Famous Birthdays on August 22

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• 1485 Beatus Rhenanus [Beatus Birt], German humanist, classical scholar and friend of Erasmus (Beatus Rhenanus Library), born in Sélestat, Alsace (d. 1547)
• 1530 Bartolomeo Spontone, Italian composer and singer, born in Bologna, Papal States (now Italy) (d. 1592)
• 1601 Georges de Scudéry, French writer and dramatist (L'Amour tyrannique), born in Le Havre, France (d. 1667)

• 1615 Christopher Gibbons, English composer, born in London (d. 1676)
• 1624 Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer and poet, born in Caen, France (d. 1701)
• 1647 Denis Papin, French physicist (Papiniaanse pot, steam machine), born in Blois, France (d. 1712)
• 1679 Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal, born in Grenoble, France (d. 1758)
• 1681 Pierre Danican Philidor, French composer, born in Paris (d. 1731)
• 1753 Christian Friedrich Ruppe, German-Dutch composer, brother of Friedrich Christian Ruppe, born in Salzungen, Imperial County of Reuss, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1826)
• 1760 Leo XII [Annibale Sermattei], Italian Pope (1823-29), born in Genga, Marche, Italy (d. 1829)
• 1764 Charles Percier, French architect, born in Paris (d. 1838)
• 1766 Joseph-Denis Doche, French composer, born in Paris (d. 1825)
• 1771 Henry Maudslay, English inventor of the metal lathe, born in Woolwich, London (d. 1831)
• 1771 Ján Josef Rösler, Czech composer, born in Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia (d. 1813)

• 1779 James Kirke Paulding, American author (The Dutchman's Fireside), born in Pleasant Valley, NY (d. 1860)
• 1788 Thomas Tredgold, British civil engineer (railway design), carpenter, and writer (Elementary Principles of Carpentry), born in Brandon, Durham, England (d. 1829)
• 1795 Abraham Capadose, Dutch physician and missionary, born in Amsterdam, Batatvian Republic (d. 1874)
• 1800 Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar, born in Trieste, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1865)
• 1800 William S. Harney, U.S. general, born in Madison, Tennessee (d. 1889)
• 1822 George Stoneman, US Union general-major and Governor of California (1883-87), born in Busti, NY (d. 1894)
• 1827 Edouard Silas, Dutch composer, born in Amsterdam (d. 1909)
• 1827 Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman (E.B. Eddy Company) and politician, born in Vermont (d. 1906)
• 1827 Joseph Anthony Mower, American Major General (Union Army), born in Woodstock, Vermont (d. 1870)
• 1834 Nathaniel Harrison Harris, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Natchez, Mississippi (d. 1900)
• 1834 Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer and pioneer aviator, born in Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1906)
• 1836 Archibald M Willard, American artist (Spirit of '76), born in Bedford, Ohio (d. 1918)

• 1844 George Washington De Long, American Arctic Explorer whose disastrous expedition provided evidence to support the theory of trans-Arctic oceanic drift, born in New York City (d. 1881)
• 1845 William Lewis Douglas, 42nd Governor of Massachusetts, born in Plymouth, Massachusetts (d. 1924)
• 1846 Amalie Skram, Norwegian author (Hellemyrsfolket), born in Bergen, Norway (d. 1905)
• 1847 Alexander Campbell Mackenzie, Scottish composer, born in Edinburgh (d. 1935)
• 1848 Melville E. Stone, American newspaper publisher (Founder of Chicago Daily News), born in Hudson, Illinois (d. 1929)
• 1852 Alfredo Oriani, Italian writer (Political Struggle in Italy), born in Faenza, Italy (d. 1909)
• 1854 Milan I, King of Serbia (1882-89) who unexpectedly abdicated in favor of his 12-year-old son Alexander I, born in Mărășești, Romania (d. 1901)
• 1857 Ned Hanlon, American Baseball HOF center fielder (NL pennant 1887 Detroit Wolverines) and manager (5 × NL pennant Baltimore Orioles, Brooklyn Superbas), born in Montville, Connecticut (d. 1937)
• 1860 Eleonore of Reuss-Köstritz, Tsaritsa of Bulgaria, born in Trzebiechów, Zielona Góra County, Poland (d. 1917)
• 1860 Paul G. Nipkow, German TV pioneer (Nipkow Award), born in Lebork, Poland (d. 1940)

