On This Day
Friday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
March 22 1968
Born on This Day
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Aaron Popoola🇬🇭
Ghanaian boxer · b. 1942
Days alive
9,497
Adolph Hoffmann🇩🇪
deceasedGerman politician and publisher (1858-1930) · 1858–1930
Days lived
26,551
Albrecht Goes🇩🇪
deceasedGerman writer and Protestant theologian (1908-2000) · 1908–2000
Days lived
33,575
Aldo Duscher🇦🇷
Argentine footballer · b. 1979
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Aleida Assmann🇩🇪
German professor of English and Literary Studies · b. 1947
Days alive
7,671
Aleksandr Dokturishvili🇬🇪
athlete · b. 1980
Alex Meret
association football player · b. 1997
Andrew Lloyd Webber🇬🇧
British theatre composer (born 1948) · b. 1948
Days alive
7,305
Anja Kling🇩🇪
German actress · b. 1970
Armin Hary🇩🇪
German sprinter · b. 1937
Days alive
11,323
Bernd Herzsprung🇩🇪
German actor · b. 1942
Days alive
9,497
Bernhard Eichkorn🇩🇪
German priest and Esperantist · b. 1934
Days alive
12,419
Dagmar Havlová🇨🇿
Czech actress (1953- ) · b. 1953
Days alive
5,479
Diran Manoukian🇫🇷
deceasedOlympic field hockey player (1919-2020) · 1919–2020
Days lived
36,935
Elfriede Müller🇩🇪
German writer, actress and author · b. 1956
Days alive
4,383
Ferdinand Sigg🇨🇭
deceasedSwiss bishop (1902-1965) · 1902–1965
Days lived
23,230
Franz Nikodem🇩🇪
deceasedGerman hockey player (1932–1984) · 1932–1984
Days lived
19,177
Gerard Hoffnung🇩🇪
deceasedmusician · 1925–1959
Days lived
12,608
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Gunapati Venkata Krishna Reddy🇮🇳
Indian businessman · b. 1937
Days alive
11,323
Guusje ter Horst🇳🇱
Politician · b. 1952
Days alive
5,844
Haing S. Ngor🇰🇭
deceasedPhysician · 1940–1996
Days lived
20,428
Hans Wilsdorf🇬🇧
deceasedentrepreneur · 1881–1960
Days lived
28,960
Hugo Rasmussen
deceasedDanish musician (1941–2015) · 1941–2015
Days lived
27,189
Ike Davis🇺🇸
Major League Baseball first baseman in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization · b. 1987
James Carpenter🇺🇸
American football player (born 1989) · b. 1989
James Patterson🇺🇸
Author, Philanthropist · b. 1947
Days alive
7,671
Jan Udo Holey🇩🇪
German author and antisemtic conspiracy theorist · b. 1967
Days alive
366
Javier Castillejo🇪🇸
Spanish boxer · b. 1968
Days alive
0
Jean-Michel Aulas🇫🇷
entrepreneur · b. 1949
Days alive
6,940
Johannes Frießner🇩🇪
deceasedGerman general (1892-1971) · 1892–1971
Days lived
28,949
Joseph Schildkraut🇺🇸
deceasedactor (1896-1964) · 1896–1964
Days lived
24,775
Juan Uribe🇩🇴
baseball player · b. 1979
Karl Malden🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican actor (1912–2009) · 1912–2009
Days lived
35,530
Katsuko Saruhashi🇯🇵
deceasedJapanese geochemist (1920–2007) · 1920–2007
Days lived
31,967
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Keegan-Michael Key🇺🇸
Comedian · b. 1971
Lamine Sané🇫🇷
football player · b. 1987
Layla Anna-Lee🇬🇧
Television presenter · b. 1983
Marcel Marceau🇫🇷
deceasedFrench actor and mime artist (1923–2000 · 1923–2007
Days lived
30,865
Michael Hamburger🇬🇧
deceasedBritish translator, poet, critic, memoirist and academic (1924–2007) · 1924–2007
Days lived
30,392
Michael Hesemann🇩🇪
German historian, journalist and author · b. 1964
Days alive
1,461
Mick Schumacher
racing driver · b. 1999
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Mircea Eliade🇺🇸
deceasedYouTube personality · 1907–1986
Days lived
28,886
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Netsky🇧🇪
singer · b. 1989
Nino Manfredi🇮🇹
deceasedsinger · 1921–2004
Days lived
30,390
Ottfried Neubecker🇩🇪
deceasedGerman vexillologist and heraldist (1908–1992) · 1908–1992
Days lived
30,789
Otto Roelen🇩🇪
deceasedchemist · 1897–1993
Days lived
35,012
Paul Alfred Biefeld🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican astronomer (1867-1943) · 1867–1943
Days lived
27,849
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Paul Doumer🇫🇷
deceasedFrench statesman (1857–1932) · 1857–1932
Days lived
27,439
Reese Witherspoon🇺🇸
actor · b. 1976
Russell Maryland🇺🇸
