On This Day — May 22
4041 noted people were born and 1831 died on May 22 in our archive, including Alfred Cardew Dixon, Chen Jingrun and Hermann Schubert.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on May 22
Alfred Cardew Dixon
1865 – 1936
Chen Jingrun
1933 – 1996
Hermann Schubert
1848 – 1911
Hermann Stieve
1886 – 1952
Ivan Knunyants
1906 – 1990
Nikolai Burdenko
1876 – 1946
Peter Bazalgette
b. 1953
André Haefliger
1929 – 2023
Arancha González Laya
b. 1969
Bronisław Knaster
1893 – 1980
Bénédicte Savoy
b. 1972
Claude Ballif
1924 – 2004
Czesław Olech
1931 – 2015
Dainius Žalimas
b. 1973
Dewi Fortuna Anwar
b. 1958
Ed Pease
b. 1951
François Bourguignon
b. 1945
Frédéric Kuhlmann
1803 – 1881
Färit Möxämmätşin
b. 1947
Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis
1792 – 1843
George Andrew Olah
1927 – 2017
George H. Heilmeier
1936 – 2014
George S. Hammond
1921 – 2005
Harold R. Parks
b. 1949
Herbert C. Brown
1912 – 2004
Hergé
1907 – 1983
Hironobu Kachō
1905 – 1970
Jacob Gould Schurman
1854 – 1942
Jayanta Kumar Ghosh
1937 – 2017
Jean-Michel Cohen
b. 1956
Johan Joseph Faict
1813 – 1894
John Collier Jr.
1913 – 1992
John Ochsendorf
b. 1974
Jørgen Randers
b. 1945
Leonardo Del Vecchio
1935 – 2022
Monika Michaliszyn
b. 1974
Robert A. Frosch
1928 – 2020
Răzvan Theodorescu
1939 – 2023
Sergey Mikhailov
b. 1965
Shuji Nakamura
b. 1954
Yoaz Hendel
b. 1975
Agnes Husslein-Arco
b. 1954
Agshin Alizadeh
1937 – 2014
Aiichiro Fujiyama
1897 – 1985
Alexander Philip
1858 – 1932
Alexander Raevsky
1887 – 1937
Alfredo Toro Hardy
b. 1950
Ana Fani Alessandri Carlos
b. 1952
Anatol Rapoport
1911 – 2007
Andres Luure
b. 1959
André Rossinot
b. 1939
Anthony Bourbon
b. 1988
Anton Ptushkin
b. 1984
Anton Willem Nieuwenhuis
1864 – 1953
Arden L. Bement, Jr.
b. 1932
Arsenii Yatseniuk
b. 1974
Barak Ravid
b. 1980
Bernard Shaw
1940 – 2022
Bernhard Dunker
1809 – 1870
Betty Williams
1943 – 2020
Bogdan Święczkowski
b. 1970
Bogumił Brzezinski
b. 1943
Brian D. Kerns
b. 1957
Brian Maienschein
b. 1969
Bryan Danielson
b. 1981
Carsten Kissmeyer
b. 1953
Celeste Maloy
b. 1981
Charles Aznavour
1924 – 2018
Christophe Deloire
1971 – 2024
Christopher Browning
b. 1944
Christopher Columbus Langdell
1826 – 1906
Christopher Peacocke
b. 1950
Claude Closky
b. 1963
Clyde Tolson
1900 – 1975
Coleridge Farr
1866 – 1943
Curtis Carlson
b. 1945
David McComas
b. 1958
David Scowsill
b. 1956
Dmitry Petrovich Maksutov
1832 – 1889
Dmitry Svishchev
b. 1969
Dolph Schluter
b. 1955
Doris Barnett
b. 1953
Eddy Liew
b. 1943
Edmondo Cirielli
b. 1964
Emilio Rabasa
1856 – 1930
Erich Lexer
1867 – 1937
Ernest Aderman
1894 – 1968
François de Mazières
b. 1960
