his retirement from full-time racing for the end of the 2009 season. He is also rumoured to be The Stig in Top Gear Australia.
Joseph Muscat, Maltese journalist and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Malta
Joseph Muscat is a Maltese politician who served as the 13th prime minister of Malta from 2013 to 2020 and leader of the Labour Party from 2008 to 2020.
22/01/1973
Rogério Ceni, Brazilian footballer
Rogério Mücke Ceni is a Brazilian professional football coach and former player who is in charge of Bahia. He is considered one of the all-time greatest Brazilian goalkeepers and is recognised by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics as the goalkeeper to have scored the most goals in the history of football. During the height of his career (2005–2008), he was also recognized as one of the best goalkeepers in the world.
22/01/1972
Terry Hill, Australian rugby league player (died 2024)
Terence Christopher Hill was an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played as a centre in the 1990s and 2000s. He played in the NRL for the South Sydney Rabbitohs, Eastern Suburbs, Western Suburbs Magpies, Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles and the Wests Tigers as well as representative football for New South Wales and Australia. He was also well known for his promotional television work with Lowes Menswear.
Gabriel Macht, American actor
Gabriel Swann Macht is an American retired actor, known for his role as Harvey Specter in the USA Network series Suits (2011–2019).
22/01/1971
Stan Collymore, English footballer and sportscaster
Stanley Victor Collymore is an English football pundit, sport strategist, and former player who played as a striker from 1990 to 2001, most notably for Nottingham Forest and later Liverpool, who he joined from the former for an English transfer record of £8.5 million in 1995. In addition, he was Aston Villa's record signing He is currently senior football strategist at Southend United.
Katie Finneran, American actress
Katie Finneran is an American actress best known for her Tony Award–winning performances in the Broadway play Noises Off in 2002, and the musical Promises, Promises in 2010.
22/01/1970
Abraham Olano, Spanish cyclist
Abraham Olano Manzano is a Spanish retired professional road racing cyclist, who raced as a professional from 1992 to 2002. He won the World Road Championship in 1995, and the World Time Trial Championship in 1998, becoming the first male cyclist to win both.
22/01/1969
Olivia d'Abo, English-American singer-songwriter and actress
Olivia Jane d'Abo is a British actress and singer. She is known for her roles as Karen Arnold, Kevin Arnold's rebellious teenage hippie sister in the ABC comedy-drama series The Wonder Years (1988–1993), as female serial killer Nicole Wallace in Law & Order: Criminal Intent, as Marie Blake on The Single Guy (1995–1997), and Jane Porter in The Legend of Tarzan (2001–2003). Her film appearances include roles in Conan the Destroyer (1984) and Bank Robber (1993).
22/01/1968
Guy Fieri, American chef, author, and television host
Guy Ramsay Fieri is an American restaurateur, author, and television presenter. He co-owned three now-defunct restaurants in California. He licenses his name to restaurants in cities all over the world, and is known for hosting various television series on the Food Network. In 2010, The New York Times reported that Fieri had become the "face of the network", bringing an "element of rowdy, mass-market culture to American food television" and that his "prime-time shows attract more male viewers than any others on the network".
Heath, Japanese singer-songwriter and bass player (died 2023)
Hiroshi Morie , known exclusively by his stage name Heath, was a Japanese musician and singer-songwriter. He was best known as bass guitarist of the rock band X Japan from 1992 to 1997, and again from 2007 until his death in 2023. In 2018, readers and professional musicians voted Heath the seventh best bassist in the history of hard rock and heavy metal in We Rock magazine's "Metal General Election".
Frank Leboeuf, French footballer, sportscaster, and actor
Franck Alain James Leboeuf, commonly known as Frank Leboeuf, is a French actor, sports commentator and former footballer who played as a centre-back. With the France national team, Leboeuf won the 1998 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2000 as well as a number of domestic trophies, most famously during his five years at Chelsea. Since the conclusion of his playing career, Leboeuf has transitioned to acting, appearing in stage, film productions and is a regular contributor at ESPN FC.
Mauricio Serna, Colombian footballer
Mauricio Alberto "Chicho" Serna Valencia is a Colombian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
22/01/1967
Manabu Nakanishi (中西 学), Japanese wrestler
Manabu Nakanishi is a Japanese retired professional wrestler and former amateur wrestler, who was primarily associated with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). He is a one-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion, one-time G1 Climax winner and three-time IWGP Tag Team Champion.
22/01/1966
Craig Salvatori, Australian rugby league player
Craig Salvatori is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. He spent most of his career at the Eastern Suburbs club. His position of choice was in the front row. Salvatori also played for the South Sydney Rabbitohs as well as representing Australia and New South Wales.
22/01/1965
Steven Adler, American rock drummer
Steven Adler is an American musician. He was the drummer and co-songwriter of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses, with whom he achieved worldwide success in the late 1980s.
DJ Jazzy Jeff, American DJ and producer
Jeffrey Allen Townes, better known by his stage name DJ Jazzy Jeff, is an American DJ, music producer and actor. He was one half of the hip-hop duo DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, along with Will Smith. He is credited, along with DJ Spinbad and DJ Cash Money, with popularizing the transformer scratch.
Diane Lane, American actress
Diane Lane is an American actress. She has starred in numerous leading lady and supporting roles in a huge variety of films ranging from independent film features to major film studio blockbuster productions. Her accolades include nominations for an Academy Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, several Screen Actors Guild Awards, several Satellite Awards, and an ICON Award.
22/01/1964
Nigel Benn, English-Australian boxer
Nigel Gregory Benn is a British former professional boxer now based in Australia who competed from 1987 until 1996. He is a two-weight world champion, having held the WBO middleweight title in 1990 and reigned as the WBC super-middleweight champion from 1992 to 1996. He held the regional Commonwealth middleweight title from 1988 to 1989. Benn was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2026.
Stojko Vranković, Croatian basketball player
Stojan "Stojko" Vranković is a Croatian professional basketball executive and former player. He served as the president of the Croatian Basketball Federation from 2016 to 2022.
22/01/1962
Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu, Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia
Al-Wathiqu Billah Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin ibni Almarhum Sultan Mahmud Al-Muktafi Billah Shah is the Sultan of Terengganu, reigning since 1998. He previously reigned as the King of Malaysia, from 2006 to 2011.
22/01/1961
Quintin Dailey, American basketball player (died 2010)
Quintin "Q" Dailey was an American professional basketball player. A 6'3" guard who played collegiately at the University of San Francisco, he later went on to a career in the NBA, playing for the Chicago Bulls, Los Angeles Clippers, and Seattle SuperSonics over the course of his 10-year tenure in the league.
22/01/1960
Michael Hutchence, Australian singer-songwriter (died 1997)
Michael Kelland John Hutchence was an Australian singer and songwriter. He was the co-founder, lead singer and lyricist of the rock band INXS from 1977 until his death in 1997. The band sold over 50 million records worldwide, making them one of Australia's highest-selling music acts of all time. INXS were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2001.
22/01/1959
Linda Blair, American actress
Linda Denise Blair is an American actress and activist. Her breakthrough role came with playing Regan MacNeil in the horror film The Exorcist (1973), which established her both as a scream queen and in popular culture. The role earned her a Golden Globe and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She reprised the role in two sequels: Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) and The Exorcist: Believer (2023).
22/01/1958
Nikos Anastopoulos, Greek footballer and manager
Nikos Anastopoulos is a Greek former footballer and manager, who is currently the manager of Super League 2 club Chania. He was one the most prolific strikers in the Greek league during the 1980s and is widely regarded as one of the best players in the history of Greek football.
Filiz Koçali, Turkish journalist and politician
Filiz Koçali is a female Turkish politician and a feminist activist and journalist. She was a founder member of the Freedom and Solidarity Party (ÖDP) in 1996 and of the break-away Socialist Democracy Party (SDP) in 2002, and was secretary general of the SDP from 2004 to 2009. She is now a member of the Peace and Democracy Party.
Charles White, American football player (died 2023)
Charles Raymond White was an American professional football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for nine seasons from 1980 to 1988. He played college football for the USC Trojans, where he was a twice unanimous All-American and the winner of the Heisman Trophy. He was selected by the Cleveland Browns in the first round of the 1980 NFL draft. He also played for the Los Angeles Rams.
22/01/1957
Mike Bossy, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster (died 2022)
Michael Dean Bossy was a Canadian professional ice hockey player with the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League. He spent his entire NHL career, which lasted from 1977 to 1987, with the Islanders, and was a crucial part of their four consecutive Stanley Cup championships in the early 1980s.
Rita Chatterton, American professional wrestling referee
Rita Chatterton is a retired professional wrestling referee.
Godfrey Thoma, Nauruan politician
Godfrey Awaire Thoma is a Nauruan politician and police officer.
22/01/1956
Steve Riley, American drummer (died 2023)
Steve Riley was an American rock drummer, best known for his work with Keel, W.A.S.P., and L.A. Guns.
22/01/1955
Lester Hayes, American football player
Lester Craig Hayes is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback for the Oakland / Los Angeles Raiders of the National Football League (NFL).
Thomas David Jones, American captain, pilot, and astronaut
Thomas David Jones is a former United States astronaut. He was selected to the astronaut corps in 1990 and completed four Space Shuttle flights before retiring in 2001. He flew on STS-59 and STS-68 in 1994, STS-80 in 1996, and STS-98 in 2001. His total mission time was 53 days 48 minutes. He works as a planetary scientist, space operations consultant, astronaut speaker, and author.
John Wesley Shipp, American actor
John Wesley Shipp is an American actor known for his various television roles. He played the lead Barry Allen on CBS's superhero series The Flash from 1990 to 1991, and Mitch Leery, the title character's father, on the drama series Dawson's Creek from 1998 to 2001. Shipp has also played several roles in daytime soap operas including Kelly Nelson on Guiding Light from 1980 to 1984, and Douglas Cummings on As the World Turns from 1985 to 1986. He portrayed Barry Allen's father Henry, Earth-3 Flash Jay Garrick, and Earth-90's Barry Allen on the CW's The Flash series.
22/01/1954
Tully Blanchard, Canadian-American wrestler
Tully Arthur Blanchard is an American-Canadian professional wrestler and manager. He is best known for his appearances with Jim Crockett Promotions and the World Wrestling Federation in the mid-to-late 1980s as a member of The Four Horsemen and the Brain Busters. Championships held by Blanchard over his career include the NWA Television Championship, NWA World Tag Team Championship, WWF World Tag Team Championship, and NWA United States Heavyweight Championship. He was inducted into the NWA Hall of Fame in 2009 and the WWE Hall of Fame in 2012.
22/01/1953
Winfried Berkemeier, German footballer and manager
Winfried Berkemeier is a former German footballer.
Myung-whun Chung, South Korean pianist and conductor
Myung-whun Chung is a South Korean conductor and pianist.
Jim Jarmusch, American director and screenwriter
James Robert Jarmusch is an American filmmaker and musician.
22/01/1951
Ondrej Nepela, Slovak figure skater and coach (died 1989)
Ondrej Nepela was a Slovak figure skater who represented Czechoslovakia. He was the 1972 Olympic champion, a three-time World champion (1971–1973), and a five-time European champion (1969–1973). Later in his career, he performed professionally and became a coach.
22/01/1950
Paul Bew, Northern Irish historian and academic
Paul Anthony Elliott Bew, Baron Bew, is a British historian from Northern Ireland and a life peer. He has worked at Queen's University Belfast since 1979, and is currently Professor of Irish Politics, a position he has held since 1991.
Frank Schade, American basketball player and coach
Frank Schade is an American former professional basketball player and coach.
22/01/1949
Steve Perry, American singer-songwriter and producer
Stephen Ray Perry is an American singer and songwriter. He was the lead singer and frontman of the rock band Journey during their most successful years from 1977 to 1987, and again from 1995 to 1998. He wrote/co-wrote several Journey hit songs, including "Any Way You Want It", "Don't Stop Believin'", "Open Arms", "Who's Crying Now" and "Separate Ways ". Perry had a solo career between the mid-1980s and mid-1990s, made sporadic appearances in the 2000s, and returned to music full-time in 2018.
22/01/1947
Vladimir Oravsky, Czech-Swedish author and director
Vladimir Oravsky is a Slovak-born Swedish author and film director.
22/01/1946
Malcolm McLaren, English singer-songwriter and manager (died 2010)
Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren was an English fashion designer, entrepreneur and music manager. He was a promoter and a manager for punk rock and new wave bands such as New York Dolls, Sex Pistols, Adam and the Ants, and Bow Wow Wow, and was an early influencer of the punk subculture.
Serge Savard, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
Serge Aubrey Savard is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman, most famously with the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League (NHL). He also served as the Canadiens' Senior Vice President of Hockey Operations and as their general manager. He is a businessman in Montreal, and is nicknamed "The Senator." In 2017 Savard was named one of the 100 Greatest NHL Players in history.
22/01/1945
Christoph Schönborn, Austrian cardinal
Christoph Maria Michael Hugo Damian Peter Adalbert Schönborn, OP is a Bohemian-born Austrian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Vienna from 1995 until 2025. He was chairman of the Austrian Bishops' Conference from 1998 to 2020 and was made a cardinal in 1998. He is a member of the Dominican Order.
22/01/1944
Khosrow Golsorkhi, Iranian journalist, poet, and activist (died 1974)
Khosrow Golsorkhi was an Iranian journalist, poet, and Marxist activist. Golsorkhi was the chief editor of the art section for Kayhan newspaper in 1969, where he gained popularity for his leftist and revolutionary poetry.
22/01/1942
Mimis Domazos, Greek footballer (died 2025)
Dimitris "Mimis" Domazos was a Greek professional football player who played as an attacking midfielder. His nickname was "The General" (Greek: "Ο Στρατηγός").
22/01/1941
Jaan Kaplinski, Estonian poet, philosopher, and critic (died 2021)
Jaan Kaplinski was an Estonian poet, philosopher, politician, and culture critic, known for his focus on global issues and support for left-wing/liberal thinking. He was influenced by Eastern philosophical schools.
22/01/1940
John Hurt, English actor (died 2017)
Sir John Vincent Hurt was an English actor. Regarded as one of the finest actors of his generation and described as having the "most distinctive voice in Britain", he was referred to by David Lynch as "simply the greatest actor in the world". In a career spanning more than five decades, he received numerous accolades, including four BAFTAs and a Golden Globe in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards. He was knighted in 2015 for his services to drama.
