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You share your birthday with 30 famous people in our archive.
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September 22 in history →Kim You-jung
South Korean actress who went from popular child star to leading lady in Love in the Moonlight and My Demon
Did you know? She ranked eighth on Forbes Korea's Power Celebrity list at seventeen, the youngest in the top ten.
Im Nayeon
Seoul-born singer and member of Twice whose solo debut Pop! became one of the most successful by a K-pop soloist in America
Did you know? Her solo EP Im Nayeon entered the US Billboard 200 top ten.
Kim Hyo-yeon
Incheon-born main dancer of Girls' Generation who later built a second career as a DJ and television personality
Did you know? She has performed as a DJ at festivals.
Tom Felton
British actor famous for playing Draco Malfoy in Harry Potter films
Did you know? He originally auditioned for the roles of Harry Potter and Ron Weasley before being cast as their school rival.
Rima Fakih
Thiago Silva
Brazilian football defender known for his leadership and discipline
Did you know? Early in his career, he spent months in a Russian hospital battling tuberculosis and nearly retired from professional football.
Maarten Stekelenburg
Dutch goalkeeper who played for Ajax and Everton
Did you know? He started in goal for the Netherlands during the 2010 World Cup final against Spain.
Serdar Berdimuhamedow
The current President of Turkmenistan who succeeded his father
Did you know? He was previously a professional engineer and worked in the oil and gas industry before entering politics.
b. 1970Emmanuel Petit
French midfielder who scored in the 1998 World Cup final
Did you know? He once made a cameo appearance as himself in an episode of the long-running British police drama The Bill.
Isaac Herzog
Israeli politician serving as the eleventh president of Israel
Did you know? His father and grandfather both held high office, serving as the president of Israel and the Chief Rabbi respectively.
Saul Perlmutter
Astrophysicist who discovered that the expansion of the universe is accelerating
Did you know? He is also a talented musician who plays the violin and has performed with several different orchestral groups.
Andrea Bocelli
Renowned Italian tenor and world-famous classical crossover artist
Did you know? Despite being born with glaucoma and losing his sight completely at twelve, he earned a law degree before pursuing music.
Joan Jett
Rock singer and guitarist known for I Love Rock 'n Roll
Did you know? She formed the pioneering all-female rock band The Runaways when she was still a teenager in the mid-1970s.
Nick Cave
Australian musician and frontman of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Did you know? Aside from his music career, he has written several novels and scripts for films including the Western drama The Proposition.
Ségolène Royal
French politician and first woman nominated for the presidency by a major party
Did you know? She had four children with former French President François Hollande during their long-term relationship.
David Coverdale
Lead singer of Whitesnake and former frontman of Deep Purple
Did you know? He was working at a clothes shop in North Yorkshire when he successfully auditioned to replace Ian Gillan in Deep Purple.
Norma McCorvey
Anna Karina
Danish-French actress known for her roles in French New Wave cinema
Did you know? Her stage name was created by fashion designer Coco Chanel, who met her when she was a young model in Paris.
Junko Tabei
Japanese mountaineer and first woman to climb Mount Everest
Did you know? She also became the first woman to scale the highest peaks on every continent, known as the Seven Summits.
Algirdas Brazauskas
First President of an independent Lithuania following the Soviet era
Did you know? Before entering politics, he worked as an engineer and oversaw several major construction projects in his home country.
1922–2025100 ClubChen-ning Yang
Nobel Prize-winning physicist known for work on parity laws
Did you know? He became one of the first Chinese-born scientists to receive a Nobel Prize for his research in particle physics.
Charles Brenton Huggins
Nobel Prize-winning surgeon who discovered hormone treatments for cancer
Did you know? His landmark discovery in the 1940s showed that some cancers could be controlled by changing a patient's hormone levels.
Paul Muni
Acclaimed actor known for starring in The Story of Louis Pasteur
Did you know? He began his career performing in Yiddish theatre as a child and was later known for his intense preparation and use of prosthetics.
Erich von Stroheim
Silent film director and actor known for Greed
Did you know? He was notorious for his obsession with detail, once demanding that extras wear expensive silk underwear even though it would not be seen.
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On This Day: September 22 in history5
Notable deaths on September 225
🇮🇹Giorgio NapolitanoItalian politician who served as the president of Italy from 2006 to 2015View profile Photo (modified): Unknown author · Attribution2023Died
Guru NanakIndian spiritual teacher, mystic and poet, who is regarded as the founder of Sikhism and is the first of the ten Sikh…View profile Photo (modified): Amritpal Singh Mann . Painted by Jaimal Singh Naqqash (1860–1916), Mehtab Singh Naqqash (1871–1940), and Hukum Singh. · CC BY-SA 4.01539Died
Selim ISultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1512 to 1520View profile Photo (modified): 16th century artist · Public domain1520Died
🇬🇧Frederick SoddyEnglish radiochemist who explained, with Ernest Rutherford, that radioactivity is due to the transmutation of elements…View profile Photo (modified): Unknown author · Public domain1956Died
Clement XIVHead of the Catholic Church and leader of the Papal States from 19 May 1769 to his death in September 1774View profile Photo (modified): Original uploaded by: Museodellacittacquapendente · Public domain1774Died
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September 22: birthdays, history and star sign
30 famous people were born on September 22, including Michael Faraday, Andrea Bocelli and Chen-ning Yang. Anyone born on September 22 is a Virgo, an earth sign ruled by Mercury. Notable events on September 22 include Iran–Iraq War (1980) and Emancipation Proclamation (1862).
