List of Famous people who born in 1922

Born in 1922
Died in 1922

Betty White

Betty Marion White
First Name Betty
Last Name White
Born on January 17, 1922
Died on December 31, 2021 (aged 99)
Height 163 cm | 5'4

Betty Marion White Ludden is an American actress and comedian. With a television career spanning over 80 years, White has worked longer in that medium than anyone else in the television industry. Regarded as a pioneer of television, she was one of the first women to exert control in front of and behind the camera and is recognized as the first woman to produce a sitcom, which contributed to her receiving the honorary title Mayor of Hollywood in 1955.

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Judy Garland

Frances Ethel Gumm
First Name Judy
Born on June 10, 1922
Died on June 22, 1969 (aged 47)
Height 152 cm | 5'0

Judy Garland was an American actress, singer, vaudevillian and dancer. With a career spanning 45 years, she attained international stardom as an actress in both musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist, and on the concert stage. Renowned for her versatility, she received an Academy Juvenile Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Special Tony Award. Garland was the first woman to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, which she won for her 1961 live recording titled Judy at Carnegie Hall.

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Stan Lee

Stanley Martin Lieber
First Name Stan
Last Name Lee
Born on December 28, 1922
Died on November 12, 2018 (aged 95)
Height 180 cm | 5'11

Stan Lee was an American comic book writer, editor, publisher, and producer. He rose through the ranks of a family-run business to become Marvel Comics' primary creative leader for two decades, leading its expansion from a small division of a publishing house to a multimedia corporation that dominated the comics and movie industries.

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Doris Day

Doris Mary Kappelhoff
First Name Doris
Last Name Day
Died on May 13, 2019 (aged 49)
Height 169 cm | 5'7

Doris Day was an American actress, singer, and animal welfare activist. She began her career as a big band singer in 1939, achieving commercial success in 1945 with two No. 1 recordings, "Sentimental Journey" and "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time" with Les Brown & His Band of Renown. She left Brown to embark on a solo career and recorded more than 650 songs from 1947 to 1967.

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Christopher Lee

Christopher Frank Carandini Lee
First Name Christopher
Last Name Lee
Born on May 27, 1922
Died on June 7, 2015 (aged 93)
Height 194 cm | 6'4

Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, was an English actor, singer and author. With a career spanning nearly seven decades, Lee was well known for portraying villains and became best known for his role as Count Dracula in a sequence of Hammer Horror films. His other film roles include Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), Count Dooku in the Star Wars prequel trilogy (2002–2005), and Saruman in both the Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003) and the Hobbit film trilogy (2012–2014).

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Edward David Shames

First Name Edward
Last Name Shames
Born on June 13, 1922
Died on December 3, 2021 (aged 99)

Colonel Edward David Shames was a United States Army enlisted man and officer who later served in the U.S. Army Reserve. During World War II he was assigned to the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division.

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Babasaheb Purandare

First Name Babasaheb
Born on July 29, 1922
Died on November 15, 2021 (aged 99)
Born in India

Balwant Moreshwar Purandare, popularly known as Babasaheb Purandare is a writer and theatre personality from Maharashtra, India. He was awarded with Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian award on 25 January 2019. His works are mostly based on the events related to the life of Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, the 17th-century founder of the Maratha Empire; as a result he is termed as Shiv-Shahir. He is mostly known for his popular play on Shivaji Jaanta Raja which was popular not only in Maharashtra but also in Andhra Pradesh and Goa. Purandare has also studied the history of the Peshwas of Pune. He is also known for his significant contribution along with Madhav Deshpande & Madhav Mehere as senior party leaders in the early-1970s of Shiv Sena along with Balasaheb Thackeray. In 2015, he was awarded with Maharashtra Bhushan Award, Maharashtra's highest civilian award.

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Jim Laker

First Name Jim
Last Name Laker
Born on February 9, 1922
Died on April 23, 1986 (aged 64)

James Charles Laker was an English cricketer who played for Surrey County Cricket Club from 1946 to 1959 and represented the England cricket team in 46 Test matches. He was born in Shipley, West Riding of Yorkshire, and died in Wimbledon, London.

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Dilip Kumar

Mohammed Yusuf Khan
First Name Dilip
Born on December 11, 1922
Died on July 7, 2021 (aged 98)

Mohammed Yusuf Khan, known professionally as Dilip Kumar, is an Indian film actor and philanthropist, best known for his work in Hindi cinema. Referred as "The Tragedy King" and "The First Khan", he has been credited for bringing the method acting technique to Indian cinema. Kumar holds the record for most wins for the Filmfare Award for Best Actor and was also the inaugural recipient of the award.

