On This Day
Monday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
July 22 1968
Born on This Day
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A. J. Cook🇨🇦
actor · b. 1978
Alex Trebek
deceasedtelevision presenter · 1940–2020
Days lived
29,329
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Alexander L. Baugh🇺🇸
Mormon academic · b. 1957
Days alive
4,018
Alfred Messel🇩🇪
deceasedGerman architect (1853-1909) · 1853–1909
Days lived
20,333
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Alison Wheeler🇫🇷
Actor · b. 1986
Andrés Mazali
deceasedbasketball player · 1902–1975
Days lived
26,763
Anna Chicherova🇷🇺
Russian high jumper · b. 1982
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Anton Saefkow🇩🇪
deceasedGerman resistance fighter and communist (1903-1944) · 1903–1944
Days lived
15,034
Coleman Collins🇺🇸
basketball player · b. 1986
David Spade🇺🇸
American actor and comedian · b. 1964
Days alive
1,461
Dennis Rommedahl🇩🇰
football player · b. 1978
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Edward Hopper🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican realist painter and printmaker (1882-1967) · 1882–1967
Days lived
30,977
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Emilio Butragueño🇪🇸
football player · b. 1963
Days alive
1,827
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Federico Valverde
association football player · b. 1998
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Franka Potente🇩🇪
German actress · b. 1974
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Franz-Josef Röder🇩🇪
deceasedGerman politician (1909–1979) · 1909–1979
Days lived
25,541
Harri Stojka🇦🇹
actor · b. 1957
Days alive
4,018
Irene Galitzine🇮🇹
deceasedRussian-Georgian fashion designer (1916-2006) · 1916–2006
Days lived
32,962
Jason Becker🇺🇸
American guitarist and composer · b. 1969
Joaquim Pinto de Andrade
deceasedAngolan politician · 1926–2008
Days lived
29,801
Joep van Els
Dutch baseball player · b. 1990
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John Leguizamo🇺🇸
American actor, comedian, producer, and writer · b. 1960
Days alive
2,922
Johnson Toribiong
politician · b. 1946
Days alive
8,036
Karl-Heinz Irmer🇩🇪
deceasedfield hockey player (1903-1975) · 1903–1975
Days lived
26,407
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Kate Ryan🇧🇪
Belgian singer and songwriter · b. 1980
Kim Kwang-hyun🇰🇷
film director · b. 1988
Kristine Lilly🇺🇸
American soccer player · b. 1971
Lasse Virén🇫🇮
entrepreneur · b. 1949
Days alive
6,940
Leonore Capell🇩🇪
German actress · b. 1970
Marc Cucurella
association football player · b. 1998
Masaru Emoto🇯🇵
deceasedJapanese writer · 1943–2014
Days lived
26,020
Mikheil Kavelashvili🇷🇸
athlete · b. 1971
Mireille Mathieu🇫🇷
French singer · b. 1946
Days alive
8,036
Nikki Boyer🇺🇸
singer-songwriter · b. 1975
Nina Conti🇦🇹
deceasedDancer · 1867–1953
Days lived
31,209
Oskar Maria Graf🇺🇸
deceasedjournalist · 1894–1967
Days lived
26,638
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Otto Waalkes🇩🇪
German comedian (born 1948) · b. 1948
Days alive
7,305
Paulo Jamelli🇧🇷
Brazilian association football player · b. 1974
Pim Lier🇳🇱
deceasedpolitician · 1918–2015
Days lived
35,325
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Prince George of Wales
schoolchild · b. 2013
Randal Falker🇺🇸
American basketball player · b. 1985
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Raymond Flynn🇺🇸
politician in Massachusetts, US · b. 1939
Days alive
10,593
Riane Eisler🇺🇸
scientist · b. 1931
Days alive
13,515
Rodrigo de Castro Pereira🇵🇹
deceasedPortuguese tennis player · 1887–1983
Days lived
34,861
Ronny Weller🇩🇪
German weightlifter · b. 1969
Rudolf Heinze🇩🇪
deceasedGerman politician (1865-1928) · 1865–1928
Days lived
22,953
Rufus Wainwright🇨🇦
singer-songwriter · b. 1973
Sebastiano Mannironi🇮🇹
deceasedItalian weightlifter · 1930–2015
Days lived
31,006
Selena Gomez🇺🇸
Singer · b. 1992
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Shawn Michaels🇺🇸
actor · b. 1965
Days alive
1,096
