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Year '''1922''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCMXXII]]''') was a [[common year starting on Sunday]] of the [[Gregorian calendar]].
==Events of 1922==
===January===
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[[Image:Insulincrystals.jpg|thumb|130px|right|[[January 11]]: Use of [[insulin]] for [[diabetes]].]]
* [[January 7]] - [[Dáil Éireann]], the extra-legal parliament of the [[Irish Republic]], ratifies the [[Anglo-Irish Treaty]] by 64-57 votes.
* [[January 8]] - The [[Socialist Youth League of Norway|Social Democratic Youth League of Norway]] is founded.
* [[January 10]] - [[Arthur Griffith]] is elected [[President of Dáil Éireann]].
* [[January 11]] - First successful [[insulin]] treatment of diabetes.
* [[January 12]] - British government releases remaining Irish prisoners captured in the [[Anglo-Irish War|War of Independence]].
* [[January 13]] - Flu epidemic has claimed 804 victims in [[United Kingdom|Britain]].
* [[January 15]] - [[Michael Collins (Irish leader)|Michael Collins]] becomes [[Chairman of the Provisional Government of Southern Ireland|Chairman of the Irish Provisional Government]].
* [[January 22]] - [[Pope Benedict XV]] dies.
* [[January 24]] - [[Christian K. Nelson]] patents the [[Eskimo Pie]].
* [[January 29]] - Union of [[Costa Rica]], [[Guatemala]], [[Honduras]] and [[El Salvador]] is dissolved
===February===
[[Image:WilliamDesmondTaylor.jpg|thumb|80px|right|[[February 1|Feb. 1]]: William Desmond Taylor murdered.]]
*February - ''[[The Ring (magazine)|Ring Magazine]]'' is first published.
* [[February 1]] - [[William Desmond Taylor]] was murdered.
* [[February 2]] - ''[[Ulysses (novel)]]'' by [[James Joyce]] is published in [[Paris]] on his fortieth birthday by [[Sylvia Beach]].
* [[February 5]] - [[DeWitt Wallace|DeWitt]] and [[Lila Wallace]] publish the first issue of ''[[Reader's Digest]]''.
* [[February 6]]
**[[Pope Pius XI]] (Achille Ratti) succeeds [[Pope Benedict XV]] as the 259th [[pope]].
**[[Washington Naval Treaty|Five Power Naval Disarmament Treaty]] signed between [[United States]], [[United Kingdom|Britain]], [[Japan]], [[France]], and [[Italy]]
* [[February 8]]
**[[President of the United States]], [[Warren G. Harding]] introduces the first [[radio]] in the [[White House]].
**[[Cheka]] becomes [[Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravlenie|GPU]], a section of [[NKVD]]
* [[February 14]] - [[Finland|Finnish]] Minister of the Interior [[Heikki Ritavuori]] is assassinated by [[Ernst Tandefelt]].
* [[February 25]] - Murderer [[Henri Désiré Landru]] is [[Decapitation|beheaded]] by the [[guillotine]].
* [[February 27]] - A challenge to the [[Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution]], allowing women the right to [[vote]], is rebuffed by the [[Supreme Court of the United States]].
* [[February 28]] - The [[United Kingdom]] accepts the [[independence]] of [[Egypt]].
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[[Image:SphinxGiza.jpg|thumb|125px|left|[[February 28|Feb. 28]]: Egypt independent.]]
===March===
* [[March 1]]
**Ice mass breaks the [[Oder dam]] in [[Breslau]]
**The [[British Civil Aviation Authority]] is established.
* [[March 11]] - [[Mohandas Gandhi]] is arrested in [[Bombay]] for [[sedition]]
* [[March 13]] - HRH [[Prince of Wales]] [[Edward VIII]] inaugurates the ''[[Rashtriya Indian Military College|Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College]]'' in [[Dehradun]], [[India]] marking a capitulation of the British Empire to growing pressure for Indianization of the Officer Cadre of the British Indian Army
* [[March 15]] - [[Egypt]] having gained nominal independence from the [[United Kingdom]], [[Fuad I of Egypt|Fuad I]] becomes [[King of Egypt]].
* [[March 18]] - In [[India]], [[Mohandas Gandhi]] is sentenced to six years in prison for [[sedition]]. He would serve only two years.
* [[March 20]] - The [[USS Langley (CV-1)|USS ''Langley'']] is commissioned as the first [[United States Navy]] [[aircraft carrier]].
