On this day: 22 July
Events, births and deaths on 22 July. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Ozzy Osbourne
- Deaths · Chuck Mangione
- Deaths · John Fallon
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Ursula Franklin
100 years ago1926
- Births · Wolfgang Iser
- Births · Bryan Forbes
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 31
- 838Battle of Anzen — battle in Asia Minor between Byzantines and Abbasids (838 CE)
- 1209(Julian date)Massacre at Béziers — 1209 killing of Cathars during the Albigensian Crusade
- 1227(Julian date)Battle of Bornhöved — 1227 battle
- 1298(Julian date)Battle of Falkirk — 1298 battle of the First War of Scottish Independence
- 1443(Julian date)Battle of St. Jakob an der Sihl — 1443 battle of the Old Zürich War
- 1499(Julian date)Battle of Dornach — 1499 battle of the Swabian War
- 1691Battle of Aughrim — 1691 battle in Ireland
- 1796Cleveland — city in and county seat of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States
- 1797Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife — 1797 landing operation during the War of the First Coalition
- 1805Battle of Cape Finisterre — 1805 naval battle during the War of the Third Coalition
- 1812Battle of Salamanca — 1812 battle during the Peninsular War
- 1864Battle of Atlanta — 1864 battle of the American Civil War
- 1894Paris–Rouen — city-to-city motoring competition in 1894
- 1921Battle of Annual — 1921 battle during the Rif War
- 1936Popular Executive Committee of Valencia — organization
- 1942
- 1944Polish People's Republic — country of the Warsaw Pact and Eastern Bloc from 1947 to 1989
- 1944Polish Committee of National Liberation — provisional government of Poland, proclaimed in 1944
- 1946King David Hotel bombing — 1946 event in Jerusalem
- 1947flag of India — national flag of the Republic of India
- 1963Sarawak — state of Malaysia
- 1973Pan Am Flight 816 — 1973 aviation accident
- 1973
- 1975Fire Escape Collapse — photograph by Stanley Forman
- 19811981 South Africa rugby union tour of New Zealand — controversial rugby tour of New Zealand and the US by the South African rugby team
- 1997One Piece — Japanese manga series
- 1997Blue Water Bridge — bridge across the St. Clair River, connecting Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario
- 20032003 Mosul raid — 2003 raid on a house
- 2009solar eclipse of July 22, 2009 — solar eclipse
- 20112011 Norway attacks — two sequential lone wolf terrorist attacks in Norway on 22 July 2011
- 20132013 Dingxi earthquakes — 2013 earthquakes centered in Dingxi, Gansu province, China
Births · 60
- 1559(Julian date)Lawrence of Brindisi — Italian Capuchin, saint (1559-1619)
- 1647Margaret Mary Alacoque — Catholic Saint and Mystic (1647-1690)
- 1784Friedrich Bessel — German astronomer and mathematician
- 1831Emperor Kōmei — Emperor of Japan from 1846 to 1867
- 1839Jakob Hurt — Estonian ethnologist, folklorist and linguist (1839-1907)
- 1849Emma Lazarus — American poet (1849–1887)
- 1882Edward Hopper — American realist painter and printmaker (1882-1967)
- 1887Gustav Ludwig Hertz — German physicist (1887–1975)
- 1888Selman Abraham Waksman — American scientist, biochemist, microbiologist who discovered Streptomycin and many antibiotics
- 1889James Whale — British-born American film director
- 1890Rose Kennedy — American philanthropist and mother of John F. Kennedy
- 1898Alexander Calder — American artist (1898–1976)
- 1899Sobhuza II — King of Swaziland (1899-1982)
- 1904Donald O. Hebb — Canadian neuroscientist (1904–1985)
- 1923Bob Dole — American politician (1923–2021)
- 1932Óscar de la Renta — Dominican clothing designer (1932–2014)
- 1932Tom Robbins — American writer (1932–2025)
- 1934Louise Fletcher — American actress (1934–2022)
- 1938Terence Stamp — British actor (1938–2025)
- 1940Alex Trebek — Canadian and American game show host and TV personality (1940–2020)
- 1941George Clinton — American funk musician, singer, songwriter and music producer
- 1943Kay Bailey Hutchison — American politician (born 1943)
- 1943Masaru Emoto — Japanese writer
- 1946Danny Glover — American actor (born 1946)
- 1946Paul Schrader — American screenwriter and film director (born 1946)
Deaths · 60
- 1258Meinhard I, Count of Gorizia-Tyrol — Count of Gorizia
- 1274(Julian date)Henry I of Navarre — King of Navarre
- 1461(Julian date)Charles VII of France — monarch of the House of Valois who ruled as King of France (1403-1461)
- 1540(Julian date)John Zápolya — King of Hungary, Prince of Transylvania
- 1619Lawrence of Brindisi — Italian Capuchin, saint (1559-1619)
- 1645Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares — Spanish royal favourite of Philip IV and minister (1587-1645)
- 1676Clement X — pope of the Catholic Church from 1670 to 1676 (1590-1676)
- 1765Carl Alexander Clerck — Swedish entomologist
- 1802Xavier Bichat — French anatomist and pathologist (1771–1802)
- 1814Michael Francis Egan — Irish American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church (1761-1814)
- 1826Giuseppe Piazzi — Italian Catholic priest, mathematician and astronomer (1746–1826)
- 1832Napoleon II — The second Emperor of the French (1815)
- 1864James B. McPherson — career officer of the United States Army (1828–1864)
- 1869John Augustus Roebling — German-American engineer
- 1902Mieczysław Halka Ledóchowski — Polish cardinal (1822–1902)
- 1903Cassius M. Clay — American planter, politician and ambassador to Russia (1810-1903)
- 1908Randal Cremer — English politician (1828–1908)
- 1915Sandford Fleming — Scottish-born Canadian engineer and inventor (1827-1915)
- 1916James Whitcomb Riley — American poet from Indianapolis (1849–1916)
- 1922Takamine Jōkichi — Japanese chemist (1854–1922)
- 1932Errico Malatesta — anarchist (1853-1932)
- 1932Reginald Fessenden — Canadian radio pioneer (1866–1932)
- 1932Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. — American theatrical impresario (1867–1932)
- 1932J. Meade Falkner — British writer (1858–1932)
- 1934John Dillinger — American bank robber
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