22 September: today's birthdays

• Maurice Blanchot - French writer and philosopher. He wrote the philosophical novel Death Sentence (L'Arrêt de mort)
• Andrea Bocelli - Italian tenor and singer-songwriter. He became blind after an accident while playing soccer, when he was 12
• Thiago Emiliano da Silva de Souza - Brazilian soccer player
• Michael Faraday - English chemist and physicist. He invented the Faraday's law of induction and the Faraday cage
• Tom Felton - English actor. He is best known for his role as Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter film series
• Jean-Étienne Guettard - French naturalist and mineralogist
• Mark Guthrie - American baseball player
• Bonnie Hunt - American actress
• Anna Karina - Danish-French film actress, film director, singer, and writer. She was married to Jean-Luc Godard and she performed in eight of his films becoming his muse and one of the most important exponents of the Nouvelle Vague
• Tatiana Maslany - Canadina actress. She stars in the Canadian science fiction TV series Orphan Black
• Emmanuel Petit - Former French soccer player
• Benoît Poelvoorde - Belgian actor and comedian 
• David Riesman - American sociologist
• Ségolène Royal - French politician born in Senegal. She was married to François Hollande
• Fernanda Tavares - Brazilian model
  
• Alexandre Yersin - Swiss physician and bacteriologist. He discovered the bubonic plague bacillus