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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 22nd of August 0392 | EVENT | Arbogast has Eugenius elected Western Roman Emperor. |
| 22nd of August 0476 | EVENT | Odoacer is named Rex italiae by his troops. |
| 22nd of August 0565 | EVENT | St. Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland. |
| 22nd of August 0851 | EVENT | Erispoe defeats Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland. |
| 22nd of August 1138 | EVENT | Battle of the Standard between Scotland and England. |
| 22nd of August 1485 | EVENT | The Battle of Bosworth Field, the death of Richard III and the end of the House of Plantagenet. |
| 22nd of August 1559 | EVENT | Bartolome Carranza, Spanish archbishop, is arrested for heresy. |
| 22nd of August 1639 | EVENT | Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers. |
| 22nd of August 1642 | EVENT | Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors. The English Civil War begins. |
| 22nd of August 1654 | EVENT | Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam. He is the first known Jewish immigrant to America. |
| 22nd of August 1717 | EVENT | Spanish troops land on Sardinia. |
| 22nd of August 1770 | EVENT | James Cook's expedition lands on the east coast of Australia. |
| 22nd of August 1780 | EVENT | James Cook's ship HMS Resolution returns to England (Cook having been killed on Hawaii during the voyage). |
| 22nd of August 1791 | EVENT | Beginning of the Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue. |
| 22nd of August 1798 | EVENT | French troops land in Kilcummin harbour, County Mayo, Ireland to aid Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen's Irish Rebellion. |
| 22nd of August 1827 | EVENT | Jose de La Mar becomes President of Peru. |
| 22nd of August 1831 | EVENT | Nat Turner's slave rebellion commences just after midnight in Southampton, Virginia, leading to the deaths of more than 50 whites and several hundred African Americans who are killed in retaliation for the uprising. |
| 22nd of August 1848 | EVENT | The United States annexes New Mexico. |
| 22nd of August 1849 | EVENT | The first air raid in history. Austria launches pilotless balloons against the city of Venice. |
| 22nd of August 1851 | EVENT | The first America's Cup is won by the yacht America. |
| 22nd of August 1864 | EVENT | 12 nations sign the First Geneva Convention. The Red Cross is formed. |
| 22nd of August 1875 | EVENT | The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands. |
| 22nd of August 1902 | EVENT | Cadillac Motor Company is founded. |
| 22nd of August 1902 | EVENT | Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to ride in an automobile. |
| 22nd of August 1910 | EVENT | Korea is annexed by Japan with the signing of the Japan : Korea Annexation Treaty, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II. |
| 22nd of August 1911 | EVENT | Mona Lisa is stolen. |
| 22nd of August 1914 | EVENT | World War I: in Belgium, British and German troops clash for the first time in the war. |
| 22nd of August 1922 | EVENT | Michael Collins, Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army is shot dead during an Anti-Treaty ambush at Beal na mBlath, County Cork, during the Irish Civil War. |
| 22nd of August 1926 | EVENT | Gold is discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa. |
| 22nd of August 1932 | EVENT | The BBC first experiments with television broadcasting. (See also Timeline of the BBC.) |
| 22nd of August 1934 | EVENT | Bill Woodfull of Australia becomes the only cricket captain to twice regain The Ashes. |
| 22nd of August 1941 | EVENT | World War II: German troops reach Leningrad, leading to the siege of Leningrad. |
| 22nd of August 1942 | EVENT | World War II: Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy. |
| 22nd of August 1944 | EVENT | World War II: Romania is captured by the Soviet Union. |
| 22nd of August 1944 | EVENT | World War II: Holocaust of Kedros in Crete by German forces |
| 22nd of August 1949 | EVENT | Queen Charlotte earthquake: Canada's largest earthquake since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake |
| 22nd of August 1950 | EVENT | Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis. |
| 22nd of August 1952 | EVENT | The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed. |
| 22nd of August 1962 | EVENT | An attempt to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle fails. |
| 22nd of August 1962 | EVENT | The NS Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered cargo ship, completes its maiden voyage. |
| 22nd of August 1963 | EVENT | American Joe Walker in an X-15 test plane reaches an altitude of 106 km (66 mi). |
| 22nd of August 1966 | EVENT | Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers. |
| 22nd of August 1968 | EVENT | Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota, Colombia. It is the first visit of a pope to Latin America. |
| 22nd of August 1971 | EVENT | J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28. |
