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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 22nd of July 0838 | EVENT | Battle of Anzen: the Byzantine emperor Theophilos suffers a heavy defeat by the Abbasids. |
| 22nd of July 1099 | EVENT | First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem. |
| 22nd of July 1298 | EVENT | Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Falkirk : King Edward I of England and his longbowmen defeat William Wallace and his Scottish schiltrons outside the town of Falkirk. |
| 22nd of July 1456 | EVENT | Ottoman Wars in Europe: Siege of Belgrade : John Hunyadi, Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary, defeats Mehmet II of the Ottoman Empire |
| 22nd of July 1484 | EVENT | Battle of Lochmaben Fair : A 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas are defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany's brother James III of Scotland; Douglas is captured. |
| 22nd of July 1499 | EVENT | Battle of Dornach : The Swiss decisively defeat the Imperial army of Emperor Maximilian I. |
| 22nd of July 1587 | EVENT | Colony of Roanoke: a second group of English settlers arrives on Roanoke Island off North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony. |
| 22nd of July 1686 | EVENT | Albany, New York is formally chartered as a municipality by Governor Thomas Dongan. |
| 22nd of July 1706 | EVENT | The Acts of Union 1707 are agreed upon by commissioners from the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland, which, when passed by each countries' Parliaments, lead to the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain. |
| 22nd of July 1793 | EVENT | Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing of Canada. |
| 22nd of July 1796 | EVENT | Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio "Cleveland" after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party. |
| 22nd of July 1797 | EVENT | Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Battle between Spanish and British naval forces during the French Revolutionary Wars. During the Battle, Rear-Admiral Nelson is wounded in the arm and the arm had to be partially amputated. |
| 22nd of July 1864 | EVENT | American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta : outside Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald Hill. |
| 22nd of July 1894 | EVENT | The first ever motorized racing event is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen. The race is won by Comte Jules-Albert de Dion. |
| 22nd of July 1916 | EVENT | In San Francisco, California, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a Preparedness Day parade killing 10 and injuring 40. |
| 22nd of July 1933 | EVENT | Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world traveling 15,596 miles (25,099 km) in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes. |
| 22nd of July 1934 | EVENT | Outside Chicago's Biograph Theater, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents. |
| 22nd of July 1937 | EVENT | New Deal: the United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States. |
| 22nd of July 1942 | EVENT | The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands. |
| 22nd of July 1942 | EVENT | Holocaust: the systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins. |
| 22nd of July 1943 | EVENT | World War II: Allied forces capture the Italian city of Palermo. |
| 22nd of July 1944 | EVENT | The Polish Committee of National Liberation publishes its manifesto, starting the period of Communist rule in Poland |
| 22nd of July 1946 | EVENT | King David Hotel bombing: a Zionist underground organisation, the Irgun, bombs the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, site of the civil administration and military headquarters for Mandate Palestine, resulting in 91 deaths. |
| 22nd of July 1951 | EVENT | Dezik (?????) and Tsygan (?????, "Gypsy") are the first dogs to make a sub-orbital flight. |
| 22nd of July 1962 | EVENT | Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed. |
| 22nd of July 1976 | EVENT | Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during the imperial Japan's conquest of the country in the Second World War |
| 22nd of July 1977 | EVENT | Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power. |
| 22nd of July 1983 | EVENT | Martial law in Poland is officially revoked. |
| 22nd of July 1992 | EVENT | Near Medellin, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the United States. |
| 22nd of July 1993 | EVENT | Great Flood of 1993: levees near Kaskaskia, Illinois rupture, forcing the entire town to evacuate by barges operated by the Army Corps of Engineers. |
| 22nd of July 1997 | EVENT | The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario. |
| 22nd of July 2002 | EVENT | Israel kills Salah Shahade, the Commander-in-Chief of Hamas's military arm, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. |
| 22nd of July 2003 | EVENT | Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay's 14-year old son, and a bodyguard. |
| 22nd of July 2005 | EVENT | Jean Charles de Menezes is killed by police as the hunt begins for the London Bombers responsible for the 7 July 2005 London bombings and the 21 July 2005 London bombings. |
| 22nd of July 1210 | BIRTHDAY | Joan of England, Queen of Scots, wife of Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1238) |
| 22nd of July 1478 | BIRTHDAY | King Philip I of Castile (d. 1506) |
| 22nd of July 1510 | BIRTHDAY | Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (d. 1537) |
| 22nd of July 1535 | BIRTHDAY | Katarina Stenbock, wife of Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1621) |
