October 22: Today's Notable Birthdays

Is October 22nd your birthday? Was someone special to you born on October 22nd? With whom will you choose to celebrate this excellent occasion?

If today is your birthday, then you are in excellent company.

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October 22nd was the birth date of several notable individuals. Here they are:

October 22nd Birthdays: Famous Artists

William (Bill) Condon, American screenwriter (Chicago, F/X 2, Shortcut to Happiness, Strange Behavior and Strange Invaders), film director (Dead in the Water, Dreamgirls, Gods and Monsters, Kinsey, Murder 101 and Sister Sister) and Academy Award winner (1998), 1955.

Hungarian pianist and composer Franz Liszt (Annees de Pelerinage, Douze Etudes d'Execution Transcendante, Faust Symphony, Liebestraume, Mazeppa Les Preludes and Sonata in B Minor) was born on October 22, 1811.

Richard Loncraine, British film director (Band of Brothers, Bellman and True, Brimstone and Treacle, Deep Cover, Firewall, Flame, Full Circle, The Gathering Storm, The Missionary, My House in Umbria, My One and Only, Richard III, Secret Orchards, Wide-Eyed and Legless and Wimbledon), was born on October 22, 1946.

Italian harpsichordist and composer Vincenzo Manfredini (Carlo Magno, La Finta Ammalata, L'Olimpiade, La Pupilla and Semiramide) was born on October 22, 1737.

Robert Rauschenberg, American painter (Bed, Buffalo II, Gloria,Monogram and Tracer), was born on October 22, 1925.

Australian Impressionist painter Walter Herbert Withers (Farmer's Girl, Rickett's Point and Young Girl on Hillside) was born on October 22, 1854. (CTRL-click here to view these paintings by Walter Withers online in a new window at Simply Snickers.)

Newell Convers Wyeth, American painter and illustrator (The Alchemist, Apotheosis of the Family, Deep Cover Lobsterman, Dying Winter, The Fence Builders, The Giant, The Great Train Robbery, The Hostage, King Arthur, Long John Silver and Hawkins, Moving, Nightfall, Robinson Crusoe, Stand and Deliver, Treasure Island and The War Letter), was born on October 22, 1882.

October 22nd Birthdays: Famous Athletes

Brian Boitano, American figure skater and Olympic gold medalist (1988), was born on October 22, 1963.

John Peterson, American wrestler and Olympic gold medalist (1976), was born on October 22, 1948.

Annette Rogers, American sprinter and Olympic gold medalist (1932 and 1936), was born on October 22, 1913.

October 22nd Birthdays: Famous Authors and Journalists

Karl B. Adam, German Catholic theologian (Christ Our Brother, Eucharistic Teaching of St. Augustine, One And Holy, Roots of the Reformation, The Son of God, The Spirit of Catholicism, The Spirit of Catholicism and Tertullian's Concept of the Church), was born on October 22, 1876.

Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian poet, author (Accursed Days, Dark Avenues, Life of Arseniev, Night of Denial and The Village) and Nobel Prize winner (1933), was born on October 22, 1870.

French poet and playwright Rene de Obaldia (Fugue Waterloo, La Genousie and Le Satyre de la Villette) was born on October 22, 1918.

Sidney Kingsley, American playwright (Darkness at Noon, Dead End, Detective Story, Lunatics and Lovers, Men in White, Night Life, One in White, The Patriots, Ten Million Ghosts and The World We Make), was born on October 22, 1906.

Timothy Francis Leary, American pop psychologist, psychedelic drug researcher and writer (Chaos and Cyber-Culture and The Politics of Ecstasy), was born on October 22, 1920.

British novelist and Nobel Prize winner (2007) Doris Lessing Taylor (Ben in the World, Briefing for a Descent into Hell, Canopus in Argos, The Children of Violence, The Cleft, The Diary of a Good Neighbour, The Fifth Child, The Four-Gated City, The Golden Notebook, The Grandmothers, The Grass Is Singing, The Making of the Representative for Planet 8, Martha Quest, Ripple from the Storm, The Summer before the Dark, The Sweetest Dream, Time Bites, Under My Skin and Walking in the Shade) was born on October 22, 1919. Doris Lessing also wrote under the pen name Jane Somers.

October 22nd Birthdays: Famous Business Leaders

Collis Potter Huntington, American hardware retailer and railway pioneer (Central Pacific and Southern Pacific Railways), was born on October 22, 1821.

October 22nd Birthdays: Famous Performers

Constance Bennett, American actress (As Young as You Feel, Easiest Way, Ladies in Love, Madame X, Sin Takes a Holiday, Topper and Two-Faced Woman), was born on October 22, 1905.

French actress Sarah-Marie-Henriette Rosine (Sarah Bernhardt) Bernard (An Actress' Romance, L'Aiglon, Camille, The Fortune Teller, Hamlet, Jeanne Dore, Lady of the Camelias, Mothers of France, Queen Elizabeth, Sarah Bernhardt at Home, Those at Home and Tosca) was born on October 22, 1845.

Robert John (Bobby) Blotzner, American heavy metal rock drummer (Ratt), was born on October 22, 1958.

Eddie Brigati, American rock percussionist and singer vocalist (The Young Rascals), was born on October 22, 1946.

James E. (James Hall) Brown, American actor (The Canary Murder Case, The Case of Lena Smith, Hell's Angels, Hotel Imperial, Just Married, Manhattan Tower, Millie, Paramount on Parade, Senorita, The She Wolf, Smiling Irish Eyes and Sporting Chance), was born on October 22, 1900.

British actress and Academy Award winner (1941) Joan Fontaine de Havilland (Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, Emperor Waltz, Gunga Din, Island in the Sun, Ivanhoe, Jane Eyre, Rebecca and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea) was born on October 22, 1917.