| 22nd of August 1972 | EVENT | Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies. |
| 22nd of August 1978 | EVENT | The Frente Sandinista de Liberacion or FSLN occupies national palace in Nicaragua. |
| 22nd of August 1985 | EVENT | Manchester Air Disaster sees 55 people killed when a fire breaks out on a commercial aircraft at Manchester Airport. |
| 22nd of August 1989 | EVENT | Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts. |
| 22nd of August 1989 | EVENT | The first ring of Neptune is discovered. |
| 22nd of August 1992 | EVENT | FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi shoots and kills Vicki Weaver during an 11-day siege at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. |
| 22nd of August 1996 | EVENT | Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in US welfare policy |
| 22nd of August 2003 | EVENT | Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building. |
| 22nd of August 2004 | EVENT | A version of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway. |
| 22nd of August 2006 | EVENT | Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border over eastern Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board. |
| 22nd of August 2007 | EVENT | The Texas Rangers rout the Baltimore Orioles 30-3, the most runs scored by a team in modern MLB history. |
| 22nd of August 2007 | EVENT | The Storm botnet, a botnet created by the Storm Worm, sends out a record 57 million e-mails in one day |
| 22nd of August 1601 | BIRTHDAY | Georges de Scudery, French writer (d. 1667) |
| 22nd of August 1624 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (d. 1701) |
| 22nd of August 1647 | BIRTHDAY | Denis Papin, French physicist and inventor (d. c. 1712) |
| 22nd of August 1679 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Guerin de Tencin, French cardinal (d. 1758) |
| 22nd of August 1760 | BIRTHDAY | Pope Leo XII (d. 1829) |
| 22nd of August 1764 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Percier, French architect (d. 1838) |
| 22nd of August 1771 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Maudslay, English inventor (d. 1831) |
| 22nd of August 1773 | BIRTHDAY | Aime Bonpland, French explorer (d. 1858) |
| 22nd of August 1779 | BIRTHDAY | James Kirke Paulding, American author (d. 1860) |
| 22nd of August 1800 | BIRTHDAY | William S. Harney, U.S. general (d. 1889) |
| 22nd of August 1800 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar (d. 1865) |
| 22nd of August 1811 | BIRTHDAY | William Kelly, American inventor (d. 1888) |
| 22nd of August 1822 | BIRTHDAY | Virginia Clemm Poe, wife of Edgar Allan Poe (d. 1847) |
| 22nd of August 1827 | BIRTHDAY | Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman, industrialist and politician (d. 1906) |
| 22nd of August 1834 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Pierpont Langley, American astronomer (d. 1906) |
| 22nd of August 1836 | BIRTHDAY | Archibald MacNeal Willard, American artist (d. 1918) |
| 22nd of August 1845 | BIRTHDAY | William Lewis Douglas, 42nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1924) |
| 22nd of August 1848 | BIRTHDAY | Melville E. Stone, American newspaper publisher (d. 1929) |
| 22nd of August 1854 | BIRTHDAY | Milan I, King of Serbia (d. 1901) |
| 22nd of August 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Ned Hanlon, American baseball player and manager (d. 1937) |
| 22nd of August 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Eleonore of Reuss-Kostritz, tsaritsa of Bulgaria (d. 1917) |
| 22nd of August 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, German inventor (d. 1940) |
| 22nd of August 1862 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Debussy, French composer (d. 1918) |
| 22nd of August 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (d. 1939) |
| 22nd of August 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher (d. 1928) |
| 22nd of August 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Max Scheler, German philosopher (d. 1928) |
| 22nd of August 1880 | BIRTHDAY | George Herriman, American cartoonist (d. 1944) |
| 22nd of August 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Gorch Fock, German author and poet (d. 1916) |
| 22nd of August 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German minister of finance (d. 1977) |
| 22nd of August 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Lipchitz, Lithuanian/American sculptor (d. 1973) |
| 22nd of August 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Dorothy Parker, American writer (d. 1967) |
| 22nd of August 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Wilfred Kitching, British Salvation Army general (d. 1977) |
| 22nd of August 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Comtois, French Canadian politician (d. 1966) |
| 22nd of August 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Sergei Ozhegov, Russian lexicographer (d. 1964) |
| 22nd of August 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (d. 2003) |
