Who Was Born Today – April 22 Birthdays
Important and famous people from throughout history born on this day
Born on April 22 | ||
1451 | Isabella I of Castile, Queen of Spain, patron of Christopher Columbus. | |
1707 | Henry Fielding, English novelist (Tom Jones). | |
1724 | Immanuel Kant, German philosopher. | |
1870 | Vladimir Ilich Lenin (Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov), leader of the Bolshevik Revolution (1917) and first head of the U.S.S.R. | |
1873 | Ellen Glassgow, American novelist. | |
1876 | O.E. Rolvaag, novelist (Giants in the Earth). | |
1899 | Vladimir Nabokov, Russian novelist (Lolita). | |
1904 | J. Robert Oppenheimer, physicist, director of the Manhattan Project. | |
1916 | Yehudi Menuhin, violinist. | |
1918 | Robert Wadlow, the world’s tallest man (8’11.1″). | |
1922 | Charles Mingus, jazz bassist. | |
1943 | Louise Gluck, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. |