Famous people born on September 22
- 1987Tom Felton · English actor
- 1984Thiago Silva · Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Fluminense
- 1981Serdar Berdimuhamedow · Turkmen politician and businessman serving as the third and current president of Turkmenistan since 2022
- 1970Emmanuel Petit · French former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder at club level for Arsenal, Barcelona…
- 1960Isaac Herzog · Israeli politician who has been serving since 2021 as the president of Israel
- 1959Saul Perlmutter · American astrophysicist who is a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds the…
- 1958Andrea Bocelli · Italian tenor
- 1958Joan Jett · American singer, songwriter, guitarist, businesswoman, and actress
- 1957Nick Cave · Australian singer, musician and writer
- 1953Ségolène Royal · French politician and member of the Socialist Party
- 1951David Coverdale · Retired English singer and songwriter best known as the founder and lead singer of the hard rock band Whitesnake
- 1940Anna Karina · Danish and French film actress, director, writer, model, and singer
- 1939Junko Tabei · Japanese mountaineer, author and teacher
- 1932Algirdas Brazauskas · Fourth president of Lithuania, in office from 1993 to 1998
- 1922Chen-ning Yang · Yang Chen-Ning also known as C.N
- 1885Erich von Stroheim · Austrian-American director, screenwriter, actor and producer, most noted as a film star and avant-garde, visionary…
- 1882Wilhelm Keitel · German field marshal who held office as chief of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, the high command of Nazi Germany's…
- 1791Michael Faraday · English chemist and physicist who contributed vastly to the study of electrochemistry and electromagnetism
- 1741Peter Simon Pallas · Prussian zoologist, botanist, ethnographer, explorer, geographer, geologist, natural historian, and taxonomist
- 1601Anne of Austria · Queen of France from 1615 to 1643 by marriage to King Louis XIII
On September 22 in history
- 1980Iran–Iraq War · The Iran–Iraq War, also called the First Imposed War, Eight-Year War, or Sacred Defense by Iran, began with the Iraqi invasion of Iran in September 1980. After…
- 1862Emancipation Proclamation · The Emancipation Proclamation, officially Proclamation 95, was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States president Abraham…
- 20132013 German federal election · A federal election was held on 22 September to elect the members of the 18th Bundestag of Germany. At stake were all 598 seats to the Bundestag, plus 33…
- 19901990 Asian Games · The 1990 Asian Games, also known as the XI Asiad and the 11th Asian Games or simply Beijing 1990, were held from September 22 to October 7, 1990, in Beijing…
- 1236Battle of Saule · The Battle of Saule was fought on 22 September 1236, between the Livonian Brothers of the Sword and pagan troops of Samogitians and Semigallians
Zodiac sign
Virgo · Earth · ruled by Mercury · Analytical, Practical, Meticulous, Modest
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H. G. Wells
English author of The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds and The Invisible Man, a founding father of science fiction
Did you know? Before becoming a successful writer, he worked as a draper's apprentice and a pupil-teacher at a grammar school.
Shinzō Abe
Japan's longest-serving prime minister, known for his Abenomics economic policy, who was assassinated while campaigning in 2022
Did you know? He appeared as the video game character Mario during the closing ceremony of the Rio Olympics.
Kwame Nkrumah
Leader who won Ghana's independence from Britain in 1957, becoming its first prime minister and president and a champion of Pan-Africanism
Did you know? He was a student in the United Kingdom and the United States, once working as a dishwasher to support himself.
Stephen King
American author of Carrie, The Shining, It and The Stand, known as the King of Horror, with hundreds of millions of books sold
Did you know? He threw the early pages of his debut novel, Carrie, into the bin, but his wife rescued them and encouraged him to finish.
Leonard Cohen
Canadian poet, novelist and singer-songwriter of Suzanne, So Long, Marianne and the much-covered anthem Hallelujah
Did you know? He did not release his first album until his thirties, having spent his earlier years working as a poet and novelist.
Kublai Khan
Grandson of Genghis Khan who conquered China, founded the Yuan dynasty and built his capital on the site of Beijing
Did you know? He hosted the Venetian explorer Marco Polo at his court for many years, employing him as a special envoy and official.
Bruce Springsteen
American rock singer-songwriter known as the Boss, famous for Born to Run and Born in the U.S.A. with the E Street Band
Did you know? He wrote the hit song Blinded by the Light, which later became a number one single for the British group Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
Ray Charles
Influential American musician who pioneered the soul music genre
Did you know? Despite being blind, he was an avid chess player and used a specially made board with holes and raised pieces to identify the squares.
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- Who was born on September 22?
- Famous people born on September 22 include Michael Faraday (1791), Andrea Bocelli (1958), Chen-ning Yang (1922), Ségolène Royal (1953) and Isaac Herzog (1960). In total, 30 famous people in our archive were born on September 22.
- Which celebrities share a September 22 birthday?
- Famous people alive today with a September 22 birthday include Andrea Bocelli, Ségolène Royal, Isaac Herzog and Saul Perlmutter.
- What star sign is someone born on September 22?
- People born on September 22 are Virgo, an earth sign ruled by Mercury. Virgo runs from August 23 to September 22.
- What happened on September 22 in history?
- Notable events on September 22 include Iran–Iraq War (1980), Emancipation Proclamation (1862) and 2013 German federal election (2013).
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- September 22 in historyYour birthday has a story. See every famous birth, historic event and notable death recorded on September 22, the day the world welcomed you.Date page
- Your most famous birthday match: Michael FaradayOf the 30 famous people who share your birthday, Michael Faraday is the best known. Read their story and see what you have in common.Person
- Virgo zodiac signAs a Virgo you're known for being analytical, practical and meticulous, just like Michael Faraday. Meet others who share your star sign.Zodiac
- Famous birthdays in SeptemberSee the best-known people born on every day of September, from the 1st to the last day of the month.Month
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