Anniversaries 22 May
Birth
![François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis photo]()
Catholic cardinal
1715–1794
![Tench Coxe photo]()
American economist
1755–1824
![Ram Mohan Roy photo]()
Indian religious, social, and educational reformer, and hum…
1772–1833
![Joseph Brotherton photo]()
British politician
1783–1857
![William Sturgeon photo]()
British inventor
1783–1850
![Gérard de Nerval photo]()
French Romantic poet
1808–1855
![Richard Wagner photo]()
German composer, conductor
1813–1883
![Mary Cassatt photo]()
American painter and printmaker
1844–1926
![Arthur Conan Doyle photo]()
Scottish physician and author
1859–1930
![Walter Raymond Spalding photo]()
American music pedagogue and author
1865–1962
![Charles F. Haanel photo]()
American businessman, author
1866–1949
![Laurence Olivier photo]()
British actor, director and producer
1907–1989
![Anatol Rapoport photo]()
Russian-born American mathematical psychologist
1911–2007
![Sun Ra photo]()
American jazz composer and bandleader
1914–1993
![David Noel Freedman photo]()
American biblical scholar, author, editor, archaeologist (1…
1922–2008
![Jean Tinguely photo]()
Swiss painter and sculptor
1925–1991
![Peter Matthiessen photo]()
American novelist
1927–2014
![Harvey Milk photo]()
American politician who became a martyr in the gay community
1930–1978
![Irwin Stelzer photo]()
American economist and columnist
1932
![Arnold Lobel photo]()
American children's illustrator and writer
1933–1987
![Facundo Cabral photo]()
Argentine singer and songwriter
1937–2011
![Menzies Campbell photo]()
British Liberal Democrat politician and advocate
1941
![Theodore Kaczynski photo]()
American domestic terrorist, mathematician and anarchist
1942
![Nakamura Kichiemon II photo]()
Japanese kabuki actor (1944-2021)
1944–2021
![Bob Katter photo]()
Australian politician
1945
![Zeng Guang photo]()
Chinese epidemiologist at the Chinese Center for Disease Co…
1946
![George Best photo]()
British footballer
1946–2005
![Jesse Lee Peterson photo]()
American radio and television host, commentator, author, an…
1949
![Alfred Mele photo]()
American philosopher
1951
![Andy Andrews photo]()
author and corporate speaker
1959
![Hideaki Anno photo]()
Japanese animator and film director
1960
![Erik Proper photo]()
Dutch computer scientist
1967
![Karen Lord photo]()
Barbadian novelist and sociologist of religion
1968
![Magdalena Wolińska-Riedi photo]()
Polish-Vatican journalist and television presenter
1979
![Moses Golola photo]()
Kick Boxer, Eating Champion
1980
![Daniel Bryan photo]()
American professional wrestler
1981
![Bassel Khartabil photo]()
free culture and democracy activist, Syrian political priso…
1981–2015
![Apolo Anton Ohno photo]()
American short track speed skating competitor
1982
Death
![Francesco Guicciardini photo]()
Italian writer, historian and politician
1483–1540
![Sher Shah Suri photo]()
founder of Sur Empire in Northern India
1486–1545
![Baal Shem Tov photo]()
Jewish mystical rabbi, the founder of Hasidic Judaism
1698–1760
![Martha Washington photo]()
First Lady of the United States
1731–1802
![Alessandro Manzoni photo]()
Italian poet and novelist
1785–1873
![Victor Hugo photo]()
French poet, novelist, and dramatist
1802–1885
![Edward Bellamy photo]()
American author and socialist
1850–1898
![Jules Renard photo]()
French author (1864-1910)
1864–1910
![Claude McKay photo]()
Jamaican American writer, poet
1889–1948
![Joseph Wood Krutch photo]()
American writer, critic, and naturalist
1893–1970
![Langston Hughes photo]()
American writer and social activist
1902–1967
![Elizabeth David photo]()
British cookery writer
1913–1992
![Martin Gardner photo]()
recreational mathematician and philosopher
1914–2010
![Hana Maria Pravda photo]()
British actress
1916–2008
![Govind Chandra Pande photo]()
Indian historian
1923–2011
![Philip Roth photo]()
American novelist
1933–2018
![Robert Lynn Asprin photo]()
American science fiction and fantasy author
1946–2008
![Roy A. Childs, Jr. photo]()
American libertarian essayist and critic
1949–1992