| 22nd of August 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Pelly, American politician (d. 1973) |
| 22nd of August 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Deng Xiaoping, Chinese statesman (d. 1997) |
| 22nd of August 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (d. 2004) |
| 22nd of August 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Erwin Thiesies, German rugby player and coach (d. 1993) |
| 22nd of August 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (d. 2000) |
| 22nd of August 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Mel Hein, American football player (d. 1992) |
| 22nd of August 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Lucille Ricksen, American actress (d. 1925) |
| 22nd of August 1912 | BIRTHDAY | John Lee Hooker, American musician (d. 2001) |
| 22nd of August 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (d. 1993) |
| 22nd of August 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Leonard Pagliero, British stationer (d. 2008) |
| 22nd of August 1915 | BIRTHDAY | James Hillier, Canadian-born American scientist and inventor (d. 2007) |
| 22nd of August 1915 | BIRTHDAY | David Dellinger, American social rights activist (d. 2004) |
| 22nd of August 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Hugh Paddick, British actor (d. 2000) |
| 22nd of August 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Szczepanik, Polish politician (d. 2005) |
| 22nd of August 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Mary McGrory, American journalist (d. 2004) |
| 22nd of August 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Denton Cooley, American heart surgeon |
| 22nd of August 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Bradbury, American writer |
| 22nd of August 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Dinos Dimopoulos, Greek film director and screenwriter (d. 2003) |
| 22nd of August 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Micheline Presle, French actress |
| 22nd of August 1925 | BIRTHDAY | James Kirkwood, Jr., American playwright and author (d. 1989) |
| 22nd of August 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Honor Blackman, English actress |
| 22nd of August 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (d. 2007) |
| 22nd of August 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Tinga Seisay, Sierra Leonean diplomat and pro-democracy advocate |
| 22nd of August 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Gilmar, Brazilian football player |
| 22nd of August 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Gerald P. Carr, American astronaut |
| 22nd of August 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Norman Schwarzkopf, U.S. general |
| 22nd of August 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Donald McIntyre, English bass-baritone |
| 22nd of August 1935 | BIRTHDAY | E. Annie Proulx, American author |
| 22nd of August 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Dale Hawkins, American singer and songwriter (d. 2010) |
| 22nd of August 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Werner Stengel, German roller coaster designer and engineer |
| 22nd of August 1936 | BIRTHDAY | John Callaway, American journalist (d. 2009) |
| 22nd of August 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Maguire, American football commentator |
| 22nd of August 1939 | BIRTHDAY | George Reinholt, American actor |
| 22nd of August 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Yastrzemski, American baseball player |
| 22nd of August 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Valerie Harper, American actress |
| 22nd of August 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Bill McCartney, American football coach |
| 22nd of August 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Hannspeter Winter, Austrian plasma physicist |
| 22nd of August 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Parcells, American football coach |
| 22nd of August 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Ugur Mumcu, Turkish journalist and writer (d. 1993) |
| 22nd of August 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Masatoshi Shima, Japanese computer scientist |
| 22nd of August 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Hofmann, Czech-born German operatic tenor (d. 2010) |
| 22nd of August 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Dante, American songwriter and record producer (The Archies) |
| 22nd of August 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Erol Gelenbe, Turkish computer scientist and mathematician |
| 22nd of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Cindy Williams, American actress |
| 22nd of August 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Donna Godchaux, American singer (Grateful Dead) |
| 22nd of August 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Eleonora Brown, Italian actress |
| 22nd of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Doug Bair, baseball player |
