| 120751 | October 22 | Birth | 1875 – David van Embden, Dutch economist and politician (d. 1962) |
| 120752 | October 22 | Birth | 1878 – Jaan Lattik, Estonian pastor and politician, 9th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1967) |
| 120753 | October 22 | Birth | 1881 – Clinton Davisson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958) |
| 120754 | October 22 | Birth | 1881 – Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz, German geophysicist and seismologist (d. 1908) |
| 120755 | October 22 | Birth | 1882 – Edmund Dulac, French-English illustrator (d. 1953) |
| 120756 | October 22 | Birth | 1882 – N. C. Wyeth, American painter and illustrator (d. 1945) |
| 120757 | October 22 | Birth | 1885 – Giovanni Martinelli, Italian tenor and actor (d. 1969) |
| 120758 | October 22 | Birth | 1886 – Erik Bergman, Swedish minister (d. 1970) |
| 120759 | October 22 | Birth | 1887 – John Reed, American journalist and poet (d. 1920) |
| 120760 | October 22 | Birth | 1891 – Parker Fennelly, American comedian and actor (d. 1988) |
| 120761 | October 22 | Birth | 1893 – Ernst Öpik, Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist (d. 1985) |
| 120762 | October 22 | Birth | 1894 – Mei Lanfang, Chinese actor and singer (d. 1961) |
| 120763 | October 22 | Birth | 1895 – Johnny Morrison, professional baseball player (d. 1966) |
| 120764 | October 22 | Birth | 1896 – Charles Glen King, American biochemist and academic (d. 1988) |
| 120765 | October 22 | Birth | 1900 – Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian activist (d. 1927) |
| 120766 | October 22 | Birth | 1903 – George Wells Beadle, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989) |
| 120767 | October 22 | Birth | 1903 – Curly Howard, American actor and singer (d. 1952) |
| 120768 | October 22 | Birth | 1904 – Constance Bennett, American actress, singer, and producer (d. 1965) |
| 120769 | October 22 | Birth | 1905 – Joseph Kosma, Hungarian-French pianist and composer (d. 1969) |
| 120770 | October 22 | Birth | 1906 – Kees van Baaren, Dutch composer and educator (d. 1970) |
| 120771 | October 22 | Birth | 1907 – Jimmie Foxx, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1967) |
| 120772 | October 22 | Birth | 1908 – John Gould, American journalist and author (d. 2003) |
| 120773 | October 22 | Birth | 1912 – Frances Drake, American actress (d. 2000) |
| 120774 | October 22 | Birth | 1912 – Peer Guldbrandsen, Danish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1996) |
| 120775 | October 22 | Birth | 1912 – George N. Leighton, American soldier and judge |
| 120776 | October 22 | Birth | 1913 – Robert Capa, Hungarian-American photographer and journalist (d. 1954) |
| 120777 | October 22 | Birth | 1913 – Bảo Đại, Vietnamese emperor (d. 1997) |
| 120778 | October 22 | Birth | 1913 – Tamara Desni, German-French actress and singer (d. 2008) |
| 120779 | October 22 | Birth | 1913 – Hans-Peter Tschudi, Swiss lawyer and politician, 63rd President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 2002) |
| 120780 | October 22 | Birth | 1915 – Yitzhak Shamir, Belarusian-Israeli civil servant and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Israel (d. 2012) |