Birthday, Date of Birth

The August 22, 1947 was a Friday under the star sign of ♌. It was the 233 day of the year. President of the United States was Harry S. Truman.

If you were born on this day, you are 78 years old. Your last birthday was on the Friday, August 22, 2025, 48 days ago. Your next birthday is on Saturday, August 22, 2026, in 316 days. You have lived for 28,538 days, or about 684,933 hours, or about 41,096,012 minutes, or about 2,465,760,720 seconds.

Some people who share this birthday:

• Deng Xiaoping (diplomat, journalist, politician, born August 22, 1904)
• Kristen Wiig (comedian, film actor, film producer, screenwriter, television actor, voice actor, born August 22, 1973)
• James Corden (actor, autobiographer, comedian, film actor, film producer, screenwriter, stage actor, television actor, television presenter, television producer, born August 22, 1978)
• Zheng Shuang (film actor, television actor, born August 22, 1991)
• Layne Staley (composer, guitarist, musician, singer, singer-songwriter, born August 22, 1967)
• Claude Debussy (composer, music critic, musician, pianist, born August 22, 1862)
• Richard Armitage (film actor, stage actor, television actor, born August 22, 1971)
• Keiko Kitagawa (actor, fashion model, film actor, model, born August 22, 1986)
• Chiranjeevi (actor, film actor, film producer, politician, born August 22, 1955)
• Ty Burrell (actor, film actor, stage actor, television actor, voice actor, born August 22, 1967)
• Anthony of Padua (Franciscan friar, presbyter, born August 15, 1195)
• Ray Bradbury (writer, born August 22, 1920)
• Leni Riefenstahl (actor, dancer, director, film actor, film director, film editor, film producer, photographer, screenwriter, born August 22, 1902)
• Giada De Laurentiis (actor, cook, journalist, writer, born August 22, 1970)
• Miho Kanno (actor, model, singer, born August 22, 1977)
• Rodrigo Santoro (actor, film actor, television actor, born August 22, 1975)
• Andrew Wilson (actor, director, film director, film producer, born August 22, 1964)
• Artem Dzyuba (association football player, blogger, born August 22, 1988)
• Boris Godunov (Oprichnik, politician, born August 12, 1552)
• Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (actor, film actor, film director, model, screenwriter, television actor, born August 22, 1967)
• Kay Cannon (actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter, television actor, television producer, born August 22, 1974)
• Tamori (actor, businessperson, composer, lyricist, owarai tarento, singer, television presenter, writer, born August 22, 1945)
• Jo Bo-a (actor, film actor, scientific model, born August 22, 1991)
• Tori Amos (composer, harpsichordist, musician, pianist, recording artist, singer-songwriter, born August 22, 1963)
• Yukiko Okada (actor, film actor, model, pianist, singer, born August 22, 1967)
• David Chase (film producer, screenwriter, television director, television producer, born August 22, 1945)
• GZA (musician, rapper, recording artist, singer, born August 22, 1966)
• Roland Orzabal (guitarist, singer, singer-songwriter, born August 22, 1961)
• Valerie Harper (actor, film actor, stage actor, television actor, writer, born August 22, 1939)
• Apollo Crews (professional wrestler, born August 22, 1987)
• Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. (military officer, born August 22, 1934)
• Dorothy Parker (columnist, dialogue writer, journalist, literary critic, poet, screenwriter, songwriter, writer, born August 22, 1893)
• Honor Blackman (actor, film actor, singer, stage actor, born August 22, 1925)
• David Dellinger (peace activist, trade unionist, born August 22, 1915)
• Ravshana Kurkova (actor, fashion model, film actor, model, singer, stage actor, born August 22, 1980)
• Cindy Williams (actor, film actor, film producer, television actor, voice actor, born August 22, 1947)
• Howie Dorough (actor, recording artist, shareholder, singer, born August 22, 1973)
• Takumi Saitoh (actor, film director, model, photographer, singer, born August 22, 1981)
• Mark Williams (comedian, film actor, screenwriter, stage actor, television actor, born August 22, 1959)
