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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 22nd of January 0565 | EVENT | Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus. |
| 22nd of January 1506 | EVENT | The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrives at the Vatican. |
| 22nd of January 1521 | EVENT | Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, opens the Diet of Worms. |
| 22nd of January 1689 | EVENT | The Convention Parliament convenes to determine if James II, the last Roman Catholic king of England, had vacated the throne when he fled to France in 1688. |
| 22nd of January 1771 | EVENT | Spain cedes Port Egmont in the Falkland Islands to the United Kingdom. |
| 22nd of January 1824 | EVENT | Ashantis defeat British forces in the Gold Coast. |
| 22nd of January 1849 | EVENT | Second Anglo-Sikh War: The Siege of Multan ends after nine months when the last Sikh defenders of Multan, Punjab, surrender. |
| 22nd of January 1863 | EVENT | The January Uprising breaks out in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. The aim of the national movement is to regain Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth from occupation by Russia. |
| 22nd of January 1877 | EVENT | Arthur Tooth, an Anglican clergyman is taken into custody after being prosecuted for using ritualist practices. |
| 22nd of January 1879 | EVENT | Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Isandlwana : Zulu troops defeat British troops. |
| 22nd of January 1879 | EVENT | Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Rorke's Drift : 139 British soldiers successfully defend their garrison against an intense assault by four to five thousand Zulu warriors. |
| 22nd of January 1889 | EVENT | Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C. |
| 22nd of January 1890 | EVENT | The United Mine Workers of America is founded in Columbus, Ohio. |
| 22nd of January 1899 | EVENT | Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss confederation. |
| 22nd of January 1901 | EVENT | Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria. |
| 22nd of January 1905 | EVENT | Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution. |
| 22nd of January 1906 | EVENT | SS Valencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130. |
| 22nd of January 1915 | EVENT | Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon. |
| 22nd of January 1917 | EVENT | World War I: President Woodrow Wilson of the still-neutral United States calls for "peace without victory" in Europe. |
| 22nd of January 1919 | EVENT | Act Zluky is signed, unifying the Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian National Republic. |
| 22nd of January 1924 | EVENT | Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. |
| 22nd of January 1927 | EVENT | First live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury. |
| 22nd of January 1941 | EVENT | World War II: British and Commonwealth troops capture Tobruk from Italian forces during Operation Compass. |
| 22nd of January 1944 | EVENT | World War II: The Allies commence Operation Shingle, an assault on Anzio, Italy. |
| 22nd of January 1946 | EVENT | Iran: Qazi Muhammad declares the independent people's Republic of Mahabad at Chuwarchira Square in the Kurdish city of Mahabad. He is the new president; Hadschi Baba Scheich is the prime minister. |
| 22nd of January 1946 | EVENT | Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency. |
| 22nd of January 1947 | EVENT | KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood, California. |
| 22nd of January 1957 | EVENT | Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula. |
| 22nd of January 1957 | EVENT | The New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs. |
| 22nd of January 1959 | EVENT | Knox Mine Disaster: Water breaches the River Slope Mine near Pittston City, Pennsylvania in Port Griffith; 12 miners are killed. |
| 22nd of January 1962 | EVENT | The Organization of American States suspends Cuba's membership. |
| 22nd of January 1963 | EVENT | The Elysee treaty of cooperation between France and Germany is signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer. |
| 22nd of January 1968 | EVENT | Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system to stop communist infiltration into South Vietnam begins installation. |
| 22nd of January 1968 | EVENT | Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space. |
| 22nd of January 1969 | EVENT | A gunman attempts to assassinate Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. |
| 22nd of January 1970 | EVENT | The Boeing 747, the world's first "jumbo jet", enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport. |
| 22nd of January 1971 | EVENT | The Singapore Declaration, one of the two most important documents to the uncodified constitution of the Commonwealth of Nations, is issued. |
| 22nd of January 1973 | EVENT | The Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decision in Roe v. Wade, legalizing elective abortion in all fifty states. |
| 22nd of January 1973 | EVENT | A chartered Boeing 707 explodes in flames upon landing at Kano Airport, Nigeria, killing 176. |
| 22nd of January 1984 | EVENT | The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during Super Bowl XVIII with its famous "1984" television commercial. |
