Births on 22 April
2000s
Violet McGraw
2011
American actress (born 2011)
1900s
Adam Lanza
1992
American mass murderer (1992–2012)
Danni Wyatt-Hodge
1991
English cricketer
MGK
1990
American musician (born 1990)
Kevin Kiermaier
1990
American baseball player (born 1990)
Eve Muirhead
1990
Scottish curler (born 1990)
Dee Strange-Gordon
1988
American baseball player (born 1988)
David Luiz
1987
Brazilian footballer (born 1987)
Amber Heard
1986
American actress (born 1986)
Marshawn Lynch
1986
American football player and actor (born 1986)
Sam W. Heads
1983
English palaeontologist (born 1983)
Shkëlzen Shala
1983
Kosovo Albanian entrepreneur and activist
Kaká
1982
Brazilian footballer (born 1982)
Quincy Timberlake
1980
Kenyan politician (born 1980)
Zoltán Gera
1979
Hungarian footballer
Daniel Johns
1979
Australian musician (born 1979)
Paul Malakwen Kosgei
1978
Kenyan long-distance and marathon runner (born 1978)
Dan Cloutier
1976
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1976)
Regine Velasquez
1970
Filipino singer and actress (born 1970)
David J. C. MacKay
1967
Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Cambridge (1967–2016)
Sherri Shepherd
1967
American actress (born 1967)
Mickey Morandini
1966
American baseball player (born 1966)
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
1966
American actor (born 1966)
Rosalind Gill
1963
British sociologist and author (born 1963)
Sean Lock
1963
English comedian and actor (1963–2021)
Jeff Minter
1962
British video game designer (born 1962)
Danièle Sauvageau
1962
Canadian ice hockey coach (born 1962)
Jeff Hostetler
1961
American football player (born 1961)
Alo Mattiisen
1961
Estonian musician and composer
Mart Laar
1960
Estonian politician and historian
Terry Francona
1959
American baseball player and manager (born 1959)
Ryan Stiles
1959
American-Canadian comedian (born 1959)
Donald Tusk
1957
Prime Minister of Poland (2007–2014; since 2023)
Marilyn Chambers
1952
American pornographic actress (1952–2009)
Aivars Kalējs
1951
Latvian composer, organist and pianist
Ana María Shua
1951
Argentine writer (born 1951)
Peter Frampton
1950
English musician and songwriter (born 1950)
Jancis Robinson
1950
British journalist
Lee Tamahori
1950
New Zealand film director (1950–2025)
Spencer Haywood
1949
American basketball player (born 1949)
John Pritchard (bishop)
1948
British bishop
Steven L. Bennett
1946
US Air Force officer and posthumous recipient of the Medal of Honor
Paul Davies
1946
English physicist, writer and broadcaster (born 1946)
Louise Harel
1946
Canadian politician (born 1946)
Archy Kirkwood
1946
British politician
Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford
1946
British economist and academic (born 1946)
John Waters
1946
American filmmaker (born 1946)
Eddy Baldewijns
1945
Belgian politician (born 1945)
Gopalkrishna Gandhi
1945
Indian civil servant and diplomat
Demetrio Stratos
1945
Greek musician and lyricist (1945–1979)
Steve Fossett
1944
American businessman, aviator, sailor, and adventurer (1944–2007)
Doug Jarrett
1944
Canadian ice hockey player (1944–2014)
Joshua Rifkin
1944
American conductor, keyboard player, and musicologist
Keith Crisco
1943
American politician
Janet Evanovich
1943
American writer
Louise Glück
1943
American poet and Nobel laureate (1943–2023)
John Maples
1943
British politician (1943–2012)
Scott W. Williams
1943
American mathematician
Giorgio Agamben
1942
Italian philosopher (born 1942)
Mary Prior
1942
Lord Lieutenant of Bristol (born 1942)
Greville Howard, Baron Howard of Rising
1941
British Conservative politician
Mel Carter
1939
American soul singer
John Foley (British Army officer)
1939
British Army general
Ray Guy (humorist)
1939
Canadian writer (1939–2013)
Jason Miller (playwright)
1939
American actor and playwright (1939–2001)
Theo Waigel
1939
German politician (born 1939)
Alan Bond
1938
Australian businessman (1938–2015)
Gani Fawehinmi
1938
Nigerian lawyer (1938–2009)
Issey Miyake
1938
Japanese fashion designer (1938–2022)
Adam Raphael
1938
British journalist and author
Jack Nicholson
1937
American actor and filmmaker (born 1937)
Jack Nitzsche
1937
American musician, composer, arranger (1937–2000)
Glen Campbell
1936
American musician (1936–2017)
Pierre Hétu
1936
Canadian politician (1936–1998)
Christopher Ball (linguist)
1935
British academic
Paul Chambers
1935
American jazz double bassist
Bhama Srinivasan
1935
Indian-American mathematician
Anthony Llewellyn
1933
American scientist and astronaut (1933–2013)
John Buchanan (Canadian politician)
1931
Premier of Nova Scotia from 1978 to 1990
Ronald Hynd
1931
English choreographer
Enno Penno
1930
Estonian politician (1930–2016)
Michael Atiyah
1929
British-Lebanese mathematician (1929–2019)
Robert Wade-Gery
1929
British diplomat
Estelle Harris
1928
American actress (1928–2022)
Laurel Aitken
1927
Cuban-Jamaican musician (1927–2005)
Charlotte Rae
1926
American actress (1926–2018)
James Stirling (architect)
1926
British architect (1924–1992)
Nam Duck-woo
1924
South Korean politician (1924–2013)
Peter Kane Dufault
1923
American poet
Bettie Page
1923
American pin-up model (1923–2008)
Aaron Spelling
1923
American film and television producer (1923–2006)
Richard Diebenkorn
1922
American painter and printmaker
Charles Mingus
1922
American jazz musician (1922–1979)
Wolf V. Vishniac
1922
American microbiologist (1922–1973)
Donald J. Cram
1919
American chemist (1919–2001)
Carl Lindner Jr.