• 1865 Pieter Hopmans Dutch Bishop of Breda (Eucharistic Crusade) (d. 1951)
• 1867 Charles Francis Jenkins, American Inventor (altimeter, automobile self-starter, and early television pioneer), born in Dayton, Ohio (d. 1934)
• 1867 Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist, born in Aarau, Switzerland (d. 1939)
• 1868 Willis Rodney Whitney, American Chemist, founder of the General Electric research laboratory, and pioneer of industrial scientific research, born in Jamestown, NY (d. 1958)
• 1871 James Foulis, Scottish golfer (US Open 1896), born in St. Andrews, Scotland (d. 1928)
• 1873 Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher, born in Sokółka, Poland (d. 1928)
• 1873 Karl Nef, Swiss musicologist, born in St. Gallen, Switzerland (d. 1935)
• 1874 Edward Bairstow, English composer, born in Trinity Street, Huddersfield, England (d. 1946)
• 1874 Max Scheler, German philosopher (Vom Umsturz der Werte), born in Munich, Germany (d. 1928)
• 1876 Cornelis "Kees" Maks, Dutch figurative painter, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1967)
• 1880 George Herriman, American cartoonist (Krazy Kat), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1944)
• 1880 Gorch Fock [Johann Wilhelm Kinau], German author and poet, born in Finkenwerder, Hamburg, Germany (d. 1916)
• 1882 Harry Makepeace, English cricket batsman (4 Tests, 1 x 100, HS 117; Lancashire CCC) and soccer midfielder (4 caps; FA Cup 1906 Everton), born in Middlesbrough, England (d. 1952)
• 1888 Du Yuesheng, Chinese mob boss, born in Gaoqiao, Shanghai (d. 1951)
• 1888 Violet Farebrother, English actress (Downhill, Easy Virtue), born in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England (d. 1969)
• 1890 Cecil Kellaway, South African-American stage and screen character actor (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner; The Luck of the Irish), born in Cape Town, Cape Colony (now South Africa) (d. 1973)
• 1890 Floyd Henri Allport, American psychologist and sociologist, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (d. 1979)
• 1891 Francis McDonald, American actor (Will-Adv of Champion), born in Bowling Green, Kentucky (d. 1968)
• 1891 Jacques Lipchitz, Polish-French-American painter and cubist sculptor, born in Druskininkai, Lithuania (d. 1973)
• 1892 Percy Fender, English cricket all-rounder (13 Tests, 29 wickets, BB 5/90, HS 60; Sussex CCC, Surrey CCC, MCC), born in London, England (d. 1985)

• 1893 Ernest H. Volwiler, American scientist and co-inventor of Pentothal - world's most widely used anesthetic, born in Hamilton, Ohio (d. 1992) [1]
• 1893 George Wood, England cricket wicket-keeper (3 Tests, 6 dismissals; Cambridge University CC, Kent CCC), born in Blackheath, England (d. 1971)
• 1894 Ivan Isakov [Hovhannes Ter-Isahakyan], Russian-Armenian military commander (Commander in Chief of the Soviet Navy during WW II), born in Hadjikend, Russian Empire (now Armenia) (d. 1967)
• 1895 Paul Comtois, French Canadian politician, born in Pierreville, Quebec (d. 1966)
• 1895 Paul Taylor White, American composer (Adante & Rondo for Cello), born in Bangor, Maine (d. 1973)
• 1896 Laurence McKinley Gould, American Geologist and Polar Explorer who was chief scientist and second-in-command on the first expedition to the interior of Antarctica in 1929, born in Lacota, Michigan (d. 1995)
• 1897 Bill Woodfull, Australian cricketer (Australian captain in the Bodyline series), born in Maldon, Australia (d. 1965)
• 1897 Elizabeth Bergner, Austrian actress (Catherine the Great), born in Drohobycz, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (d. 1986)
• 1897 Nick Lucas [Dominic Lucanese], American jazz guitarist and singer ("Tiptoe Through the Tulips"; "Painting the Clouds With Sunshine"), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 1982)
• 1898 Francine Larrimore, French actress (John Meade's Woman), born in Verdun, France (d. 1975)
• 1900 Sergei Ozhegov, Russian lexicographer (Russian Language Dictionary), born in Kuvshinovo, Tver Oblast, Russia (d. 1964)
• 1902 Jack Roy Armstrong, English historian (History of Sussex), born in Broadstairs, Kent (d. 1993)

• 1902 Thomas Pelly, American politician, born in Seattle, Washington (d. 1973)
• 1903 René Wellek, Czech-American writer (Concepts of Criticism), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1995)