• Colm Feore (actor, film actor, stage actor, television actor, voice actor, born August 22, 1958)
• Trey Gowdy (clerk, lawyer, politician, born August 22, 1964)
• Rick Yune (actor, film actor, film producer, model, screenwriter, television actor, born August 22, 1971)
• Federico Macheda (association football player, born August 22, 1991)
• Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk (diplomat, economist, jurist, military personnel, politician, born August 22, 1887)
• Mischa Zverev (tennis player, born August 22, 1987)
• Ross Marquand (film actor, stage actor, television actor, voice actor, born August 22, 1981)
• Steve Davis (pool player, writer, born August 22, 1957)
• Paolo Macchiarini (surgeon, born August 22, 1958)
• Seiko Yamamoto (amateur wrestler, born August 22, 1980)
• Pavitra Punia (actor, model, television actor, born August 22, 1986)
• Mats Wilander (television presenter, tennis coach, tennis player, born August 22, 1964)
• Michael Gudinski (artist and repertoire, film producer, record label operator, record producer, tour promoter, born August 22, 1952)
• Devoleena Bhattacharjee (actor, television actor, born August 22, 1990)
• Carl Yastrzemski (baseball player, born August 22, 1939)
• Randall Cobb (American football player, born August 22, 1990)
• Bill Parcells (American football coach, American football player, coach, born August 22, 1941)
• Henri Cartier-Bresson (film director, journalist, painter, photographer, photojournalist, born August 22, 1908)
• Jorge Linares (boxer, born August 22, 1985)
• Karlheinz Stockhausen (composer, music pedagogue, music theorist, musician, musicologist, university teacher, born August 22, 1928)
• Monta Mino (businessperson, radio personality, television presenter, born August 22, 1944)
• Israel Broussard (actor, film actor, television actor, born August 22, 1994)
• Hona Ikoka (actor, drummer, born August 22, 1989)
• Du Yuesheng (businessperson, politician, born August 22, 1888)
• Andrés Calamaro (artist, composer, film director, poet, record producer, singer, songwriter, born August 22, 1961)
• Aleksandr Mostovoi (association football player, born August 22, 1968)
• Laurent Lafitte (actor, comedian, film actor, film director, stage actor, television actor, born August 22, 1973)
• Jennifer Finnigan (actor, film director, model, television actor, born August 22, 1979)
• Brandon Quintin Adams (actor, film actor, rapper, television actor, voice actor, born August 22, 1979)
• Elisabeth Murdoch (businessperson, born August 22, 1968)
• Neville (professional wrestler, born August 22, 1986)
• Jesse Itzler (entrepreneur, rapper, writer, born August 22, 1968)
• Max Scheler (anthropologist, axiology, philosopher, sociologist, university teacher, born August 22, 1874)
• Sylva Koscina (film actor, model, born August 22, 1933)
• Tarcísio Filho (actor, television actor, born August 22, 1964)
• Debbi Peterson (musician, singer, born August 22, 1961)
• Uğur Mumcu (journalist, lawyer, writer, born August 22, 1942)
• Vladimír Coufal (association football player, born August 22, 1992)
• Paul Singer (financier, journalist, lawyer, born August 22, 1944)
• Laura Dahlmeier (biathlete, cross-country skier, customs officer, born August 22, 1993)
• Giacomo Bonaventura (association football player, born August 22, 1989)
• Madame Nhu (politician, born August 22, 1924)
• Adam Thielen (American football player, born August 22, 1990)
• Rafael Pérez (police officer, born August 22, 1967)
• Christopher Williams (actor, singer-songwriter, born August 22, 1967)
• James DeBarge (singer, born August 22, 1963)
• Christian III of Denmark (monarch, born August 12, 1503)
• Dakota Goyo (actor, film actor, television actor, born August 22, 1999)
• Marcus Wesson (military personnel, born August 22, 1946)
• Milan I Obrenović (military personnel, born August 22, 1854)
• Lash Huffman (professional wrestler, born August 22, 1958)
• Irina Leonova (actor, born August 22, 1978)
• Rifaat al-Assad (military personnel, politician, born August 22, 1937)
• Sazō Idemitsu (art collector, businessperson, politician, born August 22, 1885)
• Samia Gamal (actor, dancer, born August 22, 1924)
