1922
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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.
| 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 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1922 MCMXXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2675 |
| Armenian calendar | 1371 ԹՎ ՌՅՀԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6672 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 78–79 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1843–1844 |
| Bengali calendar | 1329 |
| Berber calendar | 2872 |
| British Regnal year | 12 Geo. 5 – 13 Geo. 5 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2466 |
| Burmese calendar | 1284 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7430–7431 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 4618 or 4558 — to — 壬戌年 (Water Dog) 4619 or 4559 |
| Coptic calendar | 1638–1639 |
| Discordian calendar | 3088 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1914–1915 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5682–5683 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1978–1979 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1843–1844 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5022–5023 |
| Holocene calendar | 11922 |
| Igbo calendar | 922–923 |
| Iranian calendar | 1300–1301 |
| Islamic calendar | 1340–1341 |
| Japanese calendar | Taishō 11 (大正１１年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1852–1853 |
| Juche calendar | 11 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4255 |
| Minguo calendar | ROC 11 民國11年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 454 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2464–2465 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴金鸡年 (female Iron-Rooster) 2048 or 1667 or 895 — to — 阳水狗年 (male Water-Dog) 2049 or 1668 or 896 |
Events change
- 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 change
January change
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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 change
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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 change
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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 change
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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 change
- 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 change
- 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 change
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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 change
- 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 change
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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 change
- October 9 – Fyvush Finkel, American actor (d. 2016)
- October 31 – Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress (d. 2005)
November change
- 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 change
- 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)
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Books change
- Ulysses by James Joyce