François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis
1715 – 1794
Friedrich Pollock
1894 – 1970
Fritz von Uhde
1848 – 1911
Garrard Tyrwhitt-Drake
1881 – 1964
Garry Wills
b. 1934
Georg Forchhammer
1861 – 1938
Gerd Schwandner
b. 1951
Gerhard A. Holzapfel
b. 1961
Gesine Schwan
b. 1943
Guillaume du Tillot
1711 – 1774
Gérald Bronner
b. 1969
Gürer Aykal
b. 1942
Hans Lukaschek
1885 – 1960
Harvey Milk
1930 – 1978
Hasmik Poghosyan
b. 1960
Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst
1762 – 1834
Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle
1811 – 1864
Hideaki Anno
b. 1960
Honor Bridget Fell
1900 – 1986
Istrate Micescu
1881 – 1951
Ivan Akimov
1755 – 1814
Jacques Sadoul
1881 – 1956
Jean-Michel Larrasquet
1950 – 2018
Jean-Pierre Wallot
1935 – 2010
Johannes R. Becher
1891 – 1958
John Gough Nichols
1806 – 1873
John Russell Reynolds
1828 – 1896
Jolande Sap
b. 1963
Joséphine Boulay
1869 – 1925
Jules Sottas
1866 – 1945
Julia Kaganskiy
b. 1986
Julio Garrett Ayllón
1925 – 2018
Kerry Ann Lee
b. 1979
Kieran Egan
1942 – 2022
Kliment Timiryazev
1843 – 1920
Laurence Olivier
1907 – 1989
Lee Chambers
b. 1985
Leonid Leonidov
1873 – 1941
Linas Kukuraitis
b. 1978
Lisa Murkowski
b. 1957
Ljubiša Diković
b. 1960
Lori Garver
b. 1961
Louis Vivien de Saint-Martin
1802 – 1896
Lucia Caporaso
b. 1965
Léon Kengo
b. 1935
Mai Treial
b. 1952
Mary Cassatt
1844 – 1926
Maurice Berger
1956 – 2020
Maurice J. Tobin
1901 – 1953
Max Brooks
b. 1972
Max Kohnstamm
1914 – 2010
Menzies Campbell
1941 – 2025
Michael Green
b. 1946
Mikhail Yefremov
1911 – 2000
Mostafa Hashemitaba
b. 1946
Mélanie Vogel
b. 1985
Nancy Kemp-Arendt
b. 1969
Nick Warner
b. 1950
Nikolay Olyalin
1941 – 2009
Noah Feldman
b. 1970
Novak Djokovic
b. 1987
Paul Vanden Boeynants
1919 – 2001
Paula S. Fass
b. 1947
Peter Howson
1919 – 2009
Peter Turchin
b. 1957
Philip H. Dybvig
b. 1955
Philip Rubin
b. 1949
Philippe Richert
b. 1953
Piero Ferrari
b. 1945
Praveen Sood
b. 1964
Pyotr Sobolevsky
1904 – 1977
Rafał Wnuk
b. 1967
Richard Palais
1931 – 2026
Richard Waddington
1838 – 1913
Richard Wagner
1813 – 1883
Richard Wilk
b. 1953
Robert Lepenies
b. 1984
Roberto A. Abad
b. 1944
Roman Tkach
b. 1962
Rufus Edward Foster
1871 – 1942
Satsuki Eda
1941 – 2021
Scott Shane
b. 1954
Serge Doubrovsky
1928 – 2017
Sharice Davids
b. 1980
Siphiwe Nyanda
b. 1950
Soemu Toyoda
1885 – 1957
Spencer Bloch
b. 1944
Stuart Loory
1932 – 2015
Theodor Bergk
1812 – 1881
Thomas Agar-Robartes
1880 – 1915
Thomas Gold
1920 – 2004
Thomas Mayr-Harting
b. 1954
Thomas Schick
b. 1969
Tsubouchi Shōyō
1859 – 1935
Valentin Inzko
b. 1949
Victoria Abramchenko
b. 1975
Voldemārs Zāmuēls
1872 – 1948
Willi Geiger
1909 – 1994
William C. Canby, Jr.