| 22nd of January 1987 | EVENT | Philippine security forces open fire on a crowd of 10,000 : 15,000 demonstrators at Malacanang Palace, Manila, killing 13. |
| 22nd of January 1987 | EVENT | Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shoots and kills himself during a televised press conference, leading to debates on boundaries in journalism. |
| 22nd of January 1989 | EVENT | Philippine security forces open fire on a crowd of 10,000 : 15,000 demonstrators at Malacanang Palace, Manila, killing 13. |
| 22nd of January 1990 | EVENT | Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the 1988 Internet Computer worm. |
| 22nd of January 1991 | EVENT | Gulf War: Three SCUDs and one Patriot missile hit Ramat Gan in Israel, injuring 96 people. Three elderly people die of heart attacks. |
| 22nd of January 1992 | EVENT | Rebel forces occupy Zaire's national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation. |
| 22nd of January 1995 | EVENT | Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Beit Lid massacre : In central Israel, near Netanya, two suicide bombers from the Gaza Strip blow themselves up at a military transit point killing 19 Israelis. |
| 22nd of January 1999 | EVENT | Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India. |
| 22nd of January 2002 | EVENT | Kmart becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. |
| 22nd of January 2006 | EVENT | Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president. |
| 22nd of January 2007 | EVENT | At least 88 people are killed when two car bombs explode in the Bab Al-Sharqi market in central Baghdad, Iraq. |
| 22nd of January 1263 | BIRTHDAY | Ibn Taymiya, Islamic scholar (d. 1328) |
| 22nd of January 1440 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan III of Russia (d. 1505) |
| 22nd of January 1553 | BIRTHDAY | Mori Terumoto, Japanese warrior (d. 1625) |
| 22nd of January 1561 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher (d. 1626) |
| 22nd of January 1570 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, English politician (d. 1631) |
| 22nd of January 1592 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (d. 1655) |
| 22nd of January 1654 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (d. 1729) |
| 22nd of January 1690 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolas Lancret, French painter (d. 1743) |
| 22nd of January 1729 | BIRTHDAY | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German author and philosopher (d. 1781) |
| 22nd of January 1733 | BIRTHDAY | Philip Carteret, British Naval Officer (d. 1796) |
| 22nd of January 1740 | BIRTHDAY | Noah Phelps, American Spy (d. 1809) |
| 22nd of January 1781 | BIRTHDAY | Francois Antoine Habeneck, French violinist (d. 1849) |
| 22nd of January 1788 | BIRTHDAY | George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (Lord Byron), English poet (d. 1824) |
| 22nd of January 1796 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Claus, Russian chemist (d. 1864) |
| 22nd of January 1797 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Leopoldina of Austria, Empress of Brazil (d. 1826) |
| 22nd of January 1799 | BIRTHDAY | Ludger Duvernay, Canadian printer and publisher (d. 1852) |
| 22nd of January 1820 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Wolf, German artist (d. 1899) |
| 22nd of January 1831 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Slade, American frontier figure (d. 1864) |
| 22nd of January 1831 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1917) |
| 22nd of January 1840 | BIRTHDAY | Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (d. 1907) |
| 22nd of January 1849 | BIRTHDAY | August Strindberg, Swedish writer (d. 1912) |
| 22nd of January 1858 | BIRTHDAY | Beatrice Webb, English economist (d. 1943) |
| 22nd of January 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Vicente de Freitas, Portuguese military officer and politician (d. 1952) |
| 22nd of January 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (d. 1916) |
| 22nd of January 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Hughes, American baseball player (d. 1924) |
| 22nd of January 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Harkness, American philanthropist (d. 1940) |
| 22nd of January 1875 | BIRTHDAY | D. W. Griffith, American film director (d. 1948) |
| 22nd of January 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Warren McLaughlin, American baseball player (d. 1923) |
| 22nd of January 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Jones, American baseball player (d. 1923) |
| 22nd of January 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Picabia, French-born painter and poet (d. 1953) |
| 22nd of January 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Bill O'Neill, American baseball player (d. 1920) |
| 22nd of January 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Ira Thomas, American baseball player (d. 1958) |
| 22nd of January 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Theodore Kosloff, Russian-born actor, ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 1956) |
| 22nd of January 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Roman Ungern von Sternberg, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1921) |
