On This Day
Monday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
April 22 1968
Born on This Day
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Ahmed Yasin🇸🇪
Turkish-Iraqi association football player (born 1991) · b. 1991
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Amber Heard
Notable Trials · b. 1986
Beate Finckh🇩🇪
German actress · b. 1960
Days alive
2,922
Bojan Lapov🇭🇷
basketball player · b. 1968
Days alive
0
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Cándido Camero🇨🇺
deceasedCuban percussionist (1921-2020) · 1921–2020
Days lived
36,359
Charles Mingus🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader (1922–1979) · 1922–1979
Days lived
20,712
Chetan Bhagat🇮🇳
journalist · b. 1974
Dee Strange-Gordon🇺🇸
American baseball player · b. 1988
DeJuan Blair🇺🇸
basketball player · b. 1989
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Dieter Kronzucker🇩🇪
German journalist and television presenter · b. 1936
Days alive
11,688
Donald Tusk🇵🇱
politician · b. 1957
Days alive
4,018
Eddie Albert🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican actor (1906–2005) · 1906–2005
Days lived
36,194
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Erwin Jaenecke🇩🇪
deceasedmilitary person · 1890–1960
Days lived
25,639
Estelle Harris🇺🇸
deceasedActor · 1928–2022
Days lived
34,313
Franz Mazura🇦🇹
deceasedmusician · 1924–2020
Days lived
34,974
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Fríðrikur Petersen
deceasedFaroese politician and bishop (1853-1917) · 1853–1917
Days lived
23,380
Geoff Hangartner🇺🇸
player of American football · b. 1982
George Abela
politician · b. 1948
Days alive
7,305
Giora Eiland🇮🇱
Israeli general · b. 1952
Days alive
5,844
Glen Campbell🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican musician (1936–2017) · 1936–2017
Days lived
29,693
Hans Kahle🇩🇪
deceasedGerman journalist and head of police (1899-1947) · 1899–1947
Days lived
17,663
Hans von Seeckt🇩🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1866–1936
Days lived
25,816
Harald Leipnitz🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1926–2000) · 1926–2000
Days lived
27,242
Howard Marks🇺🇸
Investor & Co-Founder · b. 1946
Days alive
8,036
Ida Auken🇩🇰
Danish politician · b. 1978
Ina Rudolph🇩🇪
German actress · b. 1969
Issey Miyake🇯🇵
deceasedJapanese fashion designer (1938−2022) · 1938–2022
Days lived
30,786
Jack Nicholson
Oscar Winners · b. 1937
Days alive
11,323
Jack Robinson🇬🇧
deceasedfilm director · 1870–1931
Days lived
22,468
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Jasper Cillessen🇳🇱
Dutch association football player (born 1989) · b. 1989
Jeff Hostetler🇺🇸
American football player (born 1961) · b. 1961
Days alive
2,557
Jeffrey Dean Morgan🇺🇸
Actor · b. 1966
Days alive
731
Johan Asker🇸🇪
deceasedSwedish equestrian (1915-2000) · 1915–2000
Days lived
31,283
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Kamla Persad-Bissessar
politician from Trinidad and Tobago · b. 1952
Days alive
5,844
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Klaus Schlappner🇩🇪
German association football player and manager · b. 1940
Days alive
10,227
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Leandro Salino🇧🇷
Brazilian footballer · b. 1985
Ludwig Renn🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1889–1979
Days lived
32,961
María Zambrano🇪🇸
deceasedSpanish philosopher (1904–1991) · 1904–1991
Days lived
31,701
Max Herre🇩🇪
German rapper, singer-songwriter · b. 1973
Michael Wittmann
deceasedmilitary person · 1914–1944
Days lived
11,066
Orla Bundgård Povlsen🇩🇰
deceasedjournalist · 1918–1982
Days lived
23,547
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Pavel Horváth🇨🇿
football player · b. 1975
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Rita Levi-Montalcini🇺🇸
deceasedscientist · 1909–2012
Days lived
37,873
Robert Bárány🇸🇪
deceasedAustri-Hungarian otologist and Nobel Prize laureate · 1876–1936
Days lived
21,900
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Robert Oppenheimer🇺🇸
deceasedscientist · 1904–1967
