1922 (MCMXXII ) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar , the 1922nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 922nd year of the 2nd millennium , the 22nd year of the 20th century , and the 3rd year of the 1920s decade. As of the start of 1922, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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March 2
March 4 – The silent horror film Nosferatu is premièred at the Berlin Zoological Garden in Germany.
March 10 – Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in Bombay for sedition .
March 13 – Edward, Prince of Wales , inaugurates the Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College in Dehradun , India, marking a capitulation of the Governor General and Secretary of State for India to growing pressure for Indianization of the officer cadre of the Indian Army .
March 15 – With Egypt having gained self-government from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt .[9]
March 16 – The Rand Rebellion , which began as a strike by white South African mine workers on 28 December 1921 and became open rebellion against the state, is suppressed.
March 18 – In British India , Mahatma Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for sedition (he serves only two).
March 20 – The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier .
March 22 – Radio station WLW in Cincinnati begins broadcasting.[10]
March 23 – Queensland , Australia, abolishes the Legislative Council (Upper House).
March 26 – The German Social Democratic Party is founded in Poland.
March 31 – Six die in the Hinterkaifeck murders north of Munich .
May
May 30 : Lincoln Memorial dedicated.
May 8 – In Moscow , eight priests, two laymen and one woman are sentenced to death for opposition to the Soviet government's confiscation of church property.
May 18 – Sergei Diaghilev , Igor Stravinsky , Pablo Picasso , Marcel Proust , James Joyce , Erik Satie and Clive Bell dine together at the Hotel Majestic in Paris, their only joint meeting.[15]
May 19 – The All-Russian Young Pioneer Organisation is established.
May 29 – British Liberal MP Horatio Bottomley is jailed for seven years for fraud .
May 30 – In Washington, D.C., United States, the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.[16]
November
November 1
November 4 – Discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun : in Egypt , English archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to the pharaonic tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings .[1]
November 12 – Sigma Gamma Rho (ΣΓΡ) Sorority, Incorporated is founded by seven educators in Indianapolis , Indiana . The group becomes an incorporated national collegiate sorority on December 30 , 1929 , when a charter is granted to the Alpha Chapter at Butler University in Indianapolis.
November 14 – The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) begins radio service in the United Kingdom, broadcasting from station 2LO in London.
November 15
November 19 – Abdülmecid II , Crown Prince of the Ottoman Empire , is elected Caliph .
November 21 – Rebecca Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, formally becoming the first woman United States Senator .
November 24 – Popular author and anti-Treaty Republican Erskine Childers is executed by firing squad in Dublin, after conviction by an Irish Free State military court for the unlawful possession of a gun, a weapon presented to him by Michael Collins in 1920 as a gift.[26]
Howard Carter in King Tutankhamun's tomb
December
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is created. (Coat of arms until 1936).
December 5 – The 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.[1] George V becomes the Free State's monarch . Tim Healy is appointed first Governor-General of the Irish Free State , and W. T. Cosgrave becomes President of the Executive Council .
December 9 – Gabriel Narutowicz is elected the first president of Poland.
December 11 – The trial of Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters ends at the Old Bailey in London, for the murder of Thompson's husband; both are found guilty and sentenced to hang.
December 16 – Gabriel Narutowicz , sworn on December 11 as first president of the Second Polish Republic , is assassinated by a right-wing sympathizer in Warsaw.
December 20 – Antigone by Jean Cocteau appears on stage in Paris, with settings by Pablo Picasso , music by Arthur Honegger and costumes by Coco Chanel .[27]
December 27 – Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō becomes the first purpose-designed aircraft carrier to be commissioned .
December 30 – Russia , Ukraine , Belarus and the Transcaucasian Republic (Armenia , Azerbaijan and Georgia ) come together to form the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics .
December – The year ends with hyperinflation showing no sign of slowing down in Germany, with 7,000 marks now needed to buy a single American dollar.[28]
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Wracked by rapid inflation and political assassinations, and motivated by hostility and arrogance as well, the Weimar Republic announces its inability to pay more, and proposes a moratorium on reparations for 3 years.
Kurd Istigdul Djemijetin , the Kurdish Independence Committee, is founded.
The Inter-Parliamentary Union is established.
L'Action sénégalaise weekly newspaper is founded in Senegal .[29]
Earl W. Bascom , rodeo cowboy and artist, designs and makes rodeo's first hornless bronc saddle at Lethbridge , Alberta , Canada.