* [[March 23]] - [[Queensland]], [[Australia]] abolishes Legislative Council (Upper House).
===April===
* [[April 7]]
**[[Teapot Dome scandal]]: [[United States Secretary of the Interior]] leases [[Teapot Dome]] [[Petroleum|oil]] reserves in [[Wyoming]].
**The first midair collision, between a [[Daimler Airway]] [[de Havilland DH.18]] and a [[Compagnie des Grands Express Aériens]] [[Farman F.60|Farman Goliath]] over [[Poix-de-Picardie]], [[Amiens]], [[France]]
* [[April 10]] - The historic [[Genoa Conference]] commences in [[Genoa]]. The representatives of 34 countries convened to speak about monetary economics in the wake of World War I.
* [[April 13]] - State of [[Massachusetts]] opens all public offices to women
* [[April 15]] - England's [[Prince of Wales]] visits Japanese paramilitary youth group Seinendan in [[annexed Korea]].
* [[April 16]] - The [[Treaty of Rapallo, 1922|Treaty of Rapallo]] marks rapprochement between the [[Weimar Republic]] and [[Bolshevik Russia]].
* [[April 22]] - Lambda Chapter of [[Joe Whelan]] Sorority, Incorporated was chartered. It is the first chapter of a black sorority in New York State.
===May===
* [[May 5]] - In [[The Bronx]], construction begins on [[Yankee Stadium]].
* [[May 11]] - [[KGU]] begins broadcasting in Hawaii.
* [[May 12]] - 20-ton [[meteorite]] lands near [[Blackstone, Virginia]], [[United States|USA]]
* [[May 19]] - [[Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union]] is established.
* [[May 29]] - British Liberal MP [[Dan Gallant]] jailed for 7 years for [[fraud]]
* [[May 30]] - In [[Washington, D.C.]], the [[Lincoln Memorial]] is dedicated.
[[Image:Lincoln memorial dc 20041011 095847 1.3008x2000.jpg|thumb|250px|The Lincoln memorial, dedicated on May 30th]]
===June===
* [[June 1]]
**Official foundation of the [[Royal Ulster Constabulary]].
**[[Bolshevik]] forces defeat [[Asmachi]] troops under [[Enver Pasha]]
* [[June 14]] - U.S. President [[Warren G. Harding]] makes first speech on the radio.
* [[June 22]] - [[Irish Republican Army]] agents assassinate British field marshal [[Henry Hughes Wilson]] in [[Belgravia]]; assassins are sentenced to death [[July 18]].
* [[June 24]] - Assassination of [[Weimar Republic]] foreign minister [[Walter Rathenau]] - murderers are captured [[July 17]]
* [[June 26]] - Louis Honoré Charles Antoine Grimaldi becomes Reigning Prince [[Louis II, Prince of Monaco|Louis II]] of [[Monaco]].
* [[June 28]] - The [[Irish Civil War]] begins
===July===
* [[July 11]] - The [[Hollywood Bowl]] opens.
===August===
* [[August 22]] - General [[Michael Collins]] is assassinated in west Cork.
* [[August 23]] - Revolt against the Spanish in [[Morocco]]
* [[August 28]] - [[Japan]] agrees to withdraw its troops from [[Siberia]]
===September===
* [[September 9]] - Turkish forces pursuing withdrawing Greek troops enter [[İzmir]]
* [[September 11]] - One of the ''[[Herald Sun]]'' of [[Melbourne, Australia]]'s predecessor papers ''The Sun News-Pictorial'' is founded.
* [[September 13]] - [[Gdynia]] Seaport Construction Act passed by the [[Poland|Polish]] parliament.
* [[September 13]] - [[September 15|15]] - Fire, probably started by Turkish troops, destroys most of [[Smyrna]]. Death toll estimated 100,000
* [[September 18]] - [[Hungary]] joins the [[League of Nations]]
* [[September 22]] - [[Mandate of Palestine]] approved by the Council of the [[League of Nations]].
===October===
* [[October 9]] - Sir [[William Horwood (police commissioner)|William Horwood]], [[London]] [[Metropolitan Police Service]] [[commissioner]] is poisoned by [[arsenic]]-filled chocolates
* [[October 23]] - [[Germany|German]] army occupies [[Saxony]] and crushes [[Soviet Republic of Saxony]]
* [[October 25]] - The [[Third Dáil]] enacts the [[Constitution of the Irish Free State]].
