Anniversaries 22 October

Birth

Nader Shah4

ruled as Shah of Iran 1688–1747

Daniel Boone6

American settler 1734–1820

James Northcote1

English painter 1746–1831

Carlos Wilcox2

American poet 1794–1827

Franz Liszt7

Hungarian romantic composer and virtuoso pianist 1811–1886

Abigail Scott Duniway1

American suffragist, writer, journalist, pioneer 1834–1915

Louis Riel28

Canadian politician 1844–1885

Clinton Davisson1

physicist 1881–1958

Joseph N. Welch3

American lawyer 1890–1960

Burton Rascoe10

American writer 1892–1957

Robert Capa2

American photographer 1913–1954

Yitzhak Shamir4

prime minister of Israel 1915–2012

Doris Lessing94

British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer … 1919–2013

Тимоти Фрэнсис Лири1

1920–1996

Timothy Leary54

American psychologist 1920–1996

Alexander Kronrod2

Russian mathematician 1921–1986

Susan Jane Gilman1

American writer 1924

Robert Rauschenberg47

American artist 1925–2008

Clare Fischer48

American keyboardist, composer, arranger, and bandleader 1928–2012

Lev Yashin1

Soviet association football player 1929–1990

Ann Rule1

True crime writer 1931–2015

Bobby Seale6

American activist 1936

Christopher Lloyd3

American actor 1938

Catherine Deneuve1

French actress 1943

Jim Baen1

American publisher and editor 1943–2006

Simone Campbell1

American Roman Catholic Religious Sister and activist 1945

Mary Jo Bang1

Poet 1946

Roger A. Pielke6

American meteorologist 1946

Deepak Chopra8

Indian-American physician, public speaker and writer 1946

Debbie Macomber14

American writer 1948

John Shadegg2

American politician 1949

Arsène Wenger52

French footballer and manager 1949

Jeff Goldblum1

American actor 1952

Louise Burfitt-Dons12

Activist, writer, blogger 1953

Graham Joyce3

British writer 1954–2014

Bill Condon2

American film director 1955

Brewster Kahle2

American computer engineer, founder of the Internet Archive 1960

John C. Wright44

American novelist and technical writer 1961

Amit Shah12

Indian politician 1964

Spike Jonze2

American director and actor 1969

Sebastian Gorka4

American politician 1970

Saffron Burrows5

English actress, model and writer 1972

Ichiro Suzuki2

Japanese baseball player 1973

Michael Barrett2

baseball catcher and manager 1976

Elizabeth Kucinich2

British activist 1977

Deontay Wilder1

American boxer 1985

Ahmed Omaar11

1987

Death

William Robert Spencer1

British poet 1770–1834

Archibald Alexander1

American theologian 1772–1851

Edward Payson9

American religious leader 1783–1827

János Arany1

Hungarian writer 1817–1882

William Edward Hartpole Lecky10

British politician 1838–1903

Paul Cézanne62

French painter 1839–1906

Джон Шедд1

1850–1926

Edward Carson, Baron Carson10

Irish politician, barrister and judge 1854–1935

Bob Fitzsimmons2

British boxer 1863–1917

Pablo Casals10

Catalan cellist and conductor 1876–1973

Paul Tillich61

German-American theologian and philosopher 1886–1965

Arnold J. Toynbee17

British historian, author of A Study of History 1889–1975

Albert Szent-Györgyi8

Hungarian biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology … 1893–1986

Harry Greb4

American boxer 1894–1926

Jibanananda Das3

Bengali poet, writer, novelist and essayist 1899–1954

Frank Fraser Darling1

British scientist 1903–1979

Savitri Devi7

Greek–French writer 1905–1982

Rollo May135

US psychiatrist 1909–1994

Eric Ambler2

author 1909–1998

Nathalia Crane37

American writer 1913–1998

Howard Finster1

American artist 1916–2001

Louis Althusser20

French political philosopher 1918–1990

Kingsley Amis32

English novelist, poet, critic, teacher 1922–1995

Arthur Jensen11

professor of educational psychology 1923–2012

James Robinson Risner5

Recipient of the Purple Heart medal 1925–2013

Sheri S. Tepper150

American fiction writer 1929–2016

Eugene H. Peterson9

American translator 1932–2018

Al Hurricane8

American singer-songwriter 1936–2017

Maryanne Amacher2

Composer and installation artist 1938–2009

Russell Means2

Oglala Lakota activist for the rights of Native American pe… 1939–2012

Steve Dillon3

British comic artist 1962–2016