History for May 22 - On-This-Day.com Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 - Author of Sherlock Holmes detective novels, Sir Laurence Olivier (Laurence Kerr Olivier) 1907 - Actor, director, producer, Vance Packard 1914 - Journalist, social critic, author T. Boone Pickens 1928 - Oil tycoon, Richard Benjamin 1938 - Actor, director, Paul Winfield 1939 - Actor ("Sounder") 1841 - Henry Kennedy received a patent for the first reclining chair. 1892 - Dr. Washington Sheffield invented the toothpaste tube.
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