List of Famous people born on August 22nd

Roscoe Wayne Marquand is an American impressionist and actor. He plays Aaron on the television series The Walking Dead, and Red Skull in the films Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019).

Howard Dwaine Dorough is an American singer, songwriter, and actor. He is a member and co-founder of the vocal group the Backstreet Boys.

Seiko Yamamoto is a Japanese wrestler who won four world titles and two Asian Wrestling Championships in her career.

Ryuichi Kihara is a Japanese figure skater, who presently competes in pairs with partner Riku Miura. He previously competed with Narumi Takahashi and Miu Suzaki, representing Japan at the 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics, respectively.

John Church Hamilton was a historian, biographer, and lawyer. He was a son of Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

Irina Konstantinovna Skobtseva was a Soviet and Russian actress and second wife of Sergei Bondarchuk.

Dorothy Parker was an American poet, writer, critic, and satirist based in New York; she was best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.

Masako Mori is a Japanese politician and lawyer who has served in the House of Councillors since 2007, and as Minister of Justice from October 2019 to September 2020. She is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party.

Yambo Ouologuem was a Malian writer. His first novel, Le devoir de violence, won the Prix Renaudot. He later published Lettre à la France nègre (1969), and Les mille et une bibles du sexe (1969) under the pseudonym Utto Rodolph. Le devoir de violence was initially well-received, but critics later charged that Ouologuem had plagiarized passages from Graham Greene and other established authors. Ouologuem turned away from the Western press as a result of the matter, and remained reclusive for the rest of his life.

Stephen F. Kroft is an American retired journalist, best known as a long-time correspondent for 60 Minutes. Kroft's investigative reporting garnered widespread acclaim, winning him three Peabody Awards and nine Emmy awards, including one for Lifetime Achievement in 2003.