October 22nd, 1944

Born on October 22nd, 1944

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 29,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 966 days, exactly on December 11th, 2026, people who were born on October 22nd, 1944 will be 30,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on October 22nd?

October 22nd, 2015

A sword-wielding man attacked students and teachers at a high school in Trollhättan, killing three people in Sweden's deadliest school attack.

October 22nd, 1987

John Adams' (pictured) opera Nixon in China premiered.

October 22nd, 1966

With their album The Supremes A' Go-Go, the Supremes became the first all-female group to reach number one on the Billboard 200 chart.

October 22nd, 1940

After evading French and Spanish authorities, Belgian prime minister Hubert Pierlot (pictured) arrived in London, marking the beginning of the Belgian government in exile.

October 22nd, 1936

The Royal Navy cutlass was withdrawn from combat service.

October 22nd, 1924

The educational non-profit organization Toastmasters International was founded at a YMCA in Santa Ana, California.

October 22nd, 1907

A bank run forced New York's Knickerbocker Trust Company to suspend operations, triggering the Panic of 1907 (pictured).

October 22nd, 1895

At Gare Montparnasse in Paris, an express train derailed after overrunning the buffer stop and crashed through the station wall, with the locomotive landing on the street below.

October 22nd, 1797

Dropping from a hydrogen balloon at a height of approximately 3,000 feet (1,000 m), André-Jacques Garnerin carried out the first descent using a frameless parachute.

October 22nd, 1740

A two-week massacre of ethnic Chinese in Batavia, Dutch East Indies, came to an end with at least 10,000 people killed.

October 22nd, 1727

George II and Caroline of Ansbach were crowned king and queen of Great Britain in Westminster Abbey.

October 22nd, 2014

Michael Zehaf-Bibeau attacks the Parliament of Canada, killing a soldier and injuring three other people.

October 22nd, 2013

The Australian Capital Territory becomes the first Australian jurisdiction to legalize same-sex marriage with the Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act 2013.

October 22nd, 2012

Cyclist Lance Armstrong is formally stripped of his seven Tour de France titles after being charged for doping.

October 22nd, 2008

India launches its first uncrewed lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on October 22nd

Born on October 22nd, 1944

79

Doris Kunstmann

German actress

*October 22nd, 1944, Hamburg

79

Hansjürgen Hürrig

German actor

*October 22nd, 1944, Dresden

79

John Wetzel

American basketball player and coach

*October 22nd, 1944, Waynesboro

Same Day
Who's birthday is on October 22nd?

40

Stiv Bators

American punk rock vocalist and guitarist

*October 22nd, 1949, Youngstown †June 3rd, 1990, 1st arrondissement of Paris

80

Catherine Deneuve

French actress

*October 22nd, 1943, 17th arrondissement of Paris

25

Roddy Ricch

American rapper and singer-songwriter

*October 22nd, 1998, Compton

74

Arsène Wenger

French association football player and manager

*October 22nd, 1949, Strasbourg

78

Eddie Brigati

American singer-songwriter

*October 22nd, 1945, Garfield

83

Josef Jahn

German sport cyclist

*October 22nd, 1940, Oskava

80

Wolfgang Thierse

German politician

*October 22nd, 1943, Wrocław

85

Derek Jacobi

English actor (born 1938)

*October 22nd, 1938, Leytonstone

89

Bert suharga

German association football player and coach (1923-2013)

*October 22nd, 1923, Bremen †July 19th, 2013, La Llosa

84

Tony Roberts

American actor

*October 22nd, 1939, Manhattan

80

Jan de Bont

Dutch film director

*October 22nd, 1943, Eindhoven

64

Marc Shaiman

American composer (born 1959)

*October 22nd, 1959, Newark

71

Jeff Goldblum

American actor and musician

*October 22nd, 1952, Pittsburgh

53

Javier Milei

Economist, politician and president of Argentina since 2023

*October 22nd, 1970, Buenos Aires

85

Christopher Lloyd

American actor (born 1938)

*October 22nd, 1938, Stamford

77

Deepak Chopra

Indian-born American author and alternative-medicine advocate, physician and public speaker

*October 22nd, 1946, New Delhi

84

Joaquim Chissano

2nd President of Mozambique

*October 22nd, 1939, Gaza Province

60

Brian Boitano

United States figure skater

*October 22nd, 1963, Mountain View

59

Lionel Abelanski

French actor

*October 22nd, 1964, 20th arrondissement of Paris

50

Ichiro Suzuki

Japanese professional baseball player, MLB player (1973-)

*October 22nd, 1973, Toyoyama City

Same year
Born in 1944

79

Udo Kier

German actor

*October 14th, 1944, Cologne

79

Poul Michelsen

Faroese businessperson and politician

*July 22nd, 1944, Tórshavn

79

Nils Ole Oftebro

Norwegian actor

*December 1st, 1944, Sarpsborg Municipality

73

Jonathan Demme

American film director (1944–2017)

*February 22nd, 1944, Baldwin †April 26th, 2017, Manhattan

79

John Rhys-Davies

British actor

*May 5th, 1944, Ammanford

80

Syed Mohammed Arif

Badminton player and trainer

*January 29th, 1944, Hyderabad

80

Joachim Schimpke

Badminton player

*March 8th, 1944, Hohenstein-Ernstthal

79

Michael Douglas

American actor and film producer

*September 25th, 1944, New Brunswick

80

Gerhard Schröder

Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005

*April 7th, 1944, Mossenberg-Wöhren

80

Gert Audring

German historian of classical antiquity

*February 6th, 1944, Śrem

79

Dieter Planck

German archaeologist

*August 14th, 1944, Rottenburg am Neckar

80

Alice Walker

American author and activist (1944- )

*February 9th, 1944, Eatonton

79

Ban Ki-moon

8th Secretary-General of the United Nations

*June 13th, 1944, Eumseong County

77

Judi Rollick

Badminton player

*August 17th, 1944, Seattle †April 5th, 2022

80

Alexander Van der Bellen

President of Austria since 2017

*January 18th, 1944, Vienna

77

Volker Lechtenbrink

German actor and singer

*August 18th, 1944, Zelenogradsk †November 22nd, 2021, Hamburg

72

David Chandler

American chemist (1944-2017)

*October 15th, 1944, New York City †April 18th, 2017, Berkeley

72

Helena Štáchová

Czech actress, theatre director, manager and puppeteer

*November 18th, 1944, Prague †March 22nd, 2017, Prague

79

Serge Haroche

French physicist, Nobel laureate

*September 11th, 1944, Casablanca

79

Dieter Hertrampf

German musician, singer and guitarist

*November 29th, 1944, Berlin

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Public holidays on October 22nd

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on October 22nd.

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Born on October 22nd, 1944
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Leap year

Yes: 1944 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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