On This Day — February 22
4640 noted people were born and 2080 died on February 22 in our archive, including Adolphe Quetelet, Bernard Silverman and Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on February 22
Adolphe Quetelet
1796 – 1874
Bernard Silverman
b. 1952
Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted
1879 – 1947
Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin
1849 – 1915
Alfred Verdross
1890 – 1980
Arsen Kanokov
b. 1957
Bill Frist
b. 1952
Christa Luft
b. 1938
Christopher Meyer
1944 – 2022
Dmitriy Dedov
b. 1967
Duff Cooper
1890 – 1954
Edwin Vernon Morgan
1865 – 1934
Frederick Ma
b. 1952
Gijs de Vries
b. 1956
Guillaume Faury
b. 1968
Heinrich Hertz
1857 – 1894
Horst Köhler
1943 – 2025
Indulal Yagnik
1892 – 1972
Jacek Kurski
b. 1966
Joaquim Pina Moura
1952 – 2020
John Kerr, Baron Kerr of Kinlochard
b. 1942
Jon Elster
b. 1940
Kais Saied
b. 1958
Kondrat Krapiva
1896 – 1991
Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya
1836 – 1906
Marie-Claude Beaud
1946 – 2024
Micaiah John Muller Hill
1856 – 1929
Mikhail Leontovich
1903 – 1981
Patrick Cabanel
b. 1961
Peter J. Pronovost
b. 1965
Ravi Vakil
b. 1970
Renato Dulbecco
1914 – 2012
René de Borst
b. 1958
Sergei Bernstein
1880 – 1968
Soepomo
1903 – 1958
Theodor Eimer
1843 – 1898
Viet D. Dinh
b. 1968
Walther Ritz
1878 – 1909
Adolf Kußmaul
1822 – 1902
Aisha Rateb
1928 – 2013
Albert Bryant, Jr.
b. 1952
Aleksei Gritsai
1914 – 1998
Alexander Gerard
1728 – 1795
Alexander Langer
1946 – 1995
Alexander Ure, 1st Baron Strathclyde
1853 – 1928
Alfiya Kogogina
b. 1968
Alistair Mackay
1878 – 1914
Alyssa Mastromonaco
b. 1976
Andrei Mylnikov
1919 – 2012
Andrei Stackenschneider
1802 – 1865
Andrew Marks
b. 1955
Andrzej Wieckowski
1945 – 2019
Anna Christina Nobre
b. 1963
Anthony D'Esposito
b. 1982
Anti Poolamets
b. 1971
Artavazd Peleshyan
b. 1938
Atzo Nicolaï
1960 – 2020
Avi Gabbai
b. 1967
Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh
b. 1950
Ben Sasse
b. 1972
Ben Yagoda
b. 1954
Bolton Eyres-Monsell, 1st Viscount Monsell
1881 – 1969
Brian Greig
b. 1966
Brian Kerr, Baron Kerr of Tonaghmore
1948 – 2020
Bror Emil Hildebrand
1806 – 1884
Burt L. Talcott
1920 – 2016
Carl Wilhelm Borchardt
1817 – 1880
Celia Rose Gooding
b. 2000
Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond
1735 – 1806
Charles McLean Andrews
1863 – 1943
Charles Mills Gayley
1858 – 1932
Charles Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Viscount Eversley
1794 – 1888
Cho Yoon-je
b. 1952
Christen Schmidt
1727 – 1804
Cristina Alberdi
1946 – 2024
Danilo Kiš
1935 – 1989
Don Merton
1939 – 2011
Donald May
1929 – 2022
Edmond Frémy
1814 – 1894
Eduard Limonov
1943 – 2020
Eduardo Arzt
b. 1953
Emil Bobu
1927 – 2014
Eric Gill
1882 – 1940
Erik Gjems-Onstad
1922 – 2011
Ernst Jäckh
1875 – 1959
František Lipka
b. 1946
Fred Halliday
1946 – 2010
Geoffrey Perkins
1953 – 2008
Georg Johannesen
1931 – 2005
George Otis Smith
1871 – 1944
George W. McIver
1858 – 1947
George Walter Stewart
1876 – 1956
Georgianna Lincoln
b. 1943
Gerald Stern
1925 – 2022
Grace Annie Lockhart
1855 – 1916
Hans Stråberg
b. 1957
Harold Keith Johnson
1912 – 1983
