Anniversaries 22 May

Birth

Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid1

scholar 948–1022

François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis4

Catholic cardinal 1715–1794

Tench Coxe4

American economist 1755–1824

Ram Mohan Roy4

Indian religious, social, and educational reformer, and hum… 1772–1833

Joseph Brotherton1

British politician 1783–1857

William Sturgeon2

British inventor 1783–1850

Gérard de Nerval3

French Romantic poet 1808–1855

Richard Wagner39

German composer, conductor 1813–1883

Mary Cassatt5

American painter and printmaker 1844–1926

Fritz von Uhde4

German artist 1848–1911

Arthur Conan Doyle166

Scottish physician and author 1859–1930

Walter Raymond Spalding10

American music pedagogue and author 1865–1962

Charles F. Haanel1

American businessman, author 1866–1949

Laurence Olivier5

British actor, director and producer 1907–1989

Anatol Rapoport45

Russian-born American mathematical psychologist 1911–2007

Sun Ra22

American jazz composer and bandleader 1914–1993

David Noel Freedman1

American biblical scholar, author, editor, archaeologist (1… 1922–2008

Jean Tinguely21

Swiss painter and sculptor 1925–1991

Peter Matthiessen10

American novelist 1927–2014

Harvey Milk8

American politician who became a martyr in the gay community 1930–1978

Irwin Stelzer9

American economist and columnist 1932

Arnold Lobel3

American children's illustrator and writer 1933–1987

Facundo Cabral1

Argentine singer and songwriter 1937–2011

Kieth Merrill1

American filmmaker 1940

Menzies Campbell8

British Liberal Democrat politician and advocate 1941

Theodore Kaczynski49

American domestic terrorist, mathematician and anarchist 1942

Nakamura Kichiemon II2

Japanese kabuki actor (1944-2021) 1944–2021

Bob Katter3

Australian politician 1945

Zeng Guang1

Chinese epidemiologist at the Chinese Center for Disease Co… 1946

Michael Green (physicist)1

British physicist 1946

George Best8

British footballer 1946–2005

David H. Levy19

Canadian astronomer 1948

Jesse Lee Peterson1

American radio and television host, commentator, author, an… 1949

Alfred Mele1

American philosopher 1951

Jeff Gannon8

American journalist 1957

Morrissey95

English singer 1959

Andy Andrews16

author and corporate speaker 1959

Hideaki Anno1

Japanese animator and film director 1960

Kat Richardson1

American writer 1964

Erik Proper3

Dutch computer scientist 1967

Graham Linehan1

Irish screenwriter 1968

Karen Lord12

Barbadian novelist and sociologist of religion 1968

Tom McCarthy (writer)8

British writer 1969

Max Brooks41

American author 1972

Maggie Q2

American actress 1979

Вивиан Грин1

American musician 1979

Magdalena Wolińska-Riedi1

Polish-Vatican journalist and television presenter 1979

Moses Golola5

Kick Boxer, Eating Champion 1980

Daniel Bryan2

American professional wrestler 1981

Bassel Khartabil23

free culture and democracy activist, Syrian political priso… 1981–2015

Apolo Anton Ohno3

American short track speed skating competitor 1982

Death

Constantine the Great13

Roman emperor 274–337

Francesco Guicciardini8

Italian writer, historian and politician 1483–1540

Sher Shah Suri7

founder of Sur Empire in Northern India 1486–1545

Baal Shem Tov1

Jewish mystical rabbi, the founder of Hasidic Judaism 1698–1760

Martha Washington7

First Lady of the United States 1731–1802

Maria Edgeworth16

Irish writer 1768–1849

Alessandro Manzoni6

Italian poet and novelist 1785–1873

Thomas Noel (poet)2

English poet 1799–1861

Victor Hugo308

French poet, novelist, and dramatist 1802–1885

Edward Bellamy58

American author and socialist 1850–1898

Jules Renard1

French author (1864-1910) 1864–1910

Claude McKay13

Jamaican American writer, poet 1889–1948

Joseph Wood Krutch2

American writer, critic, and naturalist 1893–1970

Langston Hughes79

American writer and social activist 1902–1967

Хью Лэнгтон1

1902–1967

Cecil Day Lewis12

English poet 1904–1972

Elizabeth David1

British cookery writer 1913–1992

Martin Gardner16

recreational mathematician and philosopher 1914–2010

Hana Maria Pravda2

British actress 1916–2008

Govind Chandra Pande2

Indian historian 1923–2011

Philip Roth95

American novelist 1933–2018

Robert Lynn Asprin38

American science fiction and fantasy author 1946–2008

Roy A. Childs, Jr.18

American libertarian essayist and critic 1949–1992