Births on 22 May
2000s
Peyton Elizabeth Lee
2004
American actress (born 2004)
Anthony Richardson (American football)
2002
American football player (born 2002)
Enzo Barrenechea
2001
Argentine footballer (born 2001)
Emma Chamberlain
2001
American media personality (born 2001)
Joshua Zirkzee
2001
Dutch footballer (born 2001)
Julián Carranza
2000
Argentine footballer (born 2000)
1900s
Samuel Chukwueze
1999
Nigerian footballer (born 1999)
Femke Huijzer
1999
Dutch model (born 1999)
Hōshōryū Tomokatsu
1999
Mongolian sumo wrestler (born 1999)
Samile Bermannelli
1998
Brazilian fashion model
Lauri Markkanen
1997
Finnish basketball player (born 1997)
Florian Luger
1994
Austrian male fashion model (born 1994)
Athena Manoukian
1994
Greek singer and songwriter (born 1994)
Anna Baryshnikov
1992
American actress
Joel Obi
1991
Nigerian footballer (born 1991)
Suho
1991
South Korean singer-songwriter and actor (born 1991)
Wyatt Roy
1990
Australian politician (born 1990)
Corey Dickerson
1989
American baseball player (born 1989)
Heida Reed
1988
Icelandic actress and model (born 1988)
Novak Djokovic
1987
Serbian tennis player (born 1987)
Arturo Vidal
1987
Chilean footballer (born 1987)
Julian Edelman
1986
American football player (born 1986)
Matt Jarvis
1986
English association football player (born 1986)
Tatiana Volosozhar
1986
Ukrainian-born Russian pair skater (born 1986)
Tranquillo Barnetta
1985
Swiss footballer (born 1985)
Mauro Boselli
1985
Argentine footballer (born 1985)
Tao Okamoto
1985
Japanese actress (born 1985)
Clara Amfo
1984
British radio presenter (born 1984)
Karoline Herfurth
1984
German actress (born 1984)
Didier Ya Konan
1984
Ivorian footballer (born 1984)
Dustin Moskovitz
1984
American internet entrepreneur (born 1984)
Natasha Kai
1983
American soccer player
Erin McNaught
1982
Australian model, actress, presenter and television personality (born 1982)
Apolo Ohno
1982
American short track speed skater (born 1982)
Hong Yong-jo
1982
North Korean footballer (born 1982)
Bryan Danielson
1981
American professional wrestler (born 1981)
Bassel Khartabil
1981
Free culture and democracy activist, Syrian political prisoner (1981–2015)
JĂĽrgen Melzer
1981
Austrian tennis player (born 1981)
Mark O'Meley
1981
Australia international rugby league footballer
Tarin Bradford
1980
Australian rugby league footballer
Sharice Davids
1980
American politician and attorney (born 1980)
Lucy Gordon (actress)
1980
British actress and model (1980–2009)
Nazanin Boniadi
1979
British actress and activist (born May 22, 1979)
Tihomir Dovramadjiev
1979
Bulgarian chess boxer (born 1979)
Maggie Q
1979
American actress (born 1979)
Ginnifer Goodwin
1978
American actress (born 1978)
Katie Price
1978
English television personality, model, and singer (born 1978)
Pat Smullen
1977
Irish jockey (1977–2020)
Christian Vande Velde
1976
American cyclist (born 1976)
Salva Ballesta
1975
Spanish footballer
Sean Gunn
1974
American actor (born 1974)
Garba Lawal
1974
Nigerian footballer (born in 1974)
Henrietta Ă“nodi
1974
Hungarian gymnast (born 1974)
Arseniy Yatsenyuk
1974
Prime Minister of Ukraine from 2014 to 2016
Canek Sánchez Guevara
1974
Cuban author and dissident (1974–2015)
Anne Beathe Tvinnereim
1974
Norwegian diplomat and politician
Nikolaj Lie Kaas
1973
Danish actor (born 1973)
Max Brooks
1972
American writer (born 1972)
Naomi Campbell
1970
British model (born 1970)
Brody Stevens
1970
American comedian (1970–2019)
Michael Kelly (actor)
1969
American actor (born 1969)
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
1969
American politician (born 1969)
Graham Linehan
1968
Irish writer and anti-transgender activist (born 1968)
Johnny Gill
1966
American R&B singer (born 1966)
Wang Xiaoshuai
1966
Chinese film director and screenwriter (born 1966)
Jay Carney
1965
Former White House Press Secretary
Claude Closky
1963
French artist
Andrew Magee
1962
American professional golfer
Brian Pillman
1962
American professional wrestler (1962–1997)
Hideaki Anno
