Births on 22 January
2000s
Princess Beatrice
2025
British princess (born 1988)
Pau Cubarsí
2007
Spanish footballer (born 2007)
Caitlin Clark
2002
American basketball player (born 2002)
Laia Codina
2000
Spanish footballer (born 2000)
1900s
Andrew Thomas (American football)
1999
American football player (born 1999)
Silentó
1998
American former rapper (born 1998)
Walid Cheddira
1998
Moroccan footballer (born 1998)
Fan Zhendong
1997
Chinese table tennis player
Dillon Brooks
1996
Canadian basketball player (born 1996)
Sami Gayle
1996
American actress (born 1996)
Josh Ho-Sang
1996
Canadian ice hockey player and rapper (born 1996)
Kumi Sasaki
1996
Japanese singer and radio personality (born 1996)
Tyrone Taylor
1994
American baseball player (born 1994)
Vincent Aboubakar
1992
Cameroonian footballer (born 1992)
Stefan Kolb
1991
German footballer
Alizé Cornet
1990
French tennis player (born 1990)
Mike Hauschild
1990
American baseball player (born 1990)
Logic (rapper)
1990
American rapper and singer (born 1990)
Oscar Möller
1989
Swedish ice hockey player
Theo Robinson
1989
English football player (born 1989)
Greg Oden
1988
American basketball player and coach (born 1988)
Marcel Schmelzer
1988
German professional footballer (born 1988)
Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen
1987
Norwegian cross-country skier
Shane Long
1987
Irish footballer (born 1987)
Angel Olsen
1987
American musician (born 1987)
Ray Rice
1987
American football player (born 1987)
Maher Magri
1986
Tunisian footballer
Matt Simon
1986
Australian soccer player (born 1986)
Nicklas Grossmann
1985
Swedish ice hockey player (born 1985)
Fotis Papoulis
1985
Cypriot footballer
Xu Yan (table tennis)
1985
Singaporean table tennis player
Ben Eager
1984
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1984)
Ubaldo Jiménez
1984
Dominican baseball player (born 1984)
Maceo Rigters
1984
Dutch footballer (born 1984)
Étienne Bacrot
1983
French chess grandmaster (born 1983)
Fabricio Coloccini
1982
Argentine footballer (born 1982)
Jason Peters
1982
American football player (born 1982)
Willa Ford
1981
American singer
Beverley Mitchell
1981
American actress
Ben Moody
1981
American guitarist (born 1981)
Ibrahima Sonko
1981
Senegalese footballer (born 1981)
Christopher Masterson
1980
American actor (born 1980)
Jonathan Woodgate
1980
English footballer and manager (born 1980)
Lizz Wright
1980
American jazz and gospel singer (born 1980)
Carlos Ruiz (baseball)
1979
Panamanian baseball player (born 1979)
Robert Esche
1978
American ice hockey player (born 1978)
Chone Figgins
1978
American baseball player (born 1978)
Mario Domm
1977
Mexican singer and songwriter
Hidetoshi Nakata
1977
Japanese footballer (born 1977)
Balthazar Getty
1975
American actor and musician (born 1975)
David Výborný
1975
Czech ice hockey player
Cameron McConville
1974
Australian racing driver
Joseph Muscat
1974
Prime Minister of Malta from 2013 to 2020
Rogério Ceni
1973
Brazilian football player and coach (born 1973)
Terry Hill
1972
Australian rugby league footballer (1972–2024)
Gabriel Macht
1972
American actor (born 1972)
Stan Collymore
1971
English footballer (born 1971)
Katie Finneran
1971
American actress (born 1971)
Abraham Olano
1970
Spanish cyclist (born 1970)
Olivia d'Abo
1969
British actress (born 1969)
Guy Fieri
1968
American television personality (born 1968)
Heath (musician)
1968
Japanese musician (1968–2023)
Frank Leboeuf
1968
French footballer (born 1968)
Mauricio Serna
1968
Colombian footballer (born 1968)
Manabu Nakanishi
1967
Japanese professional wrestler
Craig Salvatori
1966
Australian RL coach and former Australia international rugby league footballer
Steven Adler
1965
American drummer (born 1965)
DJ Jazzy Jeff
1965
American DJ, music producer and actor (born 1965)
Diane Lane
1965
American actress (born 1965)
Nigel Benn
1964
English boxer (born 1964)
Stojko Vranković
1964
Croatian basketball player (born 1964)
Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu
1962
King of Malaysia from 2006 to 2011
Quintin Dailey
1961
American basketball player (1961–2010)
Michael Hutchence
1960
Australian singer (1960–1997)
