On this day: 22 January
Events, births and deaths on 22 January. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Vasco Joaquim Rocha Vieira
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Homayoun Behzadi
- Deaths · Cecil Parkinson
- Deaths · Kamer Genç
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1922 · Deaths · Benedict XV
- 1922 · Deaths · Fredrik Bajer
- 1931 · Births · Sam Cooke
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 18
- 871(Julian date)Battle of Basing — 871 battle at Old Basing
- 1506(Julian date)Pontifical Swiss Guard — the facto military of the Vatican City
- 1517(Julian date)Battle of Ridaniya — 1517 battle
- 1863January Uprising — Polish national uprising against the Russian occupation of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
- 1879Battle of Rorke's Drift — battle in the Anglo-Zulu War, specifically the defence of the mission station of Rorke's Drift
- 1879Battle of Isandlwana — 1879 first major encounter in the Anglo–Zulu War
- 1905Russian Revolution of 1905 — wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire
- 1915Guadalajara train disaster — Mexican railroad accident
- 1918Unification Act — 1919 agreement of the two Ukrainian People's Republics
- 1944Battle of Anzio — 1944 battle in Italy
- 1946Republic of Mahabad — 1946 unrecognised Kurdish state in Iran
- 1963Élysée Treaty — treaty
- 1969attempted assassination of Leonid Brezhnev — assassination attempt made upon Leonid Brezhnev
- 1973Kano air disaster — plane crash
- 1973Joe Frazier vs. George Foreman — Boxing match
- 1984Super Bowl XVIII — 1984 edition of the Super Bowl
- 1995Beit Lid massacre — 1995 suicide bombing in Israel by Palestinian extremists
- 2012
Births · 60
- 1263(Julian date)Ibn Taymiyyah — Islamic scholar, jurist and philosopher (1263–1328)
- 1440(Julian date)Ivan III of Moscow — Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1462 to 1505
- 1561(Julian date)Francis Bacon — English philosopher and statesman (1561–1626)
- 1592Pierre Gassendi — French philosopher, astronomer, mathematician, priest, and scientist (*1592 – †1655)
- 1729Gotthold Ephraim Lessing — German writer, philosopher, publicist, and art critic (1729-1781)
- 1788Lord Byron — English Romantic poet and lyricist (1788–1824)
- 1797Maria Leopoldina of Austria — Queen consort of Portugal and Empress consort of Brazil (1797–1826)
- 1849
- 1858Beatrice Webb — English sociologist, economist, socialist, and social reformer (1858–1943)
- 1865Wilbur Scoville — American pharmacist (1865–1942)
- 1875D. W. Griffith — American filmmaker (1875–1948)
- 1879
- 1880Frigyes Riesz — Hungarian mathematician who made fundamental contributions to functional analysis (1880–1956)
- 1891Antonio Gramsci — Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, and politician (1891–1937)
- 1892Marcel Dassault — French aircraft industrialist (1892-1986)
- 1893Conrad Veidt — German actor (1893–1943)
- 1898Sergei Eisenstein — Soviet filmmaker (1898–1948)
- 1904George Balanchine — American choreographer, dancer and ballet master (1904–1983)
- 1906Robert E. Howard — American author (1906–1936)
- 1907Dixie Dean — English footballer (1907–1980)
- 1909U Thant — UN Secretary-General from 1961 to 1971
- 1909Ann Sothern — American actress (1909–2001)
- 1911Bruno Kreisky — Austrian diplomat and chancellor (1911–1990)
- 1916Henri Dutilleux — French composer
- 1920Alf Ramsey — English association football player and manager (1920-1999)
Deaths · 60
- 239(Julian date)Cao Rui — Chinese Cao Wei emperor from 226 to 239
- 628(Julian date)Anastasius of Persia — Christian martyr
- 1170(Julian date)Wang Chongyang — Chinese Taoist (1113–1170) who founded the Quanzhen school of Taoism
- 1188(Julian date)Ferdinand II of León — King of Leon and Galicia (1137-1188)
- 1341(Julian date)Louis I, Duke of Bourbon — French prince
- 1536(Julian date)John of Leiden — Anabaptist leader, King of Munster (1509-1536)
- 1552(Julian date)Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset — Nobleman
- 1575(Julian date)James Hamilton, Duke of Châtellerault — Scottish noble (1516-1575)
- 1666Shah Jahan — the fifth Mughal Emperor from 1628 to 1658
- 1763John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville — British statesman (1690-1763)
- 1779Jeremiah Dixon — English surveyor and astronomer (1733–1779)
- 1840Johann Friedrich Blumenbach — German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist (1752 – 1840)
- 1850Vincent Pallotti — Italian saint and missionary (1795–1850)
- 1900David Edward Hughes — Welsh-American scientist and musician (1831–1900)
- 1901Victoria — Queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901 (1819-1901)
- 1906George Holyoake — British secularist, co-operator, and newspaper editor (1817-1906)
- 1909Emil Erlenmeyer — German chemist (1825–1909)
- 1922Benedict XV — Pope of the Catholic Church from 1914 to 1922
- 1922Fredrik Bajer — Danish politician (1837-1922)
- 1922Camille Jordan — French mathematician (1838-1922)
- 1925Fanny Bullock Workman — American geographer, cartographer, explorer, travel writer, and mountaineer (1859–1925)
- 1931László 7th Prince Batthyány-Strattmann — (1870–1931) Hungarian aristocrat and physician
- 1942Xiao Hong — Chinese writer (1911-1942)
- 1945Else Lasker-Schüler — Jewish German poet (1869–1945)
- 1950Alan Hale — actor, film director (1892-1950)
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