June 22
June 22 is the 173rd day of the year (174th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 192 days remaining.
Events
Births
- 1757 - George Vancouver, navigator, naval surveyor (d. 1798)
- 1767 - Wilhelm von Humboldt, philosopher and statesman (d. 1835)
- 1837 - Paul Morphy, American chess player (d. 1884)
- 1856 - H. Rider Haggard, author (d. 1925)
- 1885 - Milan Vidmar, Slovene electrical engineer and chess player (d. 1962)
- 1887 - Julian Huxley, British biologist (d. 1975)
- 1898 - Erich Maria Remarque, writer (d. 1970)
- 1903 - Carl Hubbell, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1988)
- 1906 - Billy Wilder, director (d. 2002)
- 1906 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author and aviator (d. 2001)
- 1920 - Paul Frees, cartoon voice-over artist (d. 1986)
- 1921 - Joseph Papp, director, producer (d. 1991)
- 1930 - Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, son of Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and young victim of crime (d. 1932)
- 1930 - Yuri Artyukhin, cosmonaut (d. 1998)
- 1936 - Kris Kristofferson, country music singer, songwriter, actor, Rhodes scholar
- 1941 - Ed Bradley, journalist, 60 Minutes correspondent
- 1943 - Brit Hume, FOX News anchor and commentator
- 1944 - Klaus Maria Brandauer, actor
- 1947 - David Lander, actor, baseball scout (Laverne and Shirley)
- 1948 - Todd Rundgren, singer, songwriter, recording producer
- 1949 - Meryl Streep, actress
- 1952 - Graham Greene, actor
- 1953 - Cyndi Lauper, singer
- 1954 - Freddie Prinze, Actor/comedian (d. 1977)
- 1958 - Bruce Campbell, actor
- 1971 - Kurt Warner, two-time NFL MVP
- 1973 - Carson Daly, talk show host, MTV VJ
- 1978 - Dan Wheldon, IRL race car driver
Deaths
- 431 - Paulinus of Nola, Latin poet
- 1276 - Pope Innocent V
- 1905 - Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
- 1959 - Hermann Brill, politician
- 1965 - David O. Selznick, movie producer
- 1969 - Judy Garland, singer, actress
- 1974 - Darius Milhaud, composer
- 1987 - Fred Astaire, dancer, actor
- 1988 - Dennis Day, singer, actor
- 1993 - Pat Nixon, wife of president Richard M. Nixon
- 1995 - Al Hansen, artist, grandfather of rock musician Beck
- 1997 - Gérard Pelletier, French journalist, politician and diplomat (b. 1919)
- 2002 - Ann Landers, columnist
- 2004 - Mattie J.T. Stepanek, poet
Holidays and observances
June 21 - June 23 - May 22 - July 22 -- listing of all days
