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Judy Garland
Judy Garland was an American actress, singer, and vaudevillian whose career spanned four decades. She is known for her artistic range and strong contralto voice, working in a variety of genres including musicals, comedies, and dramas. Her career and personal life, marked by both public fascination and private struggle, made her a cultural icon.

José Saramago
Portuguese novelist (1922–2010)
Kurt Vonnegut
American author (1922–2007)

Yizhak Rabin
Israeli politician, statesman and general (1922–1995)
Christopher Lee
English actor and singer (1922–2015)
Doris Day
American actress and singer (1922–2019)
Jack Kerouac
American writer (1922–1969)

Pier Paolo Pasolini
Italian writer, filmmaker, poet, and intellectual (1922–1975)
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1992 to 1996

Norodom Sihanouk
Cambodian monarch and politician (1922–2012)

Carl Reiner
Carl Reiner was an American actor, author, comedian, director, and screenwriter whose career spanned seven decades. His awards and honors include 12 Primetime Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. He was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1999.

Julius Nyerere
Tanzanian politician and writer, first Prime Minister and President of Tanzania (1922–1999)

Ava Gardner
American actress (1922–1990)

Chen-ning Yang
Chinese physicist (1922–2025)
Aage Bohr
Danish physicist (1922–2009)
Betty White
American actress and comedian (1922–2021)
Franjo Tuđman
Croatian politician, soldier, president and historian (1922–1999)

Har Gobind Khorana
Indian-American molecular biologist (1922-2011)
Leon M. Lederman
American mathematician and physicist

Agostinho Neto
President of Angola (1975-1979)
Ahmed Sékou Touré
President of Guinea (1922-1984)
Gérard Philipe
French actor (1922-1959)
Christiaan Barnard
South African cardiac surgeon

Emil Zátopek
Czech long-distance runner (1922-2000)
Alain Resnais
French film director (1922-2014)
John B. Goodenough
American materials scientist (1922–2023)
Erving Goffman
Canadian-American sociologist (1922–1982)

Stanley Cohen
American biochemist
Hiroo Onoda
Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer (1922-2014)

Kingsley Amis
English novelist, poet, critic and teacher (1922-1995)

Cyd Charisse
American dancer and actress (1921–2008)

Vittorio Gassman
Italian actor and director (1922–2000)

Jason Robards
American actor (1922–2000)

Robert W. Holley
American biochemist (1922–1993)
Imre Lakatos
Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science (1922-1974)
Pierre Cardin
French-Italian fashion designer (1922-2020)

Alain Robbe-Grillet
French author and film director (1922–2008)

Blake Edwards
American film director, screenwriter and producer (1922-2010)

Veronica Lake
American actress (1922–1973)

Paul Scofield
British actor (1922–2008)
Dilip Kumar
Indian actor and politician (1922-2021)

Howard Zinn
American historian, playwright, and socialist thinker (1922–2010)

Erich Hartmann
German officer and fighter pilot during World War II (1922–1993)
Bea Arthur
American actress and comedienne (1922–2009)
Eleanor Parker
American actress (1922-2013)

Charles M. Schulz
American cartoonist, known for creating the comic strip, "Peanuts" (1922-2000)

Telly Savalas
American film and television actor and singer (1922–1994)

Lucian Freud
British painter and engraver (1922-2011)

Iannis Xenakis
Greek-French composer, architect and engineer (1922–2001)
Yvonne De Carlo
Canadian-born American actress, dancer and singer (1922–2007)

Kim Hunter
American actress (1922-2002)

Taro Kagawa
Japanese association football player (1922–1990)

Charles Mingus
American jazz double bassist, composer and bandleader (1922–1979)
Luis Echeverría
57th President of Mexico

George McGovern
American historian and politician (1922–2012)

Philip Larkin
English writer, jazz critic and librarian (1922-1985)
Árpád Göncz
Hungarian politician, writer, translator, President of Hungary (1922-2015)

Arthur Penn
American producer and director (1922–2010)
Dorothy Dandridge
American actress and singer (1922–1965)
Alan Perlis
American computer scientist (1922–1990)