What the data says
Against the other 365
Ranks compare all 366 dates in the dataset; ties share a rank. See every October birthday · battle October 22 against another date · all rankings
Who shares October 22
Share of the 45 people we list, by documented field. People can belong to more than one.
Countries
Citizenship as recorded on Wikidata, one country per person.
Life timeline
Dated milestones from Wikidata (company foundings, awards, top jobs, notable works), placed at the age each person reached them. Add your birth year above to see the ones you have passed.
The standouts
Ordered by sourced wealth, then documented achievement and coverage.
Top tier
Actor
1952 · United States
Jeffrey Lynn Goldblum is an American actor and musician. He has starred in some of the highest-grossing films of all time, such as Jurassic Park (1993) and Independence Day (1996), as well as their sequels.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Politician
1970 · Italy
Javier Gerardo Milei is an Argentine politician and economist who has served as the president of Argentina since 2023. He previously served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 2021 to 2023.
Top tier
Actor
1938 · United States
Christopher Allen Lloyd is an American actor. He has appeared in many theater productions, films, and television shows since the 1960s.
Pedro Heshike for Galaxy Con, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Author
1537–1553 · Kingdom of England
Edward VI was King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death in 1553. He was crowned on 20 February 1547 at the age of nine. The only surviving son of Henry VIII by his third wife, Jane Seymour, Edward was the first English monarch to be raised as a Protestant.
Attributed to William Scrots (active 1537-1553) [1], Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1962 · United States
Robert John Odenkirk is an American actor, screenwriter, comedian, and producer. His accolades include two Primetime Emmy Awards and three Critics' Choice Television Awards, in addition to nominations for five Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award.
Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Creator
1919–2013 · United Kingdom
Doris May Lessing was a British novelist – sometimes identified as Rhodesian early in her career – and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007. Lessing was born to British parents in Iran, where she lived until she was 6 in 1925.
Oskars Vizbulis, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Builders
Founder · Magnum Photos · media
1913–1954 · Hungary
Robert Capa was a Hungarian-American war photographer and photojournalist. He is considered by some to be the greatest combat and adventure photographer in history.
Gerda Taro, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur · Alexa Internet · technology
1960 · United States
Brewster Lurton Kahle is an American digital librarian, computer engineer, and internet entrepreneur. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982 with a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and engineering.
Sebastiaan ter Burg from Utrecht, The Netherlands, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1900–1949 · United States
Edward Reilly Stettinius Jr. was an American businessman who served as United States Secretary of State under presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman from 1944 to 1945, and as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations in 1946.
Office of War Information, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1964 · Georgia
Zurab Nogaideli is a Georgian businessman and a politician who served as the prime minister of Georgia from February 2005 until he resigned, citing health problems, on 16 November 2007.
Evstafiev, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1930 · Australia
Sir Frank P. Lowy is an Australian and Israeli businessman and the former long-time chairman of Westfield Corporation, a global shopping centre company with US$29.3 billion of assets under management in the United States, United Kingdom and Europe.
Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1938–2026 · United States
George Nield Gillett Jr. was an American businessman. Originally from Wisconsin, he lived in Vail, Colorado.
October 22 in history
Events from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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Actor
1969 · United States
Adam Spiegel, known professionally as Spike Jonze, is an American filmmaker, actor, musician, and photographer. His work includes films, commercials, music videos, skateboard videos and television.
aphrodite-in-nyc, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1956 · United States
Luis Guzmán is a Puerto Rican actor. His career spans over 40 years and includes a number of films and television series.
Chris Roth, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1811–1886 · Austria–Hungary
Franz Liszt was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic period.
Franz Hanfstaengl, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1996 · Norway
Johannes Høsflot Klæbo is a Norwegian cross-country skier who represents Byåsen IL.
Stein Langørgen, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1943 · France
Catherine Fabienne Dorléac, known professionally as Catherine Deneuve, is a French actress. She is considered one of the greatest European actresses on film. In 2020, The New York Times ranked her as one of the greatest actors of the 21st century.
Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1938 · United Kingdom
Sir Derek George Jacobi is an English actor.
Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1920–1996 · United States
Timothy Francis Leary was an American psychologist and author known for strongly advocating psychedelic drugs. Evaluations of Leary are polarized, ranging from "bold oracle" to "publicity hound".
AP News, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1972 · United Kingdom
Saffron Burrows is a British actress who has appeared in films such as Circle of Friends, Wing Commander, Deep Blue Sea, Gangster No. 1, Enigma, Troy, Reign Over Me, and The Bank Job. On the small screen she starred as Lorraine Weller on Boston Legal, Dr.
Actor
1917–2013 · United States
Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland, known professionally as Joan Fontaine, was a British-American actress best known for her film roles during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Fontaine appeared in more than 45 films in a career that spanned five decades.
