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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 22nd of February 1371 | EVENT | Robert II becomes King of Scotland, beginning the Stuart dynasty. |
| 22nd of February 1495 | EVENT | King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne. |
| 22nd of February 1632 | EVENT | Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published. |
| 22nd of February 1744 | EVENT | War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon begins. |
| 22nd of February 1797 | EVENT | The Last Invasion of Britain begins near Fishguard, Wales. |
| 22nd of February 1819 | EVENT | By the Adams-Onis Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars. |
| 22nd of February 1847 | EVENT | Mexican-American War: The Battle of Buena Vista : 5,000 American troops defeat 15,000 Mexicans. |
| 22nd of February 1853 | EVENT | Washington University in St. Louis is founded as Eliot Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. |
| 22nd of February 1855 | EVENT | The Pennsylvania State University is founded in State College, Pennsylvania (as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania) |
| 22nd of February 1856 | EVENT | The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. |
| 22nd of February 1862 | EVENT | Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861. |
| 22nd of February 1872 | EVENT | The Prohibition Party holds its first national convention in Columbus, Ohio, nominating James Black as its presidential nominee. |
| 22nd of February 1879 | EVENT | In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and dime Woolworth stores. |
| 22nd of February 1882 | EVENT | The Serbian kingdom is refounded. |
| 22nd of February 1889 | EVENT | President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states. |
| 22nd of February 1904 | EVENT | The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina, the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908. |
| 22nd of February 1909 | EVENT | The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by Connecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world. |
| 22nd of February 1915 | EVENT | World War I: Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare. |
| 22nd of February 1924 | EVENT | U.S. President Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House. |
| 22nd of February 1942 | EVENT | World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable. |
| 22nd of February 1943 | EVENT | World War II: Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany. |
| 22nd of February 1944 | EVENT | World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone. |
| 22nd of February 1948 | EVENT | Communist revolution in Czechoslovakia. |
| 22nd of February 1957 | EVENT | Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Ban Me Thuot. |
| 22nd of February 1958 | EVENT | Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic. |
| 22nd of February 1959 | EVENT | Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500. |
| 22nd of February 1972 | EVENT | The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others. |
| 22nd of February 1973 | EVENT | Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices. |
| 22nd of February 1974 | EVENT | The Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit begins in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries attend and twenty-two heads of state and government participate. It also recognizes Bangladesh. |
| 22nd of February 1974 | EVENT | Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon. |
| 22nd of February 1979 | EVENT | Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom. |
| 22nd of February 1980 | EVENT | Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4-3. |
| 22nd of February 1983 | EVENT | The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre. |
| 22nd of February 1986 | EVENT | Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines. |
| 22nd of February 1994 | EVENT | Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union. |
| 22nd of February 1995 | EVENT | The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified. |
| 22nd of February 1997 | EVENT | In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned. |
| 22nd of February 2002 | EVENT | Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush. |
| 22nd of February 2006 | EVENT | At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery, stealing ?53m (about $92.5 million or 78EUR million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent. |
| 22nd of February 2011 | EVENT | A 6.3-magnitude earthquake strikes Christchurch, New Zealand at only 5 kilometers from the surface, causing widespread damage and hundreds of fatalities. |
| 22nd of February 1040 | BIRTHDAY | Rashi, French rabbi (d. 1105) |
| 22nd of February 1403 | BIRTHDAY | Charles VII of France (d. 1461) |
| 22nd of February 1440 | BIRTHDAY | Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary (d. 1457) |
| 22nd of February 1500 | BIRTHDAY | Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist (d. 1564) |
| 22nd of February 1612 | BIRTHDAY | George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, English statesman (d. 1677) |
| 22nd of February 1705 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Artedi, Swedish naturalist (d. 1735) |
| 22nd of February 1714 | BIRTHDAY | Louis-Georges de Brequigny, French historian (d. 1795) |
| 22nd of February 1732 | BIRTHDAY | George Washington, First President of the United States (d. 1799) |
| 22nd of February 1756 | BIRTHDAY | Georg Friedrich von Martens, German diplomat (d. 1821) |
| 22nd of February 1778 | BIRTHDAY | Rembrandt Peale, American artist (d. 1860) |
