Anniversaries 22 January

Birth

Ibn Taymiyyah7

Sunni Islamic scholar and theologian, who lived during the … 1263–1328

Francis Bacon295

English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and auth… 1561–1626

Pierre Gassendi1

French philosopher, astronomer, mathematician, priest, and … 1592–1655

Richard Blackmore6

English poet and physician 1654–1729

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing18

writer, philosopher, publicist, and art critic 1729–1781

George Gordon Byron227

English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement 1788–1824

John Joseph Griffin3

English chemist and publisher 1802–1877

John McClellan Holmes14

US Christian minister and author 1834–1911

August Strindberg10

Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter 1849–1912

Terence V. Powderly11

American mayor 1849–1924

Leonard Eugene Dickson1

American mathematician 1874–1954

Hjalmar Schacht9

German politician 1877–1970

Francis Picabia11

French painter and writer 1879–1953

Isabel Paterson17

author and editor 1886–1961

Fred M. Vinson2

American politician and Supreme Court justice 1890–1953

Antonio Gramsci22

Italian writer, politician, theorist, sociologist and lingu… 1891–1937

Charles Morgan1

British writer 1894–1958

Leslie Sarony1

British singer 1897–1985

Fritz Houtermans1

German physicist 1903–1966

George Balanchine8

Georgian choreographer, dancer and ballet master (1904-1983) 1904–1983

Robert E. Howard145

American author 1906–1936

Baruch Ashlag8

Polish rabbi 1907–1991

Lev Landau3

Soviet physicist 1908–1968

U Thant5

3rd Secretary-General of the United Nations 1909–1974

Harold Geneen16

American businessman 1910–1997

Peter L. Bernstein1

American academic 1919–2009

Alf Ramsey4

English association football player and manager 1920–1999

Philippa Pearce2

English children's writer 1920–2006

Irving Kristol35

American columnist, journalist, and writer 1920–2009

Sam Cooke13

American singer-songwriter and entrepreneur 1931–1964

Claire Rayner1

British writer 1931–2010

Piper Laurie3

actress 1932

Mancur Olson3

American economist 1932–1998

Peter Beard2

American photographer and writer 1938–2020

Serge Savard1

Canadian ice hockey player 1946

John Miles Foley3

American literary scholar 1947–2012

D. A. Miller1

American literary critic 1948

Northern Calloway2

American actor 1948–1990

Alveda King4

American, civil rights activist, Christian minister, conser… 1951

Eduardo Horacio García1

Catholic bishop 1956

Linda Blair3

actress, producer, animal rights activist 1959

Cho Jung-tai1

Taiwanese politician 1959

Keith Gray1

American basketball player 1963

Nigel Benn5

British boxer 1964

Ben Moody9

American musician 1981

Death

Sesson Yūbai1

Japanese Zen Buddhist monk of the Rinzai sect 1290–1347

Shah Jahan14

5th Mughal Emperor 1592–1666

John Berridge2

British priest 1716–1793

Charles Sprague5

Boston businessman and poet 1791–1875

George D. Prentice1

American newspaper editor 1802–1870

George Holyoake13

British secularist, co-operator, and newspaper editor 1817–1906

Victoria of the United Kingdom11

British monarch who reigned 1837–1901 1819–1901

George Salmon2

mathematician and Anglican theologian 1819–1904

Anna Bartlett Warner2

American hymnwriter 1827–1915

James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce19

British academic, jurist, historian and Liberal politician 1838–1922

Benjamin Fish Austin24

Nineteenth-century Canadian educator/Methodist Minister/Spi… 1850–1933

Pope Benedict XV1

258th Pope of the Catholic Church 1854–1922

Richard Franck1

German composer 1858–1938

Arthur Symons21

British poet 1865–1945

Fyodor Dan2

Russian revolutionary 1871–1947

Ralph Barton Perry15

American philosopher 1876–1957

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy6

American philanthropist and mother of John F. Kennedy 1890–1995

Roman Vishniac11

American photographer 1897–1990

Itsurō Sakisaka4

Japanese economist 1897–1985

Marvin Bower12

American business theorist 1903–2003

Stanley Marcus1

American businessman 1905–2002

Lyndon B. Johnson153

American politician, 36th president of the United States (i… 1908–1973

Bill Mauldin15

American editorial cartoonist 1921–2003

Kóbó Abe16

Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor 1924–1993

Jean Simmons1

British-American actress 1929–2010

Ursula K. Le Guin292

American writer 1929–2018

Heath Ledger28

Australian actor 1979–2008