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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 22nd of October 0362 | EVENT | A mysterious fire destroys the temple of Apollo at Daphne outside Antioch. |
| 22nd of October 0794 | EVENT | Emperor Kanmu relocates the Japanese capital to Heiankyo (now Kyoto). |
| 22nd of October 1383 | EVENT | The 1383-1385 Crisis in Portugal: King Fernando dies without a male heir to the Portuguese throne, sparking a period of civil war and disorder. |
| 22nd of October 1575 | EVENT | Foundation of Aguascalientes. |
| 22nd of October 1633 | EVENT | Battle of southern Fujian sea: The Ming dynasty defeats the Dutch East India Company. |
| 22nd of October 1707 | EVENT | Scilly naval disaster: four British Royal Navy ships run aground near the Isles of Scilly because of faulty navigation. Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell and thousands of sailors drown. |
| 22nd of October 1730 | EVENT | Construction of the Ladoga Canal is completed. |
| 22nd of October 1746 | EVENT | The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter. |
| 22nd of October 1784 | EVENT | Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska. |
| 22nd of October 1790 | EVENT | Warriors of the Miami tribe under Chief Little Turtle defeat United States troops under General Josiah Harmar at the site of present-day Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the Northwest Indian War. |
| 22nd of October 1797 | EVENT | One thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris, Andre-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump. |
| 22nd of October 1836 | EVENT | Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas. |
| 22nd of October 1844 | EVENT | The Great Anticipation: Millerites, followers of William Miller, anticipate the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The following day became known as the Great Disappointment. |
| 22nd of October 1866 | EVENT | A plebiscite ratifies the annexion of Veneto and Mantua to Italy, occurred three days before, on October 19. |
| 22nd of October 1875 | EVENT | First telegraphic connection in Argentina. |
| 22nd of October 1877 | EVENT | The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners. |
| 22nd of October 1878 | EVENT | The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton. |
| 22nd of October 1883 | EVENT | The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust. |
| 22nd of October 1895 | EVENT | In Paris an express train overruns a buffer stop and crosses more than 30 metres of concourse before plummeting through a window at Gare Montparnasse. |
| 22nd of October 1907 | EVENT | Panic of 1907: A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will lead to a depression. |
| 22nd of October 1910 | EVENT | Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and is subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London. |
| 22nd of October 1924 | EVENT | Toastmasters International is founded. |
| 22nd of October 1926 | EVENT | J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal. |
| 22nd of October 1927 | EVENT | Nikola Tesla exposed his six (6) new inventions including motor with onephase electricity |
| 22nd of October 1928 | EVENT | Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus. |
| 22nd of October 1934 | EVENT | In East Liverpool, Ohio, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents shoot and kill notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd. |
| 22nd of October 1941 | EVENT | World War II: French resistance member Guy Moquet and 29 other hostages are executed by the Germans in retaliation for the death of a German officer. |
| 22nd of October 1943 | EVENT | World War II: in the Second firestorm raid on Germany, the Royal Air Force conducts an air raid on the town of Kassel, killing 10,000 and rendering 150,000 homeless. |
| 22nd of October 1944 | EVENT | World War II: Battle of Aachen: The city of Aachen falls to American forces after three weeks of fighting, making it the first German city to fall to the Allies. |
| 22nd of October 1953 | EVENT | Laos gains independence from France. |
| 22nd of October 1957 | EVENT | Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam. |
| 22nd of October 1960 | EVENT | Independence of Mali from France. |
| 22nd of October 1962 | EVENT | Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation. |
| 22nd of October 1963 | EVENT | A BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes in UK with the loss of all on board. |
| 22nd of October 1964 | EVENT | Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but turns down the honor. |
| 22nd of October 1964 | EVENT | Canada: A Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee selects the design which becomes the new official Flag of Canada. |
| 22nd of October 1966 | EVENT | The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A' Go-Go). |
| 22nd of October 1966 | EVENT | The Soviet Union launches Luna 12. |
| 22nd of October 1968 | EVENT | Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times. |
| 22nd of October 1972 | EVENT | Vietnam War: In Saigon, Henry Kissinger and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu meet to discuss a proposed cease-fire that had been worked out between Americans and North Vietnamese in Paris. |
| 22nd of October 1975 | EVENT | The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus. |
