Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/January 22

Births

• 1561 - Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher (d. 1626)
• 1788 - George Gordon, Lord Byron, English poet (d. 1824) (pictured)
• 1800 - Nat Turner, American slave rebellion leader (d. 1831)
• 1869 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (d. 1916)
• 1875 - D. W. Griffith, American film director (d. 1948)
• 1909 - U Thant, Burmese 3rd United Nations Secretary General (d. 1974)

Deaths

• 1666 - Shah Jahan, Mughal Emperor of India (b. 1592)
• 1901 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (b. 1819)
• 1973 - Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States (b. 1908)