Gillian Shephard, English educator and politician, Secretary of State for Education
Gillian Patricia Shephard, Baroness Shephard of Northwold,, is a British Conservative politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for South West Norfolk from 1987 to 2005. Shephard served as a Cabinet Minister, and is now Chairman of the Association of Conservative Peers.
22/01/1939
Jørgen Garde, Danish admiral (died 1996)
Hans Jørgen Garde was a Danish admiral.
Alfredo Palacio, Ecuadoran physician and politician, President of Ecuador (died 2025)
Luis Alfredo Palacio González was an Ecuadorian cardiologist and politician who was the 44th president of Ecuador from 2005 to 2007. He had been the 44th vice president under President Lucio Gutiérrez, until he was appointed to the presidency when the Ecuadorian Congress removed Gutiérrez from power following a week of growing unrest with his government. He previously served as Minister of Health between 1994 and 1996.
Luigi Simoni, Italian footballer and manager (died 2020)
Luigi "Gigi" Simoni was an Italian football official, player and manager. A skilled tactician, as a coach Simoni enjoyed notable success in earning promotion from Serie B to Serie A with the teams he managed, a feat he achieved seven times with five different clubs.
J. C. Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player and scout (died 1994)
Joseph Henri Jean-Claude Tremblay was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League (NHL) and the Quebec Nordiques of the World Hockey Association (WHA), notable for playmaking and defensive skills.
22/01/1938
Peter Beard, Australian photographer and author (died 2020)
Peter Hill Beard was an American artist, photographer, diarist, and writer. He lived and worked in New York City, Montauk, Long Island and Kenya. His photographs of Africa, African animals and the journals that often integrated his photographs, have been widely shown and published since the 1960s.
Altair Gomes de Figueiredo, Brazilian footballer (died 2019)
Altair Gomes de Figueiredo, usually referred to as Altair, was a football defender and a World Champion for Brazil in the 1962 World Cup.
22/01/1937
Alma Delia Fuentes, Mexican actress (died 2017)
Alma Delia Susana Fuentes González was a Mexican actress of film, television, and theatre.
Edén Pastora, Nicaraguan politician (died 2020)
Edén Atanacio Pastora Gómez was a Nicaraguan politician and guerrilla who ran for president as the candidate of the Alternative for Change (AC) party in the 2006 general elections. In the years prior to the fall of the Somoza regime, Pastora was the leader of the Southern Front, the largest militia in southern Nicaragua, second only to the FSLN in the north. Pastora was nicknamed Comandante Cero.
Joseph Wambaugh, American author (died 2025)
Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh Jr. was an American writer known for his fictional and nonfictional accounts of police work in the United States. Many of his novels are set in Los Angeles and its surroundings and feature Los Angeles police officers as protagonists. He won three Edgar Awards, and was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America.
22/01/1936
Ong Teng Cheong, Singaporean architect and politician, 5th President of Singapore (died 2002)
Ong Teng Cheong was a Singaporean architect and politician who served as the fifth president of Singapore between 1993 and 1999 after winning the 1993 presidential election.
Alan J. Heeger, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
Alan Jay Heeger is an American physicist, academic and Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry.
22/01/1934
Vijay Anand, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2004)
Vijay Anand, also known as Goldie Anand, was an Indian filmmaker, producer, screenwriter, editor and actor, who is known for acclaimed films such as Guide (1965), Teesri Manzil (1966), Jewel Thief (1967) and Johny Mera Naam (1970). He made most of his films for the in-house banner Navketan Films and was part of the Anand family.
Bill Bixby, American actor and director (died 1993)
Wilfred Bailey Everett Bixby III was an American actor and television director. His career spanned more than three decades, including appearances on stage, in films, and on television series. He is known for his roles in the CBS sitcom My Favorite Martian as Tim O'Hara, in the ABC sitcom The Courtship of Eddie's Father as Tom Corbett, in the NBC crime drama series The Magician as stage illusionist Anthony Blake, in the ABC miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man as Willie Abbott, and the CBS science-fiction drama series The Incredible Hulk as Dr. David Bruce Banner.
22/01/1933
Yuri Chesnokov, Russian volleyball player and coach (died 2010)
Yuri Borisovich Chesnokov was a Russian volleyball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1964 Summer Olympics. He was born in Moscow.
22/01/1932
Berthold Grünfeld, Norwegian psychiatrist and academic (died 2007)
Berthold Grünfeld was a Norwegian psychiatrist, sexologist, and professor of social medicine at the University of Oslo. He was also a recognized expert in forensic psychiatry, often employed by Norwegian courts to examine insanity defense pleas.
Piper Laurie, American actress (died 2023)
Piper Laurie was an American actress. She is known for her roles in the films The Hustler (1961), Carrie (1976), and Children of a Lesser God (1986), and the miniseries The Thorn Birds (1983). She played Kirsten Arnesen in the original TV production of Days of Wine and Roses, and Catherine Martell in the television series Twin Peaks.
Tom Railsback, American politician (died 2020)
Thomas Fisher Railsback was an American politician and lawyer who served eight terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1967 to 1983 for Illinois's 19th congressional district. A member of the Republican Party, he sat on the House Judiciary Committee, which in 1974, voted to refer articles of impeachment against President Richard Nixon to the full House.
22/01/1931
Sam Cooke, American singer-songwriter (died 1964)
Samuel Cooke was an American soul singer and songwriter. Considered one of the most influential soul artists of all time, Cooke is commonly referred to as the "King of Soul" for his distinctive vocals, pioneering contributions to the genre, and significance in popular music. During his thirteen-year career, Cooke released 29 singles that charted in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, as well as 20 singles in the Top 10 of Billboard's Black Singles chart. In 1964, he was shot and killed by the manager of a motel in Los Angeles. After an inquest and investigation, the courts ruled Cooke's death to be a justifiable homicide. His family has since questioned the circumstances of his death. In 2015, Cooke was ranked number 28 in Billboard magazine's list of the "35 Greatest R&B Artists of All Time".
Galina Zybina, Russian shot putter and javelin thrower (died 2024)
Galina Ivanovna Zybina was a Soviet and Russian athlete and coach. She competed in the shot put at the 1952, 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics and finished in first, second, seventh and third place, respectively; in 1952, she also finished fourth in the javelin throw. Between 1952 and 1956, she set eight consecutive world records and 14 national records in the shot put. In 1953, she became the first woman to throw over 16 meters when she threw 16.20 m.
22/01/1930
Mariví Bilbao, Spanish actress (died 2013)
María Victoria Bilbao-Goyoaga Álvarez better known by her stage name Mariví Bilbao was a Spanish actress, especially famous for her roles as Marisa Benito in Aquí no hay quien viva and Izaskun Sagastume in La que se avecina TV series.
Daniel Camargo Barbosa, Colombian serial killer (died 1994)
Daniel Camargo Barbosa was a Colombian serial killer and rapist. He is one of the most prolific serial killers in history and is believed to have raped and murdered at least 72 young girls in Colombia and Ecuador during the 1970s and 1980s.
Éamon de Buitléar, Irish wildlife filmmaker, naturalist, writer and musician (died 2013)
Éamon de Buitléar was an Irish wildlife filmmaker, naturalist, writer and musician. He was managing director of Éamon de Buitléar Ltd., a company which specialised in wildlife filming and television documentaries.
22/01/1929
Petr Eben, Czech composer, organist and choirmaster (died 2007)
Petr Eben was a Czech composer of modern and contemporary classical music, and an organist and choirmaster.
22/01/1928
Yoshihiko Amino, Japanese historian, author, and academic (died 2004)
Yoshihiko Amino was a Japanese Marxist historian and public intellectual, perhaps most singularly known for his novel examination of medieval Japanese history.
22/01/1927
Lou Creekmur, American football player and sportscaster (died 2009)
Louis Creekmur was an American professional football offensive tackle who played for 10 years from 1950 to 1959 with the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL). He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1996.
Joe Perry, American football player (died 2011)
Fletcher Joseph Perry was an American professional football fullback who played in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) and National Football League (NFL). He played for the San Francisco 49ers from 1948 to 1960, the Baltimore Colts from 1961 to 1962, and returned to the 49ers in 1963 for his final year in football. He was exceptionally fast, a trait uncommon for a fullback and one which earned him the nickname, "the Jet". The first African-American to be named the NFL Most Valuable Player (MVP), he became one of American football's first black stars.
22/01/1924
J. J. Johnson, American trombonist and composer (died 2001)
J. J. Johnson, born James Louis Johnson and also known as Jay Jay Johnson, was an American jazz trombonist, composer, and arranger.
Ján Chryzostom Korec, Slovak cardinal (died 2015)
Ján Chryzostom Korec, SJ was a Slovak Jesuit priest and a cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was ordained as a priest in 1950 and consecrated as a bishop in 1951.
Charles Lisanby, American production designer and art director (died 2013)
Charles Alvin Lisanby Jr. was an American production designer who had a formative role for scenic design in early color television. During his career, Lisanby was nominated for sixteen Emmys and won three. In January 2010, he was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame at the nineteenth annual ceremony alongside Don Pardo, the Smothers Brothers, Bob Stewart, and Gene Roddenberry. Aside from his success in the entertainment industry, Lisanby was known for his friendship with the artist Andy Warhol.
22/01/1923
Diana Douglas, British-American actress (died 2015)
Diana Love Webster, known professionally as Diana Douglas, was a Bermudian-American actress who was married to actor Kirk Douglas from 1943 until their divorce in 1951. She was the mother of Michael and Joel Douglas.
22/01/1922
Howard Moss, American poet, playwright and critic (died 1987)
Howard Moss was an American poet, dramatist and critic. He was poetry editor of The New Yorker magazine from 1948 until his death and he won the National Book Award in 1972 for Selected Poems.
22/01/1920
Irving Kristol, American journalist, author, and academic, founded The National Interest (died 2009)
Irving William Kristol was an American journalist and writer. As a founder, editor, and contributor to various magazines, he played an influential role in the intellectual and political culture of the latter half of the twentieth century. He was dubbed the "godfather of neoconservatism". After his death, he was described by The Daily Telegraph as being "perhaps the most consequential public intellectual of the latter half of the century". He is the father of political writer Bill Kristol.
Alf Ramsey, English footballer and coach (died 1999)
Sir Alfred Ernest Ramsey was an English football player and manager. As a player, he represented the England national team and captained the side, but he is best known for his time as England manager from 1963 to 1974, which included guiding them to victory in the 1966 FIFA World Cup. Knighted in 1967 in recognition of the World Cup win, Ramsey also managed his country to third place in the 1968 European Championship and the quarter-finals of the 1970 World Cup and the 1972 European Championship. As a player, Ramsey was a defender and a member of England's 1950 World Cup squad.
22/01/1919
Diomedes Olivo, Dominican baseball player and scout (died 1977)
Diomedes Antonio Olivo Maldonado, nicknamed "Guayubin" for his hometown, was a Dominican professional baseball player, manager, and scout. The left-handed pitcher appeared in 85 Major League Baseball games over all or part of three seasons between 1960 and 1963 for the Pittsburgh Pirates and St. Louis Cardinals. He was the brother of fellow major leaguer Chi-Chi Olivo, and the father of major league pitcher Gilberto Rondón.
22/01/1918
Elmer Lach, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2015)
Elmer James Lach was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played 14 seasons for the Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League (NHL). A centre, he was a member of the Punch line, along with Maurice Richard and Toe Blake. Lach led the NHL in scoring twice and was awarded the Hart Trophy in 1945 as the league's most valuable player.
22/01/1917
Bruce Shand, British Army officer, and father of Queen Camilla (died 2006)
Bruce Middleton Hope Shand was a British Army officer who served in France as part of the British Expeditionary Force during the Second World War. He was the father of Queen Camilla.
22/01/1916
Bill Durnan, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 1972)
William Ronald Durnan was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played with the Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League (NHL) between 1943 and 1950. He was one of the best goaltenders in his time, winning the Vezina Trophy for fewest goals allowed six times, being named First All-Star team as best goaltender six times, and helping the Canadiens win the Stanley Cup twice. Durnan retired in 1950, citing the stress of playing professional hockey. However, in his final season he suffered a severe laceration of the scalp, but was only sidelined 12 days and returned heroically for the playoffs. When the series was all but lost, he stepped away from the game. He served as the captain of the Canadiens in 1948, the last goaltender to be allowed to do so. In 1964 Durnan was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, and in 2017 he was named one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history.
Henri Dutilleux, French pianist, composer, and educator (died 2013)
Henri Paul Julien Dutilleux was a French composer of late 20th-century classical music. Among the leading French composers of his time, his work was rooted in the Impressionistic style of Debussy and Ravel, but in an idiosyncratic, individual style. Among his best-known works are his early Flute Sonatine and Piano Sonata; concertos for cello, Tout un monde lointain... and violin, L'arbre des songes ; a string quartet known as Ainsi la nuit ; and two symphonies: No. 1 (1951) and No. 2 Le Double (1959).
Harilal Upadhyay, Indian author, poet, and astrologist (died 1994)
Harilal Upadhyay was a Gujarati novelist and poet. He wrote more than 100 books.
22/01/1915
Heinrich Albertz, German theologian and politician, Mayor of Berlin (died 1993)
Heinrich Albertz was a German Protestant theologian, priest and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He served as Governing Mayor of Berlin from 1966 to 1967.
22/01/1914
Dimitris Dragatakis, Greek violinist and composer (died 2001)
Dimitris Dragatakis was a Greek composer of classical music and Greek art music.
22/01/1913
Henry Bauchau, Belgian psychoanalyst and author (died 2012)
Henry Bauchau was a Belgian political activist and psychoanalyst who is best known as an author of poetry, novels, and plays in French language.
William Conway, Irish cardinal (died 1977)
William John Conway was an Irish cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland from 1963 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1965. He was head of the Catholic Church in Ireland during the reforms of the Second Vatican Council.
Carl F. H. Henry, American theologian and publisher (died 2003)
Carl Ferdinand Howard Henry was an American evangelical Christian theologian who provided intellectual and institutional leadership to the neo-evangelical movement in the mid-to-late 20th century. He was ordained in 1942 after graduating from Northern Baptist Theological Seminary and went on to teach and lecture at various schools and publish and edit many works surrounding the neo-evangelical movement. His early book, The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism (1947), was influential in calling evangelicals to differentiate themselves from separatist fundamentalism and claim a role in influencing the wider American culture. He was involved in the creation of numerous major evangelical organizations that contributed to his influence in Neo-evangelicalism and lasting legacy, including the National Association of Evangelicals, Fuller Theological Seminary, Evangelical Theological Society, Christianity Today magazine, and the Institute for Advanced Christian Studies. The Carl F. H. Henry Institute for Evangelical Engagement at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and the Carl F. H. Henry Center for Theological Understanding at Trinity International University seek to carry on his legacy. His ideas about Neo-evangelism are still debated to this day and his legacy continues to inspire change in American social and political culture.