| 22nd of October 1976 | EVENT | Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs. The dye is still used in Canada. |
| 22nd of October 1981 | EVENT | The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization for its strike the previous August. |
| 22nd of October 1981 | EVENT | The TGV railway service between Paris and Lyon is inaugurated. |
| 22nd of October 1983 | EVENT | Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspires the Supermax model of prisons. |
| 22nd of October 1999 | EVENT | Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity. |
| 22nd of October 2005 | EVENT | Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms. |
| 22nd of October 2006 | EVENT | A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a National referendum held in Panama. |
| 22nd of October 2007 | EVENT | Raid on Anuradhapura Air Force Base is carried out by 21 Tamil Tiger commandos. All except one died in this attack. Eight Sri Lankan Air Force planes are destroyed and 10 damaged. |
| 22nd of October 2008 | EVENT | India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1. |
| 22nd of October 1071 | BIRTHDAY | William IX, Duke of Aquitaine and poet (d. 1126) |
| 22nd of October 1197 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Juntoku of Japan (d. 1242) |
| 22nd of October 1511 | BIRTHDAY | Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1553) |
| 22nd of October 1558 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Sirmond, French scholar and Jesuit (d. 1651) |
| 22nd of October 1592 | BIRTHDAY | Gustaf Horn, Swedish soldier and politician (d. 1657) |
| 22nd of October 1688 | BIRTHDAY | Nadir Shah of Persia (d. 1747) |
| 22nd of October 1689 | BIRTHDAY | King John V of Portugal (d. 1750) |
| 22nd of October 1692 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth Farnese, second queen of King Philip V of Spain (d. 1766) |
| 22nd of October 1701 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Amalia of Austria, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1756) |
| 22nd of October 1729 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist (d. 1798) |
| 22nd of October 1734 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Boone, American pioneer and hunter (d. 1820) |
| 22nd of October 1770 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Seebeck, Baltic German physicist (d. 1831) |
| 22nd of October 1809 | BIRTHDAY | Volney E. Howard, American politician (d. 1889) |
| 22nd of October 1811 | BIRTHDAY | Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 1886) |
| 22nd of October 1818 | BIRTHDAY | Charles-Marie-Rene Leconte de Lisle, French poet (d. 1894) |
| 22nd of October 1821 | BIRTHDAY | Collis Potter Huntington, American railroad executive (d. 1900) |
| 22nd of October 1844 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Riel, Canadian Metis Political Leader (d. 1885) |
| 22nd of October 1844 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Bernhardt, French Actress (d. 1923) |
| 22nd of October 1858 | BIRTHDAY | German Empress Augusta Victoria, wife of German Emperor Wilhelm II (d. 1921) |
| 22nd of October 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter (d. 1943) |
| 22nd of October 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Douglas, English partner of Oscar Wilde (d. 1945) |
| 22nd of October 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953) |
| 22nd of October 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finland-Swedish linguist and diplomat (d. 1950) |
| 22nd of October 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Clinton Davisson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958) |
| 22nd of October 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz, German geophysicist (d. 1908) |
| 22nd of October 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Erik Bergman, Lutheran pastor (d. 1970) |
| 22nd of October 1887 | BIRTHDAY | John Reed, American journalist (d. 1920) |
| 22nd of October 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Parker Fennelly, American comedian and actor (d. 1988) |
| 22nd of October 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Mei Lanfang, Chinese opera performer (d. 1961) |
| 22nd of October 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Glen King, American biochemist (d. 1988) |
| 22nd of October 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian Revolutionary (d. 1927) |
| 22nd of October 1903 | BIRTHDAY | George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1989) |
| 22nd of October 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Curly Howard, American actor and comedian, member of the Three Stooges (d. 1952) |
| 22nd of October 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Constance Bennett, American actress (d. 1965) |
| 22nd of October 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Kosma, Hungarian-born composer (d. 1969) |
| 22nd of October 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmie Foxx, American baseball player (d. 1967) |
| 22nd of October 1908 | BIRTHDAY | John Gould, American humorist, essayist, and columnist (d. 2003) |
| 22nd of October 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Frances Drake, American actress (d. 2000) |
| 22nd of October 1912 | BIRTHDAY | George N. Leighton, American jurist |
| 22nd of October 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Bao ?ai, Emperor of Vietnam (d. 1997) |