1960
Japanese animator, filmmaker, producer, and seiyū (born 1960)
David Blatt
1959
Israeli-American basketball player and coach (born 1959)
Olin Browne
1959
American professional golfer
Morrissey
1959
English singer (born 1959)
Kwak Jae-yong
1959
South Korean film director (born 1959)
Mehbooba Mufti
1959
Former Chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir
Lisa Murkowski
1957
American attorney and politician (born 1957)
Lucie Brock-Broido
1956
American writer (1956–2018)
Iva Davies
1955
Australian electronic musician and rock singer
Barbara May Cameron
1954
Native American author, artist, and activist (1954–2002)
Shuji Nakamura
1954
Japanese–American electronics engineer (born 1954)
François Bon
1953
French writer and translator
Cha Bum-kun
1953
South Korean footballer
Paul Mariner
1953
English footballer (1953–2021)
Kenneth Bianchi
1951
American serial killer (born 1951)
Bernie Taupin
1950
British songwriter (born 1950)
Cheryl Campbell
1949
English actress (born 1949)
Valentin Inzko
1949
Austrian diplomat (born 1949)
Tomás Sánchez
1948
Cuban painter and engraver (born 1948)
Nedumudi Venu
1948
Indian actor and screenwriter (1944–2021)
George Best
1946
Northern Irish footballer (1946–2005)
Michael Green (physicist)
1946
British physicist
Howard Kendall
1946
English footballer and manager
Andrei Marga
1946
Romanian politician and academic
Lyudmila Zhuravleva
1946
Soviet-Ukrainian astronomer (born 1946)
Bob Katter
1945
Australian politician (born 1945)
John Flanagan (author)
1944
Australian fantasy author
Betty Williams
1943
Northern Irish peace activist and Nobel laureate
Tommy John
1943
American baseball player (born 1943)
Roger Brown (basketball, born 1942)
1942
American basketball player (1942–1997)
Ted Kaczynski
1942
American domestic terrorist (1942–2023)
Barbara Parkins
1942
Canadian actress
Richard Oakes (activist)
1942
Mohawk American Indian activist (1942–1972)
Menzies Campbell
1941
British politician (1941–2025)
Kieth Merrill
1940
American filmmaker (born 1940)
E. A. S. Prasanna
1940
Indian Cricketer
Michael Sarrazin
1940
Canadian actor (1940-2011)
Bernard Shaw (journalist)
1940
American journalist (1940–2022)
Mick Tingelhoff
1940
American football player (1940–2021)
Paul Winfield
1939
American actor (1939–2004)
Richard Benjamin
1938
American actor (born 1938)
Susan Strasberg
1938
American actress and author (1938–1999)
Facundo Cabral
1937
Musical artist
Tomáš Janovic
1937
Slovak writer (1937–2023)
George H. Heilmeier
1936
American engineer and businessman (1936-2014)
Billy Rayner
1935
Australia international rugby league footballer
Peter Nero
1934
American pianist and pops conductor (1934–2023)
Fred Anderson (rugby league)
1933
South Africa international rugby league footballer
Chen Jingrun
1933
Chinese number theorist
Robert Spitzer (psychiatrist)
1932
American psychiatrist (1932–2015)
Kenny Ball
1930
English jazz musician (1930–2013)
Marisol Escobar
1930
Venezuelan American sculptor (1930–2016)
Harvey Milk
1930
American gay rights activist (1930–1978)
Ahmed Fouad Negm
1929
Egyptian poet
Serge Doubrovsky
1928
French writer (1928–2017)
John Mackenzie (film director)
1928
Scottish film director (1928–2011)
T. Boone Pickens
1928
American financier (1928–2019)
You Sano
1928
Michael Constantine
1927
American actor (1927–2021)
Peter Matthiessen
1927
American novelist
George Andrew Olah
1927
Hungarian-American chemist (1927–2017)
Jean Tinguely
1925
Swiss sculptor (1925–1991)
Charles Aznavour
1924
French singer and songwriter (1924–2018)
Quinn Martin
1922
American television producer (1922–1987)
George S. Hammond
1921
American chemist (1921–2005)
Thomas Gold
1920
Austrian astrophysicist (1920–2004)
Paul Vanden Boeynants
1919
Belgian politician
George Aratani
1917
Owner of the Kenwood Electronics
Jean-Louis Curtis
1917
French novelist
Max Kohnstamm
1914
Dutch historian and diplomat (1914–2010)
Sun Ra
1914
American jazz composer and bandleader (1914–1993)
Rafael Gil
1913