| 22nd of February 1788 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (d. 1860) |
| 22nd of February 1796 | BIRTHDAY | Alexis Bachelot, French missionary (d. 1837) |
| 22nd of February 1796 | BIRTHDAY | Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Belgian mathematician (d. 1874) |
| 22nd of February 1806 | BIRTHDAY | Jozef Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher (d. 1875) |
| 22nd of February 1817 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician (d. 1880) |
| 22nd of February 1819 | BIRTHDAY | James Russell Lowell, American poet and essayist (d. 1891) |
| 22nd of February 1824 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Janssen, French astronomer (d. 1907) |
| 22nd of February 1825 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Baptiste Salpointe, second Archbishop of Santa Fe (d. 1898) |
| 22nd of February 1839 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (d. 1906) |
| 22nd of February 1840 | BIRTHDAY | August Bebel, German politician (d. 1913) |
| 22nd of February 1849 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin, Russian mathematician (d. 1915) |
| 22nd of February 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Lieutenant-General Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, British soldier, author, and founder of the Scout movement (d. 1941) |
| 22nd of February 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, German physicist (d. 1894) |
| 22nd of February 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Jules Renard, French author (d. 1910) |
| 22nd of February 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Klem, American baseball umpire (d. 1951) |
| 22nd of February 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Ritz, Swiss physicist (d. 1909) |
| 22nd of February 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Johannes Nicolaus Br?nsted, Danish physical chemist (d. 1947) |
| 22nd of February 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1956) |
| 22nd of February 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph B. Ely, American politician (d. 1956) |
| 22nd of February 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Albin Prepeluh, Slovenian author and politician (d. 1937) |
| 22nd of February 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Gill, British sculptor (d. 1940) |
| 22nd of February 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Marguerite Clark, American actress (d. 1940) |
| 22nd of February 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Hugo Ball, German author and poet (d. 1927) |
| 22nd of February 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Ksawery Tartakower, Polish chess player (d. 1956) |
| 22nd of February 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Owen Brewster, American politician (d. 1961) |
| 22nd of February 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Olave Baden-Powell, English founder of the Girl Guide (d. 1977) |
| 22nd of February 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Beatriz Michelena, Latin-American silent movie star (d. 1942) |
| 22nd of February 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Vlas Chubar, Soviet politician (d. 1939) |
| 22nd of February 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Edna St. Vincent Millay, American writer (d. 1950) |
| 22nd of February 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, Peruvian politician (d. 1979) |
| 22nd of February 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Karol Swierczewski, Polish general (d. 1947) |
| 22nd of February 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Thillaiaadi Valliammai, a Tamil satyagrahi from South Africa (d. 1914) |
| 22nd of February 1899 | BIRTHDAY | George O'Hara, American actor (d. 1966) |
| 22nd of February 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (d. 1986) |
| 22nd of February 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Dwight Frye, American actor (d. 1943) |
| 22nd of February 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Bunuel, Spanish-born film director (d. 1983) |
| 22nd of February 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Sean O Faolain, Irish author (d. 1991) |
| 22nd of February 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Fritz Strassmann, German physicist (d. 1980) |
| 22nd of February 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian Nazi (d. 1969) |
| 22nd of February 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer (d. 1990) |
| 22nd of February 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Weede, American baritone (d. 1972) |
| 22nd of February 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Humayun Kabir, Indian educationist and politician (d. 1969) |
| 22nd of February 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Helge Kjaerulff-Schmidt, Danish actor (d. 1982) |
| 22nd of February 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Sheldon Leonard, American actor (d. 1997) |
| 22nd of February 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Young, American actor (d. 1998) |
| 22nd of February 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Romulo Betancourt, Venezuelan president (d. 1981) |
| 22nd of February 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Sir John Mills, English actor (d. 2005) |
| 22nd of February 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Baker, American baseball player (d. 2006) |
| 22nd of February 1913 | BIRTHDAY | George Holmes "Buddy" Tate, American jazz musician (d. 2001) |
| 22nd of February 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Reed, English poet (d. 1986) |