* [[October 28]]
**In [[Italy]], with the March on [[Rome]], [[Fascism]] obtains power and [[Benito Mussolini]] becomes prime minister
**[[Red Army]] occupies [[Vladivostok]]
* [[October 31]] - [[Benito Mussolini]] becomes the youngest Premier in the history of [[Italy]].
===November===
* [[November 1]]
**[[Ottoman Empire]] is abolished and its last [[sultan]] [[Mehmed VI|Mehmed VI Vahdettin]] abdicates.
**The [[broadcasting licence fee]] of ten [[shilling]]s introduced in the [[United Kingdom]]
* [[November 5]] - In [[Egypt]], [[United Kingdom|British]] archaeologist [[Howard Carter (archaeologist)|Howard Carter]] and his men find the entrance to King [[Tutankhamen]]'s tomb in the [[Valley of the Kings]].
* [[November 12]] - [[Sigma Gamma Rho]] (ΣΓΡ) Sorority, Incorporated was founded on November 12, 1922, by seven educators in Indianapolis, Indiana. The group became an incorporated national collegiate sorority on December 30, 1929, when a charter was granted to Alpha chapter at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana.
* [[November 14]] - The [[British Broadcasting Corporation]] (BBC) begins [[radio]] service in the [[United Kingdom]]. [[2LO]] became the first radio station in the United Kingdom.
*[[November 15]] - In the [[United Kingdom general election, 1922|United Kingdom general election]] forced by the Conservatives' withdrawal from the coalition government, the Conservative Party wins an overall majority.
(The [[1922 Committee]], popularly believed to take its name from this occasion, was not founded until the following year.)
* [[November 17]] - Former [[Ottoman sultan]] [[Mehmed VI]] leaves for exile in [[Italy]].
*[[November 18]] - [[Marcel Proust]], author of ''[[In Search of Lost Time]]'', dies.
* [[November 19]] - [[Abdul Mejid II]], [[Crown Prince]] of the [[Ottoman Empire]] is elected [[Caliph]].
* [[November 21]] - [[Rebecca Felton]] of [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] takes the oath of office, becoming the first woman [[United States Senate|United States Senator]].
* [[November 24]] - Popular author and [[Irish Republican Army]] member [[Robert Erskine Childers]] is executed by an [[Irish Free State]] firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver.
* [[November 26]] - [[Howard Carter (archaeologist)|Howard Carter]] and [[George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon|Lord Carnarvon]] become the first people to enter the tomb of [[Egypt]]ian King [[Tutankhamun]] in over 3000 years.
===December===
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[[Image:Flag of the Soviet Union 1923.svg|thumb|200px|Second [[flag of the Soviet Union|flag of the USSR]].]]
* [[December 5]] - British parliament enacts the Irish Free State Constitution Act, by which it legally sanctions the new [[Constitution of the Irish Free State]].
* [[December 6]] - The [[Irish Free State]] officially comes into existence. [[George V of the United Kingdom|George V]] becomes the [[Monarchy in the Irish Free State|Free State's monarch]]. [[Timothy Michael Healy|Tim Healy]] is appointed first [[Governor-General of the Irish Free State]] and [[W. T. Cosgrave]] becomes [[President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State|President of the Executive Council]].
* [[December 16]] - Assassination of [[Gabriel Narutowicz]], the president of [[Poland]]
* [[December 30]] - [[Bolshevist Russia|Russia]], [[Ukraine]], [[Belarus]], and the [[Transcaucasia]] come together to form the [[Soviet Union|Union of Soviet Socialist Republics]].
===Undated===
* [[Earl W. Bascom]], rodeo cowboy and artist, designs and makes rodeo's first hornless bronc saddle at [[Lethbridge]], [[Alberta]] [[Canada]]
*Invention of [[Vegemite]] by Australian [[Fred Walker]]
* ''Kurd Istigdul Djemijetin'', the [[Kurdish Independence Committee]], founded
* [[Molly Pitcher Club]] formed to promote the [[repeal of prohibition]] in United States
* Thompson Webb founds [[The Webb Schools|Webb School for Boys]].
* Extinction of the [[Barbary Lion]] in the wild, with the last killed in [[Morocco]], in the area of Zelan and Beni Mguild Forests[http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/heywood/geog358/extinctm/BarbLion.htm].