b. 1931
William Gibbs
1790 – 1875
William Roy Hodgson
1892 – 1958
Yevgeny Revenko
b. 1972
Yoshiaki Arata
1924 – 2018
Émile Jean Sulpis
1856 – 1942
Aage Langeland-Mathiesen
1868 – 1933
Aaron Marcus
b. 1943
Abdulalim Abdullah Shabazz
1927 – 2014
Adolf Aron Baginsky
1843 – 1918
Adolf Lesser
1851 – 1926
Adolfo Quintieri
1887 – 1970
Agop Dilâçar
1895 – 1979
Albrecht von Graefe
1828 – 1870
… and 3,841 more
Died on May 22
Albert Claude
1898 – 1983
Alfredo Palacio
1939 – 2025
Anastasius (Gribanovsky)
1873 – 1965
Carl Fredrik Mennander
1712 – 1786
Cecil Day-Lewis
1904 – 1972
Derrick Henry Lehmer
1905 – 1991
Dirk van de Kaa
1933 – 2026
Doris Mable Cochran
1898 – 1968
Eduard Punset
1936 – 2019
Falconer Madan
1851 – 1935
Isidro Ayora
1879 – 1978
Jacob Wackernagel
1853 – 1938
Joseph Wood Krutch
1893 – 1970
Josip Plemelj
1873 – 1967
Julius Plücker
1801 – 1868
Julius Roeting
1822 – 1896
Klaus von Bismarck
1912 – 1997
Lee Jong-wook
1945 – 2006
Manfried Welan
1937 – 2024
Richard A. Tapia
1939 – 2026
Robert Richardson Sears
1908 – 1989
Walter Ledermann
1911 – 2009
Walther Kossel
1888 – 1956
Wolff Schoemaker
1882 – 1949
Yuan Longping
1929 – 2021
A. R. Knapp
1870 – 1954
Adam Próchnik
1892 – 1942
Adolf Tortilowicz von Batocki-Friebe
1868 – 1944
Ahmad Shah III of Pahang
1930 – 2019
Aimable Pélissier
1794 – 1864
Albert Memmi
1920 – 2020
Alberto Dines
1932 – 2018
Alexander Mezhirov
1923 – 2009
Alfonso Quiñónez Molina
1874 – 1950
Alfred Hershey
1908 – 1997
Alister Hardy
1896 – 1985
Ananias Dekke
1832 – 1892
Anatoliy Matviyenko
1953 – 2020
Baron Eligius Franz Joseph von Münch-Bellinghausen
1806 – 1871
Billy Zeoli
1932 – 2015
Boris Kalin
1905 – 1975
Calvert Magruder
1893 – 1968
Cevdet Sunay
1899 – 1982
Claude McKay
1889 – 1948
Colin Hannah
1914 – 1978
Davie Fulton
1916 – 2000
Derek Wanless
1947 – 2012
Duberildo Jaque
1921 – 2022
Ernest Septimus Reynolds
1861 – 1926
Ernest de Sélincourt
1870 – 1943
Ernst Julius Hähnel
1811 – 1891
Forrest M. Holly Jr.
1946 – 2017
Georges Gilles de la Tourette
1857 – 1904
Giorgio Almirante
1914 – 1988
Gojmir Anton Kos
1896 – 1970
Hans Pfitzner
1869 – 1949
Hasri Ainun Habibie
1937 – 2010
Heinrich von Gagern
1799 – 1880
Henri Dutilleux
1916 – 2013
Herbert Richmond Palmer
1877 – 1958
Hermann Oppenheim
1857 – 1919
Horace R. Byers
1906 – 1998
Howard Russell Butler
1856 – 1934
Iain R. Edgar
1948 – 2021
Ignasi Riera i Gassiot
1940 – 2025
Isaac Grünewald
1889 – 1946
Istrate Micescu
1881 – 1951
Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse
1822 – 1883
Jacques, comte Mallet
1787 – 1869
James Forrestal
1892 – 1949
Johann Georg Heinrich Feder
1740 – 1821
John French, 1st Earl of Ypres
1852 – 1925
John Pendlebury
1904 – 1941
Joseph-Alexis Stoltz
1803 – 1896
Judith Kerr
1923 – 2019
Józef Świder
1930 – 2014
Karl Hermann Frank
1898 – 1946
Kenneth Muir Mackenzie, 1st Baron Muir Mackenzie
1845 – 1930
Kurt Jooss
1901 – 1979
Langston Hughes
1902 – 1967
Ling Shuhua
1900 – 1990
Marie-France Garaud
1934 – 2024
Mary Eileen Ahern
1860 – 1938
Myrtle Bachelder
1908 – 1997
Nikolai Kuznetsov
1864 – 1932
Peter Masak
1957 – 2004
Philip Roth
1933 – 2018
Pál Lukács
1919 – 1981
Ralph Hunt
1928 – 2011
Robert Kent Gooch
1893 – 1982
Samuel Charles Whitbread
1796 – 1879
Samuil Galberg
1787 – 1839
Shin Kyeong-nim
1936 – 2024
Sigurd Ottovich Schmidt
1922 – 2013
Spencer Horatio Walpole