22/01/1911
Bruno Kreisky, Austrian lawyer and politician, 22nd Chancellor of Austria (died 1990)
Bruno Kreisky was an Austrian social democratic politician who served as foreign minister from 1959 to 1966 and as chancellor from 1970 to 1983. Aged 72, he was the oldest chancellor after World War II.
22/01/1909
Martha Norelius, Swedish-born American swimmer (died 1955)
Martha Maria Norelius was a Swedish-born American competition swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, and former world record-holder in five different freestyle swimming events.
Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican racing driver, polo player, and diplomat (died 1965)
Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza was a Dominican diplomat, race car driver, soldier and polo player. He was a supporter of dictator Rafael Trujillo, and was rumored to be a political assassin under his regime. Rubirosa made his mark as an international playboy for his jetsetting lifestyle and his legendary sexual prowess with women. His five spouses included two of the richest women in the world.
Ann Sothern, American actress and singer (died 2001)
Ann Sothern was an American actress who worked on stage, radio, film, and television in a career that spanned nearly six decades. Sothern began her career in the late 1920s in bit parts in films. In 1930 she made her Broadway stage debut and soon worked her way up to starring roles. In 1939 MGM cast her as Maisie Ravier, a brash yet lovable Brooklyn showgirl. The character proved to be popular and spawned a successful film series and a network radio series.
U Thant, Burmese educator and diplomat, 3rd United Nations Secretary-General (died 1974)
Thant, known honorifically as U Thant, was a Burmese diplomat and the third secretary-general of the United Nations from 1961 to 1971, the first non-Scandinavian as well as Asian to hold the position. He held the office for a record 10 years and one month.
22/01/1908
Lev Landau, Azerbaijani-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1968)
Lev Davidovich Landau was a Soviet physicist who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics. He was considered as one of the last scientists who were universally well-versed and made seminal contributions to all branches of physics. He is credited with laying the foundations of twentieth century condensed matter physics, and is also considered arguably the greatest Soviet theoretical physicist.
22/01/1907
Douglas Corrigan, American pilot and engineer, famous "wrong way" early solo flyer of the Atlantic (died 1995)
Douglas Corrigan was an American aviator, nicknamed "Wrong Way" in 1938. After a transcontinental flight in July from Long Beach, California, to New York City, he then flew from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn to Ireland, although his flight plan was filed to return to Long Beach.
Dixie Dean, English footballer (died 1980)
William Ralph "Dixie" Dean was an English footballer who played as a centre forward. Dean holds the record for the most goals scored in a single season in top-flight English football, with 60. He is regarded as one of the greatest centre forwards of his time and was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame in 2002.
22/01/1906
Robert E. Howard, American author and poet (died 1936)
Robert Ervin Howard was an American writer who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He created the character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre.
22/01/1905
Willy Hartner, German physicist, historian, and academic (died 1981)
Willy Hartner was a German scientist and polymath. He studied at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, where he obtained his PhD in physics in 1928 and where he later served as professor from 1940, as ordinary professor [German academic terminology] from 1946.
22/01/1904
George Balanchine, Georgian-American dancer, choreographer, and director, co-founded the New York City Ballet (died 1983)
George Balanchine was a Georgian-American ballet choreographer, recognized as one of the most influential choreographers of the 20th century. Styled as the father of American ballet, he co-founded the New York City Ballet and remained its artistic director for more than 35 years. His choreography is characterized by plotless ballets with minimal costume and décor, performed to classical and neoclassical music.
Arkady Gaidar, Russian journalist and author (died 1941)
Arkady Petrovich Gaidar was a Russian Soviet writer, whose stories were very popular among Soviet children, and a Red Army commander.
22/01/1903
Fritz Houtermans, Polish-German physicist and academic (died 1966)
Friedrich Georg "Fritz" Houtermans was a Dutch-Austrian-German atomic and nuclear physicist and Communist born in Zoppot near Danzig, West Prussia to a Dutch father, who was a wealthy banker. He was brought up in Vienna, where he was educated, and moved to Göttingen when he was 18 to study. It was in Göttingen where he obtained his Ph.D. under James Franck. With Robert d'Escourt Atkinson, he made the first estimates of the rate of stellar nuclear fusion.
22/01/1902
Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler, coach, and academic (died 1970)
Daniel Chapin Kinsey was an American hurdler and scholar in physical education.
22/01/1900
Ernst Busch, German actor and singer (died 1980)
Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Busch was a German singer and actor. He is best known for singing German socialist songs and was active during the Civil War in Spain and World War II.
James Hamilton Doggart, English ophthalmic surgeon (died 1989)
James Hamilton Doggart was a leading ophthalmologist, lecturer, writer, cricketer, and a member of the Cambridge Apostles and the Bloomsbury Group.
22/01/1899
Martti Haavio, Finnish poet and mythologist (died 1973)
Martti Henrikki Haavio was a Finnish poet, folklorist and mythologist, writing poetry under the pen name P. Mustapää. He was born on 22 January 1899 in Temmes, and died on 4 February 1973 in Helsinki. He was also a professor of folklore and an influential researcher of Finnish mythology. In 1960, Haavio married Aale Tynni, after his first wife Elsa Enäjärvi-Haavio died in 1951 of cancer. His daughter, Elina Haavio-Mannila, was a social scientist. During Haavio's early career, he was a member of the Tulenkantajat literature club.
22/01/1898
Ross Barnett, American lawyer and politician, 52nd Governor of Mississippi (died 1987)
Ross Robert Barnett was an American politician who served as the 53rd governor of Mississippi from 1960 to 1964. He was a Southern Democrat who supported racial segregation.
Sergei Eisenstein, Russian director and screenwriter (died 1948)
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was a Soviet film director, screenwriter, film editor and film theorist. Considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, he was a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage. He is noted in particular for his silent films Strike (1925), Battleship Potemkin (1925) and October (1928), as well as the historical epics Alexander Nevsky (1938) and Ivan the Terrible (1945/1958). In its decennial poll, the magazine Sight and Sound named his Battleship Potemkin the 54th-greatest film of all time.
Denise Legeay, French actress (died 1968)
Denise Augusta Marguerite Legeay was a French film actress whose popularity peaked during the silent film era of the 1920s.
22/01/1897
Rosa Ponselle, American operatic soprano (died 1981)
Rosa Ponzillo, known as Rosa Ponselle was an American operatic dramatic soprano.
Dilipkumar Roy, a Bengali Indian musician, musicologist, novelist, poet and essayist. (died 1980)
Dilip Kumar Roy, also spelt Dilipkumar Roy, was an Indian musician, singer, musicologist, novelist, poet, essayist and yogi. He was the son of Dwijendralal Ray. In 1965, the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama, awarded him its highest honour for lifetime achievement, the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship.
22/01/1893
Conrad Veidt, German-American actor, director, and producer (died 1943)
Hans Walter Conrad Veidt was a German and British character actor. He attracted early attention for his roles in the films Different from the Others (1919), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), and The Man Who Laughs (1928). After a successful career in German silent films, where he was one of the best-paid stars of UFA, Veidt and his new Jewish wife Ilona Prager left Germany in 1933 after the Nazis came to power. The couple settled in Britain, where he became a British subject in 1939. Veidt subsequently appeared in many British films, including The Thief of Bagdad (1940). After emigrating to the United States around 1941, he was cast as Major Strasser in Casablanca (1942), his last film role to be released during his lifetime.
22/01/1892
Marcel Dassault, French businessman, founded Dassault Aviation (died 1986)
Marcel Dassault was a French engineer and industrialist who spent his career in aircraft manufacturing. He was also involved in politics, serving intermittently over more than three decades in both houses of the French Parliament from 1951 until his death in 1986.
22/01/1891
Antonio Gramsci, Italian philosopher and politician (died 1937)
Antonio Francesco Gramsci was an Italian Marxist philosopher, journalist and politician. He was a founding member and one-time leader of the Italian Communist Party. A vocal critic of Benito Mussolini and fascism, he was imprisoned in 1926, and remained in prison until shortly before his death in 1937.
22/01/1890
Fred M. Vinson, American judge and politician, 13th Chief Justice of the United States (died 1953)
Frederick Moore Vinson was an American attorney and politician who served as the 13th chief justice of the United States from 1946 until his death in 1953. Vinson was one of the few Americans to have served in all three branches of the U.S. government. Before becoming chief justice, Vinson served as a U.S. representative from Kentucky from 1924 to 1928 and 1930 to 1938, as a federal appellate judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1938 to 1943, and as the U.S. secretary of the treasury from 1945 to 1946.
22/01/1889
Henri Pélissier, French cyclist (died 1935)
Henri Pélissier was a French racing cyclist from Paris and champion of the 1923 Tour de France. In addition to his 29 career victories, he was known for his long-standing feud with Tour founder Henri Desgrange and for protesting against the conditions endured by riders in the early years of the Tour. He was killed by his lover with the gun that his wife had used to commit suicide.
Amos Strunk, American baseball player and manager (died 1979)
Amos Aaron Strunk was a center fielder who played in Major League Baseball from 1908 through 1924. A member of four World Series champion teams, Strunk batted and threw left-handed. He was born in Philadelphia.
22/01/1887
Helen Hoyt, American poet and author (died 1972)
Helen Lyman , commonly known as Helen Hoyt or Helen Hoyt Lyman, was an American poet.
22/01/1886
John J. Becker, American pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1961)
John Joseph Becker was an American composer of contemporary classical music, a pianist, a conductor, a writer on music, and a music administrator. In the early 1930s he was especially active as a conductor, giving midwestern premieres of works by his close friend Charles Ives, as well as music by fellow American composers Carl Ruggles and Wallingford Riegger.
22/01/1881
Ira Thomas, American baseball player and manager (died 1958)
Ira Felix Thomas was an American professional baseball player. He played all or part of ten seasons of Major League Baseball, all in the American League, with the New York Highlanders (1906–07), Detroit Tigers (1908), and Philadelphia Athletics (1909–15), primarily as a catcher.
22/01/1880
Bill O'Neill, Canadian-American baseball player (died 1920)
William John O'Neill was a Canadian outfielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Americans (1904), Washington Senators (1904) and Chicago White Sox (1906). O'Neill was a switch-hitter and threw right-handed. He was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician and academic (died 1956)
Frigyes Riesz was a Hungarian mathematician who made fundamental contributions to functional analysis, as did his younger brother Marcel Riesz.
22/01/1879
Francis Picabia, French painter and poet (died 1953)
Francis Picabia was a French avant-garde painter, writer, filmmaker, magazine publisher, poet, and typographist closely associated with Dada.
22/01/1877
Tom Jones, American baseball player and manager (died 1923)
Thomas Jones was an American baseball player. He played professional baseball, principally as a first baseman, from 1902 to 1915, including eight years in Major League Baseball with the Baltimore Orioles (1902), St. Louis Browns (1904–1909), and Detroit Tigers (1909–1910). He compiled a .251 career batting average in 813 major league games.
22/01/1875
D. W. Griffith, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1948)
David Wark Griffith was an American film director. Considered one of the most influential figures in the history of the motion picture, he pioneered many aspects of film editing and expanded the art of the narrative film.
22/01/1874
Edward Harkness, American philanthropist (died 1940)
Edward Stephen Harkness was an American philanthropist. Given privately and through his family's Commonwealth Fund, Harkness' gifts to private hospitals, art museums, and educational institutions in the Northeastern United States were among the largest of the early twentieth century. He was a major benefactor to Columbia University, Yale University, Harvard University, Phillips Exeter Academy, St. Paul's School, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the University of St Andrews in Scotland. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1934.
Jay Hughes, American baseball player and coach (died 1924)
James H. "Jay" Hughes was an American Major League Baseball pitcher who played four seasons from 1898 to 1902.
22/01/1869
José Vicente de Freitas, Portuguese colonel and politician, 97th Prime Minister of Portugal (died 1952)
José Vicente de Freitas, 2nd Baron of Freitas GCTE ComA GCA was a Portuguese military officer and politician.
22/01/1867
Gisela Januszewska, Jewish-Austrian physician (died 1943)
Gisela Januszewska was an Austrian physician. Having earned her degree in Switzerland, she briefly worked in Germany before becoming the first female physician in the ethnically Serbian town of Banja Luka in Bosnia Herzegovina within the Austro-Hungarian Empire. She received the highest decorations for her service during the First World War and social activism in Austria afterwards, but was deported to a Nazi concentration camp, where she died, during the Second World War.
22/01/1865
Wilbur Scoville, American chemist and pharmacist (died 1942)
Wilbur Lincoln Scoville was an American pharmacist best known for his creation of the "Scoville Organoleptic Test", standardized as the Scoville scale. He devised the test and scale in 1912 while working at the Parke-Davis pharmaceutical company to measure pungency, "spiciness" or "capsaicin concentration" of various chili peppers.
22/01/1861
George Fuller, Australian politician, 22nd Premier of New South Wales (died 1940)
Sir George Warburton Fuller was an Australian politician who served as the 22nd Premier of New South Wales, in office from 1922 to 1925 and for one day in December 1921. He previously served in the federal House of Representatives from 1901 to 1913, representing the Division of Illawarra, and was Minister for Home Affairs under Alfred Deakin from 1909 to 1910.
22/01/1858
Beatrice Webb, English sociologist and economist (died 1943)
Martha Beatrice Webb, Baroness Passfield was an English sociologist, economist, feminist and social reformer. She was among the founders of the London School of Economics and played a crucial role in forming the Fabian Society. Additionally, she authored several popular books, with her most notable being The Co-operative Movement in Great Britain and Industrial Democracy, co-authored by her husband Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, where she coined the term "collective bargaining" as a way to discuss the negotiation process between an employer and a labor union. As a feminist and social reformer, she criticised the exclusion of women from various occupations as well as campaigning for the unionisation of female workers, pushing for legislation that allowed for better hours and conditions.
