22 September
September 22 is the 265th day of the year (266th in leap years). There are 100 days remaining. In the Northern Hemisphere autumn begins at 6:23 P.M. EDT.
Events
Births
- 1606 - Li Zicheng, Chinese rebel (d. 1645)
- 1680 - Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (d. 1747)
- 1741 - Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (d. 1811)
- 1788 - Theodore Edward Hook, English author (d. 1841)
- 1791 - Michael Faraday, scientist (d. 1867)
- 1819 - Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (d. 1897)
- 1878 - Yoshida Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1967)
- 1880 - Dame Christabel Pankhurst, women's suffrage activist (d. 1958)
- 1885 - Erich von Stroheim, actor, writer, director (d. 1957)
- 1885 - Ben Chifley, former Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1951)
- 1895 - Paul Muni, Academy Award winning actor (d. 1967)
- 1898 - Katherine Alexander, actress (d. 1981)
- 1902 - John Houseman, actor and producer (d. 1988)
- 1905 - Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (d. 1964)
- 1906 - Ilse Koch, wife of Karl Koch, commandant of the concentration camp Buchenwald (d. 1967)
- 1912 - Martha Scott, American actress (d. 2003)
- 1915 - Arthur Lowe, British actor (d. 1982)
- 1918 - Henryk Szeryng, violinist (d. 1988)
- 1920 - William H. Riker, political scientist (d. 1993)
- 1923 - Dannie Abse, poet and writer
- 1924 - Rosamunde Pilcher, novelist
- 1927 - Tommy Lasorda, baseball manager
- 1928 - James Lawson, civil rights activist, minister
- 1931 - Fay Weldon, British feminist author
- 1931 - George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, British politician (d. 2003)
- 1932 - Ingemar Johansson, boxing champion
- 1934 - Lute Olson, college basketball coach
- 1943 - Toni Basil, singer, dancer, choreographer
- 1946 - King Sunny Ade, reggae singer
- 1948 - Denis Burke, Australian politician
- 1951 - David Coverdale, singer
- 1952 - Bob Goodlatte, U.S. Congressman from Virginia
- 1952 - Paul Le Mat, actor
- 1954 - Shari Belafonte, singer
- 1956 - Debby Boone, singer
- 1957 - Nick Cave, musician
- 1958 - Joan Jett, musician
- 1958 - Andrea Bocelli, singer
- 1959 - Tai Babilonia, figure skating star
- 1961 - Scott Baio, actor
- 1964 - Bonnie Hunt, actress
- 1965 - Tony Drago, Maltese snooker player
- 1966 - Stefan Rehn, Soccer player in Sweden
- 1967 - Félix Savón, Cuban boxer
- 1969 - Mara Stephens, actor
- 1971 - Märtha Louise, Princess of Norway
- 1972 - Bob Sapp, American boxer, kickboxer
- 1975 - Mystikal, rap music singer
- 1976 - Ronaldo, football player
- 1978 - Harry Kewell, Australian football player
- 1981 - Rocco Baldelli, baseball player
- 1987 - Tom Felton, actor (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)
Deaths
- 1345 - Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Leicester, English nobleman (b. 1281)
- 1521 - Selim I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1465)
- 1554 - Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, Spanish explorer (b. c. 1510)
- 1774 - Pope Clement XIV (b. 1705)
- 1777 - John Bartram, American botanist (b. 1699)
- 1828 - Shaka Zulu, Zulu leader (b. c. 1787)
- 1852 - William Tierney Clark, civil engineer (b. 1783)
- 1873 - Friedrich Frey-Herosé, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1801)
- 1881 - Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman from Illinois (b. 1831)
- 1957 - Toyoda Soemu, Japanese admiral in World War II (b. 1885)
- 1961 - Marion Davies, actress (b. 1897)
- 1987 - Dan Rowan, actor, comedian
- 1989 - Irving Berlin, songwriter (b. 1888)
- 1996 - Dorothy Lamour, actress (b. 1914)
- 1999 - George C. Scott, actor (b. 1927)
- 2001 - Isaac Stern, violinist (b. 1920)
- 2003 - Gordon Jump, actor, "Maytag Repairman" (b. 1932)
- 2003 - Hugo Young, British journalist, columnist and political commentator (b. 1938)
Holidays and observances
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