| 22nd of July 1559 | BIRTHDAY | Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian monk (d. 1619) |
| 22nd of July 1621 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician (d. 1683) |
| 22nd of July 1711 | BIRTHDAY | Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (d. 1753) |
| 22nd of July 1713 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (d. 1780) |
| 22nd of July 1733 | BIRTHDAY | Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and writer (d. 1790) |
| 22nd of July 1755 | BIRTHDAY | Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician (d. 1839) |
| 22nd of July 1784 | BIRTHDAY | Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1846) |
| 22nd of July 1844 | BIRTHDAY | William Archibald Spooner, English priest and scholar (d. 1930) |
| 22nd of July 1848 | BIRTHDAY | Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1914) |
| 22nd of July 1849 | BIRTHDAY | Emma Lazarus, American poet (d. 1887) |
| 22nd of July 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Alec Hearne, English cricketer (d. 1952) |
| 22nd of July 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Janusz Korczak, Polish children's author and pediatrician (d. 1942) |
| 22nd of July 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Hopper, American painter (d. 1967) |
| 22nd of July 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1975) |
| 22nd of July 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-born American biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1973) |
| 22nd of July 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Kirk Bryan, American geologist (d. 1950) |
| 22nd of July 1889 | BIRTHDAY | James Whale, English film director (d. 1957) |
| 22nd of July 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, American Kennedy family matriarch (d. 1995) |
| 22nd of July 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Jack MacBryan, English cricketer and field hockey player (d. 1983) |
| 22nd of July 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Jesse Haines, American baseball player (d. 1978) |
| 22nd of July 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist (d. 1990) |
| 22nd of July 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Leon de Greiff, Colombian poet (d. 1976) |
| 22nd of July 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Calder, American sculptor and inventor (d. 1976) |
| 22nd of July 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Vincent Benet, American poet, short story writer and novelist (d. 1943) |
| 22nd of July 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Doc Cramer, American baseball player (d. 1990) |
| 22nd of July 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Amy Vanderbilt, American etiquette authority (d. 1974) |
| 22nd of July 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Dorino Serafini, Italian racing driver (d. 2000) |
| 22nd of July 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Licia Albanese, American opera singer |
| 22nd of July 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader (d. 1995) |
| 22nd of July 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Pakistani politician, diplomat and author (d. 2000) |
| 22nd of July 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (d. 1949) |
| 22nd of July 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Gino Bianco, Brazilian racing driver (d. 1984) |
| 22nd of July 1921 | BIRTHDAY | William V. Roth, Jr., American politician (d. 2003) |
| 22nd of July 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Hoerner, American football player (d. 2010) |
| 22nd of July 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Dole, American politician, 1996 Republican Presidential candidate |
| 22nd of July 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Mukesh, Indian singer (d. 1976) |
| 22nd of July 1923 | BIRTHDAY | The Fabulous Moolah, American professional wrestler (d. 2007) |
| 22nd of July 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Margaret Whiting, American singer |
| 22nd of July 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Orson Bean, American film actor |
| 22nd of July 1929 | BIRTHDAY | John Barber, British racing driver |
| 22nd of July 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Oscar De la Renta, Dominican fashion designer |
| 22nd of July 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Louise Fletcher, American actress |
| 22nd of July 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Cartwright, English cricketer (d. 2007) |
| 22nd of July 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Robbins, American novelist |
| 22nd of July 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Yasuhiro Kojima, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 1999) |
| 22nd of July 1937 | BIRTHDAY | John Price, English cricketer |
| 22nd of July 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Vasant Ranjane, Indian cricketer |
| 22nd of July 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Gila Almagor, Israeli actress |
| 22nd of July 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Terence Stamp, English actor |
| 22nd of July 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Trebek, Canadian game show host |
| 22nd of July 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Judith Walzer Leavitt, American college professor |
| 22nd of July 1941 | BIRTHDAY | George Clinton, American singer and musician (Parliament, Funkadelic) |
| 22nd of July 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Turcotte, Canadian jockey |
