Birthday twins
September 22 is the birthday of 45 notable people we've found so far, including authors, actors, historical figures and musicians, and 1 of them is a billionaire.
What the data says
Entrepreneur
1965 · Italy
$8Bolder estimate, as of 2019 · Forbes
Ernesto Silvio Maurizio Bertarelli is an Italian-born Swiss billionaire businessman and philanthropist.
Reported estimate as of 2019: $8B. Wealth changes; this is not a live figure.
Against the other 365
Ranks compare all 366 dates in the dataset; ties share a rank. See every September birthday · battle September 22 against another date · all rankings
Who shares September 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
Musician
1958 · Italy
Andrea Bocelli is an Italian tenor. He rose to fame in 1994 after winning the newcomers' section of the 44th Sanremo Music Festival performing "Il mare calmo della sera".
The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Entrepreneur
1254–1324 · Republic of Venice
Marco Polo was a Venetian merchant, explorer, and writer who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295.
Salviati, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1987 · United Kingdom
Thomas Andrew Felton is an English actor. Born and raised in Surrey, he began appearing in commercials and made his screen debut in the role of Peagreen Clock in The Borrowers (1997). Felton portrayed Louis T.
German Film & Comic Con, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Actor
1957 · Australia
Nicholas Edward Cave is an Australian singer, musician and writer. He is the frontman of the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Scientist
1922–2025 · United States
Yang Chen-Ning also known as C.N. Yang and Franklin Yang, was a Chinese-American theoretical physicist who made significant contributions to statistical mechanics, integrable systems, gauge theory, particle physics and condensed matter physics.
Nobel foundation, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Top tier
Scientist
1959 · United States
Saul Perlmutter is an American astrophysicist who is a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds the Franklin W. and Karen Weber Dabby Chair, and is head of the International Supernova Cosmology Project at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Holger Motzkau, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Builders
Entrepreneur · MIPS Technologies
1952 · United States
John Leroy Hennessy is an American computer scientist and chairman of Alphabet Inc. Hennessy is one of the founders of MIPS Technologies and Atheros, serving as 10th president of Stanford University from 2000 to 2016. He was succeeded as president by Marc Tessier-Lavigne.
Eric Chan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1971 · Norway
Princess Märtha Louise of Norway is a member of the Norwegian royal family, but is not part of the royal house and holds no public role. She is the elder child and only daughter of King Harald V and Queen Sonja, and the elder sister of King Haakon VIII.
Richter Frank-Jurgen, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1942–2020 · United States
David Joel Stern was an American lawyer and business executive who was the commissioner of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1984 to 2014. He oversaw NBA basketball's growth into one of the world's most popular sports during the 1990s and 2000s.
Cody Mulcahy (Flickr profile and personal homepage), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entrepreneur
1832–1913 · Romania
Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino, was a Romanian politician and lawyer, one of the leading Conservative Party policymakers. He was an aristocrat and member of the House of Cantacuzino.
realizata în atelierul fotografic Editura Fraților Scharaga, Iași., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
September 22 in history
Events from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
More birthday twins
Actor
1985 · Canada
Tatiana Gabriele Maslany is a Canadian actress. She rose to prominence for playing multiple characters in the science-fiction thriller television series Orphan Black (2013–2017) which won her a Primetime Emmy Award (2016) and five Canadian Screen Awards (2014–2018).
Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1984 · France
Thiago Emiliano da Silva is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Fluminense. Regarded as one of the best defenders of his generation, Silva is known for his defensive ability, discipline, and leadership.
Granada, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1958 · United States
Joan Jett is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, businesswoman, and actress. Often referred to as the "Godmother of Punk" and "Queen of Rock and Roll", she is regarded as a rock icon and an influential figure in popular rock music.
Toglenn, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1961 · United States
Bonnie Hunt is an American actress and comedian. Her film roles include Rain Man, Beethoven, Beethoven's 2nd, Jumanji, Jerry Maguire, The Green Mile, Cheaper by the Dozen, Cheaper by the Dozen 2, and Red One.
Joan Garvin at https://www.flickr.com/photos/garvinj/, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Inventor
1791–1867 · Kingdom of Great Britain
Michael Faraday was an English chemist and physicist who contributed vastly to the study of electrochemistry and electromagnetism. His main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism, and electrolysis.
Thomas Phillips, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1951 · United States
David Coverdale is a retired English singer and songwriter best known as the founder and lead singer of the hard rock band Whitesnake.
Ralph Arvesen, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1978 · Australia
Harry Kewell is an Australian soccer manager and former professional player who is currently the head coach of V.League 1 club Hanoi FC.