22/01/1849
August Strindberg, Swedish novelist, poet, and playwright (died 1912)
Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg wrote more than 60 plays and more than 30 works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics during his career, which spanned four decades. A bold experimenter and iconoclast throughout his life, he explored a wide range of dramatic methods and purposes, from naturalistic tragedy, monodrama, and historical plays to his anticipations of expressionist and surrealist dramatic techniques. From his earliest work, Strindberg developed innovative forms of dramatic action, language, and visual composition. He is considered the "father" of modern Swedish literature and his The Red Room (1879) has frequently been described as the first modern Swedish novel. In Sweden, Strindberg is known as an essayist, painter, poet, and especially novelist and playwright, but in other countries he is known mostly as a playwright.
22/01/1840
Ernest Wilberforce, English bishop (died 1907)
Ernest Roland Wilberforce was an Anglican clergyman and bishop. From 1882 to 1896 he was the first Anglican Bishop of Newcastle upon the diocese's creation, and from 1896 to 1907 he was Bishop of Chichester.
22/01/1831
Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (died 1917)
Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein was a German prince who became a member of the British royal family through his marriage to Princess Helena of the United Kingdom, the fifth child and third daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
22/01/1828
Dayrolles Eveleigh-de-Moleyns, 4th Baron Ventry, Irish hereditary peer (died 1914)
Dayrolles Blakeney Eveleigh-de-Moleyns, 4th Baron Ventry, DL, JP, was an Irish hereditary peer, elected as an Irish representative peer in 1871.
22/01/1802
Richard Upjohn, English-American architect (died 1878)
Richard Upjohn was a British-American architect who immigrated to the United States and became most famous for his Gothic Revival churches. He was partially responsible for launching the movement to popularity in the United States. Upjohn also did extensive work in and helped to popularize the Italianate style. He was a founder and the first president of the American Institute of Architects. His son, Richard Michell Upjohn, (1828-1903), was also a well-known architect and served as a partner in his continued architectural firm in New York.
22/01/1799
Ludger Duvernay, Canadian journalist, publisher, and politician (died 1852)
Ludger Duvernay, born in Verchères, Quebec, was a printer by profession and published a number of newspapers including the Gazette des Trois-Rivières, the first newspaper in Lower Canada outside of Quebec City and Montreal, and also La Minerve, which supported the Parti patriote and Louis-Joseph Papineau in the years leading up to the Lower Canada Rebellion.
22/01/1797
Maria Leopoldina of Austria (died 1826)
Dona Maria Leopoldina of Austria was the first Empress of Brazil as the wife of Emperor Dom Pedro I from 12 October 1822 until her death. She was also Queen of Portugal during her husband's brief reign as King Dom Pedro IV from 10 March to 2 May 1826.
22/01/1796
Karl Ernst Claus, Estonian-Russian chemist, botanist, and academic (died 1864)
Karl Ernst Claus, also known as Karl Klaus or Carl Claus, was a Russian chemist and naturalist. Claus was a professor at Kazan University and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was primarily known as a chemist and discoverer of the chemical element ruthenium, which he named after his homeland of Russia, but also as one of the first scientists who applied quantitative methods in botany.
22/01/1792
Lady Lucy Whitmore, English noblewoman, hymn writer (died 1840)
Lady Lucy Whitmore was an English noblewoman and a hymn writer from Shropshire. She was the author of Family prayers for every day in the week (1824), which included fourteen original hymns and went into a second edition in 1827; one of these, "Father, again in Jesus' name we meet", was widely reprinted in hymn collections. Whitmore also published works of religious instruction, including Sunday reading for very little boys and girls (1832) and Morning and evening prayers (1869). She spent much of her life at Dudmaston Hall and was connected through family and friendship to prominent figures of her time.
22/01/1788
Lord Byron, English poet and playwright (died 1824)
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, was a British poet. He was one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, and is regarded as being among the greatest British poets. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narratives Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; many of his shorter lyrics in Hebrew Melodies also became popular.
22/01/1781
François Habeneck, French violinist and conductor (died 1849)
François Antoine Habeneck was a French classical violinist and conductor.
22/01/1740
Noah Phelps, American soldier, lawyer, and judge (died 1809)
Major General Noah Phelps served with the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and afterward was selected as a major general. He also served as justice of the peace and judge of probate in his home state of Connecticut for twenty years. He was chosen as a delegate to the 1788 state convention that ratified the Constitution of the United States.
22/01/1733
Philip Carteret, English admiral and explorer (died 1796)
Rear-Admiral Philip Carteret, Seigneur of Trinity was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who participated in two of the British navy's circumnavigation expeditions in 1764–66 and 1766–69.
22/01/1729
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German philosopher and author (died 1781)
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was a German philosopher, dramatist, publicist and art critic. He was a representative of the Enlightenment. His plays and theoretical writings substantially influenced the development of German literature. He is widely considered by theatre historians to be the first dramaturg in his role at Abel Seyler's Hamburg National Theatre. The word "dramaturgy" first appears in his work Hamburg Dramaturgy.
22/01/1690
Nicolas Lancret, French painter (died 1743)
Nicolas Lancret was a French painter. Born in Paris, he was a brilliant depicter of light comedy which reflected the tastes and manners of French society during the regency of the Duke of Orleans and, later, early reign of King Louis XV.
22/01/1654
Richard Blackmore, English physician and poet (died 1729)
Sir Richard Blackmore, English poet and physician, is remembered primarily as the object of satire and as an epic poet, but he was also a respected medical doctor and theologian.
22/01/1645
William Kidd, Scottish sailor and pirate hunter (probable); (died 1701)
William Kidd, also known as Captain William Kidd or simply Captain Kidd, was a Scottish privateer. Conflicting accounts exist regarding his early life, but he was likely born in Dundee and later settled in New York City. By 1690, Kidd had become a highly successful privateer, commissioned to protect English interests in the Thirteen Colonies in North America and the West Indies.
22/01/1592
Pierre Gassendi, French mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher (died 1655)
Pierre Gassendi was a French philosopher, Catholic priest, astronomer, and mathematician. While he held a church position in south-east France, he also spent much time in Paris, where he was a leader of a group of free-thinking intellectuals. He was also an active observational scientist, publishing the first data on the transit of Mercury in 1631. The lunar crater Gassendi is named after him.
22/01/1570
Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet, of Connington, English historian and politician, founded the Cotton library (died 1631)
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, 1st Baronet of Conington Hall in the parish of Conington in Huntingdonshire, England, was a Member of Parliament and an antiquarian who founded the Cotton library.
22/01/1561
Francis Bacon, English philosopher and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (died 1626)
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I. Bacon argued for the importance of natural philosophy, guided by the scientific method, and his works remained influential throughout the Scientific Revolution.
22/01/1522
Charles II de Valois, Duke of Orléans, (died 1545)
Charles II of Orléans was the third son of Francis I and Claude of France. In the autumn of 1545, Charles was on his way to Boulogne, which was under siege. On 6 September, he came across a cluster of houses that had been emptied and sealed off "from the plague", probably a form of influenza. In the belief that the sons of the King of France were immune to plagues, Charles and one of his brothers entered some of the infected houses. After supposedly lying down on one of the infected beds and rolling around on the bedding, he took ill on the evening of the same day. Charles died on 9 September. During his funeral, the future King Henry II wept for Charles even though his friend, François de Scépeaux, argued that Charles "never loved or esteemed you."
22/01/1440
Ivan III of Russia (died 1505)
Ivan III Vasilyevich, also known as Ivan the Great, was Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1462 until his death in 1505. Ivan served as the co-ruler and regent for his blind father Vasily II before he officially ascended the throne.
22/01/1263
Ibn Taymiyyah, Syrian scholar and theologian (died 1328)
Ibn Taymiyya was a Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist, Mujtahid, traditionist, Qadiri Sufi, proto-Salafist theologian and iconoclast. Born in Harran in 1263 CE and fleeing from the Mongol invasion, he was taught by his grandfather and father in the principles of Islamic Jurisprudence at Damascus. Ibn Taymiyya proved to be a controversial figure among both his contemporaries and in later centuries. Syrian Salafi theologian Muhammad Rashid Rida, one of the major modern proponents of Ibn Taymiyya's works, designated him as the Mujaddid of the 7th Islamic century.
Lives Remembered on 22nd January
On 22nd January, 113 remarkable people passed away — from 239 to 2026. Remember the lives and legacies of those we lost on this day.
22/01/2026
Hifumi Katō, Japanese professional shogi player (born 1940)
Hifumi Katō was a Japanese professional shogi player who achieved the rank of 9-dan. During his career, he won the Meijin, Tenth Dan, Ōi, Kiō and Ōshō major titles. He also held the record for being the youngest to have been awarded regular professional status at age 14 years and 7 months until Sōta Fujii broke it at age 14 years and 2 months in 2016.
22/01/2023
Lin Brehmer, American disc jockey (born 1954)
Lin Brehmer was an American disc jockey and radio personality at WXRT in Chicago. Brehmer hosted mornings on WXRT from 1991 to 2020, and middays from early 2020 until taking a leave of absence to undergo chemotherapy in 2022.
22/01/2022
Thích Nhất Hạnh, Vietnamese Thiền Buddhist monk, peace activist, and founder of the Plum Village Tradition (born 1926)
Thích Nhất Hạnh was a Vietnamese Thiền Buddhist monk, peace activist, prolific author, poet, and teacher, who founded the Plum Village Tradition, historically recognized as the main inspiration for engaged Buddhism. Known as the "father of mindfulness", Nhất Hạnh was a major influence on Western practices of Buddhism.
22/01/2021
Hank Aaron, American baseball player (born 1934)
Henry Louis Aaron, nicknamed "Hammer" or "Hammerin' Hank", was an American professional baseball right fielder who played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), from 1954 through 1976. Considered one of the greatest baseball players in history, he spent 21 seasons with the Milwaukee / Atlanta Braves in the National League (NL) and two seasons with the Milwaukee Brewers in the American League (AL). At the time of his retirement, Aaron held most of the game's key career power-hitting records. He broke the long-standing MLB record for career home runs held by Babe Ruth and remained the career leader for 33 years, until Barry Bonds surpassed his famous total of 755 in 2007. He hit 24 or more home runs every year from 1955 through 1973 and is one of only two players to hit 30 or more home runs in a season at least 15 times.
22/01/2018
Ursula K. Le Guin, American sci-fi and fantasy novelist (born 1929)
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin was an American author. She is best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the Earthsea fantasy series. Her work was first published in 1959, and her literary career spanned nearly sixty years, producing more than twenty novels and more than a hundred short stories, in addition to poetry, literary criticism, translations, and children's books. Frequently described as an author of science fiction, Le Guin has also been called a "major voice in American Letters". Le Guin said that she would prefer to be known as an "American novelist".
William B. Jordan, American art historian (born 1940)
William Bryan Jordan Jr. was an American art historian who facilitated acquisitions, curated exhibitions, and authored publications on Spanish artists and still life paintings, particularly from the Golden Age.
22/01/2017
Masaya Nakamura, Japanese businessman (born 1925)
Masaya Nakamura was a Japanese businessman and the founder of Namco. He was the company's president up until 2002, where he took a ceremonial role in its management. Following the formation of Bandai Namco Holdings, Nakamura would retain an honorary position in the video game division, Bandai Namco Entertainment.
Yordano Ventura, Dominican baseball player (born 1991)
Yordano Ventura Hernández was a Dominican professional baseball pitcher for the Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball (MLB). Ventura made his MLB debut on September 17, 2013. Known as a power pitcher, his fastball topped out at 102 miles per hour (164 km/h) in his career. He won the 2015 World Series with the Royals. On January 22, 2017, Ventura was killed in a car crash in the Dominican Republic.
22/01/2016
Homayoun Behzadi, Iranian footballer and coach (born 1942)
Homayoun Behzadi was an Iranian footballer and coach. He usually played as a striker.
Cecil Parkinson, English politician (born 1931)
Cecil Edward Parkinson, Baron Parkinson, was a British Conservative Party politician and cabinet minister. A chartered accountant by training, he entered Parliament in November 1970, and was appointed a minister in Margaret Thatcher's first government in May 1979. He successfully managed the Conservative Party's 1983 election campaign, and was rewarded with an appointment as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, but was forced to resign following revelations that his former secretary, Sara Keays, was pregnant with his child, whom she later bore and named Flora Keays. Flora was born with severe cerebral palsy.
Lois Ramsey, Australian actress (born 1922)
Lois June Ramsey also billed as Lois Ramsay, was an Australian actress, best known for her regular roles on television series The Box and Prisoner. She often played quirky, eccentric old ladies on television soap operas.
Kamer Genç, Turkish politician (born 1940)
Kamer Genç was a Turkish politician, elected a member of parliament for the Republican People's Party in the 1987 and 1991 elections, for the True Path Party in the 1995 and 1999 elections, as an independent candidate in the 2007 elections, returning to the Republican People's Party on 1 June 2010, for which he was reelected in the 2011 elections.
22/01/2015
Fabrizio de Miranda, Italian engineer and academic, co-designed the Rande Bridge (born 1926)
Fabrizio de Miranda was an Italian bridges and structural engineer and university professor.
Wendell H. Ford, American lieutenant and politician, 53rd Governor of Kentucky (born 1924)
Wendell Hampton Ford was an American politician from Kentucky. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 53rd governor of Kentucky from 1971 to 1974, and as a member of the United States Senate from 1974 to 1999. He was the first person to be successively elected lieutenant governor of Kentucky, governor, and United States Senate member in Kentucky history. He was the Senate Democratic whip from 1991 to 1999, and was considered the leader of the state's Democratic Party from his election as governor in 1971 until he retired from the Senate in 1999. At the time of his retirement he was the longest-serving senator in Kentucky's history, a mark which was then surpassed by Mitch McConnell, in 2009. Ford is the last Democrat to have served as a U.S. Senate member from the state of Kentucky.
Margaret Bloy Graham, Canadian author and illustrator (born 1920)
Margaret Bloy Graham was a Canadian creator of children's books, primarily as an illustrator of picture books. She is best known for her work on Harry the Dirty Dog (1956) and other books in the same series written by her then-husband Gene Zion.
22/01/2014
Maziar Partow, Iranian cinematographer (born 1933)
Maziar Partow was one of the first Iranian cinematographers and had worked as a cameraman on numerous Iranian films. He directed a few movies and edited several more, and was most well known by his title as Director of Photography.
22/01/2013
Robert Bonnaud, French historian and academic (born 1929)
Robert Bonnaud was a French anti-colonialist historian and professor of history at the Paris Diderot University.
Hinton Mitchem, American businessman and politician (born 1938)
Hinton Mitchem was a Democratic member of the Alabama Senate, representing the 9th District from 1979 to January 1987 and then again from June 1987 to January 2011.
