On This Day
Monday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
January 22 1968
Born on This Day
Albert Neisser
deceasedGerman physician (1855-1916) · 1855–1916
Days lived
22,469
Aloys Wobben🇩🇪
deceasedentrepreneur · 1952–2021
Days lived
25,393
Annabelle Lee🇺🇸
deceasedfilm director · 1922–2008
Days lived
31,574
Balthazar Getty🇺🇸
American actor and musician · b. 1975
Bernd Heynemann🇩🇪
German football referee · b. 1954
Days alive
5,113
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Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla🇨🇺
journalist · b. 1958
Days alive
3,652
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Carlos Ruiz
film director · b. 1979
Charles White🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican football player and coach (born 1958) · 1958–2023
Days lived
23,730
Conrad Veidt🇬🇧
deceasedGerman actor (1893–1943) · 1893–1943
Days lived
18,332
D. W. Griffith🇺🇸
deceasedactor · 1875–1948
Days lived
26,845
Franz Josef Huber🇩🇪
deceasedGerman SS general (1902–1975) · 1902–1975
Days lived
26,671
Galina Zybina🇷🇺
deceasedRussian shot-putter, javelin thrower, and coach (1931–2024) · 1931–2024
Days lived
34,169
Gertrud Pätsch🇩🇪
deceasedGerman ethnologist and philologist (1910–1994) · 1910–1994
Days lived
31,007
Gitta Saxx🇩🇪
German television presenter · b. 1965
Days alive
1,095
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
deceasedNotable Trials · 1729–1781
Days lived
19,017
Greg Oden🇺🇸
American basketball player · b. 1988
Hidetoshi Nakata🇯🇵
Japanese association football player · b. 1977
István Dobai
deceasedHungarian poet (1899–1938) · 1899–1938
Days lived
14,469
Joe Perry🇺🇸
deceasedPlayer of American football (1927-2011) · 1927–2011
Days lived
30,774
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Joseph Hill
deceasedsinger and songwriter for the reggae group Culture (1949-2006) · 1949–2006
Days lived
21,028
Josh Spence🇦🇺
film director · b. 1988
Lizz Wright🇺🇸
American jazz and gospel singer · b. 1980
Melanie Winiger🇨🇭
Swiss model-actor · b. 1979
Mohamed Sissoko🇫🇷
Malian-French footballer (born 1985) · b. 1985
Mukhran Vakhtangadze🇬🇪
athlete · b. 1973
Nyan Win🇲🇾
Military General and Chief Minister of Bago Region · b. 1953
Days alive
5,478
Pau Cubarsí
association football player · b. 2007
Peter Lohmeyer🇩🇪
German actor · b. 1962
Days alive
2,191
Peter Steiner🇨🇭
deceasedmusic-making advertising character, e.g. “milka” chocolates · 1917–2007
Days lived
33,166
Philipp Blom🇩🇪
musician · b. 1970
Sebastián Morquio🇺🇾
football player · b. 1976
Sergei Eisenstein🇱🇻
deceasedSoviet filmmaker (1898–1948) · 1898–1948
Days lived
18,281
Shahram Entekhabi🇮🇷
Iranian artist (born 1963) · b. 1963
Days alive
1,826
Shaun Cody🇺🇸
All-American college football player, professional football player, defensive lineman · b. 1983
Simone Bacciocchi
football player · b. 1977
Sinéad Mulvey🇮🇪
Irish singer · b. 1988
Steve Perry🇺🇸
singer · b. 1949
Days alive
6,939
Tamás Cseh🇭🇺
deceasedsinger · 1943–2009
Days lived
24,304
Tharman Shanmugaratnam
President of Singapore · b. 1957
Days alive
4,017
Tilo Medek🇩🇪
deceasedmusician · 1940–2006
Days lived
24,119
Tony Campise🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican musician (1943–2010) · 1943–2010
Days lived
24,516
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U Thant🇲🇾
deceasedwriter · 1909–1974
Days lived
24,048
Wilhelm Genazino🇩🇪
deceasedYouTube personality · 1943–2018
Days lived
27,718
Willa Ford🇺🇸
American actor, model, singer, composer, dancer and musician · b. 1981
Zygmunt Ajdukiewicz🇵🇱
deceasedartist · 1861–1917
Days lived
20,550
Died on This Day
Andy Marte🇩🇴
deceasedfilm director · 1983–2017
Days lived
12,147
Anselmo Sacasas🇨🇺
deceasedCuban bandleader · 1912–1998
Days lived
31,106
Bernhard Sprengel🇩🇪
deceasedentrepreneur · 1899–1985
Days lived
31,326
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Carl Martin Edsman🇸🇪
deceasedSwedish theologian · 1911–2010
Days lived
35,975
Claire Waldoff🇩🇪
deceasedGerman singer (1884-1957) · 1884–1957
Days lived
26,390
Claude Piron🇨🇭
deceasedYouTube personality · 1931–2008
Days lived
28,089
Clive Sarstedt🇬🇧
deceasedsinger · 1944–2022
Days lived
28,491
Eduardo Frei Montalva🇨🇱
deceasedpolitician · 1911–1982
Days lived
25,939
Else Lasker-Schüler🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1869–1945
Days lived
27,738
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Francis Buchholz🇩🇪
deceasedrapper · 1954–2026
Days lived
26,270
Hartmut Becker🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1938–2022) · 1938–2022
Days lived
30,577
Heath Ledger🇦🇺
deceasedactor · 1979–2008
Days lived
10,520
Hubert Mohr🇩🇪
deceasedGerman priest, historian of religion and medievalist (1914-2011) · 1914–2011
Days lived
35,328
Jaki Liebezeit🇩🇪
deceasedGerman musician (1938–2017) · 1938–2017
Days lived
28,731
Jean Simmons🇺🇸
deceasedBritish-American actress (1929–2010) · 1929–2010
Days lived
29,576