| 22nd of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Diana Nyad, American swimmer |
| 22nd of August 1949 | BIRTHDAY | ?orarinn Eldjarn, Icelandic writer |
| 22nd of August 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Burris, American baseball player |
| 22nd of August 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Lewis Libby, American White House Chief of Staff for George W. Bush |
| 22nd of August 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Chandra Prakash Mainali, Nepalese politician |
| 22nd of August 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Laughner, American musician (Rocket From the Tombs, Pere Ubu) (d. 1977) |
| 22nd of August 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Ellering, American wrestling manager |
| 22nd of August 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Will Shetterly, American writer |
| 22nd of August 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Chiranjeevi, Indian film actor |
| 22nd of August 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Molitor, baseball player |
| 22nd of August 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Davis, English snooker player |
| 22nd of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Colm Feore, American actor |
| 22nd of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Vernon Reid, American musician (Living Colour) |
| 22nd of August 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Lane Huffman, American professional wrestler |
| 22nd of August 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Croucier, American musician |
| 22nd of August 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Pia Gjellerup, Danish politician |
| 22nd of August 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Holger Gehrke, German footballer |
| 22nd of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Andres Calamaro, Argentine musician |
| 22nd of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Roland Orzabal, British musician (Tears for Fears) |
| 22nd of August 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Debbi Peterson, American musician (The Bangles) |
| 22nd of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Tori Amos, American singer/songwriter |
| 22nd of August 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Catledge, American basketball player |
| 22nd of August 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Mats Wilander, Swedish tennis player |
| 22nd of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Courtney Gains, American actor |
| 22nd of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Gibis, American voice actor |
| 22nd of August 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Chen Liping, Singaporean actress |
| 22nd of August 1966 | BIRTHDAY | GZA, American rapper |
| 22nd of August 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Andolsek, American football player (d. 1992) |
| 22nd of August 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Witschge, Dutch footballer |
| 22nd of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Gough, American screenwriter |
| 22nd of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Ant, American comedian |
| 22nd of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, British actor |
| 22nd of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Yukiko Okada, Japanese singer (d. 1986) |
| 22nd of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Layne Staley, American musician (Alice in Chains) (d. 2002) |
| 22nd of August 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Ty Burrell, American actor |
| 22nd of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Colman, Australian guitarist (Newsboys) |
| 22nd of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Rich Lowry, American magazine editor |
| 22nd of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Mostovoi, Russian footballer |
| 22nd of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Casper Christensen, Danish comedian |
| 22nd of August 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Horst Skoff, Austrian tennis player (d. 2008) |
| 22nd of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Giada De Laurentiis, Italian-born American chef and television host |
| 22nd of August 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Connelly, English writer |
| 22nd of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Armitage, English actor |
| 22nd of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Finn, American musician (The Hold Steady) |
| 22nd of August 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Yune, American actor |
| 22nd of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Okkert Brits, South African pole vaulter |
| 22nd of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Kline, American baseball player |
| 22nd of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Doucette, American drummer (Matchbox 20) |
