April 22
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Events
- 1915 – The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
- 1954 - Red Scare: McCarthyism hearings begin.
Births
- 1707 – Henry Fielding, English author and playwright (d. 1754)
- 1724 – Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (d. 1804)
- 1766 – Germaine de Staël, French author (d. 1817)
- 1840 – Odilon Redon, French painter (d. 1916)
- 1870 – Vladimir Lenin, Russian politician (d. 1924)
- 1884 – Otto Rank, Austrian psychologist (d. 1939)
- 1891 – Nicola Sacco, Italian-American criminal (d. 1927)
- 1899 – Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-American author (d. 1977)
- 1916 – Yehudi Menuhin, American-Swiss violinist and conductor (d. 1999)
- 1922 – Charles Mingus, American bassist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1979)
- 1923 – Bettie Page, American model and actress (d. 2008)
- 1927 – Laurel Aitken, Cuban-Jamaican singer (d. 2005)
- 1936 – Glen Campbell, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
- 1937 – Jack Nicholson, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1937 – Jack Nitzsche, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and conductor (Crazy Horse) (d. 2000)
- 1942 – Giorgio Agamben, Italian philosopher
- 1946 – John Waters, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1950 – Peter Frampton, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Herd and Humble Pie)
- 1952 – Marilyn Chambers, American porn actress (d. 2009)
Deaths
- 1827 - Thomas Rowlandson, British caricaturist.
- 2002 - Linda Lovelace, famous pornographic actress in the 1972 film Deep Throat.
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