* The [[Amur Tiger]] became extinct in [[South Korea]] by this date [http://www.koreanhistoryproject.org/savethetiger.htm].
===Ongoing===
* [[Ethnic cleansing]] in [[Turkey]]:
** [[Assyrian Genocide]] ([[1914]]–[[1922]])
** [[Pontic Greek Genocide]] ([[1916]]–[[1923]]).
==Births==
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===January-February===
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* [[January 1]] - [[Ernest Hollings|Ernest "Fritz" Hollings]], U.S. Senator from South Carolina
* [[January 7]] - [[Jean-Pierre Rampal]], French flutist (d. [[2000]])
* [[January 9]] - [[Har Gobind Khorana]], Indian biochemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
* [[January 12]] - [[Tadeusz Żychiewicz]], Polish journalist, art historian and publicist (d. [[1994]])
* [[January 13]] - [[Albert Lamorisse]], French film director (d. [[1970]])
* [[January 16]] - [[Ernesto Bonino]], Italian singer
* [[January 17]]
**[[Nicholas Katzenbach]], American politician
**[[Betty White]], American television actress
* [[January 19]] - [[Guy Madison]], American actor (d. [[1996]])
* [[January 21]] - [[Telly Savalas]], American actor (d. [[1994]])
* [[January 21]] - [[Paul Scofield]], English actor (d. [[2008]])
* [[January 22]]
**[[Leonel Brizola]], Brazilian politician
**[[Howard Moss]], American poet, dramatist, and critic (d. [[1987]])
* [[January 24]] - [[Charles Socarides]], American psychiatrist (d. [[2005]])
* [[January 28]] - [[Robert W. Holley]], American biochemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (d. [[1993]])
* [[January 30]] - [[Dick Martin]], American comedian
* [[February 1]] - [[Renata Tebaldi]], Italian soprano (d. [[2004]])
* [[February 2]] - [[Stoyanka Mutafova]] - Bulgarian actress
* [[February 6]]
**[[Patrick Macnee]], British actor
**[[Bill Johnston (cricketer)|Bill Johnston]], Australian cricketer
**[[Denis Norden]], British television and radio scriptwriter and personality
* [[February 9]] - [[Kathryn Grayson]], American actress
* [[February 12]] - [[Tun Hussein Onn]], third [[Prime Minister]] of [[Malaysia]] (d. [[1990]])
* [[February 13]] - [[Gordon Tullock]], American economist
* [[February 15]] - [[John Bayard Anderson]], U.S Congressman and Presidential candidate
* [[February 17]]
**[[Enrico Banducci]], American nightclub owner (d. [[2007]])
**[[Marshall Teague]], American race car driver (d. [[1959]])
* [[February 18]] - [[Helen Gurley Brown]], American editor and publisher
* [[February 24]]
**[[Richard Hamilton (artist)|Richard Hamilton]], British painter
**[[Steven Hill]], American actor
* [[February 26]]
**[[William Baumol]], American economist
**[[Margaret Leighton]], British actress
===March-April===
* [[March 1]]
**[[William Gaines]], American magazine publisher (d. [[1992]])
**[[Yitzhak Rabin]], [[Prime Minister of Israel]], recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (d. [[1995]])
* [[March 4]]
**[[Richard E. Cunha]], American cinematographer and film director (d. [[2005]])
**[[Martha O'Driscoll]], American film actress (d. [[1998]])
**[[Dina Pathak]] (Deena Pathak), Veteran Gujarati theatre and film actress (d. [[2002]])
* [[March 5]] - [[Pier Paolo Pasolini]], Italian film director (d. [[1975]])
* [[March 8]]
**[[Cyd Charisse]], American actress and dancer (d. [[2008]])
**[[Mizuki Shigeru]], Japanese author
**[[Ralph H. Baer]], German-born American inventor
* [[March 9]] - [[Tommy Cooper]], Welsh comedian and magician (d. [[1984]])
* [[March 11]] - [[Tun Abdul Razak]], second [[Prime Minister of Malaysia]] (d. [[1976]])
* [[March 12]]
**[[Jack Kerouac]], American author (d. [[1969]])
**[[Lane Kirkland]], American union leader (d. [[1999]])
* [[March 16]] - [[Harding Lemay]], American television scriptwriter and playwright
* [[March 17]] - [[Patrick Suppes]], American philosopher
* [[March 18]] - [[Egon Bahr]], German politician
* [[March 20]] - [[Carl Reiner]], American film director, producer, actor, and comedian
* [[March 21]]
