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1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for a record 428 weeks, finished as the year-end No.
Famous Birthdays on May 22
1987 — Novak Djokovic
Serbian tennis player
May 22 has 209 recorded notable births across history, from 626 to 2004. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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626 – 2004
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- 1840 The penal transportation of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished. Source
- 1848 Slavery is abolished in Martinique. Source
- 2002 Civil rights movement: A jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murder of four girls in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. Source
- 2012 SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2 launches a Dragon capsule on a Falcon 9 rocket in the first commercial flight to the International Space Station. Source
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George Best was a Northern Irish professional footballer who played as a right winger, spending most of his club career at Manchester United.
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Maggie Q portrayed Tori Wu in the dystopian science-fiction action film Divergent (2014), and reprised her role in the sequels, Insurgent (2015) and Allegiant (2016).
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Wagner outlined those ideas in a series of essays published between 1849 and 1852, most fully realising them in the first half of his four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen.
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Nazanin Boniadi is a British actress and activist.
More major people born on May 22
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1946
George Best
Northern Irish footballer (died 2005)
George Best was a Northern Irish professional footballer who played as a right winger, spending most of his club career at Manchester United.
1979
Maggie Q
American actress
Margaret Denise Quigley, known professionally as Maggie Q, is an American actress.
1813
Richard Wagner
German composer (died 1883)
Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, theatre director, essayist, and conductor, best known for his operas, although his mature works are often referred to as music dramas.
1979
Nazanin Boniadi
Iranian-American actress
Nazanin Boniadi is a British actress and activist. Born in Tehran and raised in London, she attended university in the United States, where she landed her first major acting role as Leyla Mir in the soap opera General…
1974
Sean Gunn
American actor
Sean Gunn is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Kirk Gleason on The WB series Gilmore Girls (2000–2007), and Kraglin Obfonteri in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
1973
Shefali Shah
Indian actress
Shefali Shah is an Indian actress of film, television and theatre. Working primarily in independent Hindi films, she has received multiple local and foreign accolades for her performances.
1939
Paul Winfield
American actor (died 2004)
Paul Edward Winfield was an American actor. He was known for his portrayal of a Louisiana sharecropper who struggles to support his family during the Great Depression in the landmark film Sounder (1972), which earned…
1938
Richard Benjamin
American actor and director
Richard Samuel Benjamin is an American actor and director. He has starred in a number of well-known films, including Goodbye, Columbus (1969), Catch-22 (1970), Portnoy's Complaint (1972), Westworld, The Last of Sheila…
1885
Giacomo Matteotti
Italian lawyer and politician (died 1924)
Giacomo Matteotti was an Italian socialist and anti-fascist politician who served as the opposition leader and as secretary of the Unitary Socialist Party (PSU) from 1922 to 1924.
1930
Marisol Escobar
French-American sculptor (died 2016)
Marisol Escobar, otherwise known simply as Marisol, was a Venezuelan-American sculptor born in Paris, who lived and worked in New York City.
626
Itzam K'an Ahk I
Mayan king (died 686)
Itzam Kʼan Ahk I, also known as Ruler 2, was an ajaw of Piedras Negras, an ancient Maya settlement in Guatemala. He ruled during the Late Classic Period, from AD 639–686.
1913
Rafael Gil
Spanish director and screenwriter (died 1986)
Rafael Gil was a Spanish film director and screenwriter. His film I Was a Parish Priest (1953) won the Bronze Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1953 and also won best film and best director at the San Sebastián…
1808
Gérard de Nerval
French poet and translator (died 1855)
Gérard de Nerval was the pen name of Gérard Labrunie, a French travel writer, essayist, poet, and translator.
1990
Wyatt Roy
Australian politician
Wyatt Beau Roy is a former Australian parliamentarian. He served as the Assistant Minister for Innovation from September 2015 to the July 2016 federal election.
1665
Magnus Stenbock
Swedish field marshal and Royal Councillor (died 1717)
Count Magnus Stenbock was a Swedish field marshal (Fältmarskalk) and Royal Councillor. A commander of the Carolean Army during the Great Northern War, he was a prominent member of the Stenbock family.
1879
Warwick Armstrong
Australian cricketer and journalist (died 1947)
Warwick Windridge Armstrong was an Australian cricketer who played 50 Test matches between 1902 and 1921.
1982
Erin McNaught
Australian model and actress
Erin McNaught is an Australian model, actress, presenter, television personality and beauty pageant titleholder.
1859
Arthur Conan Doyle
British writer (died 1930)
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician. He is best known for his four novels and fifty-six short stories about the fictional consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr.
1820
Worthington Whittredge
American painter (died 1910)
Thomas Worthington Whittredge was an American artist of the Hudson River School.