| 22nd of October 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Tamara Desni, German-born British actress (d. 2008) |
| 22nd of October 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Capa, American war photographer (born in Hungary) (d. 1954) |
| 22nd of October 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 2002) |
| 22nd of October 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Joan Fontaine, American actress |
| 22nd of October 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Lou Klein, American baseball player (d. 1976) |
| 22nd of October 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Doris Lessing, British writer, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 22nd of October 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Kathleen Ankers, American scenic designer (d. 2001) |
| 22nd of October 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Timothy Leary, American writer (d. 1996) |
| 22nd of October 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Georges Brassens, French singer (d. 1981) |
| 22nd of October 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician (d. 1986) |
| 22nd of October 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Carlos Lorenzo, Argentine footballer (d. 2001) |
| 22nd of October 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Bert Trautmann, German former footballer |
| 22nd of October 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Rauschenberg, American painter and graphic artist (d. 2008) |
| 22nd of October 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Allan Hendrickse, South African politician (d. 2005) |
| 22nd of October 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Brazilian movie director |
| 22nd of October 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Dory Previn, American songwriter |
| 22nd of October 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Lev Yashin, Soviet footballer (d. 1990) |
| 22nd of October 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Helmut Senekowitsch, Austrian footballer (d. 2007) |
| 22nd of October 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Ann Rule, American true-crime writer |
| 22nd of October 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Seale, American civil rights activist |
| 22nd of October 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Col. John Blashford-Snell, British explorer and author |
| 22nd of October 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Manos Loizos, Greek composer (d. 1982) |
| 22nd of October 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Derek Jacobi, English actor |
| 22nd of October 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Lloyd, American actor |
| 22nd of October 1939 | BIRTHDAY | George Cohen, English footballer |
| 22nd of October 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Joaquim Chissano, former (2nd) President of Mozambique |
| 22nd of October 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Roberts, American actor |
| 22nd of October 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Annette Funicello, American actress |
| 22nd of October 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Fuller, American rock guitarist (d. 1966) |
| 22nd of October 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Catherine Deneuve, French actress |
| 22nd of October 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Jan de Bont, Dutch film director |
| 22nd of October 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Allen Coage, American professional wrestler (d. 2007) |
| 22nd of October 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Leslie West, American musician |
| 22nd of October 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Sheila Sherwood, British long jumper |
| 22nd of October 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Yvan Ponton, Canadian actor and television host |
| 22nd of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Kelvin MacKenzie, British media tycoon |
| 22nd of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Deepak Chopra, Indian-American physician and writer |
| 22nd of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Charron, French-Canadian politician and TV personality |
| 22nd of October 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Brigati, American singer (The Rascals) |
| 22nd of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Haley Barbour, American politician, 63rd Governor of Mississippi |
| 22nd of October 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Raymond Bachand, French-Canadian politician and businessman |
| 22nd of October 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Lynette Fromme, American attempted assassin of Gerald Ford |
| 22nd of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Vasilios Magginas, Greek politician |
| 22nd of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Stiv Bators, American musician (The Dead Boys) (d. 1990) |
| 22nd of October 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Arsene Wenger, French football manager |
| 22nd of October 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Goldblum, American actor |
| 22nd of October 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Frank DiPino, American baseball player |
| 22nd of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Arto Salminen, Finnish writer (d. 2005) |