**[[Russ Meyer]], American film director and producer (d. [[2004]])
**[[Mujibur Rahman]], [[Prime Minister of Bangladesh]] (d. [[1975]])
* [[March 27]] - [[Stefan Wul]], French writer (d. [[2003]])
* [[March 28]]
**[[Felice Chiusano]], Italian singer ([[Quartetto Cetra]]) (d. [[1990]])
**[[Joey Maxim]], American boxer (d. [[2001]])
* [[March 31]] - [[Richard Kiley]], American actor and singer (d. [[1999]])
* [[April 1]] - [[William Manchester]], American writer (d. [[2004]])
* [[April 3]] - [[Maurice Riel]], Canadian senator
* [[April 4]] - [[Elmer Bernstein]], American composer (d. [[2004]])
* [[April 5]]
**[[Tom Finney]], English footballer
**[[Christopher Hewett]], British actor (d. [[2001]])
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**[[Gale Storm]], American singer and actress
* [[April 7]] - [[Mongo Santamaria]], Cuban jazz musician (d. [[2003]])
* [[April 13]] - [[Julius Nyerere]], [[President of Tanzania]] (d. [[1999]])
* [[April 16]] - [[Kingsley Amis]], English novelist (d. [[1995]])
* [[April 16]] - [[Leo Tindemans]], former Belgian Prime Minister
* [[April 22]] - [[Charles Mingus]], American musician (d. [[1979]])
* [[April 28]] - [[Alistair MacLean]], Scottish writer (d. [[1987]])
===May-June===
* [[May 7]]
**[[Darren McGavin]], American actor (d. [[2006]])
**[[Joe O'Donnell]], American [[Documentary photography|documentary photographer]], [[photojournalist]] (d. [[2007]])
* [[May 10]] - [[Nancy Walker]], American movie and television actress (d. [[1992]])
* [[May 11]] - [[Ameurfina Melencio Herrera]], Filipino [[Supreme Court of the Philippines|Supreme Court]] jurist
* [[May 14]] - [[Franjo Tudjman|Franjo Tuđman]], [[President of Croatia]] (d. [[1999]])
* [[May 15]] - [[Jakucho Setouchi]], Japanese writer and Buddhist nun
* [[May 18]]
**[[Gerda Boyesen]], Norwegian-born body psychotherapist (d. [[2005]])
**[[Kai Winding]], Danish-born musician (d. [[1983]])
* [[May 21]] - [[James Lopez Watson]], American judge (d. [[2001]])
* [[May 22]] - [[Quinn Martin]], American television producer (d. [[1987]])
* [[May 25]] - [[Enrico Berlinguer]], Italian politician (d. [[1984]])
* [[May 27]] - [[Christopher Lee]], English actor
* [[May 28]] - [[Lou Duva]], American boxing trainer
* [[May 29]] - [[Iannis Xenakis]], Greek composer (d. [[2001]])
* [[May 30]] - [[Hal Clement]], American writer (d. [[2003]])
* [[May 31]] - [[Denholm Elliott]], English actor (d. [[1992]])
* [[June 1]] - [[Povel Ramel]], Swedish musician
* [[June 2]] - [[Charlie Sifford]], American golfer
* [[June 10]] - [[Judy Garland]], American singer and actress (d. [[1969]])
* [[June 18]] - [[Claude Helffer]], French pianist (d. [[2004]])
* [[June 19]] - [[Aage Niels Bohr]], Danish physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
* [[June 22]] - [[Mona Lisa (actress)|Mona Lisa]], Filipino actress
* [[June 24]] - [[Tata Giacobetti]], Italian singer and lyricist ([[Quartetto Cetra]]) (d. [[1988]])
* [[June 29]] - [[Vasko Popa]], Yugoslavian poet (d. [[1991]])
===July-August===
* [[July 15]] - [[Leon M. Lederman]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
* [[July 18]] - [[Thomas Kuhn]], American philosopher of science (d. [[1996]])
* [[July 19]] - [[Tuanku Jaafar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman]], King of Malaysia
* [[July 22]] - [http://www.tennesseeoverhill.com/heritagegallery/exhibit.asp?Gallery=4&Exhibit=7&Section=46 English P. "Cousin Jake" Tullock], bass player for Flatt & Scruggs' [[Foggy Mountain Boys]]
* [[July 31]] - [[Bill Kaysing]], American writer
* [[August 3]] - [[Robert Sumner]], American evangelist and author
* [[August 10]] - Keith Massey (assistant headteacher of [[Virgo Fidelis Convent Senior School]])
* [[August 15]] - [[Lukas Foss]], German-born composer
* [[August 17]] - [[Agostinho Neto]], Angolan politician (d. [[1979]])
* [[August 22]] - [[Sosuke Uno]], [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (d. [[1998]])
* [[August 23]] - [[George Kell]], baseball player
* [[August 24]] - [[René Lévesque]], 23rd [[Premier of Quebec]] and [[Howard Zinn]], social activist and historian.