| 22nd of February 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Renato Dulbecco, Nobel laureate |
| 22nd of February 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Jane Bowles, American playwright (d. 1973) |
| 22nd of February 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Sid Abel, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2000) |
| 22nd of February 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Finley, American sports entrepreneur (d. 1996) |
| 22nd of February 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Don Pardo, American announcer |
| 22nd of February 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Wadlow, American tallest ever-human (d. 1940) |
| 22nd of February 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Wayne Booth, American literary critic (d. 2005) |
| 22nd of February 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Bedel Bokassa, Central African Republic leader (d. 1996) |
| 22nd of February 1921 | BIRTHDAY | David Greene, British director (d. 2003) |
| 22nd of February 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Giulietta Masina, Italian actress (d. 1994) |
| 22nd of February 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Apostolos Santas, Greek resistance veteran |
| 22nd of February 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Marshall Teague, American race car driver (d. 1959) |
| 22nd of February 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Jesus Iglesias, Argentine racing driver (d. 2005) |
| 22nd of February 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Bleddyn Williams, Welsh rugby player (d. 2009) |
| 22nd of February 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Gorey, American illustrator (d. 2000) |
| 22nd of February 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Bud Yorkin, American film director |
| 22nd of February 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Kenneth Williams, English actor (d. 1988) |
| 22nd of February 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Florencio Campomanes, Filipino political scientist (d. 2010) |
| 22nd of February 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Dooley, American actor |
| 22nd of February 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Clarence 13X, American religious leader (d. 1969) |
| 22nd of February 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Axel Str?bye, Danish actor (d. 2005) |
| 22nd of February 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Forsyth, British entertainer |
| 22nd of February 1929 | BIRTHDAY | James Hong, American actor |
| 22nd of February 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Rebecca Schull, American actress |
| 22nd of February 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Marni Nixon, American singer |
| 22nd of February 1930 | BIRTHDAY | James McGarrell, American painter |
| 22nd of February 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Ted Kennedy, American politician (d. 2009) |
| 22nd of February 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Smith, English footballer |
| 22nd of February 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Katharine, Duchess of Kent |
| 22nd of February 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Sparky Anderson, American baseball manager (d. 2010) |
| 22nd of February 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Sven Inge, Swedish artist (d. 2008) |
| 22nd of February 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Bodor, Hungarian writer from Transylvania |
| 22nd of February 1936 | BIRTHDAY | J. Michael Bishop, American immunologist and microbiologist; Nobel laureate |
| 22nd of February 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Ernie K-Doe, American singer (d. 2001) |
| 22nd of February 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Barber, American baseball player (d. 2007) |
| 22nd of February 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Ishmael Reed, American writer |
| 22nd of February 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Vallieres, Canadian politician (d. 1995) |
| 22nd of February 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Judy Cornwell, English actress |
| 22nd of February 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Johnson Mlambo, South African politician |
| 22nd of February 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Name, American photographer |
| 22nd of February 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Giorgos Arvanitis, Greek cinematographer |
| 22nd of February 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Hipolito Mejia, Dominican politician |
| 22nd of February 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Christine Keeler, English model and showgirl |
| 22nd of February 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Eagleton, British theorist |
| 22nd of February 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Horst Kohler, President of Germany |
| 22nd of February 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Demme, American director |
| 22nd of February 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Okker, Dutch tennis player |
| 22nd of February 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Kardashian, American lawyer (d. 2003) |
| 22nd of February 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Leslie Charleson, American actress |
| 22nd of February 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Oliver, American singer (d. 2000) |
| 22nd of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Harvey Mason, Jazz drummer |
| 22nd of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Carol Burns, Australian actress |