| 22nd of October 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Shaiman, American composer |
| 22nd of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Cris Kirkwood, American musician (Meat Puppets) |
| 22nd of October 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Darryl Jenifer, American bassist (Bad Brains) |
| 22nd of October 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Torti, American actor |
| 22nd of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Huseyin Kenan Ayd?n, German politician |
| 22nd of October 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Odenkirk, American actor and comedian (Mr. Show) |
| 22nd of October 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Boitano, American figure skater |
| 22nd of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Drazen Petrovic, Croatian basketball player (d. 1993) |
| 22nd of October 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Toby Mac, American singer and songwriter |
| 22nd of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Otis Smith, American football player |
| 22nd of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | John Wesley Harding, American musician |
| 22nd of October 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Piotr "Peter" Wiwczarek, frontman of the Polish deathmetal band Vader |
| 22nd of October 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Valeria Golino, Italian actress |
| 22nd of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Salvatore Di Vittorio, Italian composer and conductor |
| 22nd of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Rita Guerra, Portuguese singer |
| 22nd of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Ulrike Maier, Austrian alpine skier (d. 1994) |
| 22nd of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Tugnutt, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 22nd of October 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Mencia, Honduras-born American comedian |
| 22nd of October 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Stephane Quintal, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 22nd of October 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Shaggy, Jamaican musician |
| 22nd of October 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Johnston, American actor and comedian (Mr. Show) |
| 22nd of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Hector Carrasco, Dominican baseball player |
| 22nd of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Helmut Lotti, Belgian singer |
| 22nd of October 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Spike Jonze, American director and film producer |
| 22nd of October 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Amy Redford, American actress, director and producer |
| 22nd of October 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Kornel David, Hungarian basketball player |
| 22nd of October 1972 | BIRTHDAY | D'Lo Brown, American professional wrestler |
| 22nd of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Andres Palop, Spanish footballer |
| 22nd of October 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Ichiro Suzuki, Japanese baseball player |
| 22nd of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Kinsella, American musician |
| 22nd of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Giorgos Koltzos, Greek footballer |
| 22nd of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Miroslav Satan, Slovak ice hockey player |
| 22nd of October 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff McInnis, American NBA basketball player |
| 22nd of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Cardetti, Argentine footballer |
| 22nd of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Salgado, Spanish footballer |
| 22nd of October 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jesse Tyler Ferguson, American actor |
| 22nd of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Foreman, American musician (Switchfoot) |
| 22nd of October 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Helen Svedin, Swedish model |
| 22nd of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Dion Glover, American basketball player |
| 22nd of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Chaswe Nsofwa, Zambian footballer (d. 2007) |
| 22nd of October 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Owais Shah, English cricketer |
| 22nd of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Fishman, Cuban/American actor |
| 22nd of October 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Olivier Pla, French racing driver |
| 22nd of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Robinson Cano, Dominican baseball player |
| 22nd of October 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Heath Miller, American football player |
| 22nd of October 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Plan B, English rapper and actor |
| 22nd of October 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Aleksandar Maric, Australian basketball player of Serbian descent |
| 22nd of October 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Zac Hanson, American musician |
| 22nd of October 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Evagelia Aravani, Greek fashion model |
| 22nd of October 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Kara Lang, Canadian footballer |