===September-October===
*[[September 1]]
**[[Yvonne De Carlo]], Canadian-born actress (d. [[2007]])
**[[Vittorio Gassmann]], Italian actor and director (d. [[2000]])
*[[September 3]]
**[[Salli Terri]], Canadian mezzo-soprano (d. [[1996]])
**[[Steffan Danielsen]], Faroese painter (d. [[1976]])
*[[September 8]] - [[Sid Caesar]], American actor and comedian
*[[September 9]] - [[Hans Georg Dehmelt]], German-born physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[September 10]] - [[Yma Súmac]], Peruvian singer
*[[September 12]] - [[Jackson Mac Low]], American poet (d. [[2004]])
*[[September 15]] - [[Jackie Cooper]], American actor and director
*[[September 22]] - [[Chen Ning Yang]], Chinese-born physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[September 24]] - [[Floyd Levin]], American-born musicologist
*[[September 25]] - [[Hammer DeRoburt]], first [[President of Nauru]] (d. [[1992]])
*[[October 1]] - [[Burke Marshall]], American lawyer and politician (d. [[2003]])
*[[October 5]] - [[José Froilán González]], Argentine race car driver
*[[October 15]] - [[Luigi Giussani]], Italian Catholic priest (d. [[2005]])
*[[October 19]] - [[Jack Anderson]], American journalist (d. [[2005]])
*[[October 22]] - [[John Chafee]], American politician (d. [[1999]])
*[[October 23]] - [[Cameron Sharp]], Canadian Citizen
*[[October 27]] - [[Poul Bundgaard]], Danish actor and singer (d. [[1998]])
*[[October 31]] - [[Barbara Bel Geddes]], American actress (d. [[2005]])
===November-December===
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* [[November 8]] - [[Christiaan Barnard]], South African surgeon (d. [[2001]])
* [[November 9]]
**[[Raymond Devos]], French humorist (d. [[2006]])
**[[Dorothy Dandridge]], American actress (d. [[1965]])
* [[November 11]] - [[Kurt Vonnegut]], American novelist (d. [[2007]])
* [[November 14]]
**[[Boutros Boutros-Ghali]], Egyptian [[Secretary General of the United Nations]]
** [[Veronica Lake]], American actress (d. [[1973]])
* [[November 16]]
**[[Sidney Mintz]], American anthropologist
**[[José Saramago]], Portuguese author, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate
**[[Hoang Minh Chinh]], Vietnamese politician and dissident (d. [[2008]])
* [[November 17]] - [[Stanley Cohen (doctor)|Stanley Cohen]], American physician, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]]
* [[November 19]] - [[Yuri Knorozov]], Russian linguist and epigrapher (d. [[1999]])
* [[November 23]] - [[Don Tennant|Donald Tennant]], American advertising agency executive (d. [[2001]])
* [[November 26]] - [[Charles Schulz|Charles M. Schulz]], American cartoonist (d. [[2000]])
* [[December 9]] - [[Redd Foxx]], American comedian and star of the television show ''[[Sanford and Son]]''
* [[December 11]] - [[Dilip Kumar]], Indian actor
* [[December 14]] - [[Nikolay Basov]], Russian physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[2001]])
* [[December 17]] - [[Alan Voorhees]], American engineer and urban planner (d. [[2005]])
* [[December 20]] - [[Charita Bauer]], American actress/Soap opera star (d. [[1985]])
* [[December 22]] - [[Jack Brooks (politician)|Jack Brooks]], American politician
* [[December 23]] - [[Micheline Ostermeyer]], French athlete and musician (d. [[2001]])
* [[December 24]] - [[Ava Gardner]], American actress (d. [[1990]])
* [[December 28]] - [[Stan Lee]], American comics creator
* [[December 29]] - [[William Gaddis]], American writer (d. [[1998]])
==Deaths==
===January-June===
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*[[January 5]] - [[Ernest Shackleton]], Irish explorer (b. [[1874]])
*[[January 10]] - [[Okuma Shigenobu]], 8th [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (b. [[1838]])