| 22nd of January 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Helen Hoyt, American poet (d. 1972) |
| 22nd of January 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Henri Pelissier, French cyclist (d. 1935) |
| 22nd of January 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Amos Strunk, American baseball player (d. 1979) |
| 22nd of January 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Fred M. Vinson, 13th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1953) |
| 22nd of January 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Vinko Zganec, Croatian ethnomusicologist (d. 1976) |
| 22nd of January 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Gramsci, Italian philosopher, and political theorist (d. 1937) |
| 22nd of January 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Marcel Dassault, French industrialist (d. 1986) |
| 22nd of January 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Conrad Veidt, German actor (d. 1943) |
| 22nd of January 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Rosa Ponselle, American soprano (d. 1981) |
| 22nd of January 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Martti Haavio, Finnish poet (d. 1973) |
| 22nd of January 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst Busch, German singer and actor (d. 1980) |
| 22nd of January 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (d. 1970) |
| 22nd of January 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Robin Milford, British composer (d. 1959) |
| 22nd of January 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Fritz Houtermans, Polish physicist (d. 1966) |
| 22nd of January 1904 | BIRTHDAY | George Balanchine, Russian choreographer (d. 1983) |
| 22nd of January 1904 | BIRTHDAY | John Milligan, American baseball player (d. 1972) |
| 22nd of January 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer (d. 1941) |
| 22nd of January 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Gladwin, English actor (d. 1987) |
| 22nd of January 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Robert E. Howard, American author (d. 1936) |
| 22nd of January 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Dresselhuys, Dutch actress (d. 2004) |
| 22nd of January 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Dixie Dean, English footballer (d. 1980) |
| 22nd of January 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Douglas Corrigan, American pilot (d. 1995) |
| 22nd of January 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Oana, American baseball player (d. 1976) |
| 22nd of January 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Lev Davidovich Landau, Soviet physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1968) |
| 22nd of January 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican diplomat and international playboy (d. 1965) |
| 22nd of January 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Ann Sothern, American actress (d. 2001) |
| 22nd of January 1909 | BIRTHDAY | U Thant, Burmese diplomat and 3rd United Nations Secretary General (d. 1974) |
| 22nd of January 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Bruno Kreisky, Chancellor of Austria (d. 1990) |
| 22nd of January 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Bauchau, Belgian novelist, poet, and psychoanalyst |
| 22nd of January 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Carl F. H. Henry, American theologian and publisher (d. 2003) |
| 22nd of January 1913 | BIRTHDAY | William Conway, Northern Irish cardinal (d. 1977) |
| 22nd of January 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Dimitris Dragatakis, Greek composer (d. 2001) |
| 22nd of January 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Heinrich Albertz, German theologian and politician (d. 1993) |
| 22nd of January 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Durnan, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1972) |
| 22nd of January 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Henri Dutilleux, French composer |
| 22nd of January 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Harilal Upadhyay, Gujarati author, poet, astrologist (d. 1994) |
| 22nd of January 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Huck Geary, American baseball player (d. 1981) |
| 22nd of January 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Elmer Lach, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 22nd of January 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Diomedes Olivo, Dominican Republic baseball player (d. 1977) |
| 22nd of January 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Alf Ramsey, English football manager (d. 1999) |
| 22nd of January 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Irving Kristol, American pundit, columnist and author (d. 2009) |
| 22nd of January 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Howard Moss, American poet, dramatist, and critic (d. 1987) |
| 22nd of January 1924 | BIRTHDAY | J. J. Johnson, American jazz trombonist and composer (d. 2001) |
| 22nd of January 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Young, American baseball player (d. 1985) |
| 22nd of January 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Bucha, American baseball player (d. 1996) |