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Norman Lear

First Name Norman
Last Name Lear
Born on July 27, 1922 (age 100)

Norman Milton Lear is an American television writer and producer who produced many 1970s sitcoms such as All in the Family, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time and its 2017 remake, The Jeffersons, Good Times, and Maude.

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Jakucho Setouchi

三谷 晴美
First Name Jakucho
Born on May 15, 1922
Died on November 9, 2021 (aged 99)

Jakucho Setouchi , formerly Harumi Setouchi , is a Buddhist nun, writer, and activist. Setouchi is noted for her biographical novels written as first-person narratives.

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Har Gobind Khorana

First Name Har
Born on January 9, 1922
Died on November 9, 2011 (aged 89)
Born in Pakistan, Punjab

Har Gobind Khorana was an Indian American biochemist. While on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that showed the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell and control the cell's synthesis of proteins. Khorana and Nirenberg were also awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in the same year.

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Carl Reiner

First Name Carl
Last Name Reiner
Born on March 20, 1922
Died on June 29, 2020 (aged 98)

Carl Reiner was an American actor, comedian, director, screenwriter, and author whose career spanned seven decades. During the early years of television comedy from 1950 to 1957, he acted on and contributed sketch material for Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour, starring Sid Caesar, writing alongside Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, and Woody Allen. Reiner teamed up with Brooks and together they released several iconic comedy albums beginning with the 2000 Years with Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks (1960). Reiner was best known as the creator and producer of, and a writer and actor on, The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961-1965).

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Nicholas Alkemade

First Name Nicholas
Last Name Alkemade
Born on December 10, 1922
Died on June 22, 1987 (aged 64)
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Nicholas Stephen Alkemade was an English tail gunner in the Royal Air Force during World War II who survived a freefall of 18,000 feet (5,490 m) without a parachute when abandoning his out-of-control, burning Avro Lancaster heavy bomber over Germany.

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Olga Ladyzhenskaya

First Name Olga
Born on March 7, 1922
Died on January 12, 2004 (aged 81)

Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya was a Russian mathematician who worked on partial differential equations, fluid dynamics, and the finite difference method for the Navier–Stokes equations. She received the Lomonosov Gold Medal in 2002. She is the author of more than two hundred scientific works, among which are six monographs.

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Ava Gardner

Ava Lavinia Gardner
First Name Ava
Last Name Gardner
Born on December 24, 1922
Died on January 25, 1990 (aged 67)
Height 166 cm | 5'5

Ava Lavinia Gardner was an American actress and singer. She first signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1941 and appeared mainly in small roles until she drew critics' attention in 1946 with her performance in Robert Siodmak's Noir film The Killers. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1953 for her performance in John Ford's Mogambo, and in 1964 for best actress for both a Golden Globe Award and BAFTA Award for her performance in John Huston's The Night of the Iguana.

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Hiroo Onoda

First Name Hiroo
Last Name Onoda
Born on March 19, 1922
Died on January 16, 2014 (aged 91)

Hiroo Onoda was an Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer who fought in World War II and was a Japanese holdout who did not surrender at the war's end in August 1945. After the war ended Onoda spent 29 years hiding out in the Philippines until his former commander travelled from Japan to formally relieve him from duty by order of Emperor Shōwa in 1974. He held the rank of second lieutenant in the Imperial Japanese Army. He was the penultimate Japanese soldier to surrender, with Teruo Nakamura surrendering later in 1974.

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Joan Lee

Joan Boocock
First Name Joan
Last Name Lee
Born on February 5, 1922
Died on July 6, 2017 (aged 95)

Joan Lieber was a British-American model and voice actress. She was the wife of comic book writer Stan Lee, whom she met in New York City in the 1940s while working as a hat model. In her later years, Lieber became a voice actress and appeared in the Spider-Man and Fantastic Four animated series in the 1990s. Kevin Smith referred to Joan as “Stan’s personal superhero” and “Marvel Muse”.

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Mao Anying

First Name Mao
Last Name Anying
Born on October 24, 1922
Died on November 25, 1950 (aged 28)

Mao Anying was the eldest son of Mao Zedong and Yang Kaihui.

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Bill Millin

First Name Bill
Last Name Millin
Born on July 14, 1922
Died on August 17, 2010 (aged 88)
Born in Canada, Saskatchewan

William Millin, commonly known as Piper Bill, was personal piper to Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat, commander of 1 Special Service Brigade at D-Day.

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