• 1905 Wade Crosby, American actor (Sign of Wolf, Tales of Robin Hood), born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa (d. 1975)
• 1907 Colin Buchanan, British town planner (Traffic in Towns), born in Simla, India (d. 2001)
• 1907 Cyril Astley Clarke, British physician and geneticist, born in Leicester, England (d. 2000)
• 1907 Oliver McGowan, American actor (Banning, Stagecoach), born in Kipling, Alabama (d. 1971)

• 1909 Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (Casablanca), born in New York City (d. 2000)

• 1909 Sergius Kagen, American pianist and composer, born in Saint Petersburg, Russia (d. 1964)
• 1909 Stojan Daskalov, Bulgarian writer (A Farm), born in Liljac, Vraca, Bulgaria (d. 1985)
• 1909 Vitya Vronsky, Russian-American concert pianist (Vronsky & Babin), and educator (Cleveland Institute), born in Yevpatoria, Russia (d. 1992)
• 1911 Edith Atwater, American actress (Phyllis-Love on a Rooftop), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1986)
• 1911 Somerset de Chair, British writer, MP and poet, born in Somerset (d. 1995)
• 1912 Edith Porada, Austrian art historian and archaeologist, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1994)
• 1912 Richard Catling, British commissioner of police (Kenya), born in Leiston, Suffolk (d. 2005)
• 1913 Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian nuclear physicist, born in Marina di Pisa, Italy (d. 1993)
• 1913 Robert Martineau, British bishop of Blackburn (d. 1999)
• 1913 Robert Schollum, Austrian composer, born in Vienna (d. 1987)
• 1915 David Dellinger, American social rights and peace movement leader, born in Wakefield, Massachusetts (d. 2004)
• 1915 Hugh Paddick, English actor (Round the Horne), born in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, England (d. 2000)
• 1915 James Hillier, Canadian-American inventor (co-created the electron microscope), born in Brantford, Canada (d. 2007)
• 1916 John Slater, British actor (Deadlock, Cartel, Devil's Pass), born in London, England (d. 1975)
• 1917 John Lee Hooker, American blues guitarist ("Boogie Chillen"'; "Boom Boom"), born in Clarksdale, Mississippi (d. 2001)
• 1918 Mary McGrory, American journalist and columnist, born in Roslindale, Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2004)
• 1919 Alan Cathcart, 6th Earl Cathcart, British major-general (d. 1999)
• 1919 Leo Pliatzky, British senior civil servant, born in Manchester (d. 1999)
• 1920 Anthony Tuke, chairman of Barclays Bank (1973–81) (d. 2001)
• 1920 Denton Cooley, American heart surgeon (1st artificial heart transplant), born in Houston, Texas (d. 2016)
• 1920 Pierre A. Lauffer, Antillian poet (Patria), born in Curacao, Venezuela (d. 1981)
• 1920 Ray Bradbury, American sci-fi author (Fahrenheit 451), born in Waukegan, Illinois (d. 2012)
• 1920 Wolfdietrich Schnurre, German writer, born in Frankfurt (d. 1989)
• 1921 James Menter, British physicist and principal (Queen Mary College), born in Teynham, Kent (d. 2006)
• 1922 Micheline Presle [Chassagne], French actress (Nea, Donkey Skin), born in Paris, France
• 1923 Gerald Long, English journalist and CEO of Reuters, born in York, England (d. 1998)
• 1924 Andrzej Markowski, Polish composer, born in Lblin, Poland (d. 1986)
• 1924 James Kirkwood, American actor, author and playwright (A Chorus Line, P. S. Your Cat Is Dead!), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1989)
• 1925 Honor Blackman, English actress (Goldfinger, The Avengers), born in Plaistow, London (d. 2020)
• 1926 Bob Flannigan, American barbershop-pop-jazz singer (The Four Freshmen), born in Greencastle, Indiana (d. 2011)
• 1926 Marc Bohan, French fashion designer, born in Paris (d. 2023)
• 1927 Aleksandar Obradovic, Serbian composer, born in Bled, Slovenia (d. 2001)
• 1928 John Lupton, American actor (Tom-Broken Arrow), born in Highland Park, Illinois (d. 1993)
• 1928 Karlheinz Stockhausen, German classical and electronic music composer, born in Mödrath, Kerpen, Germany (d. 2007)
• 1928 Tinga Seisay, Sierra Leonean diplomat and pro-democracy advocate, born in Moyamba, Sierra Leone (d. 2015)
• 1929 Harry McPherson, presidential counsel (Lyndon Johnson) and lobbyist, born in Tyler, Texas (d. 2012)
• 1929 Jane Ewart-Boggs, Baroness Ewart-Biggs, British (Labour) spokesperson on Home Affairs, and peace activist, born in British India (d. 1992)
• 1930 Gilmar, Brazilian football player, born in Santos, São Paulo, Brazil (d. 2013)
• 1931 Roscoe Shelton, American blues and R&B singer ("Strain on My Heart"; "Say You Really Care"), born in Lynchburg, Tennessee (d. 2002)
• 1932 Gerald P Carr, American USMC colonel and NASA astronaut (Skylab 4), born in Denver, Colorado
• 1932 Theoni Vachliotis Aldredge, Greek-American award-winning costume designer, born in Thessaloniki, Greece (d. 2011)
• 1933 Irmtraud Morgner, German writer, born in Chemnitz, Germany (d. 1990)
• 1933 Sylva Koscina, Italian actress (Jessica, Hercules), born in Split, Dalmatia, Yugoslavia (d. 1994)
• 1934 Diana Sands, American actress (Raisin in the Sun, Doctor's Wife), born in New York City
• 1934 John Chowning, American composer (Turenas), born in Salem, New Jersey
• 1934 Margaret Douglas, chief political adviser (BBC), born in London (d. 2008)