22/01/2012
Simon Marsden, English photographer and author (born 1948)
Sir Simon Neville Llewelyn Marsden, 4th Baronet was an English photographer and author. He is known best for his uncommon black-and-white photographs of allegedly haunted houses and places throughout Europe. He succeeded his brother as baronet of Grimsby in Lincolnshire in 1997.
Joe Paterno, American football player and coach (born 1926)
Joseph Vincent Paterno, sometimes referred to as JoePa, was an American college football player, athletic director, and coach. He was the head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions from 1966 to 2011. With 409 victories, Paterno is the most victorious coach in NCAA FBS history. He recorded his 409th victory on October 29, 2011; his career ended with his dismissal from the team on November 9, 2011, as a result of the Penn State child sex abuse scandal. He died 74 days later, of complications from lung cancer.
Clarence Tillenius, Canadian painter and environmentalist (born 1913)
Clarence Tillenius, LL. D. was a Canadian artist, environmentalist, and advocate for the protection of wildlife and wilderness.
Dick Tufeld, American actor (born 1926)
Richard Norton Tufeld was an American actor, announcer, narrator, and voice actor from the late 1940s until the early 21st century. He worked constantly and continuously throughout this lengthy career and was one of the busiest announcers in television history. He was a well-known and well respected presence on television as an announcer on countless television shows, award shows, network promos, radio and movie promos but his most famous role was as the voice of the Robot in the 1960s television series Lost in Space and in the Lost in Space movie.
22/01/2010
Louis R. Harlan, American historian and author (born 1922)
Louis Rudolph Harlan was an American academic historian who wrote a two-volume biography of the African-American educator and social leader Booker T. Washington and edited several volumes of Washington materials. He won the Bancroft Prize in 1973 and 1984, once for each volume, and the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for the second volume.
Jean Simmons, English-American actress (born 1929)
Jean Merilyn Simmons was a British actress and singer. One of J. Arthur Rank's "well-spoken young starlets", she appeared predominantly in films, beginning with those made in Britain during and after the Second World War, followed mainly by Hollywood films from 1950 onwards.
22/01/2009
Billy Werber, American baseball player (born 1908)
William Murray Werber was an American professional baseball third baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox (1933–1936), Philadelphia Athletics (1937–1938), Cincinnati Reds (1939–1941) and New York Giants (1942). He led American League third basemen in putouts and assists once each, and also led National League third basemen in assists, double plays and fielding percentage once each. A strong baserunner, he led the AL in stolen bases three times and led the NL in runs in 1939 as the Reds won the pennant. He was born in Berwyn Heights, Maryland and batted and threw right-handed.
22/01/2008
Heath Ledger, Australian actor and director (born 1979)
Heath Andrew Ledger was an Australian actor. Known for his versatility across independent and major studio films, his work consisted of 20 films in a variety of genres. He received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, an Actor Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe Award.
Miles Lerman, Polish Holocaust survivor and activist (born 1920)
Miles Lerman was an American activist who helped plan and create both the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and the memorial at the Bełżec extermination camp. Lerman, a Holocaust survivor himself, had fought as a Jewish resistance fighter during World War II in Nazi German occupied Poland.
22/01/2007
Ngô Quang Trưởng, Vietnamese general (born 1929)
Ngô Quang Trưởng was an officer in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). Trưởng gained his commission in the Vietnamese National Army in 1954 and moved up the ranks over the next decade, mostly in the Airborne Brigade. In 1966, Trưởng commanded a division for the first time after he was given command of the 1st Division after helping to quell the Buddhist Uprising. He rebuilt the unit after this divisive period and used it to reclaim the city of Huế after weeks of bitter street fighting during the Tết Offensive.
Abbé Pierre, French priest and activist (born 1912)
Abbé Pierre (born Henri Marie Joseph Grouès; was a French Catholic priest. He was a member of the Resistance during World War II and deputy of the Popular Republican Movement. In 1949, he founded the Emmaus movement, with the goal of helping poor and homeless people. For several decades, he was one of the most popular public figures in France. Allegations that he had sexually abused dozens of women, as well as several underage girls, emerged in 2024 and 2025.
Liz Renay, American actress, author and performer (born 1926)
Pearl Elizabeth Dobbins, known professionally as Liz Renay, was an American stripper, author, and actress who appeared in John Waters' film Desperate Living (1977).
22/01/2006
Aydın Güven Gürkan, Turkish academic and politician, Turkish Minister of Labor and Social Security (born 1941)
Aydın Güven Gürkan was a Turkish academic and politician.
22/01/2005
César Gutiérrez, Venezuelan baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1943)
César Dario Gutiérrez [goo-te-er'-rez], also nicknamed "Cocoa", was a Venezuelan professional baseball player. He played as a shortstop in Major League Baseball for the San Francisco Giants in the 1967 and 1969 seasons, and for the Detroit Tigers from 1969 to 1971. Listed at 5'9" and 155 lbs, he batted and threw right handed. Gutiérrez is notable for being the second player in Major League history to record seven hits in a game without making an out.
Carlo Orelli, Italian soldier (born 1894)
Carlo Orelli was, at age 110, the last surviving Italian World War I veteran who joined the army at the onset of the war. Born in Perugia, although he lived in Rome for most of his life, Orelli came from a military family whose members had served in various Italian conflicts since 1849. A mechanic by trade, Orelli joined the Italian Army in May 1915 and engaged in combat operations in Italy. His recollections were marked by particularly brutal experiences of trench warfare, including the violent deaths of many of his friends. After receiving injuries to his leg, he was pulled from active duty and returned home.
Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican pianist and songwriter (born 1924)
Consuelo Velázquez Torres, also popularly known as Consuelito Velázquez, was a Mexican concert pianist and composer. She was the composer of famous Mexican ballads such as "Bésame mucho", "Amar y vivir", and "Cachito".
22/01/2004
Billy May, American trumpet player and composer (born 1916)
Edward William May Jr. was an American composer, arranger and trumpeter. He composed film and television music for The Green Hornet (1966), The Mod Squad (1968), Batman, and Naked City (1960). He collaborated on films such as Pennies from Heaven (1981), and orchestrated Cocoon, and Cocoon: The Return, among others.
Tom Mead, Australian journalist and politician (born 1918)
Thomas Francis Mead was an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing the seat of Hurstville for the Liberal Party. He was also a political journalist.
Ann Miller, American actress, singer, and dancer (born 1923)
Ann Miller was an American actress and dancer. She was widely known for her work in the classical Hollywood cinema musicals of the 1940s and 1950s, including her roles in Room Service with the Marx Brothers and Frank Capra's You Can't Take It with You, both released in 1938. She later starred in the musical classics Easter Parade (1948), On the Town (1949), and Kiss Me Kate (1953). Her final film role was in Mulholland Drive (2001).
22/01/2003
Bill Mauldin, American soldier and cartoonist (born 1921)
William Henry Mauldin was an American editorial cartoonist who won two Pulitzer Prizes for his work. He was most famous for his World War II cartoons depicting American soldiers, as represented by the archetypal characters Willie and Joe, two weary and bedraggled infantry troopers who stoically endure the difficulties and dangers of duty in the field.
22/01/2001
Tommie Agee, American baseball player (born 1942)
Tommie Lee Agee was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a center fielder from 1962 through 1973, most notably as a member of the New York Mets team that became known as the Miracle Mets when they rose from being perennial losers to defeat the favored Baltimore Orioles in the 1969 World Series for one of the most improbable upsets in World Series history. Agee performed two impressive defensive plays in center field to help preserve a Mets victory in the third game of the series.
Roy Brown, American clown and puppeteer (born 1932)
Roy Thomas Brown was an American television personality, puppeteer, clown and artist known for playing "Cooky the Cook" on Chicago's Bozo's Circus.
22/01/2000
Craig Claiborne, American journalist, author, and critic (born 1920)
Craig Claiborne was an American restaurant critic, food journalist, and book author. A long-time food editor and restaurant critic for The New York Times, he was also the author of numerous cookbooks and an autobiography. He made many contributions to gastronomy and food writing in the United States.
Anne Hébert, Canadian author and poet (born 1916)
Anne Hébert, was a Canadian author and poet. She won Canada's top literary honor, the Governor General's Award, three times, twice for fiction and once for poetry.
22/01/1999
Graham Staines, Australian-Indian missionary and translator (born 1941)
Graham Stuart Staines was an Australian Christian missionary who, along with his two sons, Philip and Timothy, was burnt to death in India by members of the Bajrang Dal, a Hindutva organisation. In 2003, Bajrang Dal member Dara Singh was convicted of leading the murderers and was sentenced to life in prison.
22/01/1997
Billy Mackenzie, Scottish singer-songwriter (born 1957)
William MacArthur Mackenzie was a Scottish singer and songwriter, known for his distinctive high tenor voice. He was the co-founder and lead vocalist of the post-punk and pop band the Associates. He also had a brief solo career releasing his debut studio album, Outernational, in 1992, his only solo album released during his lifetime.
22/01/1996
Israel Eldad, Polish-Israeli philosopher and author (born 1910)
Israel Eldad was an Israeli Revisionist Zionist philosopher and member of the Jewish underground group Lehi in Mandatory Palestine.
22/01/1994
Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor and director (born 1910)
Jean-Louis Bernard Barrault was a French actor, director and mime artist who worked on both screen and stage.
Telly Savalas, American actor (born 1922)
Aristotelis "Telly" Savalas was an American actor. Noted for his bald head and deep, resonant voice, he is perhaps best known for portraying Lt. Theo Kojak on the crime drama series Kojak (1973–1978) and James Bond archvillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the film On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969).
22/01/1993
Kōbō Abe, Japanese playwright and photographer (born 1924)
Kimifusa Abe , known by his pen name Kōbō Abe , was a Japanese writer, playwright and director. His 1962 novel The Woman in the Dunes was made into an award-winning film by Hiroshi Teshigahara in 1964. Abe has often been compared to Franz Kafka for his modernist sensibilities and his surreal, often nightmarish explorations of individuals in contemporary society. He died aged 68 of heart failure in Tokyo after a brief illness.
22/01/1991
Robert Choquette, Canadian author, poet and diplomat (born 1905)
Robert Guy Choquette was a Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat.
22/01/1989
S. Vithiananthan, Sri Lankan author and academic (born 1924)
Suppiramaniam Vithiananthan was a Sri Lankan writer, academic and the first vice-chancellor of the University of Jaffna.
22/01/1987
R. Budd Dwyer, American educator and politician, 30th Treasurer of Pennsylvania (born 1939)
Robert Budd Dwyer was an American politician who served as the 70th treasurer of Pennsylvania from 1981 until his suicide in 1987. He had previously served from 1965 to 1971 as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and from 1971 to 1981 as a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate representing the state's 50th district. Dwyer committed suicide by gunshot during a press conference following his conviction for accepting a bribe in the CTA scandal.
22/01/1985
Arthur Bryant, English historian and journalist (born 1899)
Sir Arthur Wynne Morgan Bryant, was an English historian, columnist for The Illustrated London News and man of affairs. His books included studies of Samuel Pepys, accounts of English eighteenth- and nineteenth-century history, and a life of George V. He moved in high government circles, where his works were influential, writing histories of three prime ministers: Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee, and Harold Wilson.
22/01/1982
Eduardo Frei Montalva, Chilean lawyer and politician, 28th President of Chile (born 1911)
Eduardo Nicanor Frei Montalva was a Chilean political leader. In his long political career, he was Minister of Public Works, president of his Christian Democratic Party, senator, President of the Senate, and the 28th president of Chile from 1964 to 1970. His eldest son, Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, also became president of Chile (1994–2000).
22/01/1981
Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and academic (born 1903)
Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi popularly known as I.H. Qureshi, SP, HI, was a Pakistani nationalist historian and playwright. He was the Vice Chancellor of the University of Karachi from 1961 till 1971.
22/01/1980
Yitzhak Baer, German-Israeli historian and academic (born 1888)
Yitzhak (Fritz) Baer was a German-Israeli historian and an expert on medieval Spanish Jewish history.
22/01/1979
Ali Hassan Salameh, Palestinian rebel leader (born 1940)
Ali Hassan Salameh was a Palestinian militant who was the chief of operations for the Black September Organization and founder of Force 17. He was assassinated in January 1979 as part of an assassination campaign by Mossad.
22/01/1978
Oliver Leese, English general (born 1894)
Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver William Hargreaves Leese, 3rd Baronet, was a senior British Army officer who saw distinguished active service during both the world wars. He commanded XXX Corps in North Africa and Sicily, serving under General Sir Bernard Montgomery, before going on to command the Eighth Army in the Italian Campaign throughout most of 1944.
Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer and soldier (born 1894)
Herbert Sutcliffe was an English professional cricketer who represented Yorkshire and England as an opening batsman. Apart from one match in 1945, his first-class career spanned the period between the two world wars. His first-class debut was delayed by the First World War until 1919 and his career was effectively terminated in August 1939 when he was called up for military service in the imminent Second World War. He was the first cricketer to score 16 centuries in Test match cricket. He is most famous for being the partner of Jack Hobbs and the partnership between the two, Hobbs and Sutcliffe, is widely regarded as the greatest partnership of all time.
22/01/1977
Ibrahim bin Abdullah Al Suwaiyel, Saudi Arabian diplomat (born 1916)
Sheikh Ibrahim bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz bin Abdullah Al Suwaiyel was a Saudi Arabian statesman, diplomat, and military officer who served as the Saudi Arabian minister of foreign affairs from 1960 to 1962. Appointed on 22 December 1960 by King Saud, he succeeded the future king Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and was succeeded by him again on 16 March 1961. He was noted for being the first non-royal to hold the position of foreign minister. He also served as the Saudi Arabian ambassador to both the United States and Iraq, as the minister of agriculture, and later as a member of the Council of Ministers and an advisor to the Royal Court.
22/01/1973
Lyndon B. Johnson, American lieutenant and politician, 36th President of the United States (born 1908)
Lyndon Baines Johnson, also known as LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. Johnson was vice president under John F. Kennedy from 1961 until Kennedy's assassination in 1963, when he assumed the presidency. Before becoming vice president, he served in both houses of the U.S. Congress, representing Texas as a member of the Democratic Party.
22/01/1971
Harry Frank Guggenheim, American businessman and publisher, co-founded Newsday (born 1890)
Harry Frank Guggenheim was an American businessman, diplomat, publisher, philanthropist, aviator, and horseman.
