June 22nd, 1947

Born on June 22nd, 1947

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 28,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 934 days, exactly on November 14th, 2026, people who were born on June 22nd, 1947 will be 29,000 days old!

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What happened on June 22nd?

June 22nd, 2022

An earthquake registering 6.2 Mw caused the deaths of at least 1,000 people in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

June 22nd, 2009

Two Metro trains collided in Washington, D.C., killing nine people and injuring eighty others.

June 22nd, 1979

Former British Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe was acquitted of conspiracy to murder Norman Scott, who had accused Thorpe of having a relationship with him.

June 22nd, 1966

Vietnamese Buddhist activist leader Thích Trí Quang was arrested as the military junta of Nguyễn Cao Kỳ crushed the Buddhist Uprising.

June 22nd, 1941

World War II: German minister of foreign affairs Joachim von Ribbentrop presented a declaration of war to the Soviet ambassador Vladimir Dekanozov in Berlin.

June 22nd, 1922

Irish Republican Army gunmen assassinated British member of parliament Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson.

June 22nd, 1911

King George V and Queen Mary of Teck were crowned at Westminster Abbey in London.

June 22nd, 1813

War of 1812: After learning of a forthcoming American attack, Laura Secord walked 20 mi (32 km) from Queenston, Upper Canada, to warn British lieutenant James FitzGibbon (depicted).

June 22nd, 1807

The British warship HMS Leopard pursued and attacked the American frigate USS Chesapeake (pictured) in the belief that the crew of the latter included deserters from the Royal Navy.

June 22nd, 1593

Habsburg troops defeated a larger Ottoman force at the Battle of Sisak in the Kingdom of Croatia, triggering the Long Turkish War.

June 22nd, 1922

British Army Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson is killed by the Irish Republican Army helping to spark the Irish Civil War.

June 22nd, 2022

An earthquake occurs in eastern Afghanistan resulting in over 1,000 deaths.

June 22nd, 2015

The Afghan National Assembly building is attacked by gunmen after a suicide bombing. All six of the gunmen are killed and 18 people are injured.

June 22nd, 2012

A Turkish Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II fighter plane is shot down by the Syrian Armed Forces, killing both of the plane's pilots and worsening already-strained relations between Turkey and Syria.

June 22nd, 2009

A Washington D.C Metro train traveling southbound near Fort Totten station collides into another train waiting to enter the station. Nine people are killed in the collision (eight passengers and the train operator) and at least 80 others are injured.

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

Born on June 22nd, 1947

75

Bruno Latour

French sociologist

*June 22nd, 1947, Beaune †October 9th, 2022, 13th arrondissement of Paris

73

Jerry Rawlings

Fourth President of the Republic of Ghana (1947-2020)

*June 22nd, 1947, Accra †November 12th, 2020, Korle - Bu Teaching Hospital

40

Pete Maravich

American basketball player

*June 22nd, 1947, Aliquippa †January 5th, 1988, Pasadena

76

Natalya Varley

Soviet and Russian actress

*June 22nd, 1947, Constanța

76

Howard Kaylan

American singer

*June 22nd, 1947, New York City

73

David Lander

American actor

*June 22nd, 1947, Brooklyn †December 4th, 2020, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

76

Gábor Nógrádi

Writer

*June 22nd, 1947, Nyíregyháza

58

Octavia E. Butler

American science fiction writer (1947-2006)

*June 22nd, 1947, Pasadena †February 24th, 2006, Lake Forest Park

76

Frieder Bernius

Music conductor

*June 22nd, 1947, Ludwigshafen

76

Bev Shipley

Canadian politician

*June 22nd, 1947, Middlesex Centre

76

Juris Luzins

American middle-distance runner

*June 22nd, 1947, Virginia

76

Gordon Edwin Dirks

Canadian politician

*June 22nd, 1947, Saskatoon

76

Trevor Blades

Cricket player (born 1947)

*June 22nd, 1947, Peterborough

76

Jack Donald Keene

Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology

*June 22nd, 1947, Jacksonville

76

Murray Webb

New Zealand cricketer

*June 22nd, 1947, Invercargill

76

Douglas Rae

Scottish film and television producer

*June 22nd, 1947, Edinburgh

76

Leelo Tungal

Estonian poet, prosaist, translator and librettist

*June 22nd, 1947, Tallinn

76

Bob Becker

American composer

*June 22nd, 1947, Allentown

76

Gökmen Özdenak

Turkish association football player

*June 22nd, 1947, Istanbul

76

Bobby Douglass

American football player

*June 22nd, 1947, Manhattan

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

74

Meryl Streep

American actress (born 1949)