Vegemite is invented by Australian entrepreneur Fred Walker .
The Barbary lion becomes extinct in the wild, with the last killed in Morocco , in the area of the Zelan and Beni Mguild Forests.[30]
The Amur tiger becomes extinct in South Korea .[31]
During his first rebellion , Simko Shikak launched an attack on Mahabad in mid-May and July. In the ensuing fighting, Simko 's forces captured Mahabad and killed a Persian commander.
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January
January 1
January 2
January 4 – Karl-Erik Nilsson , Swedish wrestler (d. 2017 )
January 8 – Jan Nieuwenhuys , Dutch painter (d. 1986 )
January 9
January 12 – Tadeusz Żychiewicz , Polish journalist, art historian and publicist (d. 1994 )
January 13 – Albert Lamorisse , French film director (d. 1970 )
January 14 – Guy Stern , German literary scholar (d. 2023 )
January 16 – Ernesto Bonino , Italian singer (d. 2008 )
January 17
January 18 – Agathe Poschmann , German actress
January 19 – Miguel Muñoz Mozún , former Spanish football midfielder and manager (d. 1990 )
January 20
January 21 – Paul Scofield , English actor (d. 2008 )
January 22
January 26 – Ellen Vogel , Dutch film and television actress (d. 2015 )
January 28 – Robert W. Holley , American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1993 )[36]
January 29 – Gerda Steinhoff , German Nazi war criminal (d. 1946 )
January 31 – Joanne Dru , American actress (d. 1996 )
March
March 1 – Yitzhak Rabin , Prime Minister of Israel , recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1995 )
March 2 – Hilarion Capucci , Syrian Catholic bishop (d. 2017 )
March 3 – Nándor Hidegkuti , Hungarian footballer (d. 2002 )[41]
March 4 – Dina Pathak , Gujarati actress (d. 2002 )
March 5 – Pier Paolo Pasolini , Italian film director (d. 1975 )
March 8
March 9 – Count Flemming of Rosenborg (d. 2002 )
March 11 – Abdul Razak Hussein , second Prime Minister of Malaysia (d. 1976 )
March 12 – Jack Kerouac , American author (d. 1969 )[44]
March 14 – China Zorrilla , Uruguayan actress, director and producer (d. 2014 )
March 15 – Karl-Otto Apel , German philosopher (d. 2017 )
March 16 – Harding Lemay , American television scriptwriter, playwright (d. 2018 )[45]
March 18
March 19 – Hiroo Onoda , Japanese officer, WWII holdout (d. 2014 )
March 20 – Carl Reiner , American film director, producer, actor, and comedian (d. 2020 )[47]
March 21 – Russ Meyer , American film director, producer (d. 2004 )
March 24 – Miguel Gustavo , Brazilian journalist and songwriter (d. 1972 )
March 28
March 31 – Richard Kiley , American actor and singer (d. 1999 )[48]
April
April 1 – Saad el-Shazly , Egyptian military commander (d. 2011 )
April 3 – Doris Day , American actress and singer (d. 2019 )[49]
April 4
April 5
April 7 – Dircinha Batista , Brazilian actress and singer (d. 1999 )
April 8 – Carmen McRae , American jazz singer (d. 1994 )
April 13 – Julius Nyerere , 1st President of Tanzania (d. 1999 )
April 14 – Ali Akbar Khan , Indian musician (d. 2009 )
April 15 – Michael Ansara , Syrian-born American actor (d. 2013 )
April 16
April 18
April 19 – Erich Hartmann , German World War II fighter pilot, highest-scoring ace in world history (d. 1993 )
April 21 – Alistair MacLean , Scottish writer (d. 1987 )
April 22
April 24
April 26
April 27
April 29 – Toots Thielemans , Belgian jazz musician (d. 2016 )
May
May 1 – Vitaly Popkov , Russian fighter ace (d. 2010 )
May 2 – Roscoe Lee Browne , African-American actor (d. 2007 )
May 4 – Eugenie Clark , American marine biologist (d. 2015 )[56]
May 6 – Anna Elizabeth Botha , first wife of South African State President P. W. Botha (d. 1997 )
May 7
May 8 – Yusof Rawa , Malaysian politician (d. 2000 )
May 11 – Ameurfina Melencio-Herrera , Filipino Supreme Court jurist (d. 2020 )
May 13
May 14 – Franjo Tuđman , first President of Croatia (d. 1999 )
May 15 – Jakucho Setouchi , Japanese writer and Buddhist nun (d. 2021 )
