List of Famous people born on July 22nd
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Arthur Seyss-Inquart was an Austrian Nazi politician who served as Chancellor of Austria in 1938 for two days, before the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany.
Tatiana Shevtsova
Tatiana Shevtsova is a Russian Deputy Minister of Defence and Order of Honour recipient.
Ana de Palacio y del Valle-Lersundi
Ana Isabel de Palacio y del Valle Lersundi in Madrid, daughter of Luis María de Palacio y de Palacio, 4th Marqués de Matonte, and wife Luisa Mariana del Valle Lersundi y del Valle, was Spain's minister for foreign affairs in the People's Party (PP) government of José María Aznar from July 2002 to March 2004. Before this she was a lawyer in Madrid and then a Member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 2002. In March 2012, she was appointed an elective member of the Spanish Council of State. She currently is the founding partner of Palacio y Asociados, a Madrid-based consulting and law firm, and a senior strategic counsel at Albright Stonebridge Group, a global business strategy firm.
Jon Oliva
John Nicholas "Jon" Oliva is an American composer, multi-instrumentalist and singer. He is best known as the co-founder, keyboardist and lead vocalist of the band Savatage, which he co-founded with his younger brother Criss Oliva. Since 1996 he has also been a songwriter, musician and vocalist in Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Producer Paul O'Neill referred to Oliva in numerous interviews as the single greatest vocalist/musician he has ever worked with.
Adam Godley
Adam Godley is an English actor. He is a Tony Award nominee and has been nominated four times for the Olivier Award.
Jason Becker
Jason Eli Becker is an American musician, songwriter and composer. At the age of 16, he became part of the Shrapnel Records-produced duo Cacophony with his friend Marty Friedman. They released the albums Speed Metal Symphony in 1987 and Go Off! in 1988. Cacophony broke up in 1989 and Becker began doing solo work, having released his first album Perpetual Burn in 1988, also through Shrapnel. He later joined David Lee Roth's band and recorded one album with him, A Little Ain't Enough.
Dominic Bess
Dominic Mark Bess is an English cricketer who plays for Yorkshire County Cricket Club and England.
Stephen Shiu
Stephen Shiu is a Taiwan-based media personality, businessperson, film producer, screenwriter, news presenter, and pundit. He founded Hong Kong Reporter in 2004, an internet radio station focused on live talk radio broadcasting. In 2013 he founded memehk.com, a multimedia news site, after Hong Kong Reporter was closed.
William Harper
William John Harper was a politician, general contractor and Royal Air Force fighter pilot who served as a Cabinet minister in Rhodesia from 1962 to 1968, and signed that country's Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) from Britain in 1965. Born into a prominent Anglo-Indian merchant family in Calcutta, Harper was educated in India and England and joined the RAF in 1937. He served as an officer throughout the Second World War and saw action as one of "The Few" in the Battle of Britain, during which he was wounded in action. Appalled by Britain's granting of independence to India in 1947, he emigrated to Rhodesia on retiring from the Air Force two years later.
Tia-Clair Toomey
Tia-Clair Toomey is an Australian weightlifter and CrossFit Games athlete. She won the gold medal in the women's 58 kg (128 lb) event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast. She also competed in the women's 58 kg (128 lb) event at the 2016 Summer Olympics and came in 14th. In the CrossFit Games, she was the winner of the 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 CrossFit Games after being the runner-up in 2015 and 2016.