The 112th day of the year, the 113th in a leap year
Born on 22 April
Every 22 April birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Taurus, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- TaurusEarth, fixed, ruled by Venus.
- Birthstone
- DiamondThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Daisy, Sweet peaUsually taken today to mean innocence and blissful pleasure.
- Most common weekdays
- Friday and Wednesday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 22 April in any year.
Which weekday 22 April falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 22 April falls on every day of the week: Friday 16, Wednesday 16, Thursday 15, Saturday 15, Sunday 15, Tuesday 15, Monday 15.
Showing 22 April in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →
How common a birthday 22 April is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,767 babies were born on 22 April in each year of the twenty, making it the 321st most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
Office for National Statistics, How popular is your birthday? Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. What a ranking like this can and cannot say →
Born on 22 April
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Vladimir Lenin | 1870–1924 | founding leader of the Soviet Union |
| Immanuel Kant | 1724–1804 | German philosopher |
| Vladimir Nabokov | 1899–1977 | Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor |
| J. Robert Oppenheimer | 1904–1967 | American theoretical physicist |
| Jack Nicholson | 1937– | American actor and filmmaker |
| Donald Tusk | 1957– | Prime Minister of Poland (2007–2014; since 2023) |
| Rita Levi-Montalcini | 1909–2012 | Italian neurologist |
| Isabella I of Castile | 1451–1504 | Queen of Castile and León from 1474 to 1504 |
| Louise Glück | 1943–2023 | American poet and Nobel laureate |
| Kaká | 1982– | Brazilian association football player |
| Germaine de Staël | 1766–1817 | Genevan-French author |
| Amber Heard | 1986– | American actress |
| Henry Fielding | 1707–1754 | English novelist and dramatist |
| Pope Alexander VIII | 1610–1691 | pope of the Catholic Church from 1689 to 1691 |
| David Luiz | 1987– | Brazilian association football player |
| Robert Bárány | 1876–1936 | Austrian otologist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine |
| Henri La Fontaine | 1854–1943 | Belgian lawyer, politician and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate |
| Yehudi Menuhin | 1916–1999 | American violinist and conductor |
Died on 22 April
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Miguel de Cervantes | 1547–1616 | Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright |
| Richard Nixon | 1913–1994 | president of the United States from 1969 to 1974 |
| Emilio Segrè | 1905–1989 | Italian physicist and Nobel laureate |
| Pope Agapetus I | died 536 | 6th‑century Roman pope and canonized Catholic saint, considered a confessor of the faith |
| Pope Caius | died 296 | pope of the Catholic Church from 283 to 296 |
| Mircea Eliade | 1907–1986 | Romanian-American historian, writer, philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago |
| Ansel Adams | 1902–1984 | American photographer and environmentalist |
| Käthe Kollwitz | 1867–1945 | German printmaker and sculptor |
| Henry Campbell-Bannerman | 1836–1908 | British Prime Minister from 1905 to 1908 |
| Richard Trevithick | 1771–1833 | British inventor and mining engineer |
| Kūkai | 774–835 | Japanese Buddhist monk and calligrapher, the founder of the Shingon school |
| Alida Valli | 1921–2006 | Italian actress |
Names are the titles of the English Wikipedia articles; years and the short descriptions are from Wikidata, which publishes under CC0, checked and corrected by hand where they needed it, and nothing is said about anybody beyond that. Ask for a removal.