Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/February 22

Births

• 1732 - George Washington, 1st President of the United States. (d. 1799) (pictured)
• 1788 - Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (d. 1860)
• 1857 - Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, English founder of the Boy Scouts (d. 1941)
• 1892 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, American writer (d. 1950)
• 1962 - Steve Irwin, Australian herpetologist (d. 2006)
• 1975 - Drew Barrymore, American actress

Deaths

• 1512 - Amerigo Vespucci, Italian merchant and explorer (b. 1454)
• 1674 - Jean Chapelain, French writer (b. 1595)
• 1797 - Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German officer and adventurer (b. 1720)
• 1987 - Andy Warhol, American artist, director, and writer (b. 1928)