People born on May 22

Richard Wagner

German composer (1813–1883)

Arthur Conan Doyle

British writer and physician (1859–1930)

Novak Djokovic

Serbian tennis player (1987–)

Charles Aznavour

Armenian-French singer and diplomat (1924-2018)

Laurence Olivier

English actor and director (1907–1989)

George Best

Northern Irish association football player (1946-2005)

Mary Cassatt

American painter and printmaker (1844—1926)

Naomi Campbell

English model

Betty Williams

Northern Irish peace activist (1943–2020)

Arturo Vidal

Chilean association football player

Ted Kaczynski

American domestic terrorist, mathematician and anarchist (1942–2023)

Shuji Nakamura

Japanese doctor of Engineering (1954-), inventor of the blue LED, 2014 Nobel laureate in Physics

Gérard de Nerval

French writer, poet, essayist and translator (1808–1855)

Hergé

Belgian comics writer

Harvey Milk

American gay rights activist (1930–1978)