July 22
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July 22 is the 204th day of the year (205th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 161 days remaining after July 22 until the end of the year.
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[change] Births
- 1210 – Joan of England, Queen of Scots (died 1238)
- 1478 – King Philip I of Castile (died 1506)
- 1519 – Pope Innocent IX (died 1591)
- 1751 – Caroline Matilda of Wales (died 1775)
- 1784 – Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician (d. 1846)
- 1822 – Gregor Mendel, Austrian pioneering geneticist (d. 1884)
- 1831 – Emperor Komei of Japan (died 1867)
- 1844 – William Archibald Spooner, known for verbal inversions called spoonerisms (died 1930)
- 1859 – Emma Lazarus, American poet (died 1887)
- 1882 – Edward Hopper, American painter (died 1967)
- 1887 – Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German quantum physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (died 1975)
- 1888 – Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-American biochemist (died 1973)
- 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)
- 1899 – Sobhuza II, King of Swaziland (died 1982)
- 1905 – Doc Cramer, Major League Baseball player (died 1990)
- 1908 – Amy Vanderbilt, author on etiquette (died 1974).
- 1913 – Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter (died 1995).
- 1916 – Marcel Cerdan, world champion boxer (died 1949)
- 1923 – Bob Dole, United States Senator from Kansas, Presidential candidate
- 1923 – Mukesh, singer (died 1976)
- 1924 – Margaret Whiting, American singer (died 2011)
- 1931 – Guido de Marco, 6th President of Malta (died 2010)
- 1932 – Oscar De la Renta, fashion designer
- 1934 – Louise Fletcher, American 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)
- 1944 – Anand Satyanand, former Governor-General of New Zealand
- 1946 – Danny Glover, American actor and activist
- 1946 – Mireille Mathieu, French singer
- 1946 – Johnson Toribiong, President of Palau
- 1947 – Albert Brooks, American comedian
- 1947 – Don Henley, drummer, singer, and songwriter
- 1948 – Otto Waalkes, German comedian
- 1948 – Alfonso Cano, Colombian guerrilla (FARC) (d. 2011)
- 1949 – Alan Menken, composer
- 1949 – Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, ruler of Dubai
- 1950 – S.E. Hinton, American author
- 1954 – Al Di Meola, guitarist
- 1955 – Willem Dafoe, American actor
- 1961 – Keith Sweat, singer
- 1964 – John Leguizamo, Colombian-American actor
- 1964 – David Spade, American comedian
- 1965 – Shawn Michaels, retired American professional wrestler
- 1968 – Rhys Ifans, Welsh actor
- 1971 – Kristine Lilly, American soccer player
- 1972 – Paulinho, footballer
- 1973 – Rufus Wainwright, Canadian singer and songwriter
- 1975 – Markus Metzenthin, economist
- 1978 – Dennis Rommedahl, Danish footballer
- 1980 – Dirk Kuyt, Dutch footballer
- 1983 – Shelby Belle, actress
- 1984 – Stewart Downing, English footballer
- 1987 – Joshua Small, singer, songwriter
- 1992 – Selena Gomez, American singer and actress
- 1994 – Emina Jonasson, Swedish handball player
- 2002 – Prince Felix of Denmark
[change] Deaths
- 1461 – Charles VII of France (born 1403)
- 1645 – Gaspar de Guzman, Count of Olivares, Duke of San Lucar (b. 1587)
- 1676 – Pope Clement X (b. 1590)
- 1826 – Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer, mathematician and theologian (b. 1746)
- 1832 – Napoleon II of France (b. 1811)
- 1869 – John August Roebling, German-American engineer and bridge builder (b. 1806)
- 1893 – John Rae, Orcadian explorer (b. 1813)
- 1904 – Wilson Barrett, actor (b. 1846)
- 1908 – Randal Cremer, English politician and pacifist (b. 1828)
- 1916 – James Whitcomb Riley, author, poet (b. 1849)
- 1922 – Jokichi Takamine, chemist (b. 1854)
- 1932 – Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., American theatrical producer (b. 1867)
- 1934 – John Dillinger, American bank robber, shot at the Biograph Theater in Chicago (b. 1903)
- 1950 – William Lyon Mackenzie King, tenth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1874)
- 1967 – Carl Sandburg, American poet (b. 1878)
- 1968 – Giovanni Guareschi, Italian journalist (b. 1908)
- 1974 – Wayne Morse, former Senator from Oregon
- 1979 – Sandor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer (b. 1929)
- 1989 – Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (born 1935)
- 1990 – Manuel Puig, Argentine author (b. 1932)
- 1998 – Hermann Prey, German bass-baritone (born 1929)
- 1998 – Alan Shepard, American astronaut (b. 1923)
- 2000 – Eric Christmas, British actor (born 1916)
- 2003 – Wahome Muthahi, Kenyan humourist (b. 1954)
- 2003 – Qusay Hussein of Iraq, son of Saddam Hussein (b. 1966)
- 2003 – Uday Hussein of Iraq, son of Saddam Hussein (b. 1964)
- 2004 – Sacha Distel, French singer (b. 1933)
- 2004 – George Kidd, Canadian diplomat (b. 1917)
- 2005 – Jean Charles de Menezes, Brazilian shooting victim (b. 1978)
- 2008 – Estelle Getty, American actress (b. 1923)
- 2011 – Linda Christian, American actress (b. 1924)
[change] Events
- 1298 – William Wallace fights the English at the Battle of Falkirk.
- 1793 – Alexander McKenzie reaches the Pacific coast of North America, becoming the first Euro-American to cross Canada.
- 1934 – A man identified as American bank robber John Dillinger is shot dead.
- 1942 – Start of the fighting on the Kokoda Track in New Guinea between Australia and Japan.
- 1946 – A terrorist attack on the King David Hotel in Jerusalem kills at least 91 people.
- 1954 – Laos becomes independent from France.
- 1977 – Deng Xiaoping returns to power in China.
- 1991 – Jeffrey Dahmer is arrested in Milwaukee after police discover human remains in his apartment.
- 1993 – Kaskasia, Illinois, is evacuated in the Great Flood of 1993.
- 1994 – Gambia's President Dawda Jawara is removed from office in a coup, to be replaced by Yahya Jammeh.
- 2005 – In London, officers of the Metropolitan Police shoot and kill Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes when he boards a tube train.
- 2009 – A Solar eclipse is seen over East Asia and the Pacific Ocean, and is the longest such event of the 21st century. It is also believed to have been witnessed by more people than any solar eclipse in history.
- 2010 – The International Court of Justice rules that Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia was not illegal.
- 2011 – An explosion in Oslo city centre kills 8 people. Two hours later, 69 people are killed in a shooting at a political youth event on the island of Utoya, carried out by Anders Behring Breivik.
[change] Observances
- Pi Approximation Day
