On this day: 22 October
Events, births and deaths on 22 October. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Sheri S. Tepper
- Deaths · Steve Dillon
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1919 · Births · Doris Lessing
- 1929 · Births · Lev Yashin
- 1917 · Births · Joan Fontaine
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1071 · Births · Guillaume IX
Events · 16
- 1707Scilly naval disaster of 1707 — loss of four Royal Navy vessels off the Isles of Scilly
- 1721(Julian date)Russian Empire — former empire in Eurasia and North America (1721–1917)
- 1739War of Jenkins' Ear — 1739–1748 conflict between Britain and Spain
- 1777Battle of Red Bank — 1777 battle of the American Revolutionary War in New Jersey
- 1844Great Disappointment — failed event, predicted by William Miller, on 22 October 1844, during which Jesus Christ would return
- 1859Hispano-Moroccan War — war conflict between Spain and Morocco (1859-1860)
- 1895Montparnasse derailment — train accident on 22 October 1895
- 1923Leonardopoulos–Gargalidis coup d'état attempt — 1923 failed military coup in the Kingdom of Greece
- 1924Toastmasters International — Nonprofit organization
- 19631963 BAC One-Eleven test crash — 1963 avation accident near Chicklade, Wiltshire, England
- 2005Bellview Airlines Flight 210 — aviation accident
- 2005Tropical Storm Alpha — Atlantic tropical storm in 2005
- 2006Panama Canal expansion referendum, 2006 — Panamanian referendum which expanded the Panama Canal
- 2007Raid on Anuradhapura Air Force Base — 2007 battle of the Sri Lankan Civil War
- 20142014 shootings at Parliament Hill, Ottawa — multiple shooting incident
- 2015Trollhättan school attack — school attack in Sweden
Births · 60
- 1071(Julian date)Guillaume IX — Duke of Aquitaine and Gascony and Count of Poitou
- 1689John V of Portugal — King of Portugal from 1707 to 1750
- 1701Maria Amalia of Austria — queen of Bohemia
- 1729Johann Reinhold Forster — German naturalist (1729–1798)
- 1781Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France — Prince of France (1781-1789)
- 1783Constantine Samuel Rafinesque — French naturalist (1783-1840)
- 1811Franz Liszt — Hungarian romantic composer and virtuoso pianist (1811-1886)
- 1818Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle — French poet (1818–1894)
- 1844Sarah Bernhardt — French stage actress, painter and sculptor (1844–1923)
- 1844Louis Riel — Métis leader in Canada (1844–1885)
- 1858Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein — German Empress and Queen of Prussia (1858–1921)
- 1870Ivan Bunin — Russian writer and poet (1870–1953)
- 1881Clinton Davisson — American physicist (1881-1958)
- 1887John Reed — American journalist, poet, and communist activist
- 1893Ernst Öpik — Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist (1893-1985)
- 1899Dámaso Alonso — Spanish poet, philologist, and literary critic
- 1903George Wells Beadle — American geneticist (1903-1989)
- 1905Karl Guthe Jansky — American physicist and radio engineer
- 1913Robert Capa — American photographer (1913–1954)
- 1913Bảo Đại — Emperor of Vietnam from 1926 to 1945
- 1915Isaac Shamir — 7th Prime Minister of Israel (1915-2012)
- 1917Joan Fontaine — British actress (1917–2013)
- 1919Doris Lessing — British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer, and short story writer (1919–2013)
- 1920Timothy Leary — American psychologist (1920–1996)
- 1921Georges Brassens — French singer-songwriter and poet (1921–1981)
Deaths · 60
- 741(Julian date)Charles Martel — Frankish military and political leader (c. 688–741)
- 1383Ferdinand I of Portugal — King of Portugal
- 1565(Julian date)Jean Grolier de Servières — French official, diplomat and bibliophile
- 1604Domingo Báñez — Spanish Dominican and Scholastic theologian
- 1708Hermann Witsius — Dutch theologian (1636-1708)
- 1751William IV, Prince of Orange — hereditary stadtholder of the Netherlands (1711-1751)
- 1792Guillaume Le Gentil — French astronomer
- 1853Juan Antonio Lavalleja — Uruguayan politician (1784-1853)
- 1859Louis Spohr — German composer, violinist and conductor
- 1883Thomas Mayne Reid — American writer (1818–1883)
- 1906Paul Cézanne — French painter (1839–1906)
- 1917Bob Fitzsimmons — British boxer (1863-1917)
- 1928Andrew Fisher — Australian politician, fifth Prime Minister of Australia (1862-1928)
- 1934Pretty Boy Floyd — American bank robber (1904–1934)
- 1935Edward Carson, Baron Carson — Irish politician, barrister and judge (1854-1935)
- 1937Chūya Nakahara — Japanese symbolist poet (1907–1937)
- 1941Guy Môquet — French resistance member (1924–1941)
- 1952Ernst Rüdin — Swiss psychiatrist (1874-1952)
- 1954Jibanananda Das — Bengali Poet (1899-1954)
- 1956Hannah Mitchell — Socialist and suffragette (1872–1956)
- 1973Pau Casals — Spanish cellist, conductor and composer (1876–1973)
- 1975Arnold J. Toynbee — British historian (1889–1975)
- 1979Nadia Boulanger — French musician, conductor, and teacher (1887-1979)
- 1985Viorica Ursuleac — Romanian operatic soprano (1894-1985)
- 1985Xu Shiyou — Chinese general (1905-1985)
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