Famous people born on 22 September

• Marco PoloVenetian explorer and merchant who travelled through Asia · 1254–1324
  69 yrs
• Michael FaradayBritish scientist · 1791–1867
  75 yrs
• VitelliusEighth Roman Emperor (69) · AD 15–69
  54 yrs
• Wilhelm KeitelGerman field marshal · 1882–1946
  64 yrs
• Cesare Borgia ↗Duke of Romagna and former Catholic cardinal · 1475–1507
  31 yrs
• Peter Simon Pallas ↗German zoologist and botanist · 1741–1811
  69 yrs
• Junko Tabei ↗Japanese mountain climber · 1939–2016
  77 yrs
• Anne of Austria ↗Queen, consort of Louis XIII, King of France, lived · 1601–1666
  64 yrs
• Paul Muni ↗Austrian-born American stage and film actor · 1895–1967
  71 yrs
• Algirdas Brazauskas ↗Lithuanian politician · 1932–2010
  77 yrs
• Anna Karina ↗Danish-French actress · 1940–2019
  79 yrs
• Erich von Stroheim ↗Austrian actor and director · 1885–1957
  71 yrs
• Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield ↗18th-century British statesman and man of letters; · 1694–1773
  78 yrs
• Shigeru Yoshida ↗Prime minister of Japan · 1878–1967
  89 yrs
• Charles Brenton Huggins ↗American physiologist · 1901–1997
  95 yrs
• Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis ↗Lithuanian painter, composer and writer · 1875–1911
  35 yrs
• Maurice Blanchot ↗French writer, philosopher, and literary theorist · 1907–2003
  95 yrs
• Christabel Pankhurst ↗Suffragette, co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union, editor · 1880–1958
  77 yrs
• John Houseman ↗Romanian-born British–American actor and film producer · 1902–1988
  86 yrs
• Ilse Koch ↗German war criminal, wife of camp commandant Karl-Otto Koch · 1906–1967
  60 yrs
• Nadezhda Alliluyeva ↗Second wife of Joseph Stalin · 1901–1932
  31 yrs
• Alexandre Yersin ↗Swiss-French physician and bacteriologist · 1863–1943
  79 yrs
• Ingemar Johansson ↗Swedish boxer · 1932–2009
  76 yrs
• Ben Chifley ↗Australian politician, 16th Prime Minister of Australia · 1885–1951
  65 yrs
• Hussein-Ali Montazeri ↗Cleric and Deputy Supreme Leader of Iran from 1985 to 1989 · 1922–2009
  87 yrs
• Martha Scott ↗American actress · 1912–2003
  90 yrs
• Hans Scholl ↗German pacifist, executed by Nazi Germany · 1918–1943
  24 yrs
• James Thomson ↗Scottish writer · 1700–1748
  47 yrs
• Jeongjo of Joseon ↗22nd King of Joseon · 1752–1800
  47 yrs
• Paolo Ruffini ↗Italian mathematician and physician · 1765–1822
  56 yrs
• Carmen Pereira ↗Guinea-Bissauan politician · 1936–2016
  79 yrs
• Charlotte Cooper ↗English tennis player · 1870–1966
  96 yrs
• George Bentham ↗British botanist · 1800–1884
  83 yrs

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