*June 22nd, 1949, Summit

42

Martin de Jonge

Badminton player

*June 22nd, 1981, Rotterdam

70

Cyndi Lauper

American singer (1953)

*June 22nd, 1953, New York City

65

Bruce Campbell

American actor

*June 22nd, 1958, Royal Oak

78

Rainer Brüderle

German politician (FDP)

*June 22nd, 1945, Berlin

75

Adolf Michaelis

German classical archaeologist

*June 22nd, 1835, Kiel †August 12th, 1910, Strasbourg

59

Henrik Svarrer

Badminton player

*June 22nd, 1964, Esbjerg

59

Dan Brown

American novelist

*June 22nd, 1964, Exeter

74

Peter Gauweiler

German politician

*June 22nd, 1949, Munich

56

Peter Axelsson

Badminton player

*June 22nd, 1967, Täby

59

Henrik Mestad

Norwegian actor and author

*June 22nd, 1964, Oslo

47

Hidetaka Yamada

Badminton player

*June 22nd, 1976, Kobe

79

Michael Obst

German rower

*June 22nd, 1944, Leipzig

68

Józef Oleksy

Polish politician, Prime Minister of Poland (1946-2015)

*June 22nd, 1946, Nowy Sącz †January 9th, 2015, Warsaw

41

Thomas Hitschler

German politician

*June 22nd, 1982, Landau in der Pfalz

84

Ada Yonath

Israeli chemist

*June 22nd, 1939, Jerusalem

31

Wahyu Nayaka Arya Pankaryanira

Badminton player

*June 22nd, 1992, East Lombok Regency

79

Gérard Mourou

French physicist

*June 22nd, 1944, Albertville

29

Felicity Leydon-Davis

New Zealand cricketer and badminton player

*June 22nd, 1994, Hamilton

27

Daniel Guda

Badminton player

*June 22nd, 1996, Manila

Same year
Born in 1947

76

Rodney Williams

Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda (born 1947)

*November 2nd, 1947, Swetes

76

Hillary Clinton

American politician and diplomat (born 1947)

*October 26th, 1947, Edgewater Hospital

77

Ulf Brunnberg

Actor

*April 7th, 1947, Bromma parish

69

Gregg Allman

American musician

*December 8th, 1947, Saint Thomas Hospital †May 27th, 2017, Richmond Hill

76

Hans-Jürgen Kreische

German association football player and manager

*July 19th, 1947, Dresden

69

David Bowie

English musician and actor (1947–2016)

*January 8th, 1947, Brixton †January 10th, 2016, Manhattan

77

Wiranto

Indonesian politician

*April 4th, 1947, Yogyakarta City

76

Stephen King

American writer (born 1947)

*September 21st, 1947, Portland

76

Angry Anderson

Australian rock singer

*August 5th, 1947, Melbourne

76

Kjell Magne Bondevik

33rd Prime Minister of Norway

*September 3rd, 1947, Molde Municipality

76

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Austrian and American actor, bodybuilder, and politician (born 1947)

*July 30th, 1947, Thal

76

Paul Yule

German-American archaeologist

*August 18th, 1947, Minneapolis

77

Mitt Romney

United States Senator from Utah since 2019

*March 12th, 1947, Detroit

76

Dilma Rousseff

President of Brazil from 2011 to 2016 (born 1947)

*December 14th, 1947, Belo Horizonte

77

Ulrich Manthe

German legal scientist and legal historian

*April 8th, 1947, Homburg

76

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

French virologist and Nobel laureate, co-discoverer of HIV

*July 30th, 1947, Paris

77

Robert Kiyosaki

American finance author and investor

*April 8th, 1947, Hilo

68

Johan Cruyff

Dutch footballer and manager (1947–2016)

*April 25th, 1947, Amsterdam †March 24th, 2016, Barcelona

77

Glenn Close

American actress

*March 19th, 1947, Greenwich

77

Edward James Olmos

American actor

*February 24th, 1947, Los Angeles

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No: With 365 days 1947 is a normal year and no leap year.

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