| 22nd of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Maurizio De Angelis, Italian musician |
| 22nd of February 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Frank P. Tomasulo, American film professor and critic |
| 22nd of February 1948 | BIRTHDAY | John Ashton, American actor |
| 22nd of February 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Niki Lauda, Austrian race car driver and entrepreneur |
| 22nd of February 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Olga Morozova, Russian tennis player |
| 22nd of February 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Julius Erving, American basketball player |
| 22nd of February 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Lenny Kuhr, Dutch singer |
| 22nd of February 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Miou-Miou, French actress |
| 22nd of February 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Genesis P-Orridge, English musician and performer |
| 22nd of February 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Julie Walters, English actress |
| 22nd of February 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Ellen Greene, American actress |
| 22nd of February 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Cyrinda Foxe, American model (d. 2002) |
| 22nd of February 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Frist, American politician |
| 22nd of February 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Nigel Planer, British actor |
| 22nd of February 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Graham Lewis, English musician (Wire) |
| 22nd of February 1955 | BIRTHDAY | David Axelrod, American political consultant |
| 22nd of February 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Young, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 22nd of February 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Gordon Banks, American guitarist |
| 22nd of February 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Jiri Cunek, Czech politician |
| 22nd of February 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Kyle MacLachlan, American actor |
| 22nd of February 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Cullen, American serial killer |
| 22nd of February 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Akira Takasaki, Japanese guitarist |
| 22nd of February 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Irwin, Australian herpetologist (d. 2006) |
| 22nd of February 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Lenda Murray, American bodybuilder |
| 22nd of February 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Les Wallace, Scottish darts player |
| 22nd of February 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Donald Braswell II, American classical crossover singer |
| 22nd of February 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Devon Malcolm, English Cricketer |
| 22nd of February 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Vijay Singh, Fijian golfer |
| 22nd of February 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Gigi Fernandez, Puerto Rican tennis player |
| 22nd of February 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Boon, American video game programmer |
| 22nd of February 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Pat LaFontaine, American ice hockey player |
| 22nd of February 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Dudley, American basketball player |
| 22nd of February 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Dean Karr, American director and photographer |
| 22nd of February 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Rachel Dratch, American actress and comedienne |
| 22nd of February 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Greig, Australian politician |
| 22nd of February 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Thorsten Kaye, German actor |
| 22nd of February 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Aiden Shaw, English pornographic actor |
| 22nd of February 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Alf Poier, Austrian comedian |
| 22nd of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Bradley Nowell, American musician (d. 1996) |
| 22nd of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Shawn Graham, Canadian politician |
| 22nd of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Jeri Ryan, American actress |
| 22nd of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Elna Reinach, South African tennis player |
| 22nd of February 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Jayson Williams, American basketball player |
| 22nd of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Joaquin Cortes, Spanish dancer |
| 22nd of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Jane, American actor |
| 22nd of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Clinton Kelly, American TV personality |
| 22nd of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Klok, Dutch illusionist |
| 22nd of February 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Laudrup, Danish footballer |
| 22nd of February 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Dominic Roussel, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 22nd of February 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Ravi Vakil, Canadian-American mathematician |
| 22nd of February 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Lea Salonga, Filipina actress and singer |
| 22nd of February 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Laurence Leboucher, French cyclist |