| 22nd of August 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Max Wilson, Brazilian racing driver |
| 22nd of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Kristen Wiig, American comedian |
| 22nd of August 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Howie Dorough, American singer (Backstreet Boys) |
| 22nd of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Agustin Pichot, Argentine rugby player |
| 22nd of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Stefano Verderi, Italian guitarist |
| 22nd of August 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Brimstone, American professional wrestler |
| 22nd of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Clint Bolton, Australian footballer |
| 22nd of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Sheree Murphy, British actress |
| 22nd of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Davor Krznaric, Croatian footballer |
| 22nd of August 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Rodrigo Santoro, Brazilian actor |
| 22nd of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Hei?ar Helguson, Icelandic footballer |
| 22nd of August 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jenna Leigh Green, American actress |
| 22nd of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Giannis Gagaloudis, Greek basketball player |
| 22nd of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Petrie, British television presenter |
| 22nd of August 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Stinco, Canadian musician (Simple Plan) |
| 22nd of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Brandon Quintin Adams, American actor |
| 22nd of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Finnigan, Canadian-born actress |
| 22nd of August 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Walters, American football player |
| 22nd of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolas Macrozonaris, French-Canadian track-and-field athlete |
| 22nd of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Christi Shake, American model and actress |
| 22nd of August 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Roland Benschneider, German footballer |
| 22nd of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Holmes, American football player |
| 22nd of August 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Saito Takumi, Japanese actor and model |
| 22nd of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Theo Bos, Dutch cyclist |
| 22nd of August 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Laura Breckenridge, American actress |
| 22nd of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Camp, English footballer |
| 22nd of August 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Lawrence Quaye, Ghanaian : Qatari footballer |
| 22nd of August 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Kether Donahue, American voice actress |
| 22nd of August 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Solofa Fatu, American wrestler |
| 22nd of August 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Joshua Samuel Fatu, American wrestler |
| 22nd of August 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Keiko Kitagawa, Japanese actress |
| 22nd of August 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Leonardo Moracci, Italian footballer |
| 22nd of August 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Brayden Schenn, Canadian hockey player |
| 22nd of August 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Federico Macheda, Italian footballer |
| 22nd of August 0408 | DEATH | Stilicho, Roman general (Born 359) |
| 22nd of August 1155 | DEATH | Konoe, Emperor of Japan (Born 1139) |
| 22nd of August 1188 | DEATH | Ferdinand II, King of Leon (Born 1137) |
| 22nd of August 1241 | DEATH | Pope Gregory IX, (Born c.1143) |
| 22nd of August 1280 | DEATH | Pope Nicholas III (Born c.1216) |
| 22nd of August 1304 | DEATH | John II, Count of Hainaut (Born 1247) |
| 22nd of August 1350 | DEATH | Philip VI, King of France (Born 1293) |
| 22nd of August 1358 | DEATH | Isabella, Queen of England (Born c. 1295) |
| 22nd of August 1485 | DEATH | Richard III, King of England (Born 1452) |
| 22nd of August 1553 | DEATH | John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English admiral and politician (Born 1504) |
| 22nd of August 1572 | DEATH | Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland (Born 1528) |
| 22nd of August 1584 | DEATH | Jan Kochanowski, Polish writer (Born 1530) |
| 22nd of August 1599 | DEATH | Luca Marenzio, Italian composer (Born c.1553) |
| 22nd of August 1607 | DEATH | Bartholomew Gosnold, English explorer and privateer (Born 1572) |
| 22nd of August 1609 | DEATH | Maharal of Prague, Jewish mystic and philosopher (Born 1525) |
| 22nd of August 1652 | DEATH | Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (Born 1583) |
| 22nd of August 1680 | DEATH | John George II, Elector of Saxony (Born 1613) |
| 22nd of August 1701 | DEATH | John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (Born 1628) |
