1922
This article is about the year 1922. For the committee of British Conservative MPs, see
1922 Committee.
Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.
Events
January
February
March
April
May
- May 5 – In The Bronx, construction begins on Yankee Stadium.
- May 11 – Radio station KGU begins broadcasting in Hawaii.
- May 12 – A 20-ton meteorite lands near Blackstone, Virginia, USA.
- May 18 – Sergei Diaghilev, James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Proust and Igor Stravinsky dine together in Paris, at the Majestic hotel, their only joint meeting.
- May 19 – The Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union is established.
- May 29 – British Liberal MP Horatio Bottomley is jailed for seven years for fraud.
- May 30 – In Washington, D.C., the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.
June
July
Undated
- Hyperinflation in Germany means that 563 marks are now needed to buy a single American dollar - almost double the 263 needed eight months ago and dwarfing the mere 12 needed in April 1929 and even the 47 needed in December of that year.
August
Undated
- Hyperinflation in Germany has seen the value of the Papiermark against the dollar rise to 1,000.
September
October
Undated
- 3,000 German marks are now needed to buy a single American dollar - triple the figure three months ago.
November
- November 1
- November 4 – In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
- November 12 – Sigma Gamma Rho (ΣΓΡ) Sorority, Incorporated is founded by 7 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, Indiana.
- November 14 – The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) begins radio service in the United Kingdom. 2LO becomes the first radio station in the United Kingdom.
- November 15 – In the 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, is not founded until the following year.)
- November 17 – Former Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI leaves for exile in Italy.
- November 19 – Abdul Mejid II, Crown Prince of the Ottoman Empire, is elected Caliph.
- November 21 – Rebecca Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first woman 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 and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3,000 years.
December
Undated
- 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.[1]
Date unknown
- Earl W. Bascom, rodeo cowboy and artist, designs and makes rodeo's first hornless bronc saddle at Lethbridge, Alberta Canada.
- Inter-Parliamentary Union
- Vegemite is invented by Australian Fred Walker.
- Kurd Istigdul Djemijetin, the Kurdish Independence Committee, is founded.
- The Molly Pitcher Club is formed to promote the repeal of prohibition in the United States.
- Thompson Webb founds the Webb School for Boys.
- The Barbary Lion becomes extinct in the wild, with the last killed in Morocco, in the area of the Zelan and Beni Mguild Forests.[2].
- The Amur Tiger becomes extinct in South Korea.[3].
- The California grizzly bear becomes extinct.
- Japan signs a naval arms limitation treaty with the Western powers and returns some of its control over the Shandong Peninsula to China.
- 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.
- Bronisław Malinowski's influential ethnological text Argonauts of the Western Pacific is published.
- Following the annexation of former German colonies after the First World War, the British Empire reaches its height and largest extent, covering a quarter of the world and ruling over one in four humans.
Births
January–February
- January 1 – Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, U.S. Senator from South Carolina
- January 7 – Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flutist (d. 2000)
- January 8 – Jan Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (d. 1986)
- January 9
- January 10 – Terence Kilmartin, Irish journalist and translator (d. 1991)
- 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 (d. 2008)
- January 17
- January 19 – Guy Madison, American actor (d. 1996)
- January 21
- January 22
- 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 (Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In) (d. 2008)
- February 1 – Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano (d. 2004)
- February 2 – Stoyanka Mutafova, Bulgarian actress
- February 6
- February 9
- February 10 – Árpád Göncz, President of Hungary
- 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
- February 18
- February 24
- February 26
March–April
- March 1
- March 4
- March 5 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director (d. 1975)
- March 8
- March 9
- March 11 – Tun Abdul Razak, second Prime Minister of Malaysia (d. 1976)
- March 12
- 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 (Your Show of Shows)
- March 21
- March 22
- March 23 – Robert Simons, English cricketer and cricket administrator (d. 2011)
- March 27 – Stefan Wul, French writer (d. 2003)
- March 28
- March 31 – Richard Kiley, American actor and singer (d. 1999)
- April 1 – William Manchester, American writer (d. 2004)
- April 3 – Maurice Riel, Canadian senator (d. 2007)
- April 4 – Elmer Bernstein, American composer (d. 2004)
- April 5
- April 7 – Mongo Santamaria, Cuban jazz musician (Watermelon Man) (d. 2003)
- April 9 – Arthur Batanides, American actor (d. 2000)
- April 13 – Julius Nyerere, President of Tanzania (d. 1999)
- April 14 – Ali Akbar Khan, Indian musician (d. 2009)
- April 16
- April 19 – Erich Hartmann, World War II German fighter pilot (d. 1993)
