Anniversaries 22 August

Birth

Denis Papin7

French physicist, mathematician and inventor 1647–1713

Thomas Tredgold2

engineer 1788–1829

Edward Bouverie Pusey5

British saint 1800–1882

John Bartholomew Gough7

Anglo-American temperance orator 1817–1886

Charles Fillmore15

American mystic 1854–1948

Claude Debussy34

French composer 1862–1918

Max Scheler48

German philosopher 1874–1928

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy4

Ceylon-American art historian 1877–1947

Jacques Lipchitz10

American and French sculptor 1891–1973

Dorothy Parker172

American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist 1893–1967

Leni Riefenstahl3

German film director, photographer, actress and dancer 1902–2003

Deng Xiaoping13

Chinese politician, Paramount leader of China 1904–1997

Henri Cartier-Bresson33

French photographer 1908–2004

Dave Dellinger5

American activist 1915–2004

Ray Bradbury401

American writer 1920–2012

Bernard d'Espagnat2

French physicist and philosopher 1921–2015

Madame Nhu8

First lady of South Vietnam 1924–2011

Arthur Jones (inventor)11

American inventor 1926–2007

Karlheinz Stockhausen3

German composer 1928–2007

Theodore Zeldin8

English academic 1933

Norman Schwarzkopf12

United States Army general 1934–2012

Annie Proulx29

American novelist, short story and non-fiction author 1935

Keith Ward1

British philosopher, theologian, priest and scholar 1938

K.C. Cole1

American non-fiction writer 1946

Eli Noam1

professor of Finance and Economics at the Columbia Business… 1946

James Rumbaugh5

Computer scientist, software engineer 1947

Margaret Chan6

Director-General of the World Health Organization 1947

Scooter Libby1

former lawyer and White House official 1950

Hau Lung-pin2

Taiwanese politician 1952

Gary Steiner1

American philosopher 1956

Anto Đapić1

Croatian politician 1958

Andrés Calamaro1

Argentine musician and composer 1961

Kate Christensen1

American novelist 1962

Tori Amos71

American singer 1963

Diane Setterfield42

English novelist 1964

Trey Gowdy2

American politician 1964

Thaddeus McCotter1

American politician 1965

Layne Staley5

American singer 1967–2002

Rich Lowry5

American journalist 1968

Rick Yune3

American actor 1971

Iris Kyle10

American bodybuilder 1974

Mark McHugh2

Gaelic footballer 1990

Dua Lipa4

English singer and songwriter 1995

Dakota Goyo1

actor 1999

Death

Richard III of England6

English monarch 1452–1485

Bulleh Shah4

Punjabi poet 1680–1757

Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau5

French naval engineer, botanist and agronomist 1700–1782

Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis6

French physician 1787–1872

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury112

British politician 1830–1903

Charles William Eliot2

President of Harvard 1834–1926

Jan Neruda7

Czech poet, theater reviewer, publicist and writer 1834–1891

William Paton Mackay7

Scottish clergyman 1839–1885

Matthijs Maris9

Dutch painter 1839–1917

Kate Chopin49

American author 1850–1904

Oliver Lodge19

British physicist 1851–1940

Michael Collins (Irish leader)9

Irish revolutionary leader 1890–1922

Stanton Macdonald-Wright1

American artist 1890–1973

Jomo Kenyatta10

First prime minister and first president of Kenya 1893–1978

George R. Stewart1

American historian, toponymist, and novelist 1895–1980

Ignazio Silone3

Italian author and politician 1900–1978

Diana Vreeland9

American magazine editor 1903–1989

Jacob Bronowski79

Polish-born British mathematician 1908–1974

Grace Paley31

American writer and activist 1922–2007

Charles Tomlinson2

English poet 1927–2015

Huey P. Newton29

Co-founder of the Black Panther Party 1942–1989

Jack Layton22

Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada 1950–2011