Linda Blair
1959
American actress and animal rights activist (born 1959)
Nikos Anastopoulos
1958
Greek footballer
Filiz Koçali
1958
Turkish politician
Charles White (American football)
1958
American football player and coach (1958–2023)
Mike Bossy
1957
Canadian ice hockey player (1957–2022)
Rita Chatterton
1957
American professional wrestling referee
Godfrey Thoma
1957
Nauruan politician
Steve Riley (drummer)
1956
American drummer (1956–2023)
Lester Hayes
1955
Player of American football
Thomas David Jones
1955
American astronaut (born 1955)
John Wesley Shipp
1955
American actor
Tully Blanchard
1954
American professional wrestler and manager
Winfried Berkemeier
1953
German footballer
Myung-whun Chung
1953
South Korean pianist and conductor
Jim Jarmusch
1953
American filmmaker (born 1953)
Ondrej Nepela
1951
Slovak figure skater (1951–1989)
Paul Bew
1950
Ulster-born historian
Frank Schade
1950
American basketball player (born 1950)
Steve Perry
1949
American singer and songwriter (born 1949)
Vladimir Oravsky
1947
Swedish writer and film director
Malcolm McLaren
1946
English fashion designer and music manager (1946–2010)
Serge Savard
1946
Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1946)
Christoph Schönborn
1945
Cardinal and archbishop of Vienna (born 1945)
Khosrow Golsorkhi
1944
Iranian journalist and activist (1944–1974)
Mimis Domazos
1942
Greek footballer (1942–2025)
Jaan Kaplinski
1941
Estonian poet, philosopher, and culture critic (1941–2021)
John Hurt
1940
English actor (1940–2017)
Gillian Shephard
1940
British politician (born 1940)
Jørgen Garde
1939
Danish admiral
Alfredo Palacio
1939
President of Ecuador from 2005 to 2007
Luigi Simoni
1939
Italian footballer, manager, and official (1939–2020)
J. C. Tremblay
1939
Canadian ice hockey player (1939–1994)
Peter Beard
1938
American photographer and writer (1938–2020)
Altair (footballer)
1938
Brazilian footballer (1938–2019)
Alma Delia Fuentes
1937
Mexican actress (1937–2017)
Edén Pastora
1937
Nicaraguan politician (1937–2020)
Joseph Wambaugh
1937
American writer and policeman (1937–2025)
Ong Teng Cheong
1936
President of Singapore from 1993 to 1999
Alan J. Heeger
1936
American physicist and chemist (born 1936)
Vijay Anand (filmmaker)
1934
Indian film director and actor (1934–2004)
Bill Bixby
1934
American actor and director (1934–1993)
Yuri Chesnokov (volleyball)
1933
Russian volleyball player (1933–2010)
Berthold Grünfeld
1932
Piper Laurie
1932
American actress (1932–2023)
Tom Railsback
1932
American politician and lawyer (1932–2020)
Sam Cooke
1931
American singer and songwriter (1931–1964)
Galina Zybina
1931
Russian athlete and coach (1931–2024)
Mariví Bilbao
1930
Spanish actress (1930–2013)
Daniel Camargo Barbosa
1930
Colombian serial killer
Éamon de Buitléar
1930
Irish wwildlife filmmaker, naturalist, musician (1930–2013)
Petr Eben
1929
Czech composer (1929–2007)
Yoshihiko Amino
1928
Japanese Marxist historian and public intellectual
Lou Creekmur
1927
American football player (1927–2009)
Joe Perry (American football)
1927
American football player (1927–2011)
J. J. Johnson
1924
American jazz trombonist, composer and arranger (1924–2001)
Ján Chryzostom Korec
1924
Slovak Jesuit priest and Roman Catholic cardinal (1924–2015)
Charles Lisanby
1924
American production designer
Diana Douglas
1923
American actress (1923��2015)
Howard Moss
1922
American poet and dramatist
Irving Kristol
1920
American columnist, journalist, and writer (1920–2009)
Alf Ramsey
1920
English footballer (1920–1999)
Diomedes Olivo
1919
Dominican baseball player (1919–1977)
Elmer Lach
1918
Canadian ice hockey player (1918–2015)
Bruce Shand
1917
British Army officer (1917–2006)
Bill Durnan
1916
Canadian ice hockey player (1916–1972)
Henri Dutilleux
1916
French composer (1916–2013)
Harilal Upadhyay
1916
Gujarati author (1916–1994)
Heinrich Albertz
1915
German Protestant theologian and politician (1915–1993)
Dimitris Dragatakis
1914
Henry Bauchau
1913
Belgium psychoanalyst, writer (1913–2012)
William Conway (cardinal)
1913
Irish cardinal
Carl F. H. Henry
1913
American theologian
Bruno Kreisky
1911