• Vic Fangio (American football coach, coach, born August 22, 1958)
• Arthur M. Sackler (businessperson, psychiatrist, born August 22, 1913)
• Sadiq Hussaini Shirazi (cleric, born August 22, 1942)
• Irina Skobtseva (actor, drama teacher, born August 22, 1927)
• Alexander Bogdanov (economist, journalist, philosopher, physician, poet, politician, science fiction writer, sociologist, writer, born August 22, 1873)
• Taurean Prince (basketball player, born August 22, 1994)
• Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia (playwright, poet, writer, born August 22, 1858)
• Olha Sumska (actor, presenter, television presenter, born August 22, 1966)
• Marat Basharov (actor, television actor, born August 22, 1974)
• Micheline Presle (actor, film actor, born August 22, 1922)
• Harishankar Parsai (author, writer, born August 22, 1922)
• Jonnu Smith (American football player, born August 22, 1995)
• Robert Wall (actor, film actor, film producer, karateka, screenwriter, stunt performer, born August 22, 1939)
• Mitchell Langerak (association football player, born August 22, 1988)
• Laura Dreyfuss (actor, singer, born August 22, 1988)
• Leo XII (Catholic deacon, Catholic priest, born August 22, 1760)
• Mohamed Sanu (American football player, born August 22, 1989)
• Mary Lincoln Beckwith (aircraft pilot, born August 22, 1898)
• Peter James (film editor, film producer, manufacturer, novelist, prosaist, screenwriter, writer, born August 22, 1948)
• Courtney Gains (actor, film actor, film producer, musician, screenwriter, television actor, born August 22, 1965)
• Hozumi Gōda (actor, comedian, director of audiography, seiyū, born August 22, 1957)
• Neville Wadia (businessperson, politician, born August 22, 1911)
• Scooter Libby (lawyer, politician, writer, born August 22, 1950)
• Stephen Ireland (association football player, born August 22, 1986)
• Annie Proulx (author, journalist, librettist, non-fiction writer, novelist, screenwriter, born August 22, 1935)
• Alan Yang (film director, screenwriter, showrunner, born August 22, 1983)
• Jack Dunphy (novelist, playwright, writer, born August 22, 1914)
• Hiroshi Kawaguchi (actor, tarento, born August 22, 1936)
• David Marks (guitarist, singer, songwriter, born August 22, 1948)
• Alfonso IX of León (sovereign, born August 15, 1171)
• László Almásy (aircraft pilot, explorer, born August 22, 1895)
• Margaret Chan (civil servant, justice of the peace, physician, politician, born August 22, 1947)
• Avinash Sachdev (actor, model, television actor, born August 22, 1985)
• Christoph (businessperson, born August 22, 1949)
• Denis Papin (engineer, inventor, mathematician, physician, physicist, university teacher, born August 22, 1647)
• Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach (military personnel, resistance fighter, born August 22, 1888)
• Paul Molitor (baseball manager, baseball player, born August 22, 1956)
• Paul Ellering (manager, musher, powerlifter, professional wrestler, weightlifter, born August 22, 1953)
• Cezary Żak (actor, film actor, born August 22, 1961)
• Kaoru Yosano (lawyer, politician, born August 22, 1938)
• Vojin Ćetković (actor, born August 22, 1971)
• Miho Ōwada (actor, born August 22, 1983)
• Nacho (composer, political activist, singer, born August 22, 1983)
• Ryuichi Kihara (figure skater, born August 22, 1992)
• Hideo Tokoro (kickboxer, martial artist, mixed martial arts fighter, born August 22, 1977)
• Cory Gardner (politician, born August 22, 1974)
• Beenie Man (singer, born August 22, 1973)
• Ari Stidham (actor, film actor, television actor, born August 22, 1992)
• Masako Mori (lawyer, politician, born August 22, 1964)
• John Church Hamilton (biographer, lawyer, politician, writer, born August 22, 1792)
• Luis Bárcenas (art dealer, businessperson, politician, born August 22, 1957)
• Dona Ganguly (dancer, born August 22, 1976)
• Alżbeta Lenska (actor, born August 22, 1981)
• Ananda Coomaraswamy (art historian, mythographer, philosopher, born August 22, 1877)
• Paloma Jiménez (model, born August 22, 1983)
• Langley Fox Hemingway (artist, model, born August 22, 1989)

22nd of August 1947 News

News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on August 22, 1947