Year
1922 (
MCMXXII) was a
common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar.
Events of 1922
January
February
March
April
May


The Lincoln memorial, dedicated on May 30th
June
July-August
September
October
November
(The
1922 Committee, popularly believed to take its name from this occasion, was not founded until the following year.)


Flag of the Irish Free State, and later the Republic of Ireland after independence from the British
December
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January-February
- January 1 - 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)
- Paul Scofield, English actor
- 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 - Jayson Shermack, Famous Canadian hockey player
- February 1 - Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano (d. 2004)
- February 2 - Stoyanka Mutafova - Bulgarian actress
- February 6
- Patrick Macnee, British actor
- 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, 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
- 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)


Christopher Hewett, who played the title character on the television program
Mr. Belvedere, was born in 1922
May-June
- May 7
- Darren McGavin, American actor (d. 2006)
- Joe O'Donnell, American documentary photographer, photojournalist (d. 2007)
- May 13 - Beatrice Arthur, American comedienne and actress
- May 14 - 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 laureate
- 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 laureate
- July 18 - Thomas Kuhn, American philosopher of science (d. 1996)
- July 19 - Tuanku Jaafar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman, King of Malaysia
- 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
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 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 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
- 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 laureate
- November 17 - Stanley Cohen, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- November 19 - Yuri Knorosov, Russian linguist and epigrapher (d. 1999)
- November 21 - Jake Mullin, Canadian Millionaire
- November 23 - Donald Tennant, American advertising agency executive (d. 2001)
- November 26 - 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 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, 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
- 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 of Monaco (b. 1848)
July - December
- 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. 1871)
- August 14 - Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, newspaper magnate (b. 1865)
- August 22 - Michael Collins, Irish leader (assassinated) (b. 1890)
- September 4 - Sarah L. Winchester, American builder of the Winchester Mystery House (b. 1837)
- September 10 - Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, poet (b. 1840)
- October 30 - Géza Gárdonyi, Hungarian author (b. 1863)
- November 7 - Sam Thompson, baseball player (b. 1860)
- November 24 - Robert Erskine Childers, novelist and Irish nationalist (executed) (b. 1870)
- December 16 - Gabriel Narutowicz, President of Poland (b. 1865)
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19th Century (also written XIX century) lasted from 1801 through 1900 in the Gregorian calendar. It is often referred to as the "1800s.
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Roman numerals is a numeral system originating in ancient Rome, adapted from Etruscan numerals. The system used in classical antiquity was slightly modified in the Middle Ages to produce the system we use today. It is based on certain letters which are given values as numerals.
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This is the calendar for any common year starting on Sunday (dominical letter A), or a year where "Doomsday" is Tuesday. Examples: Gregorian year 2006 or Julian year 1917 (see bottom tables).
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Gregorian calendar is the most widely used calendar in the world. A modification of the Julian calendar, it was first proposed by the Calabrian doctor Aloysius Lilius, and was decreed by Pope Gregory XIII, for whom it was named, on 24 February 1582 via the papal bull
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Events
- 1325 - Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
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Ceann Comhairle John O'Donoghue, Fianna Fáil
since 14 June 2007
Members 166
Political groups Fianna Fáil
Fine Gael
Labour Party
Green Party
Independents
Sinn Féin
Progressive Democrats
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Irish Republic (Irish: Poblacht na hÉireann or Saorstát Éireann) was a unilaterally declared independent state of Ireland proclaimed in the Easter Rising in 1916 and established in 1919 by Dáil Éireann.
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The Anglo-Irish Treaty (Irish: An Conradh Angla-Éireannach), officially called the Articles of Agreement for a Treaty Between Great Britain and Ireland
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January 8 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
Events
- 871 - Battle of Ashdown - Ethelred of Wessex defeats a Danish invasion army.
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January 10 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.
Events
- 49 BC - Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war.
..... Click the link for more information. Arthur Griffith (Irish: Art Ó Gríobhtha; 31 March, 1871 – 12 August, 1922) was the founder and third leader of Sinn Féin.
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