Hendrik Menso
1791 – 1872
Henri-Jacques Espérandieu
1829 – 1874
Henry Nevill, 2nd Earl of Abergavenny
1755 – 1843
Henry S. Reuss
1912 – 2002
Hillary Scholten
b. 1982
Hinatsu Kōnosuke
1890 – 1971
Hipólito Mejía
b. 1941
Hugh Fraser
1837 – 1894
Humayun Kabir
1906 – 1969
Ishmael Reed
b. 1938
Izo Teragaki
1857 – 1938
J. Michael Bishop
1936 – 2026
James Brochin
b. 1964
James Calder
b. 1968
James P. Bagian
b. 1952
James Russell Lowell
1819 – 1891
Jaroslav Kocián
1883 – 1950
Jean-Claude Yon
b. 1966
Jeri Ryan
b. 1968
Jill White
b. 1941
Joanna Russ
1937 – 2011
Joaquín Francisco Pacheco y Gutiérrez-Calderón
1808 – 1865
Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen
b. 1984
John Alexander Johnston
1858 – 1940
John H. Burrus
1849 – 1917
John Mills
1908 – 2005
Józef Kremer
1806 – 1875
Karl Alexander, 5th Prince of Thurn and Taxis
1770 – 1827
Karl Otto Götz
1914 – 2017
Karl Wilhelm Valentiner
1845 – 1931
Karol Świerczewski
1897 – 1947
Katharine, Duchess of Kent
1933 – 2025
Kay Bullitt
1925 – 2021
Kōsaku Hamada
1881 – 1938
Lampert Distelmeyer
1522 – 1588
Leonhard Sohncke
1842 – 1897
Leonid Govorov
1897 – 1955
Lev Voronin
1928 – 2008
Lia Purpura
b. 1964
Louis Courajod
1841 – 1896
Louis Des Balbes de Berton de Crillon, duc de Mahon
1717 – 1796
Mahmud Aliyev
1908 – 1958
Manuel Bartolomé Cossío
1857 – 1935
Marcos Vizcaya Retana
1947 – 2025
Marshall Jay Williams
1837 – 1902
María Ugarte
1914 – 2011
Masaharu Nakagawa
b. 1947
Michael Dugan
b. 1937
Michael Viscardi
b. 1989
Miguel León Portilla
1926 – 2019
Mike Sadler
1920 – 2024
Mirza Hameedullah Beg
1913 – 1988
Muyingo John Chrysostom
b. 1960
Nadia Pinardi
b. 1956
Neil Brown
b. 1940
Ngawang Tashi Bapu
b. 1968
Nicola Spence
b. 1961
Oles Shevchenko
b. 1940
Olivier Latry
b. 1962
Otis Halbert Holmes
1902 – 1977
Patricia Pérez Goldberg
b. 1974
Paul Abbott
b. 1960
Peter Skov-Jakobsen
b. 1959
Pierre Alexis Ronarc'h
1865 – 1940
Pierre Janssen
1824 – 1907
Pieter Klazes Pel
1852 – 1919
Ralph Lyford
1882 – 1927
Ravindra Wijegunaratne
b. 1962
Raymond Kévorkian
b. 1953
Richard B. Ogilvie
1923 – 1988
Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford
1800 – 1870
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
1857 – 1941
Robert Bauer
b. 1952
Rolando Villazón
b. 1972
Roy Adler
1931 – 2016
Ruby McGregor-Smith
b. 1963
Rune Slagstad
b. 1945
Rupert Riedl
1925 – 2005
Ryszard Bugaj
b. 1944
Samuel Seabury
1873 – 1958
Sari Tanus
b. 1964
Saufatu Sopoanga
1952 – 2020
Sergei Martynov
b. 1953
Sergey Prokopyev
b. 1975
Sergiy Melnyk
b. 1965
Seán Ó Faoláin
1900 – 1991
Shamma Al Mazrui
b. 1993
Shlomo Levin
b. 1933
Shri Thanedar
b. 1955
Simone Tebet
b. 1970
Sir James Carmichael-Smyth, 1st Baronet
1779 – 1838
Stefan Rahmstorf
b. 1960
Stuart Peach, Baron Peach
b. 1956
Synnøve Persen
b. 1950
Ted Kennedy
1932 – 2009
Terry Eagleton
b. 1943
Thomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde
b. 1960
Tien-Fong Cheng
1899 – 1967
Tsumaki Yorinaka
1859 – 1916
Valer Capkała
b. 1965
Vladimir Pushkarev
b. 1973
Vlas Chubar
1891 – 1939
Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre
1895 – 1979
… and 4,440 more
Died on February 22
Azriel Rosenfeld