• 1934 Ralph Mellanby, Canadian sportscaster / television producer (EP Hockey Night in Canada 1966-85; 5 x Emmy Awards various Olympic Games), born in Hamilton, Ontario (d. 2022)
• 1935 (Edna) Annie Proulx, American Pulitizer Prize-winning author (Postcards; The Shipping News; Brokeback Mountain), born in Norwich, Connecticut
• 1935 Morton Dean [Dubitsky], American TV news correspondent, anchor (CBS, ABC), and author, born in Fall River, Massachusetts
• 1935 Richard W Howard, American 400m hurdler (Olympic bronze 1960), born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
• 1936 Anne Downey, British circuit judge
• 1936 Lex Humphries, American jazz drummer (Sun Ra Arkestra), born in New York City (d. 1994)
• 1937 Donald MacLeary, British ballet dancer, répétiteur, and ballet master (Royal Ballet, 1954-2002), born in Glasgow, Scotland
• 1937 Max Hebditch, British director (Museum of London), born in Yeovil, England
• 1937 Pat Gillick, American Baseball HOF executive (GM Toronto Blue Jays World Series 1992, 93, Philadelphia Phillies 2008), born in Chico, California
• 1938 Dale Hawkins, American rock singer and songwriter (Susie Q), born in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana (d. 2010)
• 1938 Paul Maguire, American football commentator, born in Youngstown, Ohio
• 1939 Candido Lima, Portuguese composer, born in Viana do Castelo, Portugal

• 1939 Valerie Harper, American actress (The Mary Tyler Moore Show; Rhoda), born in Suffern, New York (d. 2019)
• 1940 Antony Crosthwaite-Eyre, English publisher and multi-millionaire
• 1940 David R. Vance, American horse trainer, born in Logansport, Indiana
• 1940 George Reinholt, American actor (Steve-Another World, One Life to Live), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2013)
• 1940 John Banham, British director-general (CBI)