Whitey Schafer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1988 · India
Parineeti Chopra is an Indian actress who primarily works in Hindi films. Chopra has received several accolades, including a Filmfare and a National Film Award. Chopra has appeared in Forbes India's Celebrity 100 list since 2013.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1973 · Japan
Ichiro Suzuki, also known mononymously as Ichiro, is a Japanese former professional baseball outfielder who played for 28 seasons.
Keith Allison, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1968 · Jamaica
Orville Richard Burrell, known professionally as Shaggy, is a Jamaican-American reggae musician who scored hits with the songs "It Wasn't Me", "Boombastic", "In the Summertime", "Oh Carolina", and "Angel".
https://www.flickr.com/people/adamj4282/, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1964–1993 · Croatia
Dražen Petrović was a Yugoslav and Croatian professional basketball player. A shooting guard, he initially achieved success playing professional basketball in Europe in the 1980s with Cibona and Real Madrid before joining the National Basketball Association (NBA) in 1989.
Cavic = Steve Lipofsky, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1966 · Italy
Valeria Golino is an Italian actress and filmmaker. She is best known to English-language audiences for her roles in Rain Man, Big Top Pee-wee, and Hot Shots! (1991).
Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1930–2018 · India
Kader Khan was an Indian actor, screenwriter and film producer. As an actor, he appeared in over 300 Bollywood films after his acting debut in the film Daag in 1973, starring Rajesh Khanna, as a prosecuting attorney.
Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1971 · United States
Jennifer Michelle Lee is an American filmmaker and playwright. She served as the chief creative officer (CCO) of Walt Disney Animation Studios from 2018 to 2024, before stepping down to return to full-time filmmaking.
Original work: Mingle MediaTV on Flickr Derivative work: DrNegative, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1967 · United States
Ned Arnel Mencia known professionally as Carlos Mencía, is a Honduran-American comedian, writer, and actor. His style of comedy is often political and involves issues of race relations, Latin American culture, criminal justice, and social class.
Staff Sgt. Joshua Garcia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1915–2012 · Israel
Yitzhak Shamir was an Israeli politician who served as the seventh prime minister of Israel, serving two terms. Before the establishment of the State of Israel, Shamir was a leader of the Zionist militant group Lehi, also known as the Stern Gang.
Yolene Haik (יולנה חייק), CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Artist
1925–2008 · United States
Milton Ernest "Robert" or "Bob" Rauschenberg was an American painter and multi-media artist, whose work has been associated with numerous mid-20th century art movements including the New York School, Conceptual Art, Pop art, and Neo-Dada.
Fvlcrvm, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1975 · Spain
Miguel Ángel "Míchel" Salgado Fernández is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a right-back.
Екатерина Лаут, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1955 · United States
William Condon is an American director and screenwriter. Condon is known for writing and/or directing numerous successful and acclaimed films including Gods and Monsters, Chicago, Kinsey, Dreamgirls, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1, Part 2, and Beauty and the Beast.
Everwest, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1870–1953 · France
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin was a Russian writer. He became the first Russian writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1933. He was noted for the strict artistry with which he carried on the classical Russian traditions in the writing of prose and poetry.
Georgi Vasilievich Trunov, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1921–1981 · France
Georges Charles Brassens was a French singer-songwriter and poet.
Studio Harcourt., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1973 · Philippines
Yedda Marie Mendoza Kittilstvedt-Romualdez is a Filipina politician, beauty queen, and nurse. She is currently serving as the representative of Tingog Party List since 2019. She had previously represented Leyte's 1st district from 2016 to 2019.
House of Representatives of the Philippines, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Inventor
1905–1950 · United States
Karl Guthe Jansky was an American physicist and radio engineer who in April 1933 first announced his discovery of radio waves emanating from the Milky Way in the constellation Sagittarius. An amateur astronomer, he is considered one of the founding figures of radio astronomy.
The original uploader was Saber1983 at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Scientist
1881–1958 · United States
Clinton Joseph Davisson was an American experimental physicist who shared the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics with George Paget Thomson "for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals."
Nobel foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
American geneticist
1903–1989 · United States
George Wells Beadle was an American geneticist. In 1958 he shared one-half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edward Tatum for their discovery of the role of genes in regulating biochemical events within cells.
Danny Lyon (b. 1942), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Investor
1729–1798 · Kingdom of Prussia
Johann Reinhold Forster was a German Reformed pastor and naturalist. Born in Dirschau, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, he attended school in Dirschau and Marienwerder before being admitted at the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in Berlin in 1745.
Halle Berh, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1818–1894 · France
Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle was a French poet of the Parnassian movement. He is traditionally known by his surname only, Leconte de Lisle.
Jacques Blanquer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1893–1985 · United Kingdom
Ernst Julius Öpik was an Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist who spent the second half of his career (1948–1981) at the Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland.
Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
This page lists 45 people born on October 22, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. No one here has a sourced net-worth estimate yet, so no wealth figures are shown. Rankings compare all 366 dates in the dataset built on 2026-09-28. Milestone ages come from dated Wikidata statements; a tilde marks year-only dates. Nothing on this page is a prediction about anyone born on October 22. Read the full methodology.
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