All-American college football player, professional football player, defensive lineman, College Football Hall of Fame member · b. 1969
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Shawn Bradley🇺🇸
basketball player · b. 1972
Teun de Nooijer
Dutch field hockey player · b. 1976
Tony Fadell🇺🇸
entrepreneur · b. 1969
Virgil Koltai🇭🇺
deceasedHungarian translator, poet, and journalist (1857–1907) · 1857–1907
Days lived
18,239
Wilhelm Schlenk🇩🇪
deceasedchemist · 1879–1943
Days lived
23,413
William Shatner🇨🇦
singer · b. 1931
Days alive
13,515
William Travilla🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican costume designer (1920-1990) · 1920–1990
Days lived
25,792
Wolf Blitzer🇺🇸
American journalist and television news anchor (born 1948) · b. 1948
Days alive
7,305
Wolfgang Bächler🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor and writer (1925-2007) · 1925–2007
Days lived
30,013
Yayoi Kusama🇯🇵
Japanese painter, performance, and installation artist (born 1929) · b. 1929
Days alive
14,245
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Zhang Zilin🇨🇳
Chinese beauty queen, actress and fashion model · b. 1984
Died on This Day
Albert Niemann🇩🇪
deceasedGerman physician (1880-1921) · 1880–1921
Days lived
15,002
Alexander Mashkevitch🇨🇦
deceasedKyrgyzstani-Israeli businessman and investor · 1954–2025
Days lived
25,960
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Arturo Martini🇮🇹
deceasedItalian sculptor, painter and engraver (1889-1947) · 1889–1947
Days lived
21,041
Cilly Aussem🇩🇪
deceasedGerman tennis player (1909-1963) · 1909–1963
Days lived
19,800
Hans Woellke
deceasedGerman shot putter (1911-1943) · 1911–1943
Days lived
11,720
Horst Buhtz🇩🇪
deceasedGerman association football player and manager (1923–2015) · 1923–2015
Days lived
33,420
Jean-Baptiste Lully🌍
deceasedComposer · 1632–1687
Days lived
19,837
Mark Lombardi🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican neo-conceptual artist whose art depicted diagrams of the social networks underlying global conspiracies (1951–2000) · 1951–2000
Days lived
17,897
Mary Peters Fieser🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican chemist (1909-1997) · 1909–1997
Days lived
32,076
Özhan Canaydın🇹🇷
deceasedTurkish sports executive (1943–2010) · 1943–2010
Days lived
24,530
Pierre Clostermann🇫🇷
deceasedmilitary person · 1921–2006
Days lived
31,068
Robert Nivelle🇫🇷
deceasedmilitary person · 1856–1924
Days lived
24,629
Roland Wittmann🇩🇪
deceasedGerman jurist (1942–2019) · 1942–2019
Days lived
27,975
Rolf Schimpf🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1924–2025) · 1924–2025
Days lived
36,653
Siegmund Gabriel🇩🇪
deceasedchemist · 1851–1924
Days lived
26,433
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
42,083
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
Luis Miró Quesada de la Guerra🇵🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1880–1976
Days lived
34,807
Vladimir Zelenin
deceasedscientist · 1881–1968
Days lived
32,067
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
49,754
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
47,927
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,624
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
47,197
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
37,639
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
36,605
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
36,239
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
33,683
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
32,335
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
653,134
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
132,648
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
56,666
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
37,335
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
15,687
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
13,230
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
11,140
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
9,117
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
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