Kevin Airs, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1946 · British Hong Kong
John Woo Yu-sen is a Hong Kong filmmaker, known as a highly influential figure in the action film genre.
Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1981 · Turkmenistan
Serdar Gurbangulyýewiç Berdimuhamedow is a Turkmen politician and businessman serving as the third and current president of Turkmenistan since 2022.
Presidential Executive Office of Russia, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1970 · France
Emmanuel Laurent Petit is a French former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder at club level for Arsenal, Barcelona, Monaco, and Chelsea.
Christophe95, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Artist
1995 · South Korea
Im Na-yeon, known mononymously as Nayeon, is a South Korean singer. She rose to prominence as a member of the South Korean girl group Twice, created by JYP Entertainment through the reality television show Sixteen (2015).
TV10, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1940–2019 · France
Anna Karina was a Danish and French film actress, director, writer, model, and singer.
Joost Evers / Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1902–1988 · United States
John Houseman was a British-American theatre and film producer, actor, director, and teacher. He became known for his highly publicized collaboration with director Orson Welles from their days in the Federal Theatre Project through to the production of Citizen Kane.
Herbert Barrett Management, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1895–1967 · United States
Paul Muni was an American stage and film actor from Chicago. He started his acting career in the Yiddish theater and during the 1930s, he was considered one of the most prestigious actors at the Warner Bros. studio and was given the rare privilege of choosing his own parts.
First National Pictures, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1885–1957 · United States
Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Stroheim was an Austrian-American director, screenwriter, actor and producer, most noted as a film star and avant-garde, visionary director of the silent era.
Uncredited., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Politician
1878–1967 · Japan
Shigeru Yoshida was a Japanese diplomat and politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1946 to 1947 and again from 1948 to 1954, serving through most of the country's occupation after World War II.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Actor
1934–2025 · Italy
Ornella Vanoni was an Italian singer and songwriter. With a career spanning almost seventy years, she was one of Italy's longest-standing musical artists.
Unknown (Mondadori Publishers), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Explorer
1939–2016 · Japan
Junko Tabei was a Japanese mountaineer, author and teacher. She was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest and ascend the Seven Summits, climbing the highest peak on every continent.
Jaan Künnap, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1982 · Kingdom of the Netherlands
Maarten Stekelenburg is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Creator
1979 · Italy
Roberto Saviano is an Italian writer, journalist, and screenwriter.
Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Artist
1880–1958 · United Kingdom
Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst was a British suffragette and Royalist born in Manchester, England. A co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and founder of The Suffragette newspaper, she directed militant actions from exile in France from 1912 to 1913.
Agence de presse Meurisse, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Musician
1875–1911 · Russian Empire
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis was a Lithuanian composer, painter, choirmaster, cultural figure, and writer in Polish.
S.Fleury, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Athlete
1989 · Germany
Sabine Katharina Lisicki is a German inactive professional tennis player.
Keith Allison from Hanover, MD, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Investor
1741–1811 · Kingdom of Prussia
Peter Simon Pallas FRS FRSE was a Prussian zoologist, botanist, ethnographer, explorer, geographer, geologist, natural historian, and taxonomist.
Ambroise Tardieu, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Author
1907–2003 · France
Maurice Blanchot was a French writer, philosopher and literary theorist.
Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Explorer
1863–1943 · Switzerland
Alexandre Émile John Yersin was a Swiss-French physician and bacteriologist. He is remembered for his work as a pioneer in microbiology and immunology. Yersin is the co-discoverer of both the Diphtheria and Tetanus toxins and of the bacillus responsible for the bubonic plague.
Politician
1694–1773 · Kingdom of Great Britain
Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield was a British politician, diplomat and writer.
After William Hoare, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Inventor
1759–1823 · United Kingdom
William Playfair was a Scottish engineer and political economist.
Author
1548–1616 · Republic of Venice
Vincenzo Scamozzi was an Italian architect and a writer on architecture, active mainly in Vicenza and Republic of Venice area in the second half of the 16th century.
Paolo Veronese, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
American physiologist
1901–1997 · Canada
Charles Brenton Huggins was a Canadian-American surgeon and physiologist known for his work on prostate function, prostate cancer, and breast cancer. Born in Halifax in 1901, Huggins moved to the United States for medical school.
This page lists 45 people born on September 22, every one traced to a Wikidata record and, where shown, a Wikipedia summary (CC BY-SA) and a licensed Wikimedia Commons photo. 1 of them carry a dated net-worth estimate citing Forbes or Bloomberg; combined wealth is the sum of the low end of those estimates, the newest as of 2019. 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 September 22. Read the full methodology.
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