22/01/1968
Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer and water polo player (born 1890)
Duke Paoa Kahinu Mokoe Hulikohola Kahanamoku was a Hawaiian competition swimmer, lifeguard, and popularizer of the sport of surfing. A Native Hawaiian, he was born three years before the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom. He lived to see the territory's admission as a state and became a United States citizen. He was the world record holder of the 100-meters free style in swimming, and was a five-time Olympic medalist in swimming, winning medals in 1912, 1920 and 1924.
22/01/1966
Herbert Marshall, English actor (born 1890)
Herbert Brough Falcon Marshall was an English actor of stage, screen, and radio. He starred in many popular and well-regarded Hollywood films in the 1930s and 1940s. After a successful theatrical career in the United Kingdom and North America, he became an in-demand Hollywood leading man, frequently appearing in romantic melodramas and occasional comedies. In his later years, Marshall turned to character acting.
22/01/1964
Marc Blitzstein, American pianist and composer (born 1905)
Marcus Samuel Blitzstein, was an American composer, lyricist, and librettist. He won national attention in 1937 when his pro-union musical The Cradle Will Rock, directed by Orson Welles, was shut down by the Works Progress Administration. He is known for The Cradle Will Rock and for his off-Broadway translation and adaptation of The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. His works also include the opera Regina, an adaptation of Lillian Hellman's play The Little Foxes; the Broadway musical Juno, based on Seán O'Casey's play Juno and the Paycock; and No for an Answer. He completed translations and adaptations of Brecht's and Weill's musical play Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and of Brecht's play Mother Courage and Her Children with music by Paul Dessau. Blitzstein also composed music for films, such as Surf and Seaweed (1931) and The Spanish Earth (1937), and he contributed two songs to the original 1960 production of Hellman's play Toys in the Attic.
22/01/1959
Mike Hawthorn, English racing driver (born 1929)
John Michael Hawthorn was a British racing driver who competed in Formula One from 1952 to 1958. Hawthorn won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1958 with Ferrari, and won three Grands Prix across seven seasons. In endurance racing, Hawthorn won both the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1955 with Jaguar.
22/01/1957
Ralph Barton Perry, American philosopher and academic (born 1876)
Ralph Barton Perry was an American philosopher. He was a strident moral idealist who stated in 1909 that, to him, idealism meant "to interpret life consistently with ethical, scientific, and metaphysical truth." Perry's viewpoints on religion stressed the notion that religious thinking possessed legitimacy should it exist within a framework accepting of human reason and social progress.
22/01/1955
Jonni Myyrä, Finnish-American athlete (born 1892)
Joonas "Jonni" Myyrä was a Finnish athlete who competed at the 1912, 1920 and 1924 Olympics. In 1912, he finished eighth in the javelin throw. At the 1920 Olympics, his left arm was fractured in a warm-up accident – the spear thrown by James Lincoln struck Myyrä while he was resting on the grass. Nevertheless, Myyrä won the javelin event with an Olympic record of 65.78 meters. He also finished 12th in the discus throw but could not complete his pentathlon events. Myyrä successfully defended his javelin title at the 1924 Summer Olympics and then fled to the United States due to his financial problems in Finland. He never returned to his home country and died in San Francisco in 1955.
22/01/1951
Harald Bohr, Danish mathematician and footballer (born 1887)
Harald August Bohr was a Danish mathematician and footballer. After receiving his doctorate in 1910, Bohr became an eminent mathematician, founding the field of almost periodic functions. His brother was the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr. He was on the Denmark national team for the 1908 Summer Olympics, where he won a silver medal.
Lawson Robertson, Scottish-American sprinter and high jumper (born 1883)
Lawson "Robbie" N. Robertson was considered one of the more accomplished American track coaches of the first half of the twentieth century. From 1904-1936, he was with the American team at every Olympics with the exception of 1916 when the Olympics were cancelled due to WWI. He coached Track and Field for the Irish-American Athletic Club in Queens, New York from 1909–16, and then for the University of Pennsylvania from 1916-47. He was U.S. Olympic Assistant Track coach in 1912 and 1920 and was head coach for the American Track and Field Team in four Olympics from 1924-36.
22/01/1950
Alan Hale, Sr., American actor and director (born 1892)
Alan Hale Sr., typically credited as Alan Hale, was an American actor and film director. He is best known for his many character roles during the Golden Age of Hollywood, in particular as a frequent sidekick of Errol Flynn. He also played in films supporting Lon Chaney, Wallace Beery, Douglas Fairbanks, James Cagney, Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, and Ronald Reagan. In total, his career in film lasted 40 years.
22/01/1949
William Thomas Walsh, American author, poet, and playwright (born 1891)
William Thomas Walsh was an American Catholic historian, author, educator, and violinist. He is best known for popular biographies of Spanish Catholic historical figures and for his 1947 book Our Lady of Fatima, which significantly increased awareness of the Fatima apparitions among American Catholics. He received the Laetare Medal from the University of Notre Dame in 1941. Walsh wrote from a strongly Catholic perspective; his interpretations of Spanish history, particularly regarding the Inquisition and the expulsion of the Jews, have been both praised in Catholic circles and criticized by some historians for alleged antisemitic bias.
22/01/1945
Else Lasker-Schüler, German poet and playwright (born 1869)
Else Lasker-Schüler was a German poet and playwright. She was one of the few women affiliated with the Expressionist movement. Lasker-Schüler, who was Jewish, fled Nazi Germany and lived out the rest of her life in Jerusalem.
22/01/1931
László Batthyány-Strattmann, Hungarian physician and ophthalmologist (born 1870)
László, 7th Prince Batthyany-Strattmann was a Hungarian aristocrat and physician. Until 1914, he was known as László Batthyány. A devout Catholic, he became known as the "doctor of the poor" and was beatified by the Church in 2003.
22/01/1930
Stephen Mather, American businessman and conservationist, co-founded the Thorkildsen-Mather Borax Company (born 1867)
Stephen Tyng Mather was an American industrialist and conservationist who was the first director of the National Park Service. As president and owner of Thorkildsen-Mather Borax Company he became a millionaire. Along with journalist Robert Sterling Yard, Mather led a publicity campaign known as the Mather Mountain Party to promote the creation of a unified federal agency to oversee National Parks administration, which was established in 1916. In 1917, Mather was appointed to lead the NPS, the new agency created within the Department of the Interior. He served until 1929, during which time Mather created a professional civil service organization, increased the numbers of parks and national monuments, and established systematic criteria for adding new properties to the federal system.
22/01/1929
R. C. Lehmann, English journalist, author, and politician (born 1856)
Rudolph Chambers Lehmann was an English writer and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1906 to 1910. As a writer he was best known for three decades in which he was a major contributor to Punch as well as founding editor of Granta magazine.
22/01/1927
James Ford Rhodes, American historian and author (born 1848)
James Ford Rhodes, was an American industrialist and historian born in Cleveland, Ohio. After earning a fortune in the iron, coal, and steel industries by 1885, he retired from business to devote time to historical research. He wrote a seven-volume history of the United States from 1850, initially published from 1893 to 1906 with an eighth volume added in 1920. Another book, A History of the Civil War, 1861–1865 (1918), won the second-ever Pulitzer Prize for History.
22/01/1925
Fanny Bullock Workman, American geographer and mountain climber (born 1859)
Fanny Bullock Workman was an American mountaineer, explorer, cartographer, and travel writer known for her expeditions in the Himalayas and the Karakoram. One of the first women to pursue mountaineering as a professional career, she combined exploration with scientific observation and published detailed accounts of her journeys. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries she set several women's altitude records and advocated for women's suffrage and women's participation in exploration and science.
22/01/1922
Fredrik Bajer, Danish educator and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1837)
Fredrik Bajer was a Danish writer, teacher, and pacifist politician who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1908 together with Klas Pontus Arnoldson.
Pope Benedict XV (born 1854)
Pope Benedict XV was head of the Catholic Church from 1914 until his death in January 1922. His pontificate was largely overshadowed by World War I and its political, social, and humanitarian consequences in Europe.
Camille Jordan, French mathematician and academic (born 1838)
Marie Ennemond Camille Jordan was a French mathematician, known both for his foundational work in group theory and for his textbook Cours d'analyse de l'École polytechnique.
22/01/1921
George Streeter, American captain and businessman (born 1837)
George Wellington "Cap" Streeter was an American who became infamous in Chicago for his real estate schemes and oftentimes bizarre eccentricity. From 1886 to 1921, Streeter, often through forgery and other manipulative means, attempted to lay claim to 186 acres (0.75 km2) of Lake Michigan shoreline from various owners. Failing in his efforts to defraud wealthy landowners, he turned to selling the disputed land to uninformed buyers. A portion of the real estate near downtown Chicago, known as Streeterville, is named for him.
22/01/1909
Emil Erlenmeyer, German chemist and academic (born 1825)
Richard August Carl Emil Erlenmeyer, known simply as Emil Erlenmeyer, was a German chemist known for contributing to the early development of the theory of chemical structure and formulating the Erlenmeyer rule. He also designed the Erlenmeyer flask, a specialized apparatus ubiquitous in chemistry laboratories, which is named after him.
22/01/1906
George Holyoake, English secularist, co-operator and newspaper editor (born 1817)
George Jacob Holyoake was an English secularist, co-operator and newspaper editor. He coined the terms secularism in 1851 and "jingoism" in 1878. He edited a secularist paper, The Reasoner, from 1846 to June 1861, and a co-operative one, The English Leader, in 1864–1867.
22/01/1901
Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (born 1819)
Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days, which was longer than those of any of her predecessors, constituted the Victorian era, a period of industrial, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom marked by a great expansion of the British Empire. In 1876, the British parliament voted to grant her the additional title of Empress of India.
22/01/1900
David Edward Hughes, Welsh-American physicist, co-invented the microphone (born 1831)
David Edward Hughes, was a Welsh-American inventor, practical experimenter, and professor of music known for his work on the printing telegraph and the microphone. He is generally considered to have been born in London but his family moved around that time so he may have been born in Corwen, Wales.
22/01/1892
Joseph P. Bradley, American lawyer and jurist (born 1813)
Joseph Philo Bradley was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1870 to 1892. He was also a member of the Electoral Commission that decided the disputed 1876 United States presidential election.
22/01/1879
Anthony Durnford, Irish colonel (born 1830)
Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony William Durnford was a British Army officer of the Royal Engineers who served in the Anglo-Zulu War. Breveted colonel effective 31 December 1878, Durnford is mainly known for his defeat by the Zulus at the Battle of Isandlwana, which was a disaster for the British Army.
Henry Pulleine, English colonel (born 1838)
Lieutenant Colonel Henry Burmester Pulleine was an administrator and commander in the British Army in the Cape Frontier and Anglo-Zulu Wars. He is most notable as a commander of British forces at the disastrous Battle of Isandlwana in January 1879. Substantively a major, he held the rank of brevet lieutenant colonel.
22/01/1850
Vincent Pallotti, Italian missionary and saint (born 1795)
Vincent Pallotti, SAC was an Italian Catholic cleric and the founder of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate, later known as the Pious Society of Missions. The original name was restored in 1947. He is buried in the Church of San Salvatore in Onda. He is considered the forerunner of Catholic Action. His feast day is 22 January.
22/01/1840
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German physician, physiologist, and anthropologist (born 1752)
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach was a German medical doctor, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist. He is considered to be a main founder of zoology and anthropology as comparative, scientific disciplines. He has been called the "founder of racial classifications".
22/01/1798
Lewis Morris, American judge and politician (born 1726)
Lewis Morris was an American Founding Father, landowner, and developer from Morrisania, New York, presently part of Bronx County. He signed the U.S. Declaration of Independence as a delegate to the Continental Congress from New York.
22/01/1779
Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (born 1733)
Jeremiah Dixon was an English surveyor and astronomer best known for surveying the Mason–Dixon line with Charles Mason from 1763 to 1767. The line came to mark the borders between Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware. Dixon's name may be the origin for the nickname Dixie used in reference to the Southern United States.
Claudius Smith, American guerrilla leader (born 1736)
Claudius Smith was a Loyalist guerrilla leader during the American Revolution. He led a band of irregulars who were known locally as the 'cowboys'.
22/01/1767
Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German meteorologist and geologist (born 1719)
Johann Gottlob Lehmann was a German mineralogist and geologist noted for his work and research contributions to the geologic record leading to the development of stratigraphy.
22/01/1763
John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1690)
John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, 7th Seigneur of Sark, commonly known by his earlier title Lord Carteret, was a British statesman and Lord President of the Council from 1751 to 1763 and worked closely with the Prime Minister of the country, Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, to manage the various factions of the Government. He was Seigneur of Sark from 1715 to 1720, when he sold the fief. He held the office of Bailiff of Jersey from 1715 to 1763.
22/01/1750
Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (born 1675)
Franz Xaver Josef Baron von Unertl was a Bavarian politician.
22/01/1666
Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor (born 1592)
Shah Jahan I, also called Shah Jahan the Magnificent, was the fifth Mughal Emperor from 1628 until his deposition in 1658. His reign marked the zenith of Mughal architectural and cultural achievements.
22/01/1599
Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian organist and composer (born 1547)
Cristofano Malvezzi was an Italian organist and composer of the late Renaissance. He was one of the most famous composers in the city of Florence during a time of transition to the Baroque style.
22/01/1575
James Hamilton, Duke of Châtellerault (born 1516)
James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Châtellerault, 2nd Earl of Arran, was a Scottish nobleman and Regent of Scotland during the minority of Mary, Queen of Scots, from 1543 to 1554. At first pro-English and Protestant, he converted to Catholicism in 1543 and supported a pro-French policy. He reluctantly agreed to Mary's marriage to Francis, eldest son of King Henry II of France, and was rewarded by Henry by being made Duke of Châtellerault in 1549. During the Scottish Reformation, he joined the Protestant Lords of the Congregation to oppose the regency of Mary of Guise.
22/01/1560
Wang Zhi, Chinese pirate
Wang Zhi, art name Wufeng (五峰), was a Chinese pirate lord of the 16th century, one of the main figures among the wokou pirates prevalent during the reign of the Jiajing Emperor. Originally a salt merchant, Wang Zhi turned to smuggling during the Ming dynasty's period of maritime prohibitions banning all private overseas trade, and eventually became the head of a pirate syndicate stretching across the East and South China Seas, from Japan to Thailand. Through his clandestine trade, he is credited for spreading European firearms throughout East Asia, and for his role in leading the first Europeans to reach Japan in 1543.
