On this day: 22 August
Events, births and deaths on 22 August. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · S. R. Nathan
- Deaths · Toots Thielemans
100 years ago1926
- Deaths · Charles William Eliot
- Births · Marc Bohan
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 20
- 851Battle of Jengland — 851 battle between the Duchy of Brittany and West Francia
- 1138(Julian date)Battle of the Standard — 1138 battle in United Kingdom
- 1485Battle of Bosworth Field — 1485 last significant battle of the Wars of the Roses
- 1711Quebec Expedition — 1711 military campaign
- 1791Haitian Revolution — 1791 slave revolt in the French colony of Saint-Domingue
- 1846Second Federal Republic of Mexico — country of North America (1846-1863, 1867-1876)
- 1864Geneva Convention of 1864 — First Geneva Convention governing the sick and wounded members of armed forces, adopted in 1864
- 1868Yangzhou riot — 1868 Chinese rioting
- 19021902 Turkestan earthquake — earthquake struck Xinjiang Province, China on August 22, 1902
- 1914Battle of Rossignol — 1914 battle of the First World War
- 1937Eighth Route Army — army under the command of the Chinese Communist Party
- 1944Holocaust of Kedros — massacre of Greek civilians by Nazi Germany, 1944
- 19491949 Queen Charlotte Islands earthquake — Canadian natural disaster
- 1962Petit-Clamart attack — 1962 attempt on De Gaulle’s life
- 1981Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 103 — aviation accident
- 1985British Airtours Flight 28M — aviation accident
- 1999China Airlines Flight 642 — aviation accident
- 2006Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 — aviation accident
- 20122012-2013 Tana River District clashes — violence between the Orma and Pokomo peoples in Kenya
- 20152015 Shoreham Airshow crash — Plane crash onto road in England
Births · 60
- 1412(Julian date)Frederick II — elector of Saxony (1428–1464) and landgrave of Thuringia (1440–1445)
- 1647Denis Papin — French physicist, mathematician and inventor (1647–1713)
- 1760Leo XII — Pope of the Catholic Church from 1823 to 1829
- 1818Rudolf von Jhering — German jurist (1818–1892)
- 1834Samuel Langley — American physicist, pioneer of aviation, and 3rd Secretary of the Smithsonian (1834-1906)
- 1844George W. De Long — American polar explorer (1844–1881)
- 1854Milan I Obrenović — king of Serbia
- 1860Paul Gottlieb Nipkow — German technician and inventor (1860–1940)
- 1862Claude Debussy — French classical composer (1862–1918)
- 1873Alexander Bogdanov — Russian physician, philosopher and revolutionary (1873–1928)
- 1874Max Scheler — German philosopher (1874-1928)
- 1882Raymonde de Laroche — French pilot and the first woman in the world to receive an aeroplane pilot's licence
- 1887Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk — German nobleman, jurist, and senior Nazi government official (1887–1977)
- 1890Cecil Kellaway — South African actor (1890–1973)
- 1891Jacques Lipchitz — American and French sculptor (1891–1973)
- 1893Dorothy Parker — American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist (1893-1967)
- 1902Leni Riefenstahl — German filmmaker, photographer, actress, and nazi propagandist (1902–2003)
- 1904Deng Xiaoping — Chinese politician and paramount leader from 1978 to 1989
- 1908Henri Cartier-Bresson — French photographer (1908–2004)
- 1913Bruno Pontecorvo — Italian nuclear physicist (1913–1993)
- 1917John Lee Hooker — American blues musician (1912 or 1917–2001)
- 1920Ray Bradbury — American author and screenwriter (1920–2012)
- 1925Honor Blackman — British actress
- 1928Karlheinz Stockhausen — German composer (1928–2007)
- 1930Gilmar — Brazilian footballer (1930-2013)
Deaths · 60
- 408Stilicho — Roman army general (c.359 – 408)
- 1155(Julian date)Emperor Konoe — Emperor of Japan (1139–1155)
- 1241(Julian date)Gregory IX — pope of the Catholic Church from 1227 to 1241
- 1280(Julian date)Nicholas III — Pope from 1277 to 1280
- 1304(Julian date)John I of Hainaut — Count of Hainaut and Count of Holland and Zeeland (1247-1304)
- 1350(Julian date)Philip VI of France — King of France from 1328 to 1350
- 1358(Julian date)Isabella of France — Queen consort of England
- 1485(Julian date)Richard III of England — king of England from 1483 to 1485
- 1485(Julian date)John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk — English noble and admiral
- 1532(Julian date)William Warham — Archbishop of Canterbury (1450-1532)
- 1545(Julian date)Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk — English nobleman, diplomat and military commander (1484-1545)
- 1553(Julian date)John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland — English general, admiral, and politician (1504-1553)
- 1584
- 1599Luca Marenzio — Italian composer (1553-1599)
- 1664Maria Cunitz — German astronomer
- 1680John George II, Elector of Saxony — Elector of Saxony from 1656 to 1680
- 1711Louis François, duc de Boufflers — Marshal of France (1644-1711)
- 1752William Whiston — theologian, historian, mathematician, and translator (1667-1752)
- 1806Jean-Honoré Fragonard — French painter (1732–1806)
- 1818Warren Hastings — Governor-General of Bengal, 1773–1785
- 1828Franz Joseph Gall — neuroanatomist, physiologist, and pioneer in the study of the localization of mental functions in the brain (1758-1828)
- 1850Nikolaus Lenau — Austrian poet (1802-1850)
- 1861Xianfeng Emperor — The ninth emperor (and the seventh after defeating Ming) of the Qing Dynasty (1831-1861)
- 1891Jan Neruda — Czech poet, theater reviewer, publicist, journalist and writer (1834-1891)
- 1903Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury — British politician and prime minister (1830-1903)
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