Anniversaries 22 February

Birth

Moses Isserles1

Polish rabbi 1520–1572

Nicholas Ferrar1

English scholar and courtier 1592–1637

George Washington186

first President of the United States 1732–1799

Richard Watson4

British methodist theologian 1781–1833

Arthur Schopenhauer261

German philosopher 1788–1860

Adolphe Quetelet52

Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociolo… 1796–1874

William Barnes3

English writer, poet, clergyman, and philologist 1801–1886

Sarah Fuller Flower Adams4

English poet, hymnwriter 1805–1848

Frédéric Chopin30

Polish composer 1810–1849

James Russell Lowell175

American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat 1819–1891

Randolph Sinks Foster14

American bishop 1820–1903

Christian Nestell Bovee21

American writer 1820–1904

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster2

American poet, author, journalist, editor 1838–1912

Francis Pharcellus Church7

American publisher and editor 1839–1906

Robert Baden-Powell23

lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and… 1857–1941

Heinrich Hertz4

German physicist 1857–1894

Jules Renard1

French author (1864-1910) 1864–1910

Henry C. Metcalf5

American business theorist 1867–1942

Shaw Neilson1

Early twentieth century Australian poet 1872–1942

Ralph C. Smedley1

Founder of Toastmasters International 1878–1965

Norman Lindsay1

Australian artist (1879-1969) 1879–1969

Eric Gill3

British artist 1882–1940

Hugo Ball19

German author, poet and one of the leading Dada artists 1886–1927

R. G. Collingwood16

British historian and philosopher 1889–1943

Benno Moiseiwitsch3

British musician 1890–1963

Edna St. Vincent Millay69

American poet 1892–1950

Leonid Govorov3

Soviet military commander 1897–1955

Edward S. Mason3

American economist 1899–1992

Luis Buñuel16

film director 1900–1983

Frank P. Ramsey10

British mathematician, philosopher 1903–1930

S. H. Raza20

Indian artist 1922–2016

Edward Gorey26

American writer, artist, and illustrator 1925–2000

Kenneth Williams5

English actor and comedian 1926–1988

Ahmad Jannati5

Iranian ayatollah 1927

Ted Kennedy21

United States Senator 1932–2009

Sheila Hancock1

British actress 1933

Walter Goffart11

American historian 1934

John George Vlazny1

Catholic archbishop 1937

Joanna Russ22

American author 1937–2011

Ishmael Reed1

writer 1938

Jon Elster12

Norwegian academic 1940

Horst Köhler1

German politician (CDU); president of Germany, 2004-2010 1943

Terry Eagleton57

British writer, academic and educator 1943

Dan Millman38

American self help writer 1946

Frank Van Dun5

Belgian law philosopher 1947

Niki Lauda24

Austrian former Formula 1 racing driver 1949–2019

Guy Finley23

American self-help writer, philosopher, and spiritual teach… 1949

Genesis P-Orridge5

British musician and writer 1950

Bill Frist4

physician, businessman, and politician 1952

Dwight Hopkins1

American academic 1953

James D. Macdonald2

American author and critic 1954

Kais Saied1

Tunisian politician, academic and jurist 1958

Steve Irwin11

Australian environmentalist and television personality 1962–2006

Jacquelyn Frank5

writer 1968

Ben Sasse1

American university president and politician 1972

Édouard Ngirente1

Prime Minister of the Republic of Rwanda, 2017- 1973

Amit Lodha1

Indian author and police officer 1974

James Blunt12

English singer-songwriter 1974

Drew Barrymore23

American actress, director and producer 1975

Rob Smyth5

English/Irish rugby league player 1977

Tom Higgenson1

American singer 1979

Menotti Lerro35

Italian poet 1980

Dan Choi1

American activist 1981

Death

Peter Damian5

reformist monk 1007–1072

Adam Ferguson11

Scottish philosopher and historian 1723–1816

Sydney Smith68

English writer and clergyman 1771–1845

Charles Brockden Brown18

American novelist, historian and editor 1771–1810

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot17

French landscape painter and printmaker in etching 1796–1875

Charles Lyell103

British lawyer and geologist 1797–1875

Frances Harper2

American writer 1825–1911

Leslie Stephen11

British author, literary critic, and first editor of the Di… 1832–1904

Charles H. Fernald1

American entomologist, zoologist, naturalist 1838–1921

Anna Kingsford3

English physician, activist and feminist 1846–1888

Edgar Wilson Nye3

American journalist, who later became widely known as a hum… 1850–1896

George Francis FitzGerald2

Irish physicist 1851–1901

Ferdinand de Saussure17

Swiss linguist 1857–1913

Ralph Waldo Trine7

American author 1866–1958

Antonio Machado8

Spanish poet 1875–1939

Lionel Tertis1

British musician 1876–1975

Felix Frankfurter67

American judge 1882–1965

Arthur Guy Empey1

American writer 1883–1963

Oskar Kokoschka4

Austrian dramatic, painter and writer 1886–1980

Michael Polanyi15

Hungarian-British polymath 1891–1976

Elizabeth Bowen17

Irish writer 1899–1973

Hal Borland3

American journalist and writer 1900–1978

Phyllis McGinley4

writer and poet 1905–1978

Saul Gorn10

computer scientist 1912–1992

Chuck Jones11

American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, … 1912–2002

Victor Weisz1

German-British political cartoonist 1913–1966

Sinnathamby Rajaratnam12

Early life 1915–2006

Sophie Scholl17

White Rose member 1921–1943

Andy Warhol133

American artist 1928–1987

Marie Colvin1

American journalist, war reporter 1956–2012

Jesús Tirso Blanco2

Argentinian bishop 1957–2022