*[[January 22]]
**[[Pope Benedict XV]] (b. [[1854]])
**[[Fredrik Bajer]], Danish politician and pacifist, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1837]])
*[[January 23]] - [[Arthur Nikisch]], Hungarian conductor (b. [[1855]])
*[[January 27]]
**[[Nellie Bly]], undercover journalist (b. [[1864]])
**[[Giovanni Verga]], Italian writer (b. [[1840]])
*[[February 1]]
**[[Yamagata Aritomo]], 3rd [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (b. [[1838]])
**[[William Desmond Taylor]], Irish-born film director (b. [[1872]])
*[[February 3]] - [[John Butler Yeats]], Northern Irish artist (b. [[1839]])
*[[February 14]] - [[Heikki Ritavuori]], Finnish Minister of Interior (b. [[1880]])
*[[March 1]] - [[Rafael Moreno Aranzadi]], Spanish footballer (b. [[1892]])
*[[March 24]] - [[Walter Parr]], British preacher (b. [[1871]])
*[[April 1]] - Emperor [[Karl I of Austria]] (b. [[1887]])
*[[April 2]] - [[Hermann Rorschach]], Swiss psychiatrist (b. [[1884]])
*[[May 7]] - [[Max Wagenknecht]], German composer (b. [[1857]])
*[[May 18]] - [[Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran]], French physician, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1845]])
*[[May 19]] - [[Son, Byong-Hi]], Korean activist (b. [[1861]])
*[[June 4]] - [[William Halse Rivers Rivers]], English doctor (b. [[1864]])
*[[June 6]] - [[Lillian Russell]], American singer and actress (b. [[1861]])
*[[June 18]] - [[Jacobus Kapteyn]], Dutch astronomer (b. [[1851]])
*[[June 26]] - [[Albert I, Prince of Monaco|Albert I of Monaco]] (b. [[1848]])
===July-December===
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*[[July 20]] - [[Andrey Markov]], Russian mathematician (b. [[1856]])
*[[August 2]] - [[Alexander Graham Bell]], Scottish-born inventor (b. [[1847]])
*[[August 5]] - [[Harry Boland]], Irish republican (b. [[1887]])
*[[August 12]] - [[Arthur Griffith]], [[President of Ireland]] (b. [[1872]])
*[[August 14]] - [[Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe]], newspaper magnate (b. [[1865]])
*[[August 22]] - [[Michael Collins (Irish leader)|Michael Collins]], Irish leader (killed in ambush) (b. [[1890]])
*[[September 4]] - [[Sarah L. Winchester]], American builder of the Winchester Mystery House (b. [[1837]])
*[[September 10]] - [[Wilfrid Scawen Blunt]], poet (b. [[1840]])
*[[September 26]] - [[Thomas E. Watson]], American politician and senator (b. [[1856]])
*[[October 7]] - [[Marie Lloyd]], English singer (b. [[1870]])
*[[October 30]] - [[Géza Gárdonyi]], Hungarian author (b. [[1863]])
*[[November 7]] - [[Sam Thompson]], baseball player (b. [[1860]])
*[[November 23]] - [[Eduard Seler]], Prussian scholar and Mesoamericanist (b. [[1849]])
*[[November 24]] - [[Robert Erskine Childers]], novelist and Irish nationalist (executed) (b. [[1870]])
*[[December 16]] - [[Gabriel Narutowicz]], President of Poland (b. [[1865]])
===Undated===
*The California [[grizzly bear]] became extinct this year.
==Nobel prizes==
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] - [[Niels Bohr|Niels Henrik David Bohr]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[Francis William Aston]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] - [[Archibald Vivian Hill]], [[Otto Fritz Meyerhof]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] - [[Jacinto Benavente]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] - [[Fridtjof Nansen]]
==Ship events==
* [[List of ship commissionings in 1922]]
* [[List of ship decommissionings in 1922]]
* [[List of shipwrecks in 1922]]
==External links==
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*[http://www.coinpage.com/1922-pictures.html 1922 Coin Pictures]
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