April 22: known people who were born this day

• 1592 — Wilhelm Schikkard (mind. 1635) German astronomer, mathematician and orientalist, founder of the first arithmometer. • 1610 — Alexander VIII (in the world Vito Pietro Ottoboni; mind. 1691) 241st Pope (1689 — 1691). • 1724 — Kant Immanuil (mind. 1804) German philosopher. • 1762 — Bobrinsky Aleksey (mind. 1813) the illegitimate son of the Russian empress Catherine II from Orlov Grigory. • 1817 — Asenkova Varvara (mind. 1841) the Russian actress, "the queen of the vaudeville", the first performer of roles of Marya Antonovna in Gogol and Sofya's "Auditor" in "Woe from Wit" of Griboyedov. • 1844 — Powell Louis (it is executed in 1865), one...