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Skyler Gisondo🇺🇸
Actor · b. 1996
Sonja Baum🇩🇪
German actress · b. 1975
Supreme (James Jebbia)
Founder · b. 1963
Days alive
1,827
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Tablo🇨🇦
actor · b. 1980
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Theodor Morell🇩🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1886–1948
Days lived
22,588
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Thomas Kraft🇩🇪
football player · b. 1988
Tim Brown🇺🇸
American football player (born 1966) · b. 1966
Days alive
731
Wassili Luckhardt🇩🇪
deceasedGerman architect (1889–1972) · 1889–1972
Days lived
30,112
Willem Dafoe🇺🇸
Film actor · b. 1955
Days alive
4,749
Wolfgang Iser🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1926–2007
Days lived
29,406
Yevgeniya Kolodko🇷🇺
Russian athlete · b. 1990
Died on This Day
Carl Sandburg
deceasedpoet · 1878–1967
Days lived
32,703
David Moores🇬🇧
deceasedBritish football executive (1946–2022) · 1946–2022
Days lived
27,888
Helmut Uhlig🇩🇪
deceasedbasketball player · 1942–2014
Days lived
26,186
Hermann Prey🇩🇪
deceasedGerman lyric baritone singer (1929–1998) · 1929–1998
Days lived
25,213
Johannes Knoblauch🇩🇪
deceasedscientist · 1855–1915
Days lived
21,878
Lal Shah Bokhari🇵🇰
deceasedfield hockey player (1906–1959) · 1906–1959
Days lived
19,548
Li Peng🇨🇳
deceasedpolitician · 1928–2019
Days lived
33,147
Mike Coolbaugh🇺🇸
deceasedfilm director · 1972–2007
Days lived
12,830
Nina Teplyakova🇦🇿
deceasedSoviet tennis player, multiple champion of the soviet Union (1904–1983) · 1904–1983
Days lived
28,743
Ozzy Osbourne🇬🇧
deceasedsinger-songwriter · 1948–2025
Days lived
27,990
Paul Pleiger🇩🇪
deceasedentrepreneur · 1899–1985
Days lived
31,343
Uday Hussein
deceasedNotable Trials · 1964–2003
Days lived
14,278
Ulrich Mühe🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1953–2007) · 1953–2007
Days lived
19,755
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
42,205
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
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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
Hans Reiter🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Nazi physician (1881–1969) · 1881–1969
Days lived
32,413
Rudolf Pannwitz🇩🇪
deceasedGerman writer and philosopher (1881–1969) · 1881–1969
Days lived
32,076
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
49,876
Lonesome George🇪🇨
deceasedPinta Island tortoise · 1910–2012
Days lived
37,430
Lin Wang🇹🇼
deceasedAsian elephant · 1917–2003
Days lived
31,467
Ham🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1957–1983
Days lived
9,333
Shamu🇺🇸
deceasedOrca · 1962–1971
Days lived
3,521
Washoe🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1965–2007
Days lived
15,399
Digit🇷🇼
deceasedMountain gorilla · 1967–1977
Days lived
4,017
Companies That Existed
Brands and companies already founded by this date.
Hermes🇫🇷
Luxury Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
48,049
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,746
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
47,319
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
37,761
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
36,727
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
36,361
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
33,805
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
32,457
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
653,256
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
132,770
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
56,788
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
37,457
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
15,809
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
13,352
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
11,262
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
9,239
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
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