1922: Year
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
| Decades: | 1890s 1900s 1910s – 1920s – 1930s 1940s 1950s |
| Years: | 1919 1920 1921 – 1922 – 1923 1924 1925 |
Events
- February 28 – Egypt becomes an independent country.
- Most of Ireland stopped being part of the United Kingdom.
- Collapse of the Ottoman Empire.
- Tomb of Tutankhamun discovered by Howard Carter
- Archibald Hill, English mathematician, and Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German doctor, won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Declaration of the foundation of the Soviet Union.
- Assassination of Michael Collins.
Births
January
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- January 9 – Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea (d. 1984)
- January 17 – Luis Echeverría, 57th President of Mexico (d. 2022)
- January 17 - Betty White, American actress and comedian (d. 2021)
- January 20 – Ray Anthony, American bandleader, trumpeter, songwriter, and actor
- January 21 – Paul Scofield, English actor (b. 2008)
- January 21 – Telly Savalas, American actor (d. 1994)
- January 24 – Miguel Gustavo, Brazilian journalist, radio personality and composer (d. 1972)
February
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- February 8 - Audrey Meadows, American actress (d. 1996)
- February 8 - Yuri Averbakh, Russian chess player (d. 2022)
- February 9 – Kathryn Grayson, American singer and actress (d. 2010)
- February 10 – Árpád Göncz, President of Hungary (d. 2015)
- February 18 - Helen Gurley Brown, American publisher (d. 2012)
March
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- March 1 – Yitzhak Rabin, 5th Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1995)
- March 8 – Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer (d. 2008)
- March 12 – Jack Kerouac, American writer (d. 1969)
- March 20 – Carl Reiner, American movie director and actor (d. 2020)
- March 28 – Joey Maxim, American boxer (d. 2001)
April
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- April 3 – Doris Day, American actress (d. 2019)
- April 13 – Julius Nyerere, 1st President of Tanzania (d. 1999)
- April 15 - Michael Ansara, Syrian-American actor (d. 2013)
- April 16 – Kingsley Amis, English writer (d. 1955)
- April 16 - Leo Tindemans, 43rd Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2014)
- April 27 - Jack Klugman, American actor (d. 2012)
May
- May 13 – Bea Arthur, American actress and comedian (d. 2009)
- May 14 – Franjo Tuđman, President of Croatia (d. 1999)
- May 15 – Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician (d. 1984)
- May 27 – Christopher Lee, British actor and singer (d. 2015)
June
- June 10 – Judy Garland, American actress (d. 1969)
- June 16 – Wayne Mixson, American politician (d. 2020)
- June 19 – Aage Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (d. 2009)
- June 19 – Ahmad Yani, Indonesian general (d. 1965)
- June 26 – Eleanor Parker, American actress (d. 2013)
July
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- July 2 – Pierre Cardin, French-Italian fashion designer (d. 2020)
- July 10 – Jake LaMotta, American boxer (d. 2017)
- July 13 – Anker Jørgensen, Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 2016)
- July 14 – Robin Olds, American fighter pilot (d. 1970)
- July 15 – Leon M. Lederman, American mathematician and physicist (d. 2018)
- July 19 – Ja'afar of Negeri Sembilan, 10th Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King) of Malaysia (d. 2008)
- July 19 – George McGovern, American politician (d. 2012)
- July 26 – Jason Robards, American actor (d. 2000)
August
- August 8 – Rory Calhoun, American actor (d. 1999)
- August 12 – Miloš Jakeš, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (d. 2020)
- August 24 – René Lévesque, Canadian politician (d. 1987)
- August 27 – Sōsuke Uno, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1998)
September
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- September 1 – Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-American actress (d. 2007)
- September 2 – Arthur Ashkin, American physicist (d. 2020)
- September 8 – Sid Caesar, American comic actor and writer (d. 2014)
- September 9 – Warwick Estevam Kerr, Brazilian entomologist (d. 2018)
- September 9 – Manolis Glezos, Greek politician and resistance fighter (d. 2020)
- September 16 – Janis Paige, American actress
- September 17 – Agostinho Neto, 1st President of Angola (d. 1979)
- October 27 – Ruby Dee, American actress (d. 2014)
- September 29 – Lizabeth Scott, American actress and singer (d. 2015)
October
- October 9 – Fyvush Finkel, American actor (d. 2016)
- October 31 – Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress (d. 2005)
November
- November 8 – Christiaan Barnard, South African cardiac surgeon (d. 2001)
- November 9 – Dorothy Dandridge, American film and theatre actress, singer and dancer (d. 1965)
- November 12 – Stan Lee, American comic book writer (d. 2018)
- November 14 - Veronica Lake, American actress and singer (d. 1973)
- November 14 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali, 6th Secretary-General of the United Nations (d. 2016)
- November 16 – Patricia Barry, Portuguese writer (d. 2010)
- November 17 – Stanley Cohen, American Nobel biochemist (d. 2020)
- November 23 – Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Spanish politician (d. 2012)
- November 26 – Charles M. Schulz, American comic strip artist (Peanuts) (d. 2000)
- November 28 – Pinchas Lapide, Israeli theologian (d. 1997)
December
- December 11 - Dilip Kumar, Indian actor and politician (d. 2021)
- December 24 – Jonas Mekas, Lithuanian-born American filmmaker, poet, and artist (d. 2022)
- December 24 – Ava Gardner, American actress (d. 1990)
Deaths
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Books
- Ulysses by James Joyce
Movies released
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