22/01/1552
Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, English general and politician, Lord High Treasurer of England (born 1500)
Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, 1st Earl of Hertford, 1st Viscount Beauchamp was an English nobleman and politician who served as Lord Protector of England from 1547 to 1549 during the minority of his nephew King Edward VI. He was the eldest surviving brother of Queen Jane Seymour, the third wife of King Henry VIII and mother of King Edward VI.
22/01/1536
Bernhard Knipperdolling, German religious leader (born 1495)
Bernhard Knipperdolling was a German leader of the Münster Anabaptists. He was also known as Bernd or Berndt Knipperdollinck or Knypperdollynck or Bertrand Knipperdoling; his birth name was van Stockem. He was executed at the principal market in Munster.
John of Leiden, Anabaptist leader from the Dutch city of Leiden (born 1509)
John of Leiden was a Dutch Anabaptist leader. In 1533 he moved to Münster, capital of the Prince-Bishopric of Münster, where he became an influential prophet, turned the city into a millenarian Anabaptist theocracy, and proclaimed himself King of New Jerusalem in September 1534. The insurrection was suppressed in June 1535 after Prince-Bishop Franz von Waldeck besieged the city and captured John. John was tortured to death in the city's central marketplace on 22 January 1536, along with Bernhard Knipperdolling and Bernhard Krechting.
22/01/1517
Hadım Sinan Pasha, Ottoman politician, 32nd Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (born ?)
Hadım Sinan Pasha was a Bosnian-Ottoman nobleman, politician and statesman. He served as the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1516 to 1517. He was a eunuch.
22/01/1341
Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (born 1279)
Louis I, called the Lame was a French prince du sang, Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis and La Marche and the first Duke of Bourbon, as well as briefly the titular King of Thessalonica from 1320 to 1321.
22/01/1188
Ferdinand II of León (born 1137)
Ferdinand II, was a member of the Castilian cadet branch of the House of Ivrea and King of León and Galicia from 1157 until his death.
22/01/1170
Wang Chongyang, Chinese Daoist and co-founder of the Quanzhen School (born 1113)
Wang Chongyang is the founder of the Quanzhen school of Taoism. In his life he had many devotees and followers, but formally accepted seven major disciples which are known as the Seven Perfected or the Seven Masters of Quanzhen: Ma Danyang, Qiu Chuji, Tan Chuduan, Liu Chuxuan, Hao Datong, Wang Chuyi, and Sun Bu’er. Wang Chongyang is one of the Five Northern Patriarchs of Quanzhen, which in order they are: Wang Xuanfu 王玄甫, Zhongli Quan 钟离权, Lü Dongbin 吕洞宾, Liu Haichan 刘海蟾, Wang Chongyang 王重阳. He is also one of the Eight Immortals of Taoism.
22/01/1051
Ælfric Puttoc, archbishop of York
Ælfric Puttoc was Archbishop of York from 1023 to his death, and briefly Bishop of Worcester from 1040 to 1041. He may have crowned Harold Harefoot in 1036, and certainly assisted in that king's disinterment in 1040 and at the coronation of Edward the Confessor in 1043. He founded houses of canons and encouraged the cult of John of Beverley.
22/01/1001
Al-Muqallad ibn al-Musayyab, Uqaylid emir of Mosul
Abu Hassān al-Muqallad ibn al-Musayyab, known with the honorific Husam al-Dawla, was an Uqaylid chieftain. He succeeded his older brother, Muhammad, as ruler of Mosul, succeeding in expelling the Buyid governor from the city. His attempts to create a centralized state failed, however, as he had to share power with his older brother Ali, and respect the tribal customs of the Uqayl tribe. His ambitions led him to turn south, towards Buyid-held Iraq, where he came to control a number of towns around Baghdad, including Kufa. In late 1000, he entered into negotiations for the capture of Baghdad, but was assassinated on 22 January 1001.
22/01/0935
Ma, empress of Southern Han
Empress Ma was the only known empress of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period state Southern Han. She was the wife of Southern Han's founding emperor Liu Yan, and the daughter of Ma Yin, the prince of Southern Han's northern neighbor Chu.
22/01/0906
He, empress of the Tang Dynasty
Empress He, formally Empress Xuanmu (宣穆皇后) as honored by Later Tang, semi-formally known as Empress Jishan (積善皇后), was the wife of Emperor Zhaozong near the end of the Tang dynasty of China, and the mother of two of his sons, Li Yu, Prince of De, and Emperor Ai. Her husband, herself, and her sons would all die at the hands of the warlord Zhu Quanzhong, who would eventually take over the Tang throne and establish his own Later Liang.
22/01/0628
Anastasius of Persia, monk
Saint Anastasius of Persia, also known by his native name Magundat, was a Zoroastrian soldier in the Sasanian army who later became a convert to Christianity and was martyred in 628.
22/01/0239
Cao Rui, Chinese emperor (born 205)
Cao Rui, courtesy name Yuanzhong, was the second emperor of the state of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period. His parentage is in dispute: his mother, Lady Zhen, was Yuan Xi's wife, but she later remarried Cao Pi, the first ruler of Wei. Based on conflicting accounts of his age, Pei Songzhi calculated that, in order to be Cao Pi's son, Cao Rui could not have been 36 when he died as recorded, so the recorded age was in error; late-Qing scholars Lu Bi (卢弼) and Mao Guangsheng (冒广生) argued instead that Cao Rui was Yuan Xi's son.
Celebrations & Special Days Worldwide on 22nd January
Christian feast day: Anastasius of Persia
Saint Anastasius of Persia, also known by his native name Magundat, was a Zoroastrian soldier in the Sasanian army who later became a convert to Christianity and was martyred in 628.
Christian feast day: Gaudentius of Novara
Saint Gaudentius was a bishop of Novara, considered the first of that city. Tradition states that he was born to a pagan family at Ivrea, and was then converted to Christianity by Eusebius of Vercelli. Some sources say that Eusebius ordained Gaudentius a priest, and that Gaudentius was sent to Novara by Eusebius to assist a Christian priest named Laurence (Laurentius) there.
Christian feast day: László Batthyány-Strattmann
László, 7th Prince Batthyany-Strattmann was a Hungarian aristocrat and physician. Until 1914, he was known as László Batthyány. A devout Catholic, he became known as the "doctor of the poor" and was beatified by the Church in 2003.
Christian feast day: Laura Vicuna
Laura del Carmen Vicuña Pino was a Chilean child who was noted for her religious devotion. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1988 as the patron of abuse victims, having herself experienced physical abuse.
Christian feast day: Vincent Pallotti
Vincent Pallotti, SAC was an Italian Catholic cleric and the founder of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate, later known as the Pious Society of Missions. The original name was restored in 1947. He is buried in the Church of San Salvatore in Onda. He is considered the forerunner of Catholic Action. His feast day is 22 January.
Christian feast day: Vincent of Saragossa
Vincent of Saragossa was a deacon of the Church of Zaragoza. He is considered as a Protomartyr of Spain and the patron saint of Lisbon, Algarve, and Valencia. His feast day is 22 January in the Catholic Church, Anglican Communion, and the Eastern Orthodox Church, with an additional commemoration on 11 November in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Vincent was born at Huesca and martyred under the Emperor Diocletian around the year 304.
Christian feast day: Vincent, Orontius, and Victor
Saints Vincent, Orontius, and Victor are venerated as martyrs by the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches. Tradition states that Vincent and Orontius were brothers from Cimiez. They were Christians who evangelized in the Pyrenees and were killed at Puigcerda with Saint Victor.
Christian feast day: Blessed William Joseph Chaminade
Guillaume-Joseph Chaminade, SM was a French Catholic priest who survived persecution during the French Revolution and later founded the Society of Mary, usually called the Marianists, in 1817. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 3 September 2000. His feast day is celebrated on 22 January.
Christian feast day: January 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
January 21 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - January 23
Day of Unity of Ukraine (Ukraine)
The Unification Act was an agreement signed by the Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian People's Republic in Sophia Square in Kyiv on 22 January 1919. Since 1999, it is celebrated every year as the Day of Unity of Ukraine to commemorate the signing of the treaty; it is a state holiday in Ukraine, though not a public holiday.
Grandfather's Day (Poland)
Holidays in Poland are regulated by the Non-working Days Act of 18 January 1951. The Act, as amended in 2010, currently defines fourteen public holidays.
What Happened on 22nd January?
46 significant events took place on Saturday, 22nd January — stretching from 613 to 2024. Explore the moments that shaped history on this day.
22/01/2024
Ram Mandir is inaugurated by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh after 500 years of dispute.
The Ram Mandir, is a Hindu temple complex in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, India. Many Hindus believe that it is located at the site of Ram Janmabhoomi, the mythical birthplace of Rama, a principal deity of Hinduism.
22/01/2009
U.S. President Barack Obama signs an executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp; congressional opposition will prevent it being implemented.
Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American president. Obama previously served as a U.S. senator representing Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
22/01/2007
At least 88 people are killed when two car bombs explode in the Bab Al-Sharqi market in central Baghdad, Iraq.
The 22 January 2007 Baghdad bombings was a terrorist attack that occurred when two powerful car bombs ripped through the Bab Al-Sharqi market in central Baghdad, killing at least 88 people and wounding 160 others in one of the bloodiest days since the US invasion of Iraq. The attack occurred two days after the start of the 10-day Shiite mourning period leading up to Ashura. It also coincided with the arrival of 3,200 additional troops into Baghdad as part of the Iraq War troop surge of 2007.
22/01/2006
Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president.
Juan Evo Morales Ayma is a Bolivian politician, trade union organizer, and former cocalero who served as the 65th president of Bolivia from 2006 to 2019. Widely regarded as the country's first president to come from its Indigenous Bolivian population, his administration worked towards the implementation of left-wing policies, focusing on safeguarding the legal rights, improving the socioeconomic conditions of Bolivia's previously marginalized Native Bolivian majority, and combating the political influence of the United States and resource-extracting multinational corporations. Ideologically a socialist, he led the Movement for Socialism (MAS) party from 1998 to 2024.
22/01/1999
Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.
Graham Stuart Staines was an Australian Christian missionary who, along with his two sons, Philip and Timothy, was burnt to death in India by members of the Bajrang Dal, a Hindutva organisation. In 2003, Bajrang Dal member Dara Singh was convicted of leading the murderers and was sentenced to life in prison.
22/01/1998
Space Shuttle program: space shuttle Endeavour launches on STS-89 to dock with the Russian space station Mir.
Space Shuttle Endeavour is a retired orbiter from NASA's Space Shuttle program and the fifth and final operational Shuttle built. It embarked on its first mission, STS-49, in May 1992 and its 25th and final mission, STS-134, in May 2011. STS-134 was expected to be the final mission of the Space Shuttle program, but with the authorization of STS-135 by the United States Congress, Atlantis became the last shuttle to fly.
22/01/1995
Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Beit Lid suicide bombing: In central Israel, near Netanya, two Gazans blow themselves up at a military transit point, killing 19 Israeli soldiers.
Israel and the Palestinians are engaged in an ongoing military and political conflict about land and self-determination within the former territory of Mandatory Palestine. Key aspects of the conflict have included Palestinian refugees, the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the status of Jerusalem, Israeli settlements, borders, security, water rights, the permit regime in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian freedom of movement, and the Palestinian right of return.
22/01/1992
Space Shuttle program: The space shuttle Discovery launches on STS-42 carrying Dr. Roberta Bondar, who becomes the first Canadian woman and the first neurologist in space.
The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011. Its official program name was carried over from the 1969 plan for the Space Transportation System (STS) of reusable spacecraft. Only the shuttle and supporting rockets were funded for development; a proposed nuclear lunar shuttle in the plan was canceled in 1972. It flew 135 missions and carried 355 astronauts from 16 countries, many on multiple trips.
22/01/1987
Philippine security forces open fire on a crowd of 10,000–15,000 demonstrators at Malacañang Palace, Manila, killing 13.
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of about 7,641 islands, with a total area of about 300,000 square kilometers, which are broadly categorized in three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. With a population of over 114 million, it is the world's twelfth-most-populous country.
22/01/1973
The Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, legalizing elective abortion in all fifty states. This decision is subsequently overturned in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization in 2022.
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that turn on questions of U.S. constitutional or federal law. It also has original jurisdiction over a narrow range of cases, specifically "all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party". In 1803, the court asserted itself the power of judicial review, the ability to invalidate a statute for violating a provision of the Constitution. It is also able to strike down presidential directives for violating either the Constitution or statutory law.
The crew of Apollo 17 addresses a joint session of Congress after the completion of the final Apollo Moon landing mission.
Apollo 17 was the eleventh and final crewed mission of NASA's Apollo program, the sixth and most recent time humans have set foot on the Moon. Commander Gene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon, while Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans orbited above. Schmitt was the only professional geologist to land on the Moon; he was selected in place of Joe Engle, as NASA had been under pressure to send a scientist to the Moon. The mission's heavy emphasis on science meant the inclusion of a number of new experiments, including a biological experiment containing five mice that was carried in the command and service module.
A chartered Boeing 707 explodes in flames upon landing at Kano Airport, Nigeria, killing 176.
The Boeing 707 is an early American long-range narrow-body airliner, the first jetliner developed and produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Developed from the Boeing 367-80 prototype, the initial 707-120 first flew on December 20, 1957. Pan Am began regular 707 service on October 26, 1958. With versions produced until 1979, the 707 is a swept wing quadjet with podded engines. Its larger fuselage cross-section allowed six-abreast economy seating, retained in the later 720, 727, 737, and 757 models.
In a bout for the world heavyweight boxing championship in Kingston, Jamaica, challenger George Foreman knocks down champion Joe Frazier six times in the first two rounds before the fight is stopped by referee Arthur Mercante Sr..
Joe Frazier vs. George Foreman, billed as The Sunshine Showdown, was a professional boxing match in Kingston, Jamaica contested on January 22, 1973, for the WBA, WBC and The Ring heavyweight championships.
22/01/1971
The Singapore Declaration, one of the two most important documents to the uncodified constitution of the Commonwealth of Nations, is issued.
The Singapore Declaration of Commonwealth Principles was a landmark declaration issued by the assembled Heads of Government of the Commonwealth of Nations, setting out the core political volunteering values that would form the main part of the Commonwealth's membership criteria. The Declaration was issued in Singapore on 22 January 1971 at the conclusion of the first Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). Along with the Harare Declaration, issued in 1991, it is considered one of the two most important documents to the Commonwealth's uncodified constitution, until the adoption of the Charter of the Commonwealth in 2012.
22/01/1970
The Boeing 747, the world's first "jumbo jet", enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.