| 22nd of February 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Chang, American tennis player |
| 22nd of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Juninho Paulista, Brazilian footballer |
| 22nd of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Einar Kristian Tveita, Norwegian athlete |
| 22nd of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Claus Lundekvam, Norwegian footballer |
| 22nd of February 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Phillips, American Drummer Creed |
| 22nd of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | James Blunt, English musician |
| 22nd of February 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Moyles, English DJ |
| 22nd of February 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Drew Barrymore, American actress |
| 22nd of February 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Faan Rautenbach, South African rugby player |
| 22nd of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Timo Rose, German filmmaker |
| 22nd of February 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Hakan Yakin, Swiss footballer |
| 22nd of February 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Jenny Frost, British singer/presenter/model/DJ (Atomic Kitten) |
| 22nd of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Brett Emerton, Australian footballer |
| 22nd of February 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Na-young, South Korean actress |
| 22nd of February 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Kang Sung Hoon, South Korean singer (Sechs Kies) |
| 22nd of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Fredson Camara, Brazilian footballer |
| 22nd of February 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jeanette Biedermann, German pop singer |
| 22nd of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Dichen Lachman, Australian Actress |
| 22nd of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jenna Haze, American pornographic actress |
| 22nd of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Weiner, Jr., American water polo player |
| 22nd of February 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Shawntae Spencer, American football player |
| 22nd of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Penny Flame, American pornographic actress |
| 22nd of February 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Shaun Tait, Australian cricketer |
| 22nd of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Jodie Rivera, YouTube celebrity |
| 22nd of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Giorgos Printezis, Greek basketball player |
| 22nd of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Branislav Ivanovic, Serbian footballer |
| 22nd of February 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Bowe, Irish rugby player |
| 22nd of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Hameur Bouazza, Algerian footballer |
| 22nd of February 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Garballey, American politician |
| 22nd of February 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Miko Hughes, American actor |
| 22nd of February 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Rajon Rondo, American basketball player |
| 22nd of February 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Han Hyo-joo, South Korean actress and model |
| 22nd of February 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Ximena Navarrete, Mexican beauty queen, Miss Universe 2010 |
| 22nd of February 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Borlee, Belgian athlete |
| 22nd of February 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Sundstrand, Swedish singer (Play) |
| 22nd of February 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Alia Sabur, American college educator |
| 22nd of February 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Luca Profeta, Italian footballer |
| 22nd of February 0965 | DEATH | Otto, Duke of Burgundy (Born 944) |
| 22nd of February 1071 | DEATH | Arnulf III, Count of Flanders (killed in battle) (Born c. 1055) |
| 22nd of February 1111 | DEATH | Roger Borsa, King of Sicily |
| 22nd of February 1371 | DEATH | King David II of Scotland (Born 1324) |
| 22nd of February 1511 | DEATH | Henry, Duke of Cornwall, son of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon |
| 22nd of February 1512 | DEATH | Amerigo Vespucci, Italian merchant and explorer (Born 1454) |
| 22nd of February 1627 | DEATH | Olivier van Noort, Dutch navigator (Born 1558) |
| 22nd of February 1674 | DEATH | Jean Chapelain, French writer (Born 1595) |
| 22nd of February 1680 | DEATH | Catherine Monvoisin, French sorceress (Born c. 1640) |
| 22nd of February 1690 | DEATH | Charles Le Brun, French artist (Born 1619) |
| 22nd of February 1727 | DEATH | Francesco Gasparini, Italian composer (Born 1661) |
| 22nd of February 1731 | DEATH | Frederik Ruysch, Dutch physician and anatomist (Born 1638) |
| 22nd of February 1732 | DEATH | Francis Atterbury, English bishop and man of letters (Born 1663) |
| 22nd of February 1742 | DEATH | Charles Rivington, English publisher (Born 1688) |
| 22nd of February 1797 | DEATH | Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Munchhausen, German officer and adventurer (Born 1720) |
| 22nd of February 1799 | DEATH | Heshen, infamous Qing Dynasty Chinese official at court (Born 1750) |
| 22nd of February 1816 | DEATH | Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher and historian (Born 1723) |
| 22nd of February 1875 | DEATH | Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter (Born 1796) |
| 22nd of February 1875 | DEATH | Sir Charles Lyell, Scottish geologist (Born 1797) |