1931 – 2004
Max Newman
1897 – 1984
Michael Polanyi
1891 – 1976
Thomas Clifford Allbutt
1836 – 1925
Abel Wolman
1892 – 1989
Boris Vannikov
1897 – 1962
Dayton Miller
1866 – 1941
Felix Frankfurter
1882 – 1965
Félix d'Hérelle
1873 – 1949
Germain Marc'hadour
1921 – 2022
H. V. R. Iengar
1902 – 1978
Hugh Newall
1857 – 1944
Ivan Dziuba
1931 – 2022
Joris Helleputte
1852 – 1925
Leo Brewer
1919 – 2005
Oskar Perron
1880 – 1975
Peter Arno
1904 – 1968
Sara Josephine Baker
1873 – 1945
Valentin Falin
1926 – 2018
Wesley A. Clark
1927 – 2016
Aarno Ruusuvuori
1925 – 1992
Adam Ferguson
1723 – 1816
Aiichiro Fujiyama
1897 – 1985
Albert Shanker
1928 – 1997
Alexander Gerard
1728 – 1795
Alexander Ilyich Yegorov
1883 – 1939
Alois Kothgasser
1937 – 2024
Amnat Sonimsat
1933 – 2026
André Jolles
1874 – 1946
Antonio Machado
1875 – 1939
Archibald Bruce
1777 – 1818
Benno Ndulu
1950 – 2021
Candido Cannavò
1930 – 2009
Carl Bloch
1834 – 1890
Carmelina Sánchez-Cutillas
1921 – 2009
Caspar Friedrich Wolff
1734 – 1794
Charles Henry Fernald
1838 – 1921
Charles Le Bègue de Germiny
1799 – 1871
Charles Maurice Le Tellier
1642 – 1710
Charles Sladen
1816 – 1884
Chuck Jones
1912 – 2002
César Campinchi
1882 – 1941
Dmitry Nikolayevich Nadyozhny
1873 – 1945
Elizabeth Bowen
1899 – 1973
Feng Zhi
1905 – 1993
Forges
1942 – 2018
Frank Ballance
1942 – 2019
Franz Erhard Walther
1939 – 1987
Franz von Pillersdorf
1786 – 1862
George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe
1918 – 2007
George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland
1786 – 1861
Giuseppe Mifsud Bonnici
1930 – 2019
Gotfried Coenraad Ernst van Daalen
1863 – 1930
Grigor Gurzadyan
1922 – 2014
Géza Duka
1867 – 1913
Günter Kochan
1930 – 2009
Hans Hürlimann
1918 – 1994
Henri Béghin
1876 – 1969
Henry Cotton
1821 – 1892
Henry L. Roosevelt
1879 – 1936
Henry Pelham-Clinton
1720 – 1794
Jacques Houplain
1920 – 2020
Jacques Van Offelen
1916 – 2006
Jan Kazimierz Sapieha the Elder
1675 – 1730
Jean Lecanuet
1920 – 1993
Jean-Delphin Alard
1815 – 1888
Jean-Jacques Bertrand
1916 – 1973
Jerzy Lefeld
1898 – 1980
Johannes Dieckmann
1893 – 1969
John Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Ponsonby
1770 – 1855
John of Rokycan
1396 – 1471
Jorge B. Vargas
1890 – 1980
Josh Malihabadi
1898 – 1982
José María de Areilza, Count of Motrico
1909 – 1998
Jožef Krajnc
1821 – 1875
Jun Miki
1919 – 1992
Katina Paxinou
1900 – 1973
Kiki Dimoulà
1931 – 2020
Kurt Gscheidle
1924 – 2003
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
1919 – 2021
Leslie Stephen
1832 – 1904
Lionel Tertis
1876 – 1975
Liudmyla Alfimova
1935 – 2024
Lucien Cooremans
1899 – 1985
Lucille F. Stickel
1915 – 2007
Lyudmila Kasatkina
1925 – 2012
Marcus Lipton
1900 – 1978
Mathurin Méheut
1882 – 1958
Maurine Neuberger
1907 – 2000
Melvin Clark George
1849 – 1933
Michał Pius Römer
1880 – 1945
Ora Kedem
1924 – 2026
Oscar P. Snyder
1895 – 1983
Oskar Kokoschka
1886 – 1980
Preng Doçi
1846 – 1917
Ralph Hungerford
1896 – 1977
Raymond Firth
1901 – 2002
Raymond Gower
1916 – 1989
Richard E. Taylor
1929 – 2018
Robert Bellamy Clifton
1836 – 1921
S. Rajaratnam
1915 – 2006
Salvador Espriu
1913 – 1985