Catherine Deneuve Dorleac, French model and actress (8 Femmes, Belle du Jour, Dancer in the Dark, The Hunger, Indochine, The Last Metro, Repulsion, Tristana and Umbrellas of Cherbourg), was born on October 22, 1943.

American alternative rock guitarist and singer Jonathan Mark (John) Foreman (Switchfoot) was born on October 22, 1976.

Bobby Fuller, American rock guitarist and singer (The Bobby Fuller Four), was born on October 22, 1943.

American singer and actress Annette Funicello (Back to the Beach, Beach Blanket Bingo, Beach Party, Bikini Beachand Mickey Mouse Club) was born on October 22, 1942.

Jeff Goldblum, American actor (The Big Chill, California Split, Death Wish, The Fly, Igby Goes Down, Hideaway, Independence Day, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Jurassic Park, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Man of the Year, Nashville, The Right Stuff, Silverado and Tenspeed and Brown Shoe), was born on October 22, 1952.

Italian actress Valeria Golino (Big Top Pee-wee, Escape from L.A., Hot Shots, Leaving Las Vegas, Little Flames andRain Man) was born on October 22, 1966.

Todd Graff, American actor (The Abyss, Baby, Death to Smoochy, The Electric Company, Not Quite Paradise and Strange Days) and screenwriter (Camp, The Beautician and the Beast, Used People and The Vanishing), was born on October 22, 1959. He is brother to actress Ilene Graff.

Puerto Rican actor Luis Guzman (Boogie Nights, The Limey, Magnolia, Out of Sight, Punch-Drunk Love and Traffic) was born on October 22, 1956.

American pop singer Zac Hanson (The Hansons) was born on October 22, 1985.

Harry Hickox, American actor (Please Don't Eat the Daisies), was born on October 22, 1915.

American comedian and actor Jerry (Curly Howard) Horwitz (The Three Stooges) was born on October 22, 1911.

Derek Jacobi, British actor (The Day of the Jackal, Dead Again, I Claudius, The Odessa File, The Secret Garden and The Tenth Man - Hallmark Hall of Fame), was born on October 22, 1938.

Ray Jones, American rock bassist (Billy J Kramer and The Dakotas), was born on October 22, 1939.

British actor Charles Keating (Another World) was born on October 22, 1941.

American actress Elizabeth (Mitzi Green) Keno (Little Orphan Annie, Lost in Alaska, So This is Hollywood and Tom Sawyer) was born on October 22, 1920.

Cris Kirkwood, American punk rock bassist (Meat Puppets), was born on October 22, 1960.

Dorothy Veronica (Dory Previn) Langan, American pop guitarist and singer ("Come Saturday Morning," "The Faraway Part of Town," "It's Impossible" and "Love Be My Cover"), was born on October 22, 1929.

American rapper Tracey Lee ("It's Party Time") was born on October 22, 1970.

Jonathan William Lipnicki, American actor (The Jeff Foxworthy Show and Jerry McGuire), was born on October 22, 1990.

American actor Christopher Lloyd (The Addams Family, Addams Family Values, Alice in Wonderland, Angels in the Outfield, Baby Geniuses, Back to the Future, Call of the Wild, Clue, Dennis the Menace, The Dream Team, Eight Men Out, Man in the Moon, My Favorite Martian, The Pagemaster, A Perfect Day, Radioland Murders, Suburban Commando, Taxi, Tremors and Who Framed Roger Rabbit) was born on October 22, 1938.

American rapper Toby Mac (DC Talk) was born on October 22, 1964.

Patricia (Boots) Mallory, American model and actress (The Big Race, Carnival Lady, Handle with Care, Hello Sister, Here's Flash Casey, Humanity, Powdersmoke Range, Sing Sing Nights and TheWolf Dog), was born on October 22, 1913.

Italian operatic tenor Giovanni Martinelli (Metropolitan Opera) was born on October 22, 1885.

Ned Arnel (Carlos) Mencia, American comedian and television personality (Mind of Mencia), was born on October 22, 1967.

Sid Miller, American actor (Donald O'Connor Texaco Show), was born on October 22, 1916.

Shelby Lynne Moorer, American country singer ("Anyone Who Had a Heart," "If I Could Bottle This Up" and "She Knows Where She Goes"), was born on October 22, 1968.

Michael Desmond (Michael Fishman) Quatil, American actor (Roseanne), was born on October 22, 1981.

American actor Tony Roberts (Annie Hall, The Edge of Night, The Four Seasons, Hannah and Her Sisters, The Lucie Arnaz Show, Play It Again Sam, Radio Days, Serpico and The Thorns) was born on October 22, 1939.

Judith (Lee Meredith) Sauls, American actress (Benny Hill's New York, Murder Me - Murder You, The Producers and The Sunshine Boys), was born on October 22, 1947.

Wesley (John Wesley Harding) Stace, British folk-pop singer ("I'm Wrong About Everything") and novelist (By George and Misfortune), was born on October 22, 1965.

American rock guitarist and singer Leslie West Weinstein (Mountain) was born on October 22, 1945.

October 22nd Birthdays: Famous Scientists

George Wells Beadle, American biologist, physiologist, educator and Nobel Prize winner (1958), was born on October 22, 1903.

Charles Brenton Huggins, Canadian-American physician, oncology researcher and Nobel Prize winner (1966), was born on October 22, 1901.

Karl Guthe Jansky, Czech-American engineer (credited with discovering cosmic radio emissions), was born on October 22, 1905.

Charles Glenn King, American biochemist and nutritionist, was born on October 22, 1896. King has been credited with discovering Vitamin C, or ascorbic acid.

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Happy Birthday, October 22nd.

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