| 22nd of January 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Lou Creekmur, American football player (d. 2009) |
| 22nd of January 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Yoshihiko Amino, Japanese historian (d. 2004) |
| 22nd of January 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Cooke, American singer (d. 1964) |
| 22nd of January 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Berthold Grunfeld, Norwegian psychiatrist and former sexologist (d. 2007) |
| 22nd of January 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Piper Laurie, American actress |
| 22nd of January 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Graham Kerr, British-born chef |
| 22nd of January 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Bixby, American actor (d. 1993) |
| 22nd of January 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Seymour Cassel, American actor |
| 22nd of January 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Alan J. Heeger, American chemist, Nobel laureate |
| 22nd of January 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Ong Teng Cheong, 5th President of Singapore (d. 2002) |
| 22nd of January 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Eden Pastora, Nicaraguan rebel leader |
| 22nd of January 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Wambaugh, American author |
| 22nd of January 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Altair, Brazilian footballer |
| 22nd of January 1939 | BIRTHDAY | J.C. Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1994) |
| 22nd of January 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Alfredo Palacio, former President of Ecuador |
| 22nd of January 1939 | BIRTHDAY | J?rgen Garde, Danish admiral (d. 1996) |
| 22nd of January 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Smith, American chef (d. 2004) |
| 22nd of January 1940 | BIRTHDAY | John Hurt, English actor |
| 22nd of January 1940 | BIRTHDAY | George Seifert, American football coach |
| 22nd of January 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Mimis Domazos, Greek footballer |
| 22nd of January 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Marilia Pera, Brazilian actress |
| 22nd of January 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Beetson, Australian rugby league footballer and coach |
| 22nd of January 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Malcolm McLaren, British music manager (d. 2010) |
| 22nd of January 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Serge Savard, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 22nd of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Gilbert Levine, American conductor |
| 22nd of January 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Northern Calloway, American actor (d. 1990) |
| 22nd of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Caldwell, American baseball player |
| 22nd of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Miller, English guitarist (National Health, In Cahoots, Matching Mole) |
| 22nd of January 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Perry, American singer and musician (Journey) |
| 22nd of January 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Pamela Salem, English actress |
| 22nd of January 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Ondrej Nepela, Slovak figure skater (d. 1989) |
| 22nd of January 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Leon Roberts, American baseball player |
| 22nd of January 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Steve J. Spears, Australian playwright, actor, writer and singer (d. 2007) |
| 22nd of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Ramon Aviles, Puerto Rican baseball player |
| 22nd of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Teddy Gentry, American musician (Alabama) |
| 22nd of January 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Ace Vergel, Filipino actor (d. 2007) |
| 22nd of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Myung-Whun Chung,South Korean Conductor and pianist |
| 22nd of January 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Jarmusch, American director |
| 22nd of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Tully Blanchard, American professional wrestler |
| 22nd of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Pilz, Austrian politician |
| 22nd of January 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Lemmon, American actor |
| 22nd of January 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Timothy R. Ferguson, American politician |
| 22nd of January 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas David Jones, American astronaut |
| 22nd of January 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Riley, American drummer |
| 22nd of January 1956 | BIRTHDAY | John Wesley Shipp, American actor |
| 22nd of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Bossy, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 22nd of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Requiestas, Filipino comedian (d. 1993) |
| 22nd of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Dayett, American baseball player |
| 22nd of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Godfrey Thoma, Nauruan politician |