1806 – 1898
Stanisław Swianiewicz
1899 – 1997
Théodore Ballu
1817 – 1885
Tommaso Corsini
1835 – 1919
Virginia C. Purdy
1922 – 2015
Virginia Grace
1901 – 1994
Vitaly Mukha
1936 – 2005
Vladimir Fyodorovich Promyslov
1908 – 1993
Wilfrid Bruno Nantel
1857 – 1940
Wilhelm Eduard Albrecht
1800 – 1876
William Wright
1830 – 1889
Y. C. Simhadri
1941 – 2021
Yoshioka Yayoi
1871 – 1959
Yurii Kruk
1941 – 2025
deLesseps Story Morrison
1912 – 1964
Abdul Majeed Abdul Bari
1963 – 2018
Abraham Moles
1920 – 1992
Adolf Born
1930 – 2016
Agnes von Zahn-Harnack
1884 – 1950
Aimé Ngoy Mukena
1954 – 2022
Albert Baciocco
1931 – 2015
Albert Reid
1886 – 1962
Aleksander Kazimierz Sapieha
1624 – 1671
Alessandro Manzoni
1785 – 1873
Alexander VII
1599 – 1667
Alfred Kröner
1939 – 2019
Alfred Ransom
1868 – 1943
Ali Mohamed Negm
1930 – 2007
Alicia Ghiragossian
1936 – 2014
Amanda Feilding
1943 – 2025
Anne Murray, Duchess of Atholl
1814 – 1897
Antoine Wenger
1919 – 2009
Arnold McNair, 1st Baron McNair
1885 – 1975
Arthur Bridges
1901 – 1968
Arthur Mayger Hind
1880 – 1957
Arthur R. Gralla
1913 – 1998
Athol Richardson
1897 – 1982
Aubrey Fitch
1883 – 1978
Augustin Thierry
1795 – 1856
Bill Bourke
1913 – 1981
Brian Kidd Ridley
1931 – 2024
Carel de Wet
1924 – 2004
Chan Yuk-shee
1953 – 2017
Charilaos Florakis
1914 – 2005
Charles Alvin Jones
1887 – 1966
Charles Elwood Brown
1834 – 1904
Charles G. Cleveland
1927 – 2021
Charles H. Burns
1835 – 1909
Charles Lefebvre-Desnouettes
1773 – 1822
Charlotte Serber
1911 – 1967
Christian Thams
1867 – 1948
Christopher Stone
1882 – 1965
Clarence B. Jones
1931 – 2026
Cornelia Oberlander
1921 – 2021
Creighton Miller
1922 – 2002
Curtis Bok
1897 – 1962
Dan Moody
1893 – 1966
David Shotter
1939 – 2021
David Wilkie
1954 – 2024
Dick Barry
1926 – 2013
Donald Lukens
1931 – 2010
Durbin Ward
1819 – 1886
Earl W. Vincent
1886 – 1953
Eben Martin
1855 – 1932
Edmund Ayrton
1734 – 1808
Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset
1406 – 1455
Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne
1837 – 1913
Edward Hawkins
1780 – 1867
Edward Howel Francis
1924 – 2014
Eileen Younghusband
1902 – 1981
Elizabeth David
1913 – 1992
Elmar Schrüfer
1931 – 2022
Ernst Dieter Lueg
1930 – 2000
Eugene Black
1879 – 1975
Evan William Evans
1827 – 1874
Federico Tesio
1869 – 1954
Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies
1810 – 1859
Filippo Carafa della Serra
1340 – 1389
France Forstnerič
1933 – 2007
Francis William Voelcker
1896 – 1954
Francisco Lucas Pires
1944 – 1998
Franz Borkenau
1900 – 1957
François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie
1671 – 1745
Gane Todorovski
1929 – 2010
Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington
1735 – 1781
George Ian Scott
1907 – 1989
Gheorghe Zane
1897 – 1978
Gijs van Hall
1904 – 1977
Girolamo Ramorino
1792 – 1849
Goodwin Knight
1896 – 1970
György Ránki
1907 – 1992
Hannes Ryömä
1878 – 1939
Helen Binkerd Young
1877 – 1959
Helen Herron Taft
1861 – 1943
Henri Hébrard de Villeneuve
1848 – 1925
Henry Otis Pratt
1838 – 1931
Hidekazu Yoshida
1913 – 2012
Hugh Williamson
1735 – 1819
Hugo Fernández Faingold
1947 – 2025
Irmgard Flügge-Lotz
1903 – 1974
J. Andersen Aars
1852 – 1919
Jack Mildren
1949 – 2008
Jacob Heerbrand
1521 – 1600
James A. Clough
1850 – 1917
James M. Williams
1850 – 1909
Jan Lubrański
1456 – 1520
… and 1,631 more