July 22
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[edit] Births
- 1519 - Pope Innocent IX (died 1591)
- 1784 - Friedrich Bessel, mathematician
- 1822 - Gregor Mendel, Austrian pioneering geneticist (d. 1884)
- 1844 - William Archibald Spooner, known for verbal inversions called spoonerisms (died 1930)
- 1859 - Emma Lazarus, American poet (died 1887)
- 1882 - Edward Hopper, painter (died 1967)
- 1887 - Gustav Ludwig Hertz, quantum physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (died 1975)
- 1890 - Rose Kennedy, mother of John F. Kennedy (died 1995)
- 1893 - James Whale, film director (died 1957)
- 1894 - Oskar Maria Graf, writer (died 1967)
- 1898 - Stephen Vincent Benét, American author (died 1943)
- 1898 - Alexander Calder, American artist (died 1976)
- 1905 - Doc Cramer, Major League Baseball player (died 1990)
- 1908 - Amy Vanderbilt, author on etiquette
- 1913 - Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter
- 1916 - Marcel Cerdan, world champion boxer (died 1949)
- 1923 - Bob Dole - U.S. Senator from Kansas, Presidential candidate
- 1923 - Mukesh, singer (died 1976)
- 1924 - Margaret Whiting, singer
- 1932 - Oscar De la Renta, fashion designer
- 1934 - Louise Fletcher, Academy Award-winning actress in 1976
- 1936 - Tom Robbins, author
- 1939 - Terence Stamp, actor
- 1939 - Erhard Walther, artist
- 1940 - Alex Trebek, American game show host
- 1941 - George Clinton, musician
- 1944 - Estelle Bennett, singer (Ronettes)
- 1946 - Mireille Mathieu, French singer
- 1946 - Stephen M. Wolownik, Russian musician (died 2000)
- 1947 - Albert Brooks, comedian
- 1947 - Danny Glover, actor
- 1947 - Don Henley, drummer, singer, and songwriter
- 1948 - Otto Waalkes, comedian
- 1948 - S.E. Hinton, author
- 1949 - Alan Menken, composer
- 1954 - Al Di Meola, guitarist
- 1955 - Willem Dafoe, actor
- 1961 - Keith Sweat, singer
- 1964 - David Spade, comedian
- 1965 - Shawn Michaels, professional wrestler
- 1971 - Kristine Lilly, American soccer player
- 1972 - Paulinho, footballer
- 1973 - Rufus Wainwright, singer and songwriter
- 1975 - Markus Metzenthin, economist
- 1983 - Shelby Belle, actress
- 1987 - Joshua Small, singer, songwriter
[edit] Deaths
- 1461 - Charles VII of France (born 1403)
- 1645 - Gaspar de Guzman, Count of Olivares, Duke of San Lucar
- 1676 - Pope Clement X
- 1832 - Napoleon II of France
- 1904 - Wilson Barrett, actor
- 1916 - James Whitcomb Riley, author, poet
- 1922 - Jokichi Takamine, chemist
- 1932 - Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., theatrical producer
- 1934 - John Dillinger, bank robber, shot at the Biograph Theater in Chicago
- 1950 - William Lyon Mackenzie King, tenth Prime Minister of Canada
- 1967 - Carl Sandburg, poet
- 1974 - Wayne Morse, former Senator from Oregon
- 1989 - Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (born 1935)
- 1990 - Manuel Puig, author
- 1998 - Hermann Prey, German bass-baritone (born 1929)
- 1998 - Alan Shepard, astronaut
- 2000 - Eric Christmas, British actor (born 1916)
- 2003 - Wahome Muthahi, Kenyan humourist
- 2003 - Qusay Hussein of Iraq, son of Saddam Hussein
- 2003 - Uday Hussein of Iraq, son of Saddam Hussein
- 2004 - Sacha Distel, singer
- 2004 - George Kidd, Canadian diplomat