Samuel Alfred Mitchell
1874 – 1960
Suzan Kahramaner
1913 – 2006
Tadeusz Łomnicki
1927 – 1992
Takamine Hideo
1853 – 1910
Théophile Delcassé
1852 – 1923
Tønnes Andenæs
1923 – 1975
Valeriy Kalchenko
1947 – 2025
Varlam Gelovani
1878 – 1915
Verrier Elwin
1902 – 1964
Vicente Osorio de Moscoso, 13th Count of Altamira
1801 – 1864
Voldemar Vaga
1899 – 1999
Wang Yening
1926 – 2019
Werner Beierwaltes
1931 – 2019
Wilhelm Lamormaini
1571 – 1648
William Chambliss
1933 – 2014
William Herries
1859 – 1923
William Serrin
1939 – 2018
Winthrop Rockefeller
1912 – 1973
Wolfgang Sawallisch
1923 – 2013
Émile Driant
1855 – 1916
Abraham Ribicoff
1910 – 1998
Abul Kalam Azad
1888 – 1958
Adam Albert von Neipperg
1775 – 1829
Adolf Hennecke
1905 – 1975
Adolf Müller
1916 – 2005
Adrian Boult
1889 – 1983
Adrien Moreau
1843 – 1906
Ahmed Qurei
1937 – 2023
Albert G. Noble
1895 – 1980
Albert Vaguet
1865 – 1943
Alberto Lembo
1944 – 2022
Aleksander Doba
1946 – 2021
Aleksei Petrenko
1938 – 2017
Alexander Patashinski
1936 – 2020
Alexander Scourby
1913 – 1985
Alfons Almi
1904 – 1991
Alfred Lindley
1904 – 1951
Alfred Pelldram
1847 – 1906
Allan Rockwell McCann
1896 – 1978
Anders Fjellner
1795 – 1876
Arnold Busck
1871 – 1953
Arthur L. Conger
1872 – 1951
Arthur Smith-Barry, 1st Baron Barrymore
1843 – 1925
Artur Jorge
1946 – 2024
Ashton C. Shallenberger
1862 – 1938
August von Parseval
1861 – 1942
Balázs Lengyel
1918 – 2007
Benjamin Bowditch Thayer
1862 – 1933
Benjamin J. Rabin
1896 – 1969
Bill Armstrong
1909 – 1982
Bruce M. Selya
1934 – 2025
Byakuren Yanagiwara
1885 – 1967
Børge Bak
1912 – 1990
Carlo Perosi
1868 – 1930
Castruccio Castracane degli Antelminelli
1779 – 1852
Charles I. Carpenter
1906 – 1994
Charles Le Brun
1619 – 1690
Charles N. Gardner
1845 – 1919
Charles Pinckney Jones
1845 – 1914
Charlotte Wahlström
1849 – 1924
Clare Hayes Timberlake
1907 – 1982
Clarence Korstian
1889 – 1968
Claude Hettier de Boislambert
1906 – 1986
Cledwyn Hughes, Baron Cledwyn of Penrhos
1916 – 2001
Constantin von Hormuzaki
1862 – 1937
Cornelis Andries Backer
1874 – 1963
Daniel Frederik Eschricht
1798 – 1863
David Ferrie
1918 – 1967
David Neiman
1921 – 2004
David Susskind
1920 – 1987
Daviz Simango
1964 – 2021
Dennis Johnson
1954 – 2007
Donald S. Russell
1906 – 1998
Dorothy Smith
1899 – 1975
Ed Flanders
1934 – 1995
Edme Étienne Borne Desfourneaux
1767 – 1849
Eduard Profittlich
1890 – 1942
Edward Augustus Dickson
1879 – 1956
Edward Oscar Ulrich
1857 – 1944
Edward Stanley, 11th Earl of Derby
1689 – 1776
Efrem Zimbalist
1889 – 1985
Elaine Barkin
1932 – 2023
Elias Goldberg
1886 – 1978
Elijah Brigham
1751 – 1816
Eni Faleomavaega
1943 – 2017
Enrique Basadre Stevenson
1848 – 1925
Ernest Palmer
1885 – 1978
Ernst Breit
1924 – 2013
Ernst Günther II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein
1863 – 1921
Even Hammer
1732 – 1800
Ferdinand de Saussure
1857 – 1913
Francesco III Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua
1533 – 1550
Francis Atterbury
1663 – 1732
Francis Sylvius
1581 – 1649
Francisco I. Madero
1873 – 1913
Frank Adcock
1886 – 1968
Frank Bonsall
1920 – 2011
Franz Xaver Zippe
1791 – 1863
… and 1,880 more