| 22nd of July 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Habeler, Austrian mountaineer |
| 22nd of July 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Sherman, American singer and actor |
| 22nd of July 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Kay Bailey Hutchison, American politician |
| 22nd of July 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Estelle Bennett, American singer (Ronettes) (d. 2009) |
| 22nd of July 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Davies, British keyboardist (Supertramp) |
| 22nd of July 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Firestone, Australian racing driver |
| 22nd of July 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Anand Satyanand, New Zealander politician |
| 22nd of July 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Sparky Lyle, American baseball player |
| 22nd of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Glover, American actor |
| 22nd of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Mireille Mathieu, French singer |
| 22nd of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Schrader, American film director and screenwriter |
| 22nd of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen M. Wolownik, American musicologist (d. 2000) |
| 22nd of July 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Johnson Toribiong, President of Palau |
| 22nd of July 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Brooks, American comedian |
| 22nd of July 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Gilles Duceppe, Canadian politician |
| 22nd of July 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Don Henley, American singer-songwriter and drummer (Eagles) |
| 22nd of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Otto Waalkes, German comedian |
| 22nd of July 1948 | BIRTHDAY | S. E. Hinton, American novelist |
| 22nd of July 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Menken, American composer |
| 22nd of July 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Emir Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum of Dubai |
| 22nd of July 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Lasse Viren, Finnish long distance runner |
| 22nd of July 1951 | BIRTHDAY | J. V. Cain, American football player (d. 1979) |
| 22nd of July 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Bruno, American jazz guitarist |
| 22nd of July 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Sylvia Chang, Taiwanese actress |
| 22nd of July 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Quarrington, Canadian playwright and educator (d. 2010) |
| 22nd of July 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Steve LaTourette, American politician |
| 22nd of July 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Lebeau, Canadian actor |
| 22nd of July 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Lonette McKee, American actress |
| 22nd of July 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Al Di Meola, American guitarist |
| 22nd of July 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Willem Dafoe, American actor |
| 22nd of July 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Stieb, American baseball player |
| 22nd of July 1958 | BIRTHDAY | David Von Erich, American professional wrestler (d. 1984) |
| 22nd of July 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Tatsunori Hara, Japanese baseball player and coach |
| 22nd of July 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Oliva, American vocalist and keyboardist (Savatage) |
| 22nd of July 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Calvin Fish, English racing driver |
| 22nd of July 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Sweat, American singer |
| 22nd of July 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Alvin Robertson, American basketball player |
| 22nd of July 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Martine St. Clair, Canadian singer |
| 22nd of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Emilio Butragueno, Spanish footballer |
| 22nd of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Emily Saliers, American singer (Indigo Girls) |
| 22nd of July 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Estes, American actor |
| 22nd of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Godley, British actor |
| 22nd of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | John Leguizamo, Colombian actor |
| 22nd of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Don Van Natta, Jr., American journalist |
| 22nd of July 1964 | BIRTHDAY | David Spade, American actor and comedian |
| 22nd of July 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Shawn Michaels, American professional wrestler |
| 22nd of July 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Labyorteaux, American actor |
| 22nd of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Brown, American football player |
| 22nd of July 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Shaun Cohen, South African professional wrestler |
| 22nd of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Irene Bedard, American actress |
| 22nd of July 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Lauren Booth, British journalist |
| 22nd of July 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Rhys Ifans, Welsh actor |
| 22nd of July 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Despina Vandi, Greek singer |
| 22nd of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Becker, American musician |
| 22nd of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Baird, New Zealand racing driver |
