Anniversaries 22 October
Birth
![Nader Shah photo]()
ruled as Shah of Iran
1688–1747
![Daniel Boone photo]()
American settler
1734–1820
![James Northcote photo]()
English painter
1746–1831
![Franz Liszt photo]()
Hungarian romantic composer and virtuoso pianist
1811–1886
![Abigail Scott Duniway photo]()
American suffragist, writer, journalist, pioneer
1834–1915
![Louis Riel photo]()
Canadian politician
1844–1885
![Joseph N. Welch photo]()
American lawyer
1890–1960
![Burton Rascoe photo]()
American writer
1892–1957
![Robert Capa photo]()
American photographer
1913–1954
![Yitzhak Shamir photo]()
prime minister of Israel
1915–2012
![Doris Lessing photo]()
British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer …
1919–2013
![Timothy Leary photo]()
American psychologist
1920–1996
![Alexander Kronrod photo]()
Russian mathematician
1921–1986
![Robert Rauschenberg photo]()
American artist
1925–2008
![Clare Fischer photo]()
American keyboardist, composer, arranger, and bandleader
1928–2012
![Lev Yashin photo]()
Soviet association football player
1929–1990
![Ann Rule photo]()
True crime writer
1931–2015
![Jim Baen photo]()
American publisher and editor
1943–2006
![Simone Campbell photo]()
American Roman Catholic Religious Sister and activist
1945
![Roger A. Pielke photo]()
American meteorologist
1946
![Deepak Chopra photo]()
Indian-American physician, public speaker and writer
1946
![Arsène Wenger photo]()
French footballer and manager
1949
![Louise Burfitt-Dons photo]()
Activist, writer, blogger
1953
![Bill Condon photo]()
American film director
1955
![Brewster Kahle photo]()
American computer engineer, founder of the Internet Archive
1960
![John C. Wright photo]()
American novelist and technical writer
1961
![Spike Jonze photo]()
American director and actor
1969
![Saffron Burrows photo]()
English actress, model and writer
1972
![Ichiro Suzuki photo]()
Japanese baseball player
1973
![Michael Barrett photo]()
baseball catcher and manager
1976
Death
![Archibald Alexander photo]()
American theologian
1772–1851
![Edward Payson photo]()
American religious leader
1783–1827
![János Arany photo]()
Hungarian writer
1817–1882
![William Edward Hartpole Lecky photo]()
British politician
1838–1903
![Edward Carson, Baron Carson photo]()
Irish politician, barrister and judge
1854–1935
![Pablo Casals photo]()
Catalan cellist and conductor
1876–1973
![Paul Tillich photo]()
German-American theologian and philosopher
1886–1965
![Arnold J. Toynbee photo]()
British historian, author of A Study of History
1889–1975
![Albert Szent-Györgyi photo]()
Hungarian biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology …
1893–1986
![Jibanananda Das photo]()
Bengali poet, writer, novelist and essayist
1899–1954
![Frank Fraser Darling photo]()
British scientist
1903–1979
![Savitri Devi photo]()
Greek–French writer
1905–1982
![Rollo May photo]()
US psychiatrist
1909–1994
![Nathalia Crane photo]()
American writer
1913–1998
![Howard Finster photo]()
American artist
1916–2001
![Louis Althusser photo]()
French political philosopher
1918–1990
![Kingsley Amis photo]()
English novelist, poet, critic, teacher
1922–1995
![Arthur Jensen photo]()
professor of educational psychology
1923–2012
![James Robinson Risner photo]()
Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
1925–2013
![Sheri S. Tepper photo]()
American fiction writer
1929–2016
![Eugene H. Peterson photo]()
American translator
1932–2018
![Al Hurricane photo]()
American singer-songwriter
1936–2017
![Maryanne Amacher photo]()
Composer and installation artist
1938–2009
![Russell Means photo]()
Oglala Lakota activist for the rights of Native American pe…
1939–2012
![Steve Dillon photo]()
British comic artist
1962–2016