The Boeing 747 is a long-range wide-body airliner designed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes in the United States between 1968 and 2023. It was conceived in response to the demand of Pan Am for a jet 2+1⁄2 times the size of the 707, which had been introduced in October 1958, to reduce the airline's seat cost by 30%. The design team was led by Joe Sutter, who left the 737 development program in 1965 to design the 747. In April 1966, Pan Am ordered 25 Boeing 747-100 aircraft, and in late 1966, Pratt & Whitney agreed to develop the JT9D engine, a high-bypass turbofan. On September 30, 1968, the first 747 was rolled out of the custom-built Everett Plant, the world's largest building by volume. The 747's first flight took place on February 9, 1969, and the 747 was certified in December 1969. It entered service with Pan Am on January 22, 1970. The 747 was the first airplane called a "Jumbo Jet" as the first wide-body airliner.
22/01/1968
Apollo Program: Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space.
The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the United States human spaceflight program led by NASA, which landed the first humans on the Moon in 1969. Apollo was conceived in 1960 in the Dwight D. Eisenhower presidency during Project Mercury and executed after Project Gemini. Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal, "before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" in his address to the U.S. Congress on May 25, 1961.
Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system to stop communist infiltration into South Vietnam begins installation.
Operation Igloo White was a covert United States joint military electronic warfare operation conducted from late January 1968 until February 1973, during the Vietnam War. These missions were carried out by the 553rd Reconnaissance Wing, a U.S. Air Force unit flying modified EC-121R Warning Star aircraft, and VO-67, a specialized U.S. Navy unit flying highly modified OP-2E Neptune aircraft. This state-of-the-art operation utilized electronic sensors, computers, and communications relay aircraft in an attempt to automate intelligence collection. The system would then assist in the direction of strike aircraft to their targets. The objective of those attacks was the logistical system of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) that snaked through southeastern Laos and was known as the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
22/01/1967
Between dozens and hundreds of anti-Somocista demonstrators are killed by the Nicaraguan National Guard in Managua.
The Somoza family is a political family which ruled Nicaragua under a dictatorship over a period of 43 years, from 1936 to 1979. Founded by Anastasio Somoza García — who served as the President of Nicaragua for two terms between 1937–1947 and 1950–1956 — was succeeded by his two sons; the eldest, Luis Somoza Debayle from 1956 to 1963, and youngest, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, serving for two presidential terms between 1967–1972 and 1974–1979. Although the Somozas did not hold the presidency for the full 43 years, their political influence was continuously exacted via the installation of puppet presidents and ongoing control of the National Guard.
22/01/1963
The Élysée Treaty of cooperation between France and West Germany is signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer.
The Élysée Treaty was a treaty of friendship between France and West Germany, signed by President Charles de Gaulle and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer on 22 January 1963 at the Élysée Palace in Paris. With the signing of this treaty, Germany and France established a new foundation for relations, bringing an end to centuries of French–German enmity and wars.
22/01/1957
Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula.
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. It is bordered by Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east, and Egypt to the southwest. Israel's western coast lies on the Mediterranean Sea, its southern tip reaches the Red Sea, and to the east is Earth's lowest point near the Dead Sea. Jerusalem is the government seat and proclaimed capital, while Tel Aviv is Israel's largest urban area and economic centre.
22/01/1947
KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood.
KTLA is a television station in Los Angeles, California, United States, serving as the West Coast flagship station of The CW. It is the largest directly owned property of the network's majority owner, Nexstar Media Group, and is the second-largest operated property after WPIX in New York City. KTLA's studios are located at the Sunset Bronson Studios on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, and its transmitter is located atop Mount Wilson.
22/01/1946
In Iran, Qazi Muhammad declares the independent people's Republic of Mahabad at Chahar Cheragh Square in the Kurdish city of Mahabad; he becomes the new president and Haji Baba Sheikh becomes the prime minister.
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, historically known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the northeast, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, and the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south. With a population of over 92 million, Iran ranks 17th globally in both geographic size and population. It is divided into five regions with 31 provinces. Tehran is the nation's capital and largest city and serves as its primary economic centre.
Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with advancing national security through collecting and analyzing intelligence from around the world and conducting covert operations. The agency is headquartered in the George Bush Center for Intelligence in Langley, Virginia, and is sometimes metonymously called "Langley". A major member of the United States Intelligence Community (IC), the CIA has reported to the director of national intelligence since 2004, and is focused on providing intelligence for the president and the Cabinet, though it also provides intelligence for a variety of other entities including the United States Armed Forces and foreign allies.
22/01/1944
World War II: The Allies commence Operation Shingle, an assault on Anzio and Nettuno, Italy.
The Allies, or Allied powers, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers. Its principal members were the "Big Four" — the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, the United States, and China.
22/01/1943
World War II: Australian and American forces defeat Japanese army and navy units in the bitterly fought Battle of Buna–Gona.
The battle of Buna–Gona was part of the New Guinea campaign in the Pacific theatre during World War II. It followed the conclusion of the Kokoda Track campaign and lasted from 16 November 1942 until 22 January 1943. The battle was fought by Australian and United States forces against the Japanese beachheads at Buna, Sanananda and Gona. From these, the Japanese had launched an overland attack on Port Moresby. In light of developments in the Solomon Islands campaign, Japanese forces approaching Port Moresby were ordered to withdraw to and secure these bases on the northern coast. Australian forces maintained contact as the Japanese conducted a well-ordered rearguard action. The Allied objective was to eject the Japanese forces from these positions and deny them their further use. The Japanese forces were skillful, well prepared and resolute in their defence. They had developed a strong network of well-concealed defences.
22/01/1941
World War II: British and Commonwealth troops capture Tobruk from Italian forces during Operation Compass.
World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated. Tanks and aircraft played major roles, the latter enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the only nuclear weapons used in war. World War II was the deadliest conflict in history, causing the death of 60 to 75 million people. Millions died as a result of massacres, starvation, disease, and genocides, including the Holocaust. After the Allied victory, Germany, Austria, Japan, and Korea were occupied, and German and Japanese leaders were tried for war crimes.
22/01/1927
Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Blythe Thornhill Wakelam, known as Teddy Wakelam, was an English sports broadcaster and rugby union player who captained Harlequin F.C.
22/01/1924
Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
James Ramsay MacDonald was a British statesman and politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The first two of his governments belonged to the Labour Party: a minority Labour government for nine months in 1924, making him the first Labour Prime Minister in British history, and the second between 1929 and 1931. In 1931, MacDonald was expelled from the Labour Party, after he formed a National Government dominated by the Conservative Party and supported by only a few Labour members, his premiership of which lasted until 1935.
22/01/1919
Act Zluky is signed, unifying the Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian National Republic.
The Unification Act was an agreement signed by the Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian People's Republic in Sophia Square in Kyiv on 22 January 1919. Since 1999, it is celebrated every year as the Day of Unity of Ukraine to commemorate the signing of the treaty; it is a state holiday in Ukraine, though not a public holiday.
22/01/1917
American entry into World War I: President Woodrow Wilson of the still-neutral United States calls for "peace without victory" in Europe.
The United States entered into World War I on 6 April 1917, more than two and a half years after the war began in Austria-Hungary. Apart from an Anglophile element urging early support for the British and an anti-tsarist element sympathizing with Germany's war against Russia, American public opinion had generally reflected a desire to stay out of the war. Over time, especially after reports of German atrocities in Belgium in 1914 and after the sinking of the RMS Lusitania in a torpedo attack by a submarine of the Imperial German Navy off the southern coast of Ireland in May 1915, Americans increasingly came to see Imperial Germany as the aggressor in Europe.
22/01/1915
Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon.
Guadalajara is the capital and the most populous city in the western Mexican state of Jalisco, as well as the most densely populated municipality in Jalisco. According to the 2020 census, the city has a population of 1,385,629 people, making it the 8th most populous city in Mexico, while the Guadalajara metropolitan area has a population of 5,268,642, making it the third-largest metropolitan area in the country and the twenty-second largest metropolitan area in the Americas. Guadalajara has the second-highest population density in Mexico with over 10,361 people per km2, surpassed only by Mexico City. Within Mexico, Guadalajara is a center of business, arts and culture, technology and tourism; as well as the economic center of the Bajío region. It usually ranks among the 100 most productive and globally competitive cities in the world. It is home to numerous landmarks, including the Guadalajara Cathedral, Degollado Theatre, the Templo Expiatorio, the UNESCO World Heritage site Hospicio Cabañas, and the San Juan de Dios Market—the largest indoor market in Latin America.
22/01/1906
SS Valencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130.
SS Valencia was an iron-hulled passenger steamer built for the Red D Line for service between Venezuela and New York City. She was built in 1882 by William Cramp and Sons, one year after the construction of her sister ship Caracas. She was a 1,598-ton vessel, 252 feet (77 m) in length. In 1897, Valencia was deliberately attacked by the Spanish cruiser Reina Mercedes off Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The next year, she became a coastal passenger liner on the U.S. West Coast and served periodically in the Spanish–American War as a troopship to the Philippines. Valencia was wrecked off Cape Beale, which is near Clo-oose, on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, on 22 January 1906. As her sinking killed 100 people, some classify the wreck of Valencia as the worst maritime disaster in the "Graveyard of the Pacific", a famously treacherous area off the southwest coast of Vancouver Island.
22/01/1905
Bloody Sunday occurs in Saint Petersburg, beginning the 1905 revolution.
Bloody Sunday, also known as Red Sunday, was the series of events on Sunday, 22 January [O.S. 9 January] 1905 in St Petersburg, Russia, when demonstrators, led by Father Georgy Gapon, were fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Guard as they marched towards the Winter Palace to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II.
22/01/1901
Edward VII is proclaimed King of the United Kingdom after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
Edward VII was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.
22/01/1890
The United Mine Workers of America is founded in Columbus, Ohio.
The United Mine Workers of America is a North American labor union best known for representing coal miners. Today, the Union also represents health care workers, truck drivers, manufacturing workers and public employees in the United States and Canada. Although its main focus has always been on workers and their rights, the UMW of today also advocates for better roads, schools, and universal health care. By 2014, coal mining had largely shifted to open pit mines in Wyoming, and there were only 60,000 active coal miners. The UMW was left with 35,000 members, of whom 20,000 were coal miners, chiefly in underground mines in Kentucky and West Virginia. However it was responsible for pensions and medical benefits for 40,000 retired miners, and for 50,000 spouses and dependents.
22/01/1879
Anglo-Zulu War: the Battle of Isandlwana results in a Zulu victory.
The Anglo-Zulu War, or simply the Zulu War, was fought in present-day South Africa from January to early July 1879 between forces of the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom. Two famous battles of the war were the Zulu victory at Isandlwana and the British defence at Rorke's Drift.
Anglo-Zulu War: the Battle of Rorke's Drift, just some 15 km (9.3 mi) away from Isandlwana, results in a British victory.
The Battle of Rorke's Drift, also known as the Defence of Rorke's Drift, was an engagement in the Anglo-Zulu War. The successful British defence of the mission station of Rorke's Drift, under the command of Lieutenants John Chard of the Royal Engineers and Gonville Bromhead of the 24th Regiment of Foot, began once a large contingent of Zulu warriors broke off from the main force during the final hour of the British defeat at the day-long Battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879. They travelled ten kilometres to attack Rorke's Drift later that day and continuing into the following day.
22/01/1863
The January Uprising breaks out in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. The aim of the national movement is to regain Polish–Lithuanian–Ruthenian Commonwealth from occupation by Russia.
The January Uprising was an insurrection against Russian imperial rule in the Congress Kingdom of Poland and adjacent lands of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Sparked by nationalist aspirations, political repressions, religious differences and opposition to conscription, it was organized by the clandestine Central National Committee and subsequently by the revolutionary Polish National Government. It began on 22 January 1863 and continued until the last insurgents were captured in 1864.
22/01/1849
Second Anglo-Sikh War: The Siege of Multan ends after nine months when the last Sikh defenders of Multan, Punjab, surrender.
The Second Anglo-Sikh War was a military conflict fought between the Sikh Empire and the East India Company, which took place from 1848 to 1849. It resulted in the fall of the Sikh Empire, and the annexation of the Punjab and what subsequently became the North-West Frontier Province, by the East India Company.
22/01/1808
The Portuguese royal family arrives in Brazil after fleeing the French army's invasion of Portugal two months earlier.
The Most Serene House of Braganza, also known as the Brigantine dynasty, is a dynasty of emperors, kings, princes, and dukes of Portuguese origin which reigned in Europe and the Americas.
22/01/1689
The Convention Parliament convenes to determine whether James II and VII, the last Roman Catholic monarch of England, Ireland and Scotland, had vacated the thrones of England and Ireland when he fled to France in 1688.
The English Convention was an assembly of the Parliament of England which met between 22 January and 12 February 1689 and transferred the crowns of England and Ireland from James II to William III and Mary II.
22/01/1555
The Ava Kingdom falls to the Taungoo Dynasty in what is now Myanmar.
The Ava Kingdom also known as Inwa Kingdom or Kingdom of Ava was the dominant kingdom that ruled upper Burma (Myanmar) from 1365 to 1555. Founded in 1365, the kingdom was the successor state to the petty kingdoms of Myinsaing, Pinya and Sagaing that had ruled central Burma since the collapse of the Pagan Kingdom in the late 13th century.
22/01/1517
The Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeats the Mamluk Sultanate and captures present-day Egypt at the Battle of Ridaniya.
The Ottoman Empire, historically also known as the Turkish Empire, was a state that spanned much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th century to the early 20th century, centred in modern-day Turkey. It also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.
22/01/1506
The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrives at the Vatican.
The Pontifical Swiss Guard, also known as the Papal Swiss Guard or simply Swiss Guard, is an armed force, guard of honour, and protective security unit, maintained by the Holy See to protect the Pope and the Apostolic Palace within the territory of the Vatican City State. Established in 1506 under Pope Julius II, it is among the oldest military units in continuous operation and is sometimes called "the world's smallest army".
22/01/0871
Battle of Basing: The West Saxons led by King Æthelred I are defeated by the Danelaw Vikings at Basing.
The Battle of Basing was a victory of a Viking army over the West Saxons at the royal estate of Basing in Hampshire on about 22 January 871.
22/01/0613
Eight-month-old Heraclius Constantine is crowned as co-emperor (Caesar) by his father Heraclius at Constantinople.
Heraclius Constantine, often enumerated as Constantine III, was one of the shortest reigning sole Byzantine emperors, ruling for three months in 641. He was the eldest son of Emperor Heraclius and his first wife Fabia Eudokia.