Anniversaries 22 April

Birth

Henry Fielding70

English novelist and dramatist 1707–1754

Immanuel Kant200

German philosopher 1724–1804

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël42

Swiss author 1766–1817

Richard Fuller (minister)22

United States Baptist minister 1804–1876

Philip James Bailey19

British writer and poet 1816–1902

Hans von Seeckt9

German general 1866–1936

Ellen Glasgow4

Novelist, short story writer 1873–1945

Wu Peifu3

Chinese general 1878–1939

Otto Rank3

Austrian psychologist 1884–1939

Lala Sukuna3

Chief of Lau and civil servant in Fiji 1888–1958

Henry D. Moyle4

Member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles 1889–1963

Laura Gilpin1

Photographer 1891–1979

Robert Oppenheimer25

American theoretical physicist and professor of physics 1904–1967

Rita Levi-Montalcini15

Italian neurologist 1909–2012

Indro Montanelli33

Italian journalist 1909–2001

Yehudi Menuhin41

American violinist and conductor 1916–1999

Ibrahim Kodra1

father of Albanian contemporary art 1918–2006

Charles Mingus18

American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader 1922–1979

Paula Fox3

Amercian book author 1923–2017

Richard S. Westfall1

American historian 1924–1996

Michael Atiyah5

British mathematician 1929–2019

Jerry Fodor11

American philosopher 1935–2017

Mac Maharaj2

South African politician 1935

Jack Nicholson3

American actor, film director, producer, and writer 1937

Talal Abu-Ghazaleh28

Jordanian businesspeople 1938

José Guilherme Merquior2

Brazilian academic, writer and diplomat 1941–1991

Giorgio Agamben6

Italian philosopher 1942

Paul Hinder2

Roman Catholic bishop, Capuchin Friar 1942

Janet Evanovich133

Novelist 1943

Louise Glück10

American poet 1943–2023

John Waters37

American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer 1946

Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford3

British economist and academic 1946

Paul Davies13

British physicist 1946

Nonie Darwish2

American activist 1949

Donald Tusk14

Polish politician, current President of the European Council 1957

Terry Francona2

baseball player and manager from the United States 1959

Mart Laar4

Estonian politician and historian 1960

Jody Hice1

Georgia Republican Congressman 1960

Naomi Iizuka2

American dramatist 1965

Nina Shatskaya2

Russian singer 1966

Wendy Mass44

American children's writer 1967

Chetan Bhagat78

Indian author, born 1974 1974

Steven J. Lopes1

American Roman Catholic prelate (born 1975) 1975

Chuck Wendig1

American writer 1976

Misty Lee2

Magician, voice actress, comedian 1976

Daniel Johns27

Australian musician 1979

Death

Miguel de Cervantes178

Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright 1547–1616

Ignace-Gaston Pardies1

French physicist 1636–1673

Thomas Haynes Bayly19

English poet, songwriter, dramatist, and writer 1797–1839

William Stubbs4

English historian and clergyman 1825–1901

Henry Campbell-Bannerman19

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1836–1908

Henry Royce4

English engineer, car designer, co-founder of Rolls-Royce 1863–1933

Фредерик Генри Ройс1

1863–1933

Käthe Kollwitz14

German artist 1867–1945

Yane Sandanski9

Bulgarian revolutionary 1872–1915

Harlan F. Stone14

United States federal judge 1872–1946

Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford1

Royal Air Force air marshal (1893-1971) 1893–1971

Roy Campbell (poet)10

South African poet 1901–1957

Ansel Adams29

American photographer and environmentalist 1902–1984

Maggie Kuhn1

American activist 1905–1995

Mircea Eliade42

Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer and philosop… 1907–1986

Victor Frederick Weisskopf5

Austrian-born American theoretical physicist 1908–2002

Aron Brand Auraban1

Israeli physician 1910–1977

Richard Nixon89

37th President of the United States of America 1913–1994

Philip Morrison2

American astrophysicist 1915–2005

Henriette Avram8

American computer programmer and system analyst. She develo… 1919–2006

Karl Hess25

American journalist 1923–1994

Erma Bombeck64

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope… 1927–1996

Ventseslav Konstantinov4

Bulgarian writer and Translator 1940–2019

Jane Kenyon2

American poet, translator 1947–1995