| 22nd of July 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Sergei Zubov, Russian ice hockey player |
| 22nd of July 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Kristine Lilly, American footballer |
| 22nd of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Ferguson, Canadian actor |
| 22nd of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Seth Fisher, American comic book artist and penciller (d. 2006) |
| 22nd of July 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Keyshawn Johnson, American football player |
| 22nd of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Jones, English-born Australian musician (Savage Garden) |
| 22nd of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Ronald Ray Howard, American murderer (d. 2005) |
| 22nd of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Rufus Wainwright, Canadian singer |
| 22nd of July 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Sweeney, American baseball player |
| 22nd of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Sonija Kwok, Hong Kong actress |
| 22nd of July 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Franka Potente, German actress |
| 22nd of July 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Jacobson, American basketball player |
| 22nd of July 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Kokia, Japanese singer-songwriter |
| 22nd of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Ezio Galon, Italian rugby player |
| 22nd of July 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Gustavo Nery, Brazilian footballer |
| 22nd of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Rommedahl, Danish footballer |
| 22nd of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | A. J. Cook, Canadian actress |
| 22nd of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Martyn Lee, English radio presenter |
| 22nd of July 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Runako Morton, West Indian cricketer |
| 22nd of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Lucas Luhr, German racing driver |
| 22nd of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | James Mason, British professional wrestler |
| 22nd of July 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Yadel Marti, Cuban baseball player |
| 22nd of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Dirk Kuyt, Dutch footballer |
| 22nd of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Kate Ryan, Belgian singer |
| 22nd of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Tablo, Korean hip-hop musician (Epik High) |
| 22nd of July 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Dixon, New Zealand racing driver |
| 22nd of July 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Ala Ghawas, Bahraini singer and songwriter |
| 22nd of July 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Nuwan Kulasekara, Sri Lankan cricketer |
| 22nd of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Clemens von Grumbkow, German rugby player |
| 22nd of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Arsenie Todiras, Moldovan singer (O-Zone) |
| 22nd of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Dries Devenyns, Belgian cyclist |
| 22nd of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Sharni Vinson, Australian actress and model |
| 22nd of July 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Jackson, American football player |
| 22nd of July 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Stewart Downing, English footballer |
| 22nd of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Takudzwa Ngwenya, Zimbabwean-born American rugby player |
| 22nd of July 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Akira Tozawa, Japanese professional wrestler |
| 22nd of July 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Johnson, American football player |
| 22nd of July 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Coutts, Scottish footballer |
| 22nd of July 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew James, English footballer |
| 22nd of July 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Selena Gomez, American actress and pop singer |
| 22nd of July 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Amber Beattie, English actress |
| 22nd of July 1996 | BIRTHDAY | Skyler Gisondo, American actor |
| 22nd of July 1997 | BIRTHDAY | Field Cate, American actor |
| 22nd of July 1998 | BIRTHDAY | Madison Pettis, American actress |
| 22nd of July 2002 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Felix of Denmark, Danish royalty |
| 22nd of July 1362 | DEATH | Louis of Durazzo, Italian soldier (Born 1324) |
| 22nd of July 1387 | DEATH | Franz Ackerman, Flemish statesman (Born 1330) |
| 22nd of July 1461 | DEATH | Charles VII of France (Born 1403) |
| 22nd of July 1525 | DEATH | Richard Wingfield, English diplomat (Born c. 1426) |
| 22nd of July 1540 | DEATH | John Zapolya, Voivode of Transylvania and King of Hungary (Born 1487) |
| 22nd of July 1619 | DEATH | Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian monk (Born 1559) |
| 22nd of July 1633 | DEATH | Trijntje Keever, Dutch woman presumed to have been the tallest woman ever (Born 1616) |
| 22nd of July 1645 | DEATH | Gaspar de Guzman, Count-Duke of Olivares, Spanish statesman (Born 1587) |
| 22nd of July 1676 | DEATH | Pope Clement X (Born 1590) |
| 22nd of July 1726 | DEATH | Hugh Drysdale, British Colonial Governor of Virginia (birth year unknown) |
| 22nd of July 1734 | DEATH | Peter King, 1st Baron King, Lord Chancellor of England (Born c. 1669) |