| 22nd of October 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Stefan Radu, Romanian footballer |
| 22nd of October 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Evans, Filipino actor |
| 22nd of October 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Lipnicki, American actor |
| 22nd of October 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Sofia Vassilieva, American actress |
| 22nd of October 0741 | DEATH | Charles Martel, leader of the Franks (Born 686) |
| 22nd of October 1383 | DEATH | King Fernando I of Portugal (Born 1345) |
| 22nd of October 1565 | DEATH | Jean, Vicomte d'Aguisy Grolier de Servieres, French bibliophile (Born 1479) |
| 22nd of October 1613 | DEATH | Pomponio Nenna, Italian composer |
| 22nd of October 1625 | DEATH | Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese politician (Born 1561) |
| 22nd of October 1674 | DEATH | Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter (Born 1621) |
| 22nd of October 1707 | DEATH | Cloudesley Shovell, Royal Navy admiral (Born1650) |
| 22nd of October 1708 | DEATH | Hermann Witsius, Dutch theologian (Born 1636) |
| 22nd of October 1751 | DEATH | William IV, Prince of Orange (Born 1711) |
| 22nd of October 1755 | DEATH | Elisha Williams, American rector of Yale College (Born 1694) |
| 22nd of October 1792 | DEATH | Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (Born 1725) |
| 22nd of October 1847 | DEATH | Sahle Selassie, Negus of Shewa |
| 22nd of October 1859 | DEATH | Louis Spohr, German violinist and composer (Born 1784) |
| 22nd of October 1883 | DEATH | Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish-American novelist (Born 1818) |
| 22nd of October 1891 | DEATH | Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, Austrian physiologist (Born 1846) |
| 22nd of October 1906 | DEATH | Paul Cezanne, French painter (Born 1839) |
| 22nd of October 1914 | DEATH | Konishiki Yasokichi I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 17th Yokozuna (Born 1866) |
| 22nd of October 1917 | DEATH | Bob Fitzsimmons, English boxer (Born 1863) |
| 22nd of October 1918 | DEATH | Myrtle Gonzalez, American film and stage actress (Born 1891) |
| 22nd of October 1927 | DEATH | Borisav "Bora" Stankovic, Serbian writer (Born 1876) |
| 22nd of October 1928 | DEATH | Andrew Fisher, fifth Prime Minister of Australia (Born 1862) |
| 22nd of October 1934 | DEATH | Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (Born 1904) |
| 22nd of October 1935 | DEATH | Komitas, Armenian composer (Born 1869) |
| 22nd of October 1935 | DEATH | Sir Edward Carson, Irish Unionist opposed to Home Rule (Born 1854) |
| 22nd of October 1941 | DEATH | Guy Moquet, French hero of the resistance(executed)(Born 1924) |
| 22nd of October 1952 | DEATH | Ernst Rudin, Swiss nazi physician (Born 1874) |
| 22nd of October 1954 | DEATH | Jibanananda Das, Bengali poet (Born 1899) |
| 22nd of October 1956 | DEATH | Hannah Mitchell, English socialist and suffragette (Born 1872) |
| 22nd of October 1969 | DEATH | Tommy Edwards, American singer (Born 1922) |
| 22nd of October 1973 | DEATH | Pau Casals, Catalan cellist and conductor (Born 1876) |
| 22nd of October 1978 | DEATH | John Riley, English poet (murdered) (Born 1937) |
| 22nd of October 1979 | DEATH | Nadia Boulanger, French composer and composition teacher (Born 1887) |
| 22nd of October 1985 | DEATH | Viorica Ursuleac, Romanian soprano (Born 1894) |
| 22nd of October 1986 | DEATH | Jane Dornacker, musician, actress, and traffic reporter for WNBC Radio. (Born 1947) |
| 22nd of October 1986 | DEATH | Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Hungarian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1893) |
| 22nd of October 1986 | DEATH | Ye Jianying, Chinese general and politician (Born 1897) |
| 22nd of October 1987 | DEATH | Lino Ventura, Italian-born actor (Born 1919) |
| 22nd of October 1989 | DEATH | Ewan MacColl, English folk singer, songwriter, socialist, actor, poet, playwright, and record producer (Born 1915) |
| 22nd of October 1992 | DEATH | Cleavon Little, American actor (Born 1939) |
| 22nd of October 1992 | DEATH | Red Barber, American sportscaster (Born 1908) |
| 22nd of October 1993 | DEATH | Innes Ireland, Scottish racing driver (Born 1930) |
| 22nd of October 1995 | DEATH | Sir Kingsley Amis, English writer (Born 1922) |
| 22nd of October 1997 | DEATH | Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator (Born 1905) |
| 22nd of October 1998 | DEATH | Eric Ambler, English novelist (Born 1909) |
| 22nd of October 2001 | DEATH | Prof. Dr. Dkfm. Helmut Krackowizer, journalist and motorcycle racer (Born 1922) |
| 22nd of October 2002 | DEATH | Richard Helms, American CIA director (Born 1913) |
| 22nd of October 2002 | DEATH | Queen Geraldina of the Albanians (Born 1915) |
| 22nd of October 2005 | DEATH | Arman, French-born artist (Born 1928) |
| 22nd of October 2005 | DEATH | Tony Adams, Irish film producer (Born 1953) |
| 22nd of October 2005 | DEATH | Franky Gee, American singer (Captain Jack) (Born 1962) |
| 22nd of October 2006 | DEATH | Arthur Hill, Canadian actor (Born 1922) |
| 22nd of October 2007 | DEATH | Eve Curie, French writer (Born 1904) |
| 22nd of October 2009 | DEATH | Don Lane, American-born Australian television personality (Born 1933) |
| 22nd of October 2009 | DEATH | Soupy Sales, American comedian and television personality (Born 1926) |