Austrian diplomat and chancellor (1911–1990)
Martha Norelius
1909
American swimmer
Porfirio Rubirosa
1909
Dominican diplomat and playboy (1909–1965)
Ann Sothern
1909
American actress (1909–2001)
U Thant
1909
UN Secretary-General from 1961 to 1971
Lev Landau
1908
Soviet theoretical physicist (1908–1968)
Douglas Corrigan
1907
American aviator (1907–1995)
Dixie Dean
1907
English footballer (1907–1980)
Robert E. Howard
1906
American pulp fiction writer (1906–1936)
Willy Hartner
1905
German scientist and polymath
George Balanchine
1904
Georgian-American ballet choreographer (1904–1983)
Arkady Gaidar
1904
Soviet children's writer (1904–1941)
Fritz Houtermans
1903
Prussian-born physicist and communist (1903–1966)
Daniel Kinsey
1902
American hurdler (1902–1970)
Ernst Busch (actor)
1900
German singer and actor (1900–1980)
James Hamilton Doggart
1900
English ophthalmologist and cricketer (1900–1989)
1800s
Martti Haavio
1899
Finnish poet, folklorist and mythologist (1899–1973)
Ross Barnett
1898
53rd Governor of Mississippi
Sergei Eisenstein
1898
Soviet-Russian filmmaker and theorist (1898–1948)
Denise Legeay
1898
French actress (1898–1968)
Rosa Ponselle
1897
American operatic contralto (1897–1981)
Dilipkumar Roy
1897
Bengali musician, singer, musicologist, novelist, poet, essayist and yogi
Conrad Veidt
1893
German and British actor (1893–1943)
Marcel Dassault
1892
French aircraft industrialist (1892–1986)
Antonio Gramsci
1891
Albanian-Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, and politician (1891–1937)
Fred M. Vinson
1890
Chief Justice of the United States from 1946 to 1953
Henri Pélissier
1889
French cyclist (1889-1935)
Amos Strunk
1889
American baseball player (1889–1979)
Helen Hoyt
1887
American poet
John J. Becker
1886
American composer
Ira Thomas
1881
American baseball player (1881–1958)
Bill O'Neill (baseball)
1880
Canadian baseball player (1880–1920)
Frigyes Riesz
1880
Hungarian mathematician
Francis Picabia
1879
French painter and writer (1879–1953)
Tom Jones (baseball)
1877
American baseball player (1874–1923)
D. W. Griffith
1875
American filmmaker (1875–1948)
Edward Harkness
1874
American philanthropist
Jay Hughes
1874
American baseball player (1874–1924)
José Vicente de Freitas
1869
Portuguese politician
Gisela Januszewska
1867
19th and 20th-century Austrian physician
Wilbur Scoville
1865
American pharmacist (1865–1942)
George Fuller (Australian politician)
1861
Australian politician (1861–1940)
Beatrice Webb
1858
English sociologist, economist, feminist and social reformer (1858–1943)
August Strindberg
1849
Swedish writer and painter (1849–1912)
Ernest Wilberforce
1840
British Anglican clergyman and bishop
Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein
1831
German prince and British royal (1831–1917)
Dayrolles Eveleigh-de-Moleyns, 4th Baron Ventry
1828
Irish peer
Richard Upjohn
1802
English-American architect (1802–1878)
Before 1800
Ludger Duvernay
1799
Canadian politician
Maria Leopoldina of Austria
1797
Empress of Brazil (1822–1826) and Queen of Portugal (1826)
Karl Ernst Claus
1796
Russian chemist and naturalist (1796–1864)
Lady Lucy Whitmore
1792
English noblewoman
Lord Byron
1788
English poet (1788–1824)
François Habeneck
1781
French violinist and conductor (1781–1849)
Noah Phelps
1740
American general
Philip Carteret
1733
Royal Navy officer and explorer (1733–1796)
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
1729
German Enlightenment writer (1729–1781)
Nicolas Lancret
1690
French painter (1690–1743)
Richard Blackmore
1654
English poet and physician
William Kidd
1645
Scottish privateer (1654–1701)
Pierre Gassendi
1592
French priest, astronomer, and mathematician (1592–1655)
John Donne
1573
English poet and cleric (1572–1631)
Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet, of Connington
1570
English antiquarian (1570/71–1631)
Francis Bacon
1561
English philosopher and statesman (1561–1626)
Walter Raleigh
1552
English statesman and explorer (1552–1618)
Charles II, Duke of Orléans
1522
Duke of Orléans
Ivan III of Russia
1440
Grand Prince of Moscow from 1462 to 1505
Ibn Taymiyya
1263
Islamic scholar and jurist (1263–1328)