Anniversaries 22 July

Birth

Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury2

English politician and Earl 1621–1683

Jacob Leupold3

German multidisciplinary scientist 1674–1727

Charles James Apperley1

Welsh sportsman and writer 1778–1843

Gregor Mendel11

Silesian scientist and Augustinian friar 1822–1884

Jakob Hurt1

Estonian linguist 1839–1907

Alfred Perceval Graves2

Anglo-Irish poet, songwriter, and school inspector 1846–1931

Emma Lazarus15

American poet 1849–1887

Frederick Rolfe12

British writer, photographer and historian 1860–1913

Janusz Korczak3

Polish physician and writer 1878–1942

Edward Hopper48

prominent American realist painter and printmaker 1882–1967

Theodor Morell5

Personal physician to Adolf Hitler 1886–1948

Selman Waksman1

American scientist, biochemist, microbiologist who discover… 1888–1973

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy6

American philanthropist and mother of John F. Kennedy 1890–1995

Arthur Seyss-Inquart7

austrian chancellor and politician, convicted of crimes aga… 1892–1946

Karl Menninger4

American psychiatrist 1893–1990

Alexander Calder41

American artist 1898–1976

Stephen Vincent Benét102

poet, short story writer, novelist 1898–1943

Heinz Barwich1

German physicist 1911–1966

Richard Cyert7

American economist 1921–1998

Bob Dole10

American politician 1923

Tom Robbins250

American writer 1932

Jerry Della Femina2

American advertising executive 1936

Alex Trebek3

Canadian-American television personality 1940

George Clinton1

American singer, songwriter, bandleader, and music producer 1941

David P. Norton4

American business theorist, business executive and manageme… 1941

Kay Bailey Hutchison5

American politician 1943

Masaru Emoto4

Japanese writer 1943–2014

Nick Brimble2

British actor 1944

Lee Siegel1

American academic 1945

Paul Schrader1

American film director 1946

Don Henley7

American singer, lyricist, producer and drummer 1947

Alan Menken2

American musical theatre and film composer and pianist. 1949

Al Di Meola1

guitarist 1954

Arnold Davidson1

American academic 1955

Willem Dafoe1

American actor 1955

James Bovard40

American journalist 1956

David Shulkin1

9th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs 1959

Emily Saliers1

singer-songwriter, restaurateur 1963

David Spade8

American stand-up comedian 1964

John Leguizamo14

Colombian and American actor, film producer, voice artist, … 1964

David Shuster15

American television journalist 1967

Alan Cox2

British computer programmer 1968

Rufus Wainwright29

American-Canadian singer-songwriter and composer 1973

Franka Potente1

German actress and singer 1974

Дэн Кеннеди1

American soccer player 1982

Selena Gomez8

American singer and actress 1992

Death

Veronica Franco1

Italian poet and courtesan 1546–1591

William Bartram2

American naturalist 1739–1823

Marie François Xavier Bichat2

French anatomist and physiologist 1771–1802

Louis de Potter1

pamphleteer, politician (1786-1859) 1786–1859

James Whitcomb Riley4

American poet from Indianapolis 1849–1916

Джеймс Уиткомб Райли1

1849–1916

Errico Malatesta24

Italian anarchist 1853–1932

Isaac Levitan1

Russian artist 1860–1900

Carl Sandburg62

American writer and editor 1878–1967

Lajos Kassák2

Hungarian artist, poet, writer, politician 1887–1967

Forrest Sherman2

Recipient of the Purple Heart medal 1896–1951

Giovannino Guareschi8

Italian journalist, cartoonist and humorist 1908–1968

Norman Lewis21

British travel writer 1908–2003

Indro Montanelli33

Italian journalist 1909–2001

Jessica Mitford2

British writer and activist 1917–1996

Estelle Getty6

actress 1923–2008

Antonio Saura1

Spanish artist 1930–1998

Manuel Puig3

Argentine author and screenwriter 1932–1990

Dennis Green1

American football coach 1949–2016

David Wojnarowicz1

American painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performa… 1954–1992