| 22nd of January 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Wheen, English writer and journalist |
| 22nd of January 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Nikos Anastopoulos, Greek football player and manager |
| 22nd of January 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Linda Blair, American actress |
| 22nd of January 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Hutchence, Australian singer (INXS) (d. 1997) |
| 22nd of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Johnston, American singer-songwriter and artist |
| 22nd of January 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Quintin Dailey, American basketball player (d. 2010) |
| 22nd of January 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Choi Min-sik, South Korean actor |
| 22nd of January 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu, Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia |
| 22nd of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Javier Ortiz, American baseball player |
| 22nd of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Treadway, American baseball player |
| 22nd of January 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Andrei Tchmil, Ukrainian-Belgian cyclist |
| 22nd of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Nigel Benn, English boxer |
| 22nd of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Dudek, American football player |
| 22nd of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Wayne Kirby, American baseball player |
| 22nd of January 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Stojko Vrankovic, Croatian basketball player |
| 22nd of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Adler, American drummer (Guns N' Roses) |
| 22nd of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Diane Lane, American actress |
| 22nd of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | DJ Jazzy Jeff, American rapper and actor |
| 22nd of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Chintara Sukapatana, Thai actress |
| 22nd of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Roachford, English singer and songwriter |
| 22nd of January 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Brian McCardie, Scottish actor |
| 22nd of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Gillingham, British swimmer |
| 22nd of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Ecaterina Szabo, Romanian gymnast |
| 22nd of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Manabu Nakanishi, Japanese professional wrestler |
| 22nd of January 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Eleanor McEvoy, Irish singer and songwriter |
| 22nd of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Heath, Japanese bass guitarist (X Japan) |
| 22nd of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Leboeuf, French footballer |
| 22nd of January 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Mauricio Serna, Colombian footballer |
| 22nd of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Olivia d'Abo, English actress |
| 22nd of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | John Linton Roberson, American cartoonist |
| 22nd of January 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Gordon, American baseball player |
| 22nd of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Ross, American comic book artist |
| 22nd of January 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Abraham Olano, Spanish cyclist |
| 22nd of January 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Stan Collymore, English footballer |
| 22nd of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Katie Barberi, Mexican actress |
| 22nd of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Gabriel Macht, American actor |
| 22nd of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Namrata Shirodkar, Indian actress |
| 22nd of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Gonzalo Rodriguez, Uruguayan racing driver (d. 1999) |
| 22nd of January 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Romi Park, Japanese seiyu (voice actress) |
| 22nd of January 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Rogerio Ceni, Brazilian footballer |
| 22nd of January 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Cameron McConville, Australian racing driver |
| 22nd of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Balthazar Getty, American actor |
| 22nd of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Felipe Giaffone, Brazilian racing driver |
| 22nd of January 1975 | BIRTHDAY | David Vyborny, Czech ice hockey player |
| 22nd of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | James Dearth, American football player |
| 22nd of January 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Anderson, American baseball player |
| 22nd of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Mario Domm, Mexican singer-songwriter |
| 22nd of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Hidetoshi Nakata, Japanese footballer |
| 22nd of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jono Gibbes, New Zealand rugby union footballer |
| 22nd of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Rakers, American baseball player |
| 22nd of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Newton, Australian actor |
