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April 22

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497

Treaty of Zaragoza

497 years ago

Born this day

1724

Immanuel Kant

Would be 302

Oldest record

575th

Isabella I of Castile

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Famous births12

1451 · 575 yrs

Isabella I of Castile

Isabella I (Spanish: Isabel I; 22 April 1451 – 26 November 1504), also known as Isabella the Catholic (Spanish: Isabel la Católica), was Queen of Castile and León from 1474 until her death in 1504. She was also Queen of Aragon from 1479 until her death as the wife of King Ferdinand II.

RoyaltyWould be 575

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1610 · 416 yrs

Alexander VIII

Pope Alexander VIII (Italian: Alessandro VIII; 22 April 1610 – 1 February 1691), born Pietro Vito Ottoboni, was head of the Catholic Church and leader of the Papal States from 6 October 1689 to his death in February 1691. He is the most recent pope to take the pontifical name "Alexander".

ReligionWould be 416

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1707 · 319 yrs

Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding (22 April 1707 – 8 October 1754) was an English writer and judge known for the use of humour and satire in his works. His famous novels include Shamela (1741), Joseph Andrews (1742), The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749) and Amelia (1751).

LiteratureWould be 319

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1724 · 302 yrs

Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant (born Emanuel Kant; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher. Born in Königsberg in the Kingdom of Prussia, he is considered one of the central thinkers of the Enlightenment.

PhilosophyWould be 302

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1766 · 260 yrs

Germaine de Staël

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein (French:; née Necker; 22 April 1766 – 14 July 1817), commonly known as Madame de Staël ( də-STAHL; French:), was a prominent Genevan and French novelist, woman of letters, philosopher, and political theorist in both Parisian and Genevan intellectual circles.

LiteratureWould be 260

Photo: After François Gérard / Marie-Éléonore Godefroid · Public domain

1881 · 145 yrs

Alexander Kerensky

Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky (4 May 1881 – 11 June 1970) was a Russian politician, lawyer and revolutionary who led the Russian Provisional Government and the short-lived Russian Republic for three months from late July to early November 1917 (N.S.).

PoliticsWould be 145

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1909 · 117 yrs

Rita Levi-Montalcini

Rita Levi-Montalcini (born Rita Levi; 22 April 1909 – 30 December 2012) was an Italian neurobiologist. She was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with colleague Stanley Cohen for the discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF).

ScienceWould be 117

Photo: Kurt Hagblom , Firma Hagblom-Foto, restored by Adam Cuerden · Public domain

1937 · 89 yrs

Jack Nicholson

John Joseph Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is an American retired actor and filmmaker. Nicholson is widely regarded as one of the greatest actors of the 20th century, often playing charismatic rebels fighting against the social structure.

FilmAge 89

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1943 · 83 yrs

Louise Glück

Louise Elisabeth Glück ( GLIK; April 22, 1943 – October 13, 2023) was an American poet and essayist. She won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, whose judges praised "her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal".

LiteratureWould be 83

Photo: Gerard Malanga · Public domain

1957 · 69 yrs

Donald Tusk

Donald Franciszek Tusk (born 22 April 1957) is a Polish politician and historian who has served as the prime minister of Poland since 2023, previously holding the office from 2007 to 2014. Tusk was President of the European Council from 2014 to 2019 and led the European People's Party from 2019 to 2022.

PoliticsAge 69

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1982 · 44 yrs

Kaká

Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite (Brazilian Portuguese:; born 22 April 1982), commonly known as Kaká (Brazilian Portuguese: ) or Ricardo Kaká, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.

SportsAge 44

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1986 · 40 yrs

Amber Heard

Amber Laura Heard (born April 22, 1986) is an American actress. She had her first leading role in the horror film All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006), and went on to star in films such as The Ward (2010), Drive Angry (2011), and London Fields (2018).

FilmAge 40

Photo: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America · CC BY-SA 2.0

Famous deaths3

1616 · 410 yrs

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ( sur-VAN-teez, -⁠tiz; Spanish:; 29 September 1547 (assumed) – 22 April 1616) was a Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists.

LiteratureWould be 479

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1989 · 37 yrs

Emilio G. Segrè

Emilio Gino Segrè ( sə-GRAY; Italian:; 1 February 1905 – 22 April 1989) was an Italian-American nuclear physicist and radiochemist who discovered the elements technetium and astatine, and the antiproton, a subatomic antiparticle, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959, along with Owen Chamberlain.

ScienceWould be 121

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1994 · 32 yrs

Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974.

PoliticsWould be 113

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Events1

1529 · 497 yrs

Treaty of Zaragoza

The Treaty of Zaragoza or Saragossa, also called the Capitulation of Zaragoza or Saragossa, was a peace treaty between Castile and Portugal, signed on 22 April 1529 by King John III of Portugal and the Habsburg Emperor Charles V in the Aragonese city of Zaragoza.

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