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Famous people born on August 22

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Well-known people born on August 22 include Deng Xiaoping (1904), Claude Debussy (1862), Ray Bradbury (1920) and Dorothy Parker (1893). Our list below has 83 people for this date, most widely covered first.

This list covers people whose Wikidata record gives August 22 as their exact birth date and who have articles in at least 28 Wikipedia language editions. The earliest birth year here is 1647 (Denis Papin) and the most recent is 1998 (Taishi Matsumoto). The most common fields on this date: football, actor, actress.

Who was born on August 22?

  1. Deng Xiaoping 1904 Chinese politician and paramount leader from 1978 to 1989
  2. Claude Debussy 1862 French classical composer
  3. Ray Bradbury 1920 American author and screenwriter
  4. Dorothy Parker 1893 American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
  5. Max Scheler 1874 German philosopher
  6. Lautaro Martínez 1997 Argentine association football player
  7. Tori Amos 1963 American singer-songwriter
  8. Henri Cartier-Bresson 1908 French photographer
  9. Karlheinz Stockhausen 1928 German composer
  10. John Lee Hooker 1917 American blues musician (1912 or 1917–2001)
  11. Kristen Wiig 1973 American actress and comedian
  12. Artem Dzyuba 1988 Russian footballer
  13. Denis Papin 1647 French physicist, mathematician and inventor
  14. Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje 1967 English actor
  15. Mats Wilander 1964 Swedish tennis player
  16. Annie Proulx 1935 American novelist, short story and non-fiction author (b. 1935)
  17. Laura Dahlmeier 1993 German biathlete
  18. Rodrigo Santoro 1975 Brazilian actor
  19. Layne Staley 1967 American rock musician
  20. Ko Arima 1917 Japanese association football player
  21. Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. 1934 United States Army general
  22. Gilmar 1930 Brazilian footballer
  23. James Corden 1978 English actor, comedian, singer and television host
  24. Honor Blackman 1925 British actress
  25. Samuel Langley 1834 American physicist, pioneer of aviation, and 3rd Secretary of the Smithsonian
  26. Richard Armitage 1971 British actor
  27. Giacomo Bonaventura 1989 Italian association football player
  28. Alexander Bogdanov 1873 Russian physician, philosopher and revolutionary
  29. Mitchell Langerak 1988 Australian association football player
  30. Federico Macheda 1991 Italian footballer
  31. Ananda Coomaraswamy 1877 Sri Lankan Tamil metaphysician
  32. Steve Davis 1957 English snooker player
  33. Ty Burrell 1967 American actor and comedian
  34. Alexandre Torres 1966 Brazilian association football player
  35. Margaret Chan 1947 Chinese-Canadian physician
  36. Raymonde de Laroche 1882 French pilot and the first woman in the world to receive an aeroplane pilot's licence
  37. Carl Ludwig Willdenow 1765 German botanist
  38. Rudolf von Jhering 1818 German jurist
  39. Natalia Barbu 1979 Moldovan singer
  40. Vladimír Coufal 1992 Czech association football player
  41. Petar Mladenov 1936 Former General Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party
  42. Sylva Koscina 1933 Yugoslav actress
  43. Paul Gottlieb Nipkow 1860 German technician and inventor
  44. Bruno Pontecorvo 1913 Italian nuclear physicist
  45. Aleksandr Mostovoi 1968 Russian footballer
  46. Colm Feore 1958 American-born Canadian actor
  47. Stephen Ireland 1986 Irish association football player
  48. Valerie Harper 1939 American actress
  49. Alexander Dvornikov 1961 Russian military officer
  50. John Lyng 1905 24th Prime Minister of Norway
  51. Micheline Presle 1922 French actress
  52. Christina Obergföll 1981 German athlete
  53. Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia 1858 Russian grand prince
  54. Junior Firpo 1996 Dominican Republic association football player
  55. Mark Williams 1959 English actor, comedian, screenwriter and presenter
  56. Taishi Matsumoto 1998 Japanese association football player
  57. Gustaf Fröding 1860 Swedish writer
  58. Cindy Williams 1947 American actress and producer
  59. George W. De Long 1844 American polar explorer
  60. GZA 1966 American rapper
  61. Ricco Groß 1970 German biathlete
  62. Gianluca Ramazzotti 1970 Italian actor
  63. Keiko Kitagawa 1986 Japanese actress
  64. Cory Gardner 1974 United States Senator from Colorado
  65. Rick Yune 1971 American actor
  66. Jacques Lipchitz 1891 American and French sculptor
  67. Gerald Carr 1932 American astronaut
  68. David Chase 1945 American screenwriter, director and producer
  69. Howie Dorough 1973 American singer
  70. Elisabeth Bergner 1897 Austrian-German actress
  71. Julio César Pinheiro 1976 Brazilian association football player
  72. PAC 1986 English professional wrestler
  73. Nahas Angula 1943 Namibian Prime Minister
  74. Rifaat al-Assad 1937 Syrian former military officer and politician
  75. George Herriman 1880 American cartoonist
  76. Madame Nhu 1924 First lady of South Vietnam
  77. Chiranjeevi 1955 Indian actor, politician
  78. Marco Wölfli 1982 Swiss footballer
  79. Glen De Boeck 1971 Belgian footballer
  80. David Reimer 1965 Canadian boy raised as girl following botched surgery
  81. Michihisa Date 1966 Japanese association football player
  82. Irina Skobtseva 1927 Soviet and Russian actress
  83. Ivan Isakov 1894 Soviet military commander

Names link to each person's Wikidata entry, the source of the date. Data: Wikidata (CC0), refreshed October 30, 2026. People born on August 22 share the 22nd of August as a birthday; check the Famous Birthdays Finder for any other date.

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