22 February: today's birthdays

• Drew Barrymore - American actress, born Drew Blyth Barrymore 
• Luis Buñuel - Spanish film director, born Luis Buñuel Portolés. He won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film directing The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. He directed also That Obscure Object of Desire
• Morley Callaghan - Canadian author
  
• Paul Charles Cheshire - Professor of Economic Geography
• Joaquín Cortés - Spanish flamenco dancer
• Jonathan Demme - American actor, film director, and writer. He won an Oscar for Best Director in 1992 for directing The Silence of the Lambs with Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster
• Dr. J - Nickname of American basketball player Julius Erving
• Jean Duvignaud - French writer, playwright and sociologist
• Julius Erving - Former American basketball player best known as Dr. J
• Niki Lauda - Former Austrian racing driver
• Brian Laudrup - Danish former soccer player
• Kyle Maclachlan - American actor
• Adolphe-Jacques Quételet - Belgian statistician and astronomer
• Lea Salonga - Filipina singer and actress in musical theatre, born María Lea Carmen Imutan Salonga. She is famous for having provided the singing voice for Jasmine and Mulan in the Disney films Aladdin and Mulan.
• Arthur Schopenhauer - German philosopher. He wrote The World as Will and Representation
• George Washington - American politician and soldier who served as the first President of the United States. He is considered one of the founding fathers of the country. Along with Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt, his portrait appears carved on Mount Rushmore