| 22nd of August 1711 | DEATH | Louis Francois, duc de Boufflers, French marshal (Born 1644) |
| 22nd of August 1752 | DEATH | William Whiston, English mathematician (Born 1667) |
| 22nd of August 1773 | DEATH | George Lyttelton, English writer and politician (Born 1709) |
| 22nd of August 1793 | DEATH | Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, Marshal of France (Born 1713) |
| 22nd of August 1793 | DEATH | Cacilia Weber, German mother-in-law of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Born 1727) |
| 22nd of August 1797 | DEATH | Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Alsatian-born Austrian general (Born 1724) |
| 22nd of August 1806 | DEATH | Jean-Honore Fragonard, French artist (Born 1732) |
| 22nd of August 1818 | DEATH | Warren Hastings, British Governor-General of India (Born 1732) |
| 22nd of August 1828 | DEATH | Franz Joseph Gall, Austrian neuroscientist (Born 1758) |
| 22nd of August 1850 | DEATH | Nikolaus Lenau, Austrian poet (Born 1802) |
| 22nd of August 1861 | DEATH | Xianfeng, Emperor of China (Born 1831) |
| 22nd of August 1891 | DEATH | Jan Neruda, Czech author (Born 1834) |
| 22nd of August 1903 | DEATH | Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Born 1830) |
| 22nd of August 1904 | DEATH | Kate Chopin, American author (Born 1850) |
| 22nd of August 1909 | DEATH | Henry Radcliffe Crocker, British dermatologist (Born 1846) |
| 22nd of August 1914 | DEATH | Giacomo Radini-Tedeschi Italian religious figure (Born 1859) |
| 22nd of August 1918 | DEATH | Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist (Born 1868) |
| 22nd of August 1922 | DEATH | Michael Collins, Irish revolutionary (Born 1890) |
| 22nd of August 1926 | DEATH | Charles William Eliot, American University president (Born 1834) |
| 22nd of August 1940 | DEATH | Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, English physicist (Born 1851) |
| 22nd of August 1942 | DEATH | Michel Fokine, Russian choreographer and dancer (Born 1880) |
| 22nd of August 1950 | DEATH | Kirk Bryan, American geologist (Born 1888) |
| 22nd of August 1951 | DEATH | J. P. Bickell, Canadian businessman and sports team owner (Born 1884) |
| 22nd of August 1953 | DEATH | Jim Tabor, American baseball player (Born 1916) |
| 22nd of August 1958 | DEATH | Roger Martin du Gard, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1881) |
| 22nd of August 1960 | DEATH | Eduard Putsep, Estonian wrestler (Born 1898) |
| 22nd of August 1965 | DEATH | Ellen Church, American airline stewardess (Born 1904) |
| 22nd of August 1967 | DEATH | Gregory Goodwin Pincus, American endocrinologist (Born 1903) |
| 22nd of August 1970 | DEATH | Vladimir Propp, Russian structuralist scholar (Born 1895) |
| 22nd of August 1973 | DEATH | Louise Huff, American actress (Born 1895) |
| 22nd of August 1974 | DEATH | Jacob Bronowski, Polish-English mathematician & TV presenter (Born 1908) |
| 22nd of August 1976 | DEATH | Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, President of Brazil (Born 1902) |
| 22nd of August 1976 | DEATH | Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist (Born 1913) |
| 22nd of August 1977 | DEATH | Sebastian Cabot, English-born actor (Born 1918) |
| 22nd of August 1978 | DEATH | Jomo Kenyatta, first President of Kenya (Born c.1892) |
| 22nd of August 1979 | DEATH | James T. Farrell, American novelist (Born 1904) |
| 22nd of August 1980 | DEATH | James Smith McDonnell, American aircraft manufacturer (Born 1899) |
| 22nd of August 1980 | DEATH | Alfred Neubauer, German racing team manager (Born 1891) |
| 22nd of August 1989 | DEATH | Robert Grondelaers, Belgian cyclist (Born 1933) |
| 22nd of August 1989 | DEATH | Huey P. Newton, American activist (Born 1942) |
| 22nd of August 1991 | DEATH | Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian actress (Born 1924) |
| 22nd of August 1994 | DEATH | Gilles Groulx, French-Canadian film director (Born 1931) |
| 22nd of August 2003 | DEATH | Generosa Ammon, American widow of Ted Ammon (Born 1956) |
| 22nd of August 2003 | DEATH | Arnold Gerschwiler, Swiss figure skating trainer (Born 1914) |
| 22nd of August 2003 | DEATH | Imperio Argentina, Argentinian singer and actress (Born 1906) |
| 22nd of August 2004 | DEATH | Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player (Born 1960) |
| 22nd of August 2004 | DEATH | Daniel Petrie, Canadian television and movie director (Born 1920) |
| 22nd of August 2004 | DEATH | Al Dvorin, American Elvis Presley concert announcer (Born 1922) |
| 22nd of August 2005 | DEATH | Luc Ferrari, French composer (Born 1929) |
| 22nd of August 2005 | DEATH | Ernest Kirkendall, American scientist (Born 1914) |
| 22nd of August 2006 | DEATH | Bruce Gary, American rock drummer (The Knack) (Born 1951) |
| 22nd of August 2008 | DEATH | Gladys Powers, Canadian World War I veteran (Born 1899) |
| 22nd of August 2009 | DEATH | Elmer Kelton, American Western novelist (Born 1926) |
| 22nd of August 2010 | DEATH | Stjepan Bobek, Yugoslav football player (Born 1923) |