• 1941 Hannspeter Winter, Austrian plasma physicist, born in Wels (d. 2006)
• 1941 Howard Grimes, American soul music session drummer (Al Green; Ann Peeples), born in Memphis, Tennessee (d. 2022)
• 1941 Michael Aldrich, British inventor (online shopping), born in Brocket Hall, England (d. 2014)
• 1941 Thomas Lovejoy, American conservation biologist who coined the term "biodiversity", born in New York City (d. 2021)
• 1942 Bob Harris, American sportscaster (announcer Duke University men's basketball & football 1976-2017), born in Albemarle, North Carolina (d. 2024)
• 1942 Uğur Mumcu, Turkish journalist and writer (Cumhuriyet Murder), born in Kırşehir, Turkey (d. 1993)
• 1943 Alun Michael, British Labour and Co-operative politician, born in Bryngwran, Anglesey
• 1943 Masatoshi Shima, Japanese computer scientist, born in Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
• 1944 Peter Hofmann, German operatic tenor, who also performed pop songs and starred in musical theater, born in Marienbad, German Sudetenland (d. 2010)
• 1945 Derek Fatchett, British Labour politician, born in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England (d. 1999)
• 1945 Erol Gelenbe, Turkish computer scientist and mathematician, born in Istanbul, Turkey
• 1945 James G Richardson, actor (Tim Cassidy-Sierra), born in Gainesville, Florida
• 1945 Ron Dante, American rock vocalist (Archies - "Sugar, Sugar"), and producer (Barry Manilow), born in Staten Island, New York
• 1945 Steve Kroft, American journalist and longtime correspondent for 60 Minutes, born in Kokomo Indiana
• 1946 Felix Meurders, Dutch radio host, born in Maastricht, Netherlands
• 1947 Bud Cramer, American politician (Rep-D-Alabama), born in Huntsville, Alabama
• 1947 Cindy Williams, American actress (Laverne & Shirley - "Shirley; American Graffiti), born in Van Nuys, California (d. 2023) [1]
• 1947 Donna Godchaux, American singer (Grateful Dead, 1972-79), born in Florence, Alabama
• 1948 Eleonora Brown, Italian actress (The Sailor from Gibraltar), born in Naples, Italy
• 1948 Rob Buckman, British broadcaster and actor (Pink Medicine Show), born in London
• 1949 Alfred Musema, Rwandan genocidaire, born in Byumba, Rwanda
• 1949 Diana Nyad, American journalist and long-distance swimmer (1st to swim Bahamas to Fla-1979), born in New York City
• 1949 Doug Bair, American baseball player, born in Defiance, Ohio
• 1949 Þórarinn Eldjárn, Icelandic writer (The Blue Tower), born in Reykjavik, Iceland
• 1950 I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney and convicted felon, born in New Haven, Connecticut
• 1950 Ray Burris, American baseball player, born in Idabel, Oklahoma
• 1951 Chandra Prakash Mainali, Nepalese politician, born in Chokpur, Taplejung District, Nepal
• 1951 Gordon Liu [Chia-Hui Liu or Jin-Hsi Shin], Chinese actor (Kill Bill, The 36th Chamber of Shaolin), born in Guangdong, China
• 1951 Teresa Davis, American soul singer (The Emotions), born in Chicago, Illinois
• 1952 Peter Laughner, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (Rocket From the Tombs, Pere Ubu), born in Bay Village, Ohio (d. 1977)
• 1953 Paul Ellering, American wrestling manager, born in Melrose, Minnesota
• 1955 Chiranjeevi [Konidela Siva Sankara Vara Prasad], Telugu film actor, dancer and producer, born in Mogalthur, India
• 1955 Will Shetterly, American writer (Dogland), born in Columbia, South Carolina
• 1956 Jeffrey Lloyd, South African jockey based in Australia, born in Durban, South Africa

• 1956 Peter Taylor, Australian cricketer (Australian off-spinner 1987-92), born in North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• 1957 Holly Dunn, American country singer ("Daddy's Hands"), born in San Antonio, Texas (d. 2016)
• 1957 Randy Romero, American jockey (Breeder's Cup 1987-89; Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame 2010), born in Erath, Louisiana (d. 2019)
• 1957 Steve Davis, English snooker player (6 x World C'ship; 15 x Triple Crown titles, born in London, England
• 1958 Colm Feore, American actor (The Chronicles of Riddick), born in Boston, Massachusetts
• 1958 Ian Mitchell, Irish rocker (Bay City Rollers - "Saturday Night"), born in Downpatrick, Ireland (d. 2020)
• 1958 Stevie Ray [Lane Huffman], American professional wrestler, born in Houston, Texas
• 1958 Vernon Reid, American hard rock and funk-metal guitarist (Living Colour) - Vivid, born in London, England
• 1959 Denise Curry, American basketball forward (Olympic gold 1984; World C'ship gold 1979, 83), born in Fort Benton, Montana
• 1959 Juan Croucier, Cuban-American heavy metal bassist and songwriter (Ratt - "Round & Round"), born in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
• 1959 Pia Gjellerup, Danish Social Democrat politician, born in Frederiksberg, Denmark
• 1960 Collin Raye [Floyd Elliot Wray], American country music singer ("Love, Me"; "I Can Still Feel You"), born in De Queen, Arkansas
• 1961 Debbi Peterson, American rock drummer (Bangles - "Manic Monday"; "Walk Like An Egyptian"), born in Los Angeles, California
• 1961 Roland Orzabal, English musician and rock vocalist (Tears for Fears - "Shout", "Everybody Wants to Rule the World"), born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
• 1962 Gene Sauers, American golfer (US Senior Open 2016; PGA C'ship 1992 runner-up), born in Savannah, Georgia
• 1962 James DeBarge, American rock vocalist and keyboardist (Debarge - "Rhythm Of The Night"), born in Grand Rapids, Michigan

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