Famous People Born on January 22

D. W. Griffith
1875
American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1948)
J. C. Tremblay
1939
Canadian ice hockey player and scout (d. 1994)
Dixie Dean
1907
English footballer (d. 1980)
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Vincent Aboubakar
1992
Cameroonian footballer
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Marcel Dassault
1892
French businessman, founded Dassault Aviation (d. 1986)
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Joseph Wambaugh
1937
American author (d. 2025)
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John Donne
1573
English poet and cleric in the Church of England, wrote the Holy Sonnets (d. 1631)
Nicolas Lancret
1690
French painter (d. 1743)
Nigel Benn
1964
English-Australian boxer
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Bruno Kreisky
1911
Austrian lawyer and politician, 22nd Chancellor of Austria (d. 1990)
Robert Esche
1978
American ice hockey player and sports executive
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Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu
1962
Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia
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