| 22nd of January 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Luciano Andrade Rissutt, Brazilian footballer |
| 22nd of January 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Chone Figgins, American baseball player |
| 22nd of January 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Ruiz, Panamanian baseball player |
| 22nd of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Jake Grove, American football player |
| 22nd of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Moody, American guitarist (Evanescence) |
| 22nd of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Subhash Ram Prajapati, Nepalese writer |
| 22nd of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Masterson, American actor |
| 22nd of January 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Woodgate, English footballer |
| 22nd of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Willa Ford, American singer |
| 22nd of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Beverley Mitchell, American actress |
| 22nd of January 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Ibrahima Sonko, French footballer |
| 22nd of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Fabricio Coloccini, Argentine footballer |
| 22nd of January 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Peters, American football player |
| 22nd of January 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Shaun Cody, American football player |
| 22nd of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Leon Powe, American basketball player |
| 22nd of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Eager, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 22nd of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Ubaldo Jimenez, Dominican baseball player |
| 22nd of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Maceo Rigters, Dutch footballer |
| 22nd of January 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Raica Oliveira, Brazilian model |
| 22nd of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Orianthi Panagaris, Australian guitarist |
| 22nd of January 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Mohamed Sissoko, Malian footballer |
| 22nd of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Maher Magri, Tunisian footballer |
| 22nd of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Pa-ni, South Korean model |
| 22nd of January 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Wayne Smith, American reality television personality (d. 2006) |
| 22nd of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Astrid Jacobsen, Norwegian cross-country skier |
| 22nd of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Rice, American football player |
| 22nd of January 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Shane Long, Irish footballer |
| 22nd of January 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Asher Allen, American football player |
| 22nd of January 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Oden, American basketball player |
| 22nd of January 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Alize Cornet, French tennis player |
| 22nd of January 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Alex MacDowall, British racing driver |
| 22nd of January 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Rio Haryanto, Indonesian racing driver |
| 22nd of January 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Trifaro, Yeah Right Ramon, I'm Gonna Get There Before You.. |
| 22nd of January 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Knight, English actor |
| 22nd of January 1995 | BIRTHDAY | Ramon Regidor, Soon-to-be Master of the World |
| 22nd of January 0239 | DEATH | Cao Rui (Wei Ming Di), emperor of the Kingdom of Wei (Born 205) |
| 22nd of January 1536 | DEATH | Bernhard Knipperdolling, German religious leader (Born 1495) |
| 22nd of January 1599 | DEATH | Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer (Born 1547) |
| 22nd of January 1666 | DEATH | Shah Jahan, Mughal Emperor of India (Born 1592) |
| 22nd of January 1750 | DEATH | Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (Born 1675) |
| 22nd of January 1763 | DEATH | John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English statesman (Born 1690) |
| 22nd of January 1767 | DEATH | Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minterologist and geologist (Born 1719) |
| 22nd of January 1779 | DEATH | Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (Born 1733) |
| 22nd of January 1779 | DEATH | Claudius Smith, American Revolutionary War loyalist (Born 1736) |
| 22nd of January 1840 | DEATH | Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (Born 1752) |
| 22nd of January 1892 | DEATH | Joseph Philo Bradley, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (Born 1813) |
| 22nd of January 1900 | DEATH | David E. Hughes, American musician (Born 1831) |
| 22nd of January 1901 | DEATH | Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (Born 1819) |
| 22nd of January 1921 | DEATH | Captain George Streeter, American riverboat captain and circus owner (Born 1837) |
| 22nd of January 1922 | DEATH | Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (Born 1837) |
| 22nd of January 1922 | DEATH | Camille Jordan, French mathematician (Born 1838) |
| 22nd of January 1922 | DEATH | Pope Benedict XV (Born 1854) |