May 18 – Gerda Boyesen , Norwegian-born body psychotherapist (d. 2005 )
May 22 – Quinn Martin , American television producer (d. 1987 )
May 25 – Enrico Berlinguer , Italian politician (d. 1984 )
May 27
May 28 – Pompeyo Márquez , Venezuelan politician (d. 2017 )
May 29
May 31 – Denholm Elliott , English actor (d. 1992 )[61]
June
June 1 – Bibi Ferreira , Brazilian actress (d. 2019 )
June 3 – Alain Resnais , French film director (d. 2014 )
June 5 – Sheila Sim , English actress (d. 2016 )
June 7 – Selma van de Perre , Dutch–British resistance fighter and Holocaust survivor
June 9 – Hein Eersel , Surinamese linguist and cultural researcher (d. 2022 )[62]
June 10 – Judy Garland , American singer, actress (d. 1969 )[63]
June 11 – Tibor Baranski , Hungarian-American educator (d. 2019 )
June 12 – Margherita Hack , Italian astrophysicist (d. 2013 )
June 14 – Kevin Roche , Irish-American architect (d. 2019 )
June 18 – Claude Helffer , French pianist (d. 2004 )
June 19 – Aage Bohr , Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009 )
June 19 – Ahmad Yani , Indonesian general (d. 1965 )
June 22 – Mona Lisa , Filipino actress (d. 2019 )
June 23 – Wu Yingyin , Chinese singer (d. 2009 )
June 24 – Tata Giacobetti , Italian singer, lyricist (d. 1988 )
June 25 – Sita bint Fahd Al Damir , Saudi princess (d. 2012 )
June 26 – Eleanor Parker , American actress (d. 2013 )
June 29 – Vasko Popa , Yugoslavian poet (d. 1991 )
July
July 1 – Mordechai Bibi , Israeli politician (d. 2023 )
July 2
July 3
July 5 – Doris Margaret Anderson , Canadian nutritionist and senator (d. 2022 )
July 7
July 10
July 13
July 14 – Käbi Laretei , Estonian and Swedish concert pianist (d. 2014 )
July 15
July 16 – Anatoli Levitin , Soviet Russian painter, art educator (d. 2018 )
July 17 – Tetsurō Tamba , Japanese actor (d. 2006 )
July 18
July 19
July 20 – Wolfgang Klausewitz , German zoologist, ichthyologist, marine biologist and biohistorian (d. 2018 )
July 21
July 25 – John B. Goodenough , German-American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2023 )
July 26
July 27
July 28 – Hans Frauenfelder , Swiss-born American physicist and biophysicist (d. 2022 )
September
September 1
September 2 – Arthur Ashkin , American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2020 )
September 6 – Adriano Moreira , Portuguese politician, Minister of the Overseas Provinces, President of the CDS – People's Party (d. 2022 )
September 7
September 8 – Sid Caesar , American actor, comedian (d. 2014 )
September 9
September 15
September 16
September 17 – Agostinho Neto , 1st President of Angola (d. 1979 )
September 19
September 21 – Lee Hee-ho , First Lady of South Korea (d. 2019 )
September 24 – Asit Sen , Indian Bengali film director (d. 2001 )
September 25
September 28 – Jules Sedney , Prime Minister of Suriname (d. 2020 )
September 29
October
October 1 – Yang Chen-Ning , Chinese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
October 3 – Raffaele La Capria , Italian novelist and screenwriter (d. 2022 )
October 4 – Gianna Beretta Molla , Italian Roman Catholic pediatrician, saint (d. 1962 )
October 5 – José Froilán González , Argentine racing driver (Formula 1 ) (d. 2013 )
October 11 – Wolfgang Zuckermann , German-American harpsichord maker and sustainability activist (d. 2018 )
October 12 – Eric G. Hall , Burmese-Pakistani Air Vice Marshal and World War II veteran (d. 1998 )[73]
October 14 – Yumeji Tsukioka , Japanese actress (d. 2017 )
October 15 – Luigi Giussani , Italian Catholic priest (d. 2005 )
October 17 – Angel Wagenstein , Bulgarian screenwriter and author (d. 2023 )
October 23 – Coleen Gray , American actress (d. 2015 )[74]
October 27
October 28 – Gershon Kingsley , German-American composer (d. 2019 )
October 30 – Iancu Țucărman , Romanian Holocaust survivor (d. 2021 )[76] [77]
October 31
November
November 5 – María Isabel Rodríguez , Salvadorian physician, academic and government official
