List of Famous people born on August 22nd

Francesco Di Giacomo was an Italian singer and lyricist. He was the lead vocalist of the progressive rock band Banco del Mutuo Soccorso from 1971 to 2013.

Eleonora Brown is an Italian film actress. Her first, and arguably biggest, role was at age twelve as the daughter of Sophia Loren's character in Two Women (1960).

Paul Ereng is a former Kenyan athlete, and the surprise winner of the 800 metres at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Charles Francis Jenkins was an American pioneer of early cinema and one of the inventors of television, though he used mechanical rather than electronic technologies. His businesses included Charles Jenkins Laboratories and Jenkins Television Corporation. Over 400 patents were issued to Jenkins, many for his inventions related to motion pictures and television.

Aldo Scavarda is an Italian cinematographer who collaborated with Michelangelo Antonioni, Bernardo Bertolucci, Mauro Bolognini, Luigi Comencini, Salvatore Samperi, Sergio Sollima, and others.

Our Lady J is an American classical pianist, television writer, and singer-songwriter. She is a writer and producer for the television series Transparent and Pose.

Samuel Pierpont Langley was an American aviation pioneer, astronomer and physicist who invented the bolometer. He was the third secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and a professor of astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh, where he was the director of the Allegheny Observatory.