1919
American businessman
William Jay Smith
1918
American writer, translator, editor
Mickey Vernon
1918
American baseball player and manager (1918–2008)
Yvette Chauviré
1917
French prima ballerina and actress (1917–2016)
Sidney Nolan
1917
Australian artist (1917–1992)
Hanfried Lenz
1916
German mathematician (1916–2013)
Yehudi Menuhin
1916
American-British violinist (1916–1999)
B. R. Chopra
1914
Indian film director (1914–2008)
Jan de Hartog
1914
Dutch playwright and novelist (1914–2002)
José Quiñones Gonzales
1914
Peruvian military aviator (1914–1941)
Michael Wittmann
1914
German tank commander (1914–1944)
Kathleen Ferrier
1912
English singer (1912–1953)
Kaneto Shindo
1912
Japanese filmmaker (1912–2012)
Norman Steenrod
1910
American mathematician (1910–1971)
Rita Levi-Montalcini
1909
Italian neurologist (1909–2012)
Indro Montanelli
1909
Italian journalist and historian (1909–2001)
Spyros Markezinis
1909
Prime Minister of Greece in 1973
Eric Fenby
1906
British composer (1906–1997)
Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten
1906
Swedish prince (1906–1947)
Robert Choquette
1905
Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat
J. Robert Oppenheimer
1904
American theoretical physicist (1904–1967)
Nellie Beer
1900
1800s
Vladimir Nabokov
1899
Russian and American novelist (1899–1977)
Vernon Johns
1892
American pastor and public intellectual (1892–1965)
Laura Gilpin
1891
American fine art photographer (1891–1979)
Vittorio Jano
1891
Italian engineer and car designer (1891–1965)
Harold Jeffreys
1891
British physicist and mathematician
Sacco and Vanzetti
1891
Italian American anarchist duo executed by Massachusetts
Richard Glücks
1889
SS officer (1889–1945)
Harald Bohr
1887
Danish mathematician and footballer (1887–1951)
Izidor Cankar
1886
Slovenian author, art historian, diplomat, journalist, translator and politician
Otto Rank
1884
Austrian psychoanalyst (1884–1939)
Bernhard Gregory
1879
Baltic German chess player
Robert Bárány
1876
Austria-born otologist (1876–1936)
Georg Lurich
1876
Estonian wrestler and strongman
Wu Peifu
1874
Chinese general and warlord (1874–1939)
Ellen Glasgow
1873
American novelist (1873–1945)
Princess Margaret of Prussia
1872
Landgravine of Hesse
Vladimir Lenin
1870
Leader of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924
Ethel Smyth
1858
English composer and suffragette (1858–1944)
Fritz Mayer van den Bergh
1858
Henri La Fontaine
1854
Belgian politician and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1854–1913)
William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
1852
Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 1905 to 1912
Lewis Powell (conspirator)
1844
American soldier and conspirator (1844–1865)
Julius Sterling Morton
1832
American politician (1832–1902)
Emily Davies
1830
English feminist and suffragist (1830–1921)
Charles-Denis Bourbaki
1816
French soldier and officer (1816–1897)
Solomon Caesar Malan
1812
Swiss Anglican divine and polyglot
Before 1800
Germaine de Staël
1766
French novelist and woman of letters (1766–1817)
James Sullivan (governor)
1744
American lawyer, jurist, and politician
John Johnson (architect, born 1732)
1732
English architect (1732–1814)
Immanuel Kant
1724
German philosopher (1724–1804)
Paul II Anton, Prince Esterházy
1711
Prince Esterházy of Galántha
Henry Fielding
1707
English writer and judge (1707–1754)
John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville
1690
British statesman (1690–1763)
Giuseppe Torelli
1658
Italian Baroque violinist and composer (1658–1709)
Pope Alexander VIII
1610
Head of the Catholic Church from 1689 to 1691
Wilhelm Schickard
1592
German astronomer and computing pioneer
Antoine of Navarre
1518
King of Navarre from 1555 to 1562
Isabella I of Castile
1451
Queen of Castile and León from 1474 to 1504
Elizabeth of York, Duchess of Suffolk
1444
English noblewoman (1444 – c. 1503)
Reinhard III, Count of Hanau
1412