Anniversaries 22 February
Birth
![Nicholas Ferrar photo]()
English scholar and courtier
1592–1637
![George Washington photo]()
first President of the United States
1732–1799
![Richard Watson photo]()
British methodist theologian
1781–1833
![Arthur Schopenhauer photo]()
German philosopher
1788–1860
![Adolphe Quetelet photo]()
Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociolo…
1796–1874
![William Barnes photo]()
English writer, poet, clergyman, and philologist
1801–1886
![Sarah Fuller Flower Adams photo]()
English poet, hymnwriter
1805–1848
![Frédéric Chopin photo]()
Polish composer
1810–1849
![James Russell Lowell photo]()
American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
1819–1891
![Randolph Sinks Foster photo]()
American bishop
1820–1903
![Christian Nestell Bovee photo]()
American writer
1820–1904
![Margaret Elizabeth Sangster photo]()
American poet, author, journalist, editor
1838–1912
![Francis Pharcellus Church photo]()
American publisher and editor
1839–1906
![Robert Baden-Powell photo]()
lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and…
1857–1941
![Heinrich Hertz photo]()
German physicist
1857–1894
![Jules Renard photo]()
French author (1864-1910)
1864–1910
![Henry C. Metcalf photo]()
American business theorist
1867–1942
![Shaw Neilson photo]()
Early twentieth century Australian poet
1872–1942
![Ralph C. Smedley photo]()
Founder of Toastmasters International
1878–1965
![Norman Lindsay photo]()
Australian artist (1879-1969)
1879–1969
![Hugo Ball photo]()
German author, poet and one of the leading Dada artists
1886–1927
![R. G. Collingwood photo]()
British historian and philosopher
1889–1943
![Benno Moiseiwitsch photo]()
British musician
1890–1963
![Leonid Govorov photo]()
Soviet military commander
1897–1955
![Edward S. Mason photo]()
American economist
1899–1992
![Frank P. Ramsey photo]()
British mathematician, philosopher
1903–1930
![Edward Gorey photo]()
American writer, artist, and illustrator
1925–2000
![Kenneth Williams photo]()
English actor and comedian
1926–1988
![Ted Kennedy photo]()
United States Senator
1932–2009
![Joanna Russ photo]()
American author
1937–2011
![Horst Köhler photo]()
German politician (CDU); president of Germany, 2004-2010
1943
![Terry Eagleton photo]()
British writer, academic and educator
1943
![Dan Millman photo]()
American self help writer
1946
![Frank Van Dun photo]()
Belgian law philosopher
1947
![Niki Lauda photo]()
Austrian former Formula 1 racing driver
1949–2019
![Guy Finley photo]()
American self-help writer, philosopher, and spiritual teach…
1949
![Genesis P-Orridge photo]()
British musician and writer
1950
![Bill Frist photo]()
physician, businessman, and politician
1952
![James D. Macdonald photo]()
American author and critic
1954
![Kais Saied photo]()
Tunisian politician, academic and jurist
1958
![Steve Irwin photo]()
Australian environmentalist and television personality
1962–2006
![Ben Sasse photo]()
American university president and politician
1972
![Édouard Ngirente photo]()
Prime Minister of the Republic of Rwanda, 2017-
1973
![Amit Lodha photo]()
Indian author and police officer
1974
![James Blunt photo]()
English singer-songwriter
1974
![Drew Barrymore photo]()
American actress, director and producer
1975
![Rob Smyth photo]()
English/Irish rugby league player
1977
Death
![Adam Ferguson photo]()
Scottish philosopher and historian
1723–1816
![Sydney Smith photo]()
English writer and clergyman
1771–1845
![Charles Brockden Brown photo]()
American novelist, historian and editor
1771–1810
![Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot photo]()
French landscape painter and printmaker in etching
1796–1875
![Charles Lyell photo]()
British lawyer and geologist
1797–1875
![Frances Harper photo]()
American writer
1825–1911
![Leslie Stephen photo]()
British author, literary critic, and first editor of the Di…
1832–1904
![Charles H. Fernald photo]()
American entomologist, zoologist, naturalist
1838–1921
![Anna Kingsford photo]()
English physician, activist and feminist
1846–1888
![Edgar Wilson Nye photo]()
American journalist, who later became widely known as a hum…
1850–1896
![George Francis FitzGerald photo]()
Irish physicist
1851–1901
![Ralph Waldo Trine photo]()
American author
1866–1958
![Lionel Tertis photo]()
British musician
1876–1975
![Arthur Guy Empey photo]()
American writer
1883–1963
![Oskar Kokoschka photo]()
Austrian dramatic, painter and writer
1886–1980
![Michael Polanyi photo]()
Hungarian-British polymath
1891–1976
![Hal Borland photo]()
American journalist and writer
1900–1978
![Phyllis McGinley photo]()
writer and poet
1905–1978
![Saul Gorn photo]()
computer scientist
1912–1992
![Chuck Jones photo]()
American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, …
1912–2002
![Victor Weisz photo]()
German-British political cartoonist
1913–1966
![Sophie Scholl photo]()
White Rose member
1921–1943
![Andy Warhol photo]()
American artist
1928–1987
![Marie Colvin photo]()
American journalist, war reporter
1956–2012
![Jesús Tirso Blanco photo]()
Argentinian bishop
1957–2022