November 8 – Christiaan Barnard , South African cardiac surgeon, heart transplant pioneer (d. 2001 )
November 9
November 11
November 12
November 13 – Oskar Werner , Austrian actor (d. 1984 )
November 14
November 16 – José Saramago , Portuguese author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010 )[80]
November 17 – Stanley Cohen , American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2020 )
November 18 – Luis Somoza Debayle , 26th President of Nicaragua (d. 1967 )
November 19 – Yuri Knorozov , Russian linguist, epigrapher (d. 1999 )
November 22 – Aksel Jacobsen Bogdanoff , Norwegian communist (d. 1971 )
November 23 – Võ Văn Kiệt , Vietnamese politician, statesman (d. 2008 )
November 24 – Stanford R. Ovshinsky , American inventor and scientist (d. 2012 )
November 26 :
November 27 – Nicholas Magallanes , Mexican-American principal dancer, charter member of the New York City Ballet (d. 1977 )
Sir Ernest Shackleton
Ōkuma Shigenobu
Frank Tudor
Pope Benedict XV
Yamagata Aritomo
Charles I of Austria
Ernest Solvay
Michael Mayr
W. H. R. Rivers
Albert I, Prince of Monaco
Alexander Graham Bell
Saint Benjamin of Petrograd
Saint Chrysostomos of Smyrna
Oscar Hertwig
Marcel Proust
Gabriel Narutowicz
May
May 4 – Viktor Kingissepp , Estonian Communist politician (b. 1888 ; executed)[88]
May 7 – Max Wagenknecht , German composer (b. 1857 )
May 12 – John Martin Poyer , United States Navy Commander , 12th Governor of American Samoa (b. 1861 )
May 15 – Leslie Ward , English portrait artist, caricaturist (b. 1851 )
May 16 – Rudolf Montecuccoli , Austro-Hungarian admiral (b. 1843 )
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 )
May 21 – Michael Mayr , Austrian politician, 2nd Chancellor of Austria (b. 1864 )
May 26 – Ernest Solvay , Belgian chemist, philanthropist and entrepreneur (b. 1838 )
June
June 4 – W. H. R. Rivers , English doctor (b. 1864 )
June 6
June 18
June 20 – Vittorio Monti , Italian composer (b. 1868 )
June 21 – Take Ionescu , 29th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1858 )
June 22 – Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet , British field marshal and politician (b. 1864 )
June 23 – Wu Tingfang , Chinese Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1842 )
June 24 – Walter Rathenau , German statesman, Weimar Republic foreign minister (assassinated) (b. 1867 )
June 26 – Prince Albert I of Monaco (b. 1848 )
June 27 – Prince Higashifushimi Yorihito of Japan (b. 1867 )
June 28 – Velimir Khlebnikov , Russian poet, playwright (b. 1885 )
August
August 2
August 3 – Ture Malmgren , Swedish journalist, politician (b. 1851 )
August 4
August 5 – Tommy McCarthy , American baseball player, MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1863 )
August 12 – Arthur Griffith , Irish republican, President of Dáil Éireann (b. 1872 )
August 13 – Saint Benjamin of Petrograd (b. 1873 )
August 14 – Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe , British newspaper magnate (b. 1865 )[90]
August 19 – Felip Pedrell , Spanish composer (b. 1841 )
August 22
August 23 – Gheorghe Bengescu , Romanian diplomat and man of letters (b. 1844 )
August 25 – Ioannis Svoronos , Greek numismatist (b. 1863 )
August 29 – Georges Sorel , French philosopher, theorist of revolutionary syndicalism (b. 1847 )
November
November 1 – Lima Barreto , Brazilian writer (b. 1881 )
November 7 – Sam Thompson , American baseball player, MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1860 )
November 15 – Dimitrios Gounaris , 94th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1867 )
November 18 – Marcel Proust , French author (b. 1871 )[94]
November 23 – Eduard Seler , Prussian scholar, Mesoamericanist (b. 1849 )
November 24
November 27 – Demetrio Castillo Duany , Cuban revolutionary, soldier, and politician (b. 1856 )
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