| 22nd of February 1890 | DEATH | John Jacob Astor III, American businessman (Born 1822) |
| 22nd of February 1890 | DEATH | Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter (Born 1834) |
| 22nd of February 1892 | DEATH | Herman Koeckemann, German Catholic prelate (Born 1828) |
| 22nd of February 1903 | DEATH | Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (Born 1860) |
| 22nd of February 1904 | DEATH | Leslie Stephen, English writer and critic (Born 1832) |
| 22nd of February 1913 | DEATH | Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist (Born 1857) |
| 22nd of February 1914 | DEATH | Thillaiaadi Valliammai, a Tamil satyagrahi from South Africa (Born 1898) |
| 22nd of February 1921 | DEATH | Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (Born 1864) |
| 22nd of February 1923 | DEATH | Theophile Delcasse, French statesman (Born 1852) |
| 22nd of February 1934 | DEATH | Willem Kes, Dutch conductor (Born 1856) |
| 22nd of February 1939 | DEATH | Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (Born 1875) |
| 22nd of February 1942 | DEATH | Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer (Born 1881) |
| 22nd of February 1943 | DEATH | Christoph Probst, German resistance fighter (Born 1919) |
| 22nd of February 1943 | DEATH | Sophie Scholl, German resistance fighter (Born 1921) |
| 22nd of February 1943 | DEATH | Hans Scholl, German resistance fighter (Born 1918) |
| 22nd of February 1944 | DEATH | Kasturba Gandhi, wife of Mohandas Gandhi (Born 1869) |
| 22nd of February 1945 | DEATH | Osip Brik, Russian writer (Born 1888) |
| 22nd of February 1956 | DEATH | Alexandros Svolos, Greek legal expert and politician (Born 1892) |
| 22nd of February 1958 | DEATH | Abul Kalam Azad, Indian independence movement leader (Born 1888) |
| 22nd of February 1960 | DEATH | Paul-Emile Borduas, Canadian painter (Born 1905) |
| 22nd of February 1961 | DEATH | Nick LaRocca, American jazz musician (Born 1889) |
| 22nd of February 1965 | DEATH | Felix Frankfurter, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (Born 1882) |
| 22nd of February 1968 | DEATH | Peter Arno, American cartoonist (Born 1904) |
| 22nd of February 1973 | DEATH | Jean-Jacques Bertrand, Canadian politician, Premier of Quebec (Born 1916) |
| 22nd of February 1973 | DEATH | Katina Paxinou, Greek actress (Born 1900) |
| 22nd of February 1974 | DEATH | Samuel Byck, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (Born 1930) |
| 22nd of February 1976 | DEATH | Angela Baddeley, English actress (Born 1904) |
| 22nd of February 1976 | DEATH | Florence Ballard, American singer (The Supremes) (Born 1943) |
| 22nd of February 1979 | DEATH | Sigrid Schauman, Finnish painter (Born 1877) |
| 22nd of February 1980 | DEATH | Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian artist (Born 1886) |
| 22nd of February 1981 | DEATH | Michael Maltese, American screenwriter (Born 1908) |
| 22nd of February 1982 | DEATH | Josh Malihabadi, Urdu poet of India and Pakistan (Born 1898) |
| 22nd of February 1983 | DEATH | Sir Adrian Boult, English conductor (Born 1889) |
| 22nd of February 1983 | DEATH | Romain Maes, Belgian cyclist (Born 1913) |
| 22nd of February 1985 | DEATH | Salvador Espriu, Spanish poet (Born 1913) |
| 22nd of February 1985 | DEATH | Alexander Scourby, American actor (Born 1913) |
| 22nd of February 1985 | DEATH | Efrem Zimbalist, Russian violinist (Born 1889) |
| 22nd of February 1987 | DEATH | Andy Warhol, American artist, director, and writer (Born 1928) |
| 22nd of February 1989 | DEATH | Moises da Costa Amaral, East Timorese leader, UDT President in the exterior (Born 1938) |
| 22nd of February 1994 | DEATH | Papa John Creach, American musician (Born 1917) |
| 22nd of February 1995 | DEATH | Ed Flanders, American actor (Born 1934) |
| 22nd of February 1997 | DEATH | Joseph Aiuppa, American gangster (Born 1907) |
| 22nd of February 1998 | DEATH | Abraham Ribicoff, American politician (Born 1910) |
| 22nd of February 1999 | DEATH | Menno Oosting, Dutch tennis player (Born 1964) |
| 22nd of February 2000 | DEATH | Fernando Buesa, Spanish politician (Born 1946) |
| 22nd of February 2001 | DEATH | Les Medley, English footballer (Born1920) |
| 22nd of February 2002 | DEATH | Daniel Pearl, American journalist (Born 1963) |
| 22nd of February 2002 | DEATH | Chuck Jones, American cartoonist (Born 1912) |
| 22nd of February 2002 | DEATH | Jonas Savimbi, Angolan rebel and political leader (Born 1934) |
| 22nd of February 2002 | DEATH | Roden Cutler, Australian diplomat and war hero (Born 1916) |
| 22nd of February 2003 | DEATH | Daniel Taradash, American screenwriter (Born 1913) |
| 22nd of February 2004 | DEATH | Roque Maspoli, Uruguayan footballer (Born 1917) |
| 22nd of February 2004 | DEATH | Andy Seminick, American baseball player (Born 1920) |
| 22nd of February 2005 | DEATH | Zdzis?aw Beksinski, Polish artist (Born 1929) |
| 22nd of February 2005 | DEATH | Simone Simon, French actress (Born 1910) |
| 22nd of February 2005 | DEATH | Lee Eun Ju, Korean actress (Born 1980) |
| 22nd of February 2006 | DEATH | Anthony Burger, American musician and singer (Born 1961) |
| 22nd of February 2007 | DEATH | Dennis Johnson, American basketball player (Born 1954) |
| 22nd of February 2007 | DEATH | Samuel Hinga Norman, Sierra Leonean alleged war criminal (Born 1940) |
| 22nd of February 2007 | DEATH | Howard Verne Ramsey, oldest U.S. veteran of WWI (Born 1898) |
| 22nd of February 2007 | DEATH | George Jellicoe, Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords & Special Boat Service veteran (Born 1918) |
| 22nd of February 2011 | DEATH | Nicholas Courtney, British actor (Born 1929) |