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Jimmy Armfield🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish footballer (1935-2018) · 1935–2018
Days lived
30,074
Karl Nessler🇺🇸
deceasedentrepreneur · 1872–1951
Days lived
28,753
Lionel Giles🇬🇧
deceasedphilosopher · 1875–1958
Days lived
29,974
Lyndon B. Johnson🇺🇸
deceasedpolitician · 1908–1973
Days lived
23,524
Paul Walden🇩🇪
deceasedchemist · 1863–1957
Days lived
34,148
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Ralph Barton Perry🇺🇸
deceasedphilosopher · 1876–1957
Days lived
29,422
Robert P. Patterson🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican federal judge, Undersecretary of War, later Secretary of War (1891-1952) · 1891–1952
Days lived
22,258
Telly Savalas🇺🇸
deceasedsinger · 1922–1994
Days lived
26,299
Wolfgang Thonke🇩🇪
deceasedscientist · 1938–2019
Days lived
29,245
Who Was Alive
Notable people alive on this date, sorted by most days lived (top 20).
Sándor Farkas
Catholic priest, born 1853 · b. 1853
Days alive
42,023
Gertrude W. Hoffmann🇩🇪
deceasedcharacter actress (1871-1968) · 1871–1968
Days lived
35,335
Camille Huysmans🇧🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1871–1968
Days lived
35,338
Bertrand Russell🇬🇧
deceasedYouTube personality · 1872–1970
Days lived
35,688
Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin🇩🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1873–1969
Days lived
34,997
Charles Foulkes🇬🇧
deceasedBritish general and field hockey player (1875–1969) · 1875–1969
Days lived
34,427
Henry Hallett Dale🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish pharmacologist, Nobel laureate · 1875–1968
Days lived
34,012
Gertrud von Le Fort🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1876–1971
Days lived
34,718
Natalie Clifford Barney🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican writer who hosted a literary salon at her home in Paris (1876-1972) · 1876–1972
Days lived
34,791
Rudolph Dirks🇺🇸
deceasedartist · 1877–1968
Days lived
33,290
Lillian Moller Gilbreth🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican psychologist and industrial engineer (1878–1972) · 1878–1972
Days lived
34,190
E. M. Forster🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish novelist (1879-1970) · 1879–1970
Days lived
33,394
Margarete Bieber🇺🇸
deceasedGerman-American art historian (1879–1978) · 1879–1978
Days lived
36,003
Adolf Strauss🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Wehrmacht general (1879–1973) · 1879–1973
Days lived
34,163
Kenneth Edgeworth🇮🇪
deceasedIrish astronomer, economist and engineer (1880-1972) · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,829
Arthur Mallwitz🇩🇪
deceasedathlete · 1880–1968
Days lived
32,115
Helen Keller🇺🇸
deceasedYouTube personality · 1880–1968
Days lived
32,115
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Emma P. Carr🇺🇸
deceasedscientist · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,404
Paul Hausser🇩🇪
deceasedmilitary person · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,677
Fritz Achterberg🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1880-1971) · 1880–1971
Days lived
33,215
Animals Alive
Notable animals alive on this date.
Harriet🇦🇺
deceasedGalápagos tortoise · 1830–2006
Days lived
64,138
Jonathan🇸🇭
Seychelles giant tortoise · b. 1832
Days alive
49,694
Lonesome George🇪🇨
deceasedPinta Island tortoise · 1910–2012
Days lived
37,430
Lin Wang🇹🇼
deceasedAsian elephant · 1917–2003
Days lived
31,467
Sergeant Reckless🇺🇸
deceasedMongolian mare · 1948–1968
Days lived
7,438
Ham🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1957–1983
Days lived
9,333
Shamu🇺🇸
deceasedOrca · 1962–1971
Days lived
3,521
Washoe🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1965–2007
Days lived
15,399
Companies That Existed
Brands and companies already founded by this date.
Hermes🇫🇷
Luxury Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,867
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,564
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
47,137
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
37,579
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
36,545
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
36,179
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
33,623
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
32,275
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
653,074
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
132,588
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
56,606
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
37,275
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
15,627
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
13,170
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
11,080
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
9,057
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
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