| 22nd of July 1789 | DEATH | Joseph-Francois Foulon, French administrator (Born 1715) |
| 22nd of July 1802 | DEATH | Marie Francois Xavier Bichat, French anatomist (Born 1771) |
| 22nd of July 1824 | DEATH | Thomas McNamara Russell, Royal Navy admiral |
| 22nd of July 1826 | DEATH | Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer (Born 1746) |
| 22nd of July 1832 | DEATH | Napoleon II, Emperor of the French and King of Rome (Born 1811) |
| 22nd of July 1852 | DEATH | Auguste Marmont, French marshal (Born 1774) |
| 22nd of July 1864 | DEATH | James B. McPherson, American army general, in the Battle of Atlanta (Born 1828) |
| 22nd of July 1869 | DEATH | John A. Roebling, German-American civil engineer (Brooklyn Bridge), (Born 1806) |
| 22nd of July 1902 | DEATH | Mieczys?aw Halka Ledochowski, Polish Catholic Cardinal (Born 1822) |
| 22nd of July 1903 | DEATH | Cassius Clay, American emancipationist (Born 1810) |
| 22nd of July 1904 | DEATH | Wilson Barrett, English actor (Born 1846) |
| 22nd of July 1906 | DEATH | William Snodgrass, Canadian Presbyterian minister and the sixth Principal of Queen's College, now Queen's University (Born 1827) |
| 22nd of July 1908 | DEATH | Randal Cremer, English politician and pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (Born 1828) |
| 22nd of July 1915 | DEATH | Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer and inventor (Born 1827) |
| 22nd of July 1916 | DEATH | James Whitcomb Riley, American poet (Born 1849) |
| 22nd of July 1918 | DEATH | Indra Lal Roy, Indian flying ace (Born 1898) |
| 22nd of July 1920 | DEATH | William Kissam Vanderbilt, American businessman and horse breeder, member of the Vanderbilt family (Born 1849) |
| 22nd of July 1922 | DEATH | Jokichi Takamine, Japanese chemist (Born 1854) |
| 22nd of July 1932 | DEATH | Errico Malatesta, Italian anarchist (Born 1853) |
| 22nd of July 1932 | DEATH | Florenz Ziegfeld, American theatrical producer (Born 1867) |
| 22nd of July 1932 | DEATH | Reginald Fessenden, Canadian inventor and radio pioneer (Born 1866) |
| 22nd of July 1934 | DEATH | John Dillinger, American bank robber (Born 1903) |
| 22nd of July 1950 | DEATH | William Lyon Mackenzie King, 10th Prime Minister of Canada (Born 1874) |
| 22nd of July 1958 | DEATH | Mikhail Zoshchenko, Russian writer (Born 1895) |
| 22nd of July 1967 | DEATH | Carl Sandburg, American poet (Born 1878) |
| 22nd of July 1968 | DEATH | Giovannino Guareschi, Italian journalist (Born 1908) |
| 22nd of July 1970 | DEATH | George Johnston, Australian journalist and novelist (Born 1912) |
| 22nd of July 1974 | DEATH | Wayne Morse, U.S. Senator from Oregon (Born 1900) |
| 22nd of July 1979 | DEATH | Sandor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer (Born 1929) |
| 22nd of July 1979 | DEATH | J. V. Cain, American football player (Born 1951) |
| 22nd of July 1988 | DEATH | Duane Jones, American actor (Born 1936) |
| 22nd of July 1989 | DEATH | Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (Born 1935) |
| 22nd of July 1990 | DEATH | Manuel Puig, Argentinian writer (Born 1932) |
| 22nd of July 1992 | DEATH | Wayne McLaren, American stuntman, actor and rodeo rider who portrayed the Marlboro Man (Born 1940) |
| 22nd of July 1995 | DEATH | Harold Larwood, English cricketer (Born 1904) |
| 22nd of July 1996 | DEATH | Rob Collins, English keyboardist (The Charlatans) (Born 1956) |
| 22nd of July 1998 | DEATH | Fritz Buchloh, German football player and coach (Born 1909) |
| 22nd of July 1998 | DEATH | Hermann Prey, German bass-baritone (Born 1929) |
| 22nd of July 1999 | DEATH | Gar Samuelson, American drummer (Megadeth) (Born 1958) |
| 22nd of July 2000 | DEATH | Eric Christmas, British actor (Born 1916) |
| 22nd of July 2000 | DEATH | Claude Sautet, French film director (Born 1924) |
| 22nd of July 2000 | DEATH | Carmen Martin Gaite, Spanish author (Born 1925) |
| 22nd of July 2001 | DEATH | Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist and historian (Born 1909) |
| 22nd of July 2003 | DEATH | Qusay Hussein, Iraqi politician, son of Saddam Hussein (Born 1966) |
| 22nd of July 2003 | DEATH | Wahome Muthahi, Kenyan humourist (Born 1954) |
| 22nd of July 2003 | DEATH | Uday Hussein, Iraqi politician, son of Saddam Hussein (Born 1964) |
| 22nd of July 2004 | DEATH | Sacha Distel, French singer (Born 1933) |
| 22nd of July 2004 | DEATH | George Kidd, Canadian diplomat (Born 1917) |
| 22nd of July 2004 | DEATH | Illinois Jacquet, American jazz saxophonist (Born 1922) |
| 22nd of July 2005 | DEATH | Eugene Record American songwriter and singer (The Chi-Lites) (Born 1940) |
| 22nd of July 2005 | DEATH | Jean Charles de Menezes, Brazilian electrician (Born 1978) |
| 22nd of July 2006 | DEATH | James E. West, mayor of Spokane, Washington (Born 1950) |
| 22nd of July 2006 | DEATH | Jose Antonio Delgado, Venezuelan mountain climber (Born 1965) |
| 22nd of July 2007 | DEATH | Jarrod Cunningham, New Zealand rugby player (Born 1968) |
| 22nd of July 2007 | DEATH | Mike Coolbaugh, American baseball player and coach (Born 1972) |
| 22nd of July 2007 | DEATH | Ulrich Muhe, German actor (Born 1953) |
| 22nd of July 2007 | DEATH | Laszlo Kovacs, Hungarian-born American cinematographer (Born 1933) |
| 22nd of July 2007 | DEATH | Rollie Stiles, American baseball player (Born 1906) |
| 22nd of July 2008 | DEATH | Estelle Getty, American comedic actress (Born 1923) |
| 22nd of July 2008 | DEATH | Greg Burson, American voice actor (Born 1949) |
| 22nd of July 2009 | DEATH | Richard M. Givan, Indiana Supreme Court chief justice (Born 1921) |
| 22nd of July 2009 | DEATH | Peter Krieg, German documentary filmmaker, producer and writer (Born 1947) |