Days lived
22,947
Ruth Rosenfeld🇺🇸
deceasedsinger · 1920–1991
Days lived
25,821
Sam Altman
CEO of OpenAI · b. 1985
Sergei Khokhlov-Simson🇪🇪
Estonian footballer (born 1972) · b. 1972
Terry Francona🇺🇸
baseball player and manager from the United States · b. 1959
Days alive
3,288
Thomas Müller-Pering🇩🇪
musician · b. 1958
Days alive
3,653
Vladimir Nabokov🇺🇸
deceasedjournalist · 1899–1977
Days lived
28,560
Died on This Day
Alán Kalocsay🇭🇺
deceasedHungarian politician (1862-1906) · 1862–1906
Days lived
16,145
Alexander Fritz🇩🇪
deceasedGerman chess player (1857–1932) · 1857–1932
Days lived
27,490
Alida Valli🇮🇹
deceasedItalian actress (1921–2006) · 1921–2006
Days lived
31,007
Ansel Adams🇺🇸
deceasedwriter · 1902–1984
Days lived
30,012
Carl Dorno
deceasedscientist · 1865–1942
Days lived
28,020
Dora Ratjen🇩🇪
deceasedGerman high jumper (1918–2008) · 1918–2008
Days lived
32,661
Eddie Thompson🇨🇦
deceasedCanadian football player · 1917–1943
Days lived
9,467
Eduardo Paolozzi🇬🇧
deceasedartist · 1924–2005
Days lived
29,631
Fritz Strassmann🇩🇪
deceasedchemist · 1902–1980
Days lived
28,549
Götz Heidelberg🇩🇪
deceasedGerman engineer · 1923–2017
Days lived
34,386
Gunta Stölzl🇨🇭
deceasedGerman artist (1897-1983) · 1897–1983
Days lived
31,446
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Henriette Avram🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican computer programmer and system analyst (1919–2006) · 1919–2006
Days lived
31,609
Jack Kid Berg🇬🇧
deceasedBritish boxer · 1909–1991
Days lived
29,883
Jan Šrámek
deceasedCzechoslovak priest and politician · 1870–1956
Days lived
31,300
Johnny Dundee🇮🇹
deceasedAmerican boxer (1893–1965) · 1893–1965
Days lived
26,086
Käthe Kollwitz
deceasedartist · 1867–1945
Days lived
28,412
Michael Verhoeven🇩🇪
deceasedGerman film director, screenwriter and actor (1938–2024) · 1938–2024
Days lived
31,330
Mikheil Meskhi🇬🇪
deceasedathlete · 1937–1991
Days lived
19,823
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Mircea Eliade🇺🇸
deceasedYouTube personality · 1907–1986
Days lived
28,886
Nino Khurtsidze🇬🇪
deceasedathlete · 1975–2018
Days lived
15,547
Richard Nixon🇺🇸
deceasedpolitician · 1913–1994
Days lived
29,688
Robert Kennedy🇮🇪
deceasedIrish field hockey player (1880–1963) · 1880–1963
Days lived
30,214
Sepp Dietrich
deceasedNotable Trials · 1892–1966
Days lived
26,991
Tony Jaros🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican basketball player (1920–1995) · 1920–1995
Days lived
27,453
Varvara Myasnikova🇷🇺
deceasedactor · 1900–1978
Days lived
28,323
Walter Chaffe
deceasedathlete · 1870–1918
Days lived
17,551
Zarbeg Beriashvili🇬🇪
deceasedGeorgian wrestler (1939-2020) · 1939–2020
Days lived
29,445
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
42,114
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
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
Wang Zi-Ping🇨🇳
deceasedathlete · 1881–1973
Days lived
33,602
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
49,785
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
47,958
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,655
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
47,228
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
37,670
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
36,636
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
36,270
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
33,714
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
32,366
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
653,165
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
132,679
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
56,697
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
37,366
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
15,718
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
13,261
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
11,171
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
9,148
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
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