Spanish film director and screenwriter
Dominique Rolin
1913
Belgian novelist
Herbert C. Brown
1912
American chemist (1912–2004)
Bob Dyer
1909
American-born vaudeville entertainer, radio personality and quiz show host
Margaret Mee
1909
British botanical artist (1909–1988)
Horton Smith
1908
American professional golfer (1908–1963)
Hergé
1907
Belgian cartoonist (1907–1983)
Laurence Olivier
1907
English actor and director (1907–1989)
Bodo von Borries
1905
German physicist
Tom Driberg
1905
English journalist, politician and churchman (1905–1976)
Uno Lamm
1904
Swedish electrical engineer and inventor
Jack Lambert (footballer, born 1902)
1902
English football player (1902-1940)
Al Simmons
1902
American baseball player (1902–1956)
Maurice J. Tobin
1901
American politician (1901–1953)
Juan Arvizu
1900
Mexican singer (1900–1985)
1800s
Robert Neumann (writer)
1897
Austrian writer (1897–1975)
Friedrich Pollock
1894
German social scientist and philosopher
Johannes R. Becher
1891
German politician, novelist and poet (1891–1958)
A. W. Sandberg
1887
Danish film director and screenwriter
Giacomo Matteotti
1885
Italian politician (1885–1924)
Soemu Toyoda
1885
Japanese admiral (1885–1957)
Wilhelmina Hay Abbott
1884
Scottish suffragist, editor and feminist lecturer
Francis de Miomandre
1880
French novelist (1880-1959)
Warwick Armstrong
1879
Australian cricketer (1879–1947)
Jean Cras
1879
French composer and naval officer (1879–1932)
Symon Petliura
1879
Ukrainian military leader (1879–1926)
Julius Klinger
1876
Austrian painter (1876–1942)
D. F. Malan
1874
Prime Minister of South Africa from 1948 to 1954
Augusto Pestana (politician)
1868
Brazilian politician
Willy Stöwer
1864
German painter (1864–1931)
Arthur Conan Doyle
1859
British writer and physician (1859–1930)
Tsubouchi ShĹŤyĹŤ
1859
Japanese author and playwright (1859–1935)
Belmiro de Almeida
1858
Brazilian artist (1858–1935)
Aston Webb
1849
English architect (1849–1930)
Fritz von Uhde
1848
German painter (1848–1911)
Rita Cetina Gutiérrez
1846
Mexican teacher, poet and feminist (1846–1908)
Mary Cassatt
1844
American painter and printmaker (1844–1926)
Catulle Mendès
1841
French poet and man of letters (1841–1909)
FĂ©lix Bracquemond
1833
French painter and etcher (1833–1914)
Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla
1833
Spanish politician
Henry Vandyke Carter
1831
English anatomist, illustrator of Gray's Anatomy
Albrecht von Graefe (ophthalmologist)
1828
German ophthalmologist
Worthington Whittredge
1820
American painter
Amalia Lindegren
1814
Swedish artist (1814–1891)
Richard Wagner
1813
German composer (1813–1883)
Giulia Grisi
1811
Italian opera singer (1811–1869)
Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle
1811
British politician
GĂ©rard de Nerval
1808
French writer, poet, essayist and translator (1808–1855)
Before 1800
William Sturgeon
1783
English electrical engineer and inventor (1783–1850)
Hirose TansĹŤ
1782
Neo-Confucian scholar, teacher and writer
Johann Nepomuk Schödlberger
1779
Austrian painter (1779–1853)
Raja Ram Mohan Roy
1772
Indian reformer and writer (1772–1833)
Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom
1770
Landgravine of Hesse-Homburg from 1820 to 1829
Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst
1762
British politician (1762–1834)
Louis Legendre
1752
French politician
Hubert Robert
1733
French painter (1733–1808)
François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis
1715
Catholic cardinal (1715–1794)
Daniel Gran
1694
Austrian painter (1694–1757)
Magnus Stenbock
1665
Swedish noble (1664–1717)
Richard Brakenburgh
1650
Dutch painter
Gabriël Grupello
1644
Flemish Baroque sculptor
Louis de Buade de Frontenac
1622
French soldier and governor (1622–1698)
Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford
1539
English nobleman (1539–1621)
Annamacharya
1408
Indian musician and composer (1408–1503)
Su Xun
1009
Song dynasty writer (1009–1066)
Itzam KĘĽan Ahk I
626
Ajaw of Piedras Negras from 639 to 686