The 22nd day of the year
Born on 22 January
Every 22 January birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Aquarius, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- AquariusAir, fixed, ruled by Saturn.
- Birthstone
- GarnetThe same as on the 1912 list.
- Birth flower
- Carnation, SnowdropUsually taken today to mean devotion and hope.
- Most common weekdays
- Thursday and Sunday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Three new years since 1920
The lunar new year has fallen on 22 January three times since 1920: in 1947, when the year of the Fire Pig began, in 2004, the Wood Monkey, and most recently in 2023, the Water Rabbit. In 1966 it came a day earlier still, on the 21st. In those four years a baby born on 22 January was born into the new animal; in the other 103 years from 1920 to 2026 the new year was still to come, and the birthday belongs to the animal of the year before.
That makes 22 January 2023 and 22 January 2024 a pair worth knowing. The first was the Water Rabbit's first day. The second came 19 days before the new year of 10 February 2024, so 22 January 2024 belongs to the Water Rabbit as well: two birthdays a year apart, one animal.
The sign is the plain part of this date. The sun has entered Aquarius by 21 January in every year from 1920 to 2026, so a 22 January birthday was Aquarius from its first minute to its last in all of them, and in every time zone. The next new year on this date comes in 2042.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 22 January in any year.
Which Chinese animal, by year
From 1920 to 2026 the lunar new year, reckoned in Beijing, came after 22 January in 103 of the 107 years, and in those years a birthday on it belonged to the animal of the year before; in the other 4 the new year had already begun. It was the first day of the new year itself in 1947, 2004 and 2023.
Shaded: 22 January came before that year's new year. Hatched: the new year began on 22 January. How the new year is found →
Which weekday 22 January falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 22 January falls on every day of the week: Thursday 16, Sunday 16, Saturday 15, Monday 15, Tuesday 15, Friday 15, Wednesday 15.
Showing 22 January in the 36 most recent years. Every weekday →
How common a birthday 22 January is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,768 babies were born on 22 January in each year of the twenty, making it the 318th 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 January
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Lord Byron | 1788–1824 | English Romantic poet and lyricist |
| Francis Bacon | 1561–1626 | English philosopher and statesman |
| Sergei Eisenstein | 1898–1948 | Soviet filmmaker |
| Antonio Gramsci | 1891–1937 | Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, and politician |
| August Strindberg | 1849–1912 | Swedish writer and painter |
| Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | 1729–1781 | German writer, philosopher, publicist, and art critic |
| Lev Landau | 1908–1968 | Soviet theoretical physicist |
| U Thant | 1909–1974 | UN Secretary-General from 1961 to 1971 |
| D. W. Griffith | 1875–1948 | American filmmaker |
| Ibn Taymiyya | 1263–1328 | Islamic scholar, jurist and philosopher |
| Ivan III of Russia | 1440–1505 | Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1462 to 1505 |
| Hidetoshi Nakata | 1977– | Japanese association football player |
| John Hurt | 1940–2017 | British actor |
| Jim Jarmusch | 1953– | American film director, screenwriter and actor |
| Diane Lane | 1965– | American actress |
| Robert E. Howard | 1906–1936 | American author |
| Pierre Gassendi | 1592–1655 | French philosopher, astronomer, mathematician, priest, and scientist |
| Alan J. Heeger | 1936– | American chemist, physicist |
Died on 22 January
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Lyndon B. Johnson | 1908–1973 | president of the United States from 1963 to 1969 |
| Queen Victoria | 1819–1901 | Queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901 |
| Pope Benedict XV | 1854–1922 | Pope of the Catholic Church from 1914 to 1922 |
| Heath Ledger | 1979–2008 | Australian actor |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | 1929–2018 | American fantasy and science fiction author |
| Shah Jahan | 1592–1666 | Mughal Emperor from 1628 to 1658 |
| Kōbō Abe | 1924–1993 | Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor |
| Fredrik Bajer | 1837–1922 | Danish politician |
| Thích Nhất Hạnh | 1926–2022 | Vietnamese Buddhist monk and activist |
| Jean Simmons | 1929–2010 | British-American actress |
| Hank Aaron | 1934–2021 | American baseball player |
| Mike Hawthorn | 1929–1959 | British racing driver |
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