| 22nd of January 1929 | DEATH | R.C. Lehmann, English writer (Born 1856) |
| 22nd of January 1930 | DEATH | Stephen Mather, American entrepreneur and conservationist (Born 1867) |
| 22nd of January 1931 | DEATH | Alma Rubens, American actress (Born 1897) |
| 22nd of January 1945 | DEATH | Else Lasker-Schuler, German-born poet (Born 1869) |
| 22nd of January 1949 | DEATH | William Thomas Walsh, American author (Born 1891) |
| 22nd of January 1950 | DEATH | Corinne Luchaire, French actress (Born 1921) |
| 22nd of January 1950 | DEATH | Alan Hale, Sr., American actor (Born 1892) |
| 22nd of January 1951 | DEATH | Karl Nessler, inventor of the perm (Born 1872) |
| 22nd of January 1954 | DEATH | Princess Margaret of Prussia, queen of Finland (Born 1872) |
| 22nd of January 1959 | DEATH | Mike Hawthorn, English race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (Born 1929) |
| 22nd of January 1966 | DEATH | Herbert Marshall, English actor (Born 1890) |
| 22nd of January 1967 | DEATH | Robert Henriques, English writer (Born 1905) |
| 22nd of January 1968 | DEATH | Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer (Born 1890) |
| 22nd of January 1973 | DEATH | Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States (Born 1908) |
| 22nd of January 1975 | DEATH | Andrew George Burry, Swiss-born manufacturer and businessman (Born 1873) |
| 22nd of January 1978 | DEATH | Oliver Leese, British World War II general (Born 1894) |
| 22nd of January 1978 | DEATH | Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer (Born 1894) |
| 22nd of January 1980 | DEATH | Yitzhak Baer, German-born Israeli historian (Born 1888) |
| 22nd of January 1981 | DEATH | Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educationist (Born 1903) |
| 22nd of January 1982 | DEATH | Eduardo Frei Montalva, 28th President of Chile (Born 1911) |
| 22nd of January 1982 | DEATH | Tommy Tucker, American singer and pianist (Born 1933) |
| 22nd of January 1985 | DEATH | Sir Arthur Bryant, British historian (Born 1899) |
| 22nd of January 1987 | DEATH | Budd Dwyer, American politician (Born 1939) |
| 22nd of January 1988 | DEATH | Parker Fennelly, American comedian and actor (Born 1891) |
| 22nd of January 1991 | DEATH | Kenas Aroi, Nauruan politician (Born 1942) |
| 22nd of January 1991 | DEATH | Robert Choquette, French Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat (Born 1905) |
| 22nd of January 1993 | DEATH | Abe Kobo, Japanese writer (Born 1924) |
| 22nd of January 1994 | DEATH | Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor and director (Born 1910) |
| 22nd of January 1994 | DEATH | Telly Savalas, American actor (Born 1924) |
| 22nd of January 1994 | DEATH | Rhett Forrester, American singer (Riot) (Born 1956) |
| 22nd of January 1995 | DEATH | Jerry Blackwell, American professional wrestler (Born 1949) |
| 22nd of January 1995 | DEATH | Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, matriarch of the Kennedy family (Born 1890) |
| 22nd of January 1997 | DEATH | Ron Holden, American singer (Born 1939) |
| 22nd of January 1997 | DEATH | Billy Mackenzie, Scottish musician (Associates) (Born 1957) |
| 22nd of January 1997 | DEATH | Wally Whyton, English musician (Born 1929) |
| 22nd of January 1999 | DEATH | Graham Staines, Australian missionary (Born 1941) |
| 22nd of January 2000 | DEATH | Craig Claiborne, American writer and editor (Born 1920) |
| 22nd of January 2000 | DEATH | Anne Hebert, French Canadian author and poet (Kamouraska) (Born 1916) |
| 22nd of January 2001 | DEATH | Tommie Agee, American baseball player (Born 1942) |
| 22nd of January 2001 | DEATH | Roy Brown, American clown (Born 1932) |
| 22nd of January 2002 | DEATH | Stanley Marcus, American business executive (Born 1905) |
| 22nd of January 2003 | DEATH | Bill Mauldin, American World War II cartoonist (Born 1921) |
| 22nd of January 2004 | DEATH | Billy May, American composer and musician (Born 1916) |
| 22nd of January 2004 | DEATH | Thomas Mead, Australian politician and journalist (Born 1918) |
| 22nd of January 2004 | DEATH | Ann Miller, American actress and dancer (Born 1923) |
| 22nd of January 2005 | DEATH | Cesar Gutierrez, Venezuelan baseball player (Born 1943) |
| 22nd of January 2005 | DEATH | Consuelo Velazquez, Mexican songwriter (Born 1924) |
| 22nd of January 2005 | DEATH | Carlo Orelli, Italian veteran of World War I (Born 1894) |
| 22nd of January 2005 | DEATH | Rose Mary Woods, American Watergate scandal figure (Born 1917) |
| 22nd of January 2007 | DEATH | Doug Blasdell, American personal trainer (Born 1962) |
| 22nd of January 2007 | DEATH | Ngo Quang Truong, South Vietnamese general (Born 1929) |
| 22nd of January 2007 | DEATH | Abbe Pierre, French priest (Born 1912) |
| 22nd of January 2008 | DEATH | Roberto Gari, American actor (Born 1920) |
| 22nd of January 2008 | DEATH | Heath Ledger, Australian actor (Born 1979) |
| 22nd of January 2008 | DEATH | Miles Lerman, Polish-American activist (Born 1920) |
| 22nd of January 2009 | DEATH | Billy Werber, American baseball player (Born 1908) |
| 22nd of January 2010 | DEATH | Jean Simmons, English-American actress (Born 1929) |
| 22nd of January 2010 | DEATH | Sultan Iskandar of Johor, also the 8th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia (Born 1932) |