On This Day
Sunday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
September 22 1968
Born on This Day
Andrea Bocelli🇮🇹
Italian tenor and singer-songwriter (born 1958) · b. 1958
Days alive
3,653
Anita Augspurg🇩🇪
deceasedGerman jurist, actress, writer, editor, and activist (1857–1943) · 1857–1943
Days lived
31,196
Art Metrano🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican actor (1936–2021) · 1936–2021
Days lived
31,032
Ben Chifley🇦🇺
deceasedpolitician · 1885–1951
Days lived
24,004
Billie Piper🇬🇧
singer · b. 1982
Bob Sapp🇺🇸
American mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter, professional wrestler, and actor · b. 1973
Carlos Correa🇺🇸
film director · b. 1994
Chesney Hawkes🇬🇧
Singer · b. 1971
Chester Taylor🇺🇸
American football player · b. 1979
Curry Barker🇺🇸
Screenwriter · b. 1999
Dean Reed🇺🇸
deceasedsinger · 1938–1986
Days lived
17,431
Dorothy Reed Mendenhall🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican pediatrician (1874–1964) · 1874–1964
Days lived
32,819
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Erdoğan Atalay🇩🇪
German actor of Turkish descent · b. 1966
Days alive
731
Evelyne Kraft🇨🇭
deceasedSwiss actress (1951-2009) · 1951–2009
Days lived
20,933
Félix Savón🇨🇺
Cuban heavyweight boxer · b. 1967
Days alive
366
Gia Nadareishvili🇬🇪
deceasedathlete · 1921–1991
Days lived
25,577
Giuseppe Ros🇮🇹
deceasedItalian boxer (1942–2022) · 1942–2022
Days lived
29,003
Hans Leip🇨🇭
deceasedGerman writer (1893–1983) · 1893–1983
Days lived
32,763
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Heartley Anderson🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican football player and coach (1898-1978) · 1898–1978
Days lived
29,068
Itte Detenamo
Nauruan weightlifter · b. 1986
Jana Teschke🇩🇪
German field hockey player (1990-) · b. 1990
John L. Hennessy🇺🇸
entrepreneur · b. 1952
Days alive
5,844
John S. Tanner🇺🇸
American politician (born 1944) · b. 1944
Days alive
8,766
John Woo🇨🇳
Hong Kong film director, screenwriter and film producer · b. 1946
Days alive
8,036
Juan Martín Parodi
football player · b. 1974
Kim Hyo-yeon🇰🇷
South Korean singer, rapper and model · b. 1989
Klaas Heufer-Umlauf🇩🇪
German television host and actor · b. 1983
Kurt Halbritter🇩🇪
deceasedGerman illustrator (1924–1978) · 1924–1978
Days lived
19,599
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Lilo Wanders🇩🇪
German transvestite actor · b. 1955
Days alive
4,749
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Lutz Rathenow🇩🇪
German writer · b. 1952
Days alive
5,844
Marc-Kevin Goellner🇩🇪
German tennis player · b. 1970
Mireille Enos🇺🇸
actor · b. 1975
Nayeon (Im Na-yeon)🇰🇷
K-pop Idol (TWICE) · b. 1995
Paul Muni
deceasedOscar Winners · 1895–1967
Days lived
26,269
Randhir Singh Gentle🇮🇳
deceasedIndian field hockey player (1922–1981) · 1922–1981
Days lived
21,553
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Roberto Saviano🇮🇹
journalist · b. 1979
Seungmin (Kim Seung-min)🇰🇷
K-pop Idol (Stray Kids) · b. 2000
Siegfried Gumbel
deceasedGerman lawyer and politician (1874-1942) · 1874–1942
Days lived
24,598
Tandon Doss🇺🇸
player of American football · b. 1989
Tom Felton🇬🇧
musician · b. 1987
Veit Harlan🇩🇪
deceasedGerman film director (1899-1964) · 1899–1964
Days lived
23,579
Wilhelm Keitel
deceasedNotable Trials · 1882–1946
Days lived
23,399
Wolfgang Petry🇩🇪
German pop singer and songwriter · b. 1951
Days alive
6,210
Yegor Kostryukhin🇷🇺
football player · b. 1992
Zollie Volchok🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican basketball executive (1916-2012) · 1916–2012
Days lived
34,855
Died on This Day
Dorothy Lamour🇺🇸
deceasedsinger · 1914–1996
Days lived
29,872
Douglas H. Parker🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican legal scholar (1926-2019) · 1926–2019
Days lived
34,002
Erich Waschneck🇩🇪
deceasedGerman film director (1887-1970) · 1887–1970
Days lived
30,461
Evelyn Fox Keller🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican physicist, author and feminist · 1936–2023
Days lived
31,962
Franz Nikodem🇩🇪
deceasedGerman hockey player (1932–1984) · 1932–1984
Days lived
19,177
George C. Scott
deceasedOscar Winners · 1927–1999
Days lived
26,272
Giorgio Napolitano🇮🇹
deceasedpolitician · 1925–2023
Days lived
35,879
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Gordon Jump🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican actor (1932-2003) · 1932–2003
Days lived
26,106
Harald Quandt🇩🇪
deceasedentrepreneur · 1921–1967
Days lived
16,761
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Irving Berlin🇺🇸
deceasedComposer · 1888–1989
Days lived
37,023
Jim Sieval
deceasedDutch baseball player (1952-2009) · 1952–2009
Days lived
20,838
Kate Craig-Wood🇬🇧
deceasedBritish entrepreneur and trans activist · 1977–2020
Days lived
15,939
Marcel Marceau🇫🇷
deceasedFrench actor and mime artist (1923–2000 · 1923–2007
Days lived
30,865
Michael Newton🇺🇸
deceasedscientist · 1931–2016
Days lived
30,969
Mohamed Sheikh🇬🇧
deceasedentrepreneur · 1941–2022
Days lived
29,686
Niklaus Meienberg🇨🇭
deceasedSwiss writer and journalist (1940-1993) · 1940–1993
Days lived
19,492
Oskar Kellner
deceasedchemist · 1851–1911
Days lived
22,046
Ottokar Runze🇩🇪
deceasedGerman film producer, director and screenwriter (1925–2018) · 1925–2018
Days lived
34,002
Paul van Zeeland🇧🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1893–1973
Days lived
29,169
Peter Horton🇦🇹
deceasedmusician · 1941–2023
Days lived
29,953
Viktar Ilyin🇧🇾
deceasedSoviet and Belarusian scientist, rector of the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics (1973-2000) · 1930–2023
Days lived
34,143
Werner von Fritsch
deceasedmilitary person · 1880–1939
Days lived
21,597
Yehuda Amichai🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1924–2000
Days lived
27,901
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Yogi Berra🇺🇸
deceasedfilm director · 1925–2015
Days lived
33,005
Zygmunt Chychła🇵🇱
deceasedPolish boxer (1926–2009) · 1926–2009
Days lived
30,272
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
42,267
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
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
Hans Kelsen🇺🇸
deceasedAustrian lawyer (1881–1973) · 1881–1973
Days lived
33,427
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
49,938
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
48,111
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,808
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
47,381
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
37,823
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
36,789
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
36,423
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
33,867
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
32,519
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
653,318
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
132,832
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
56,850
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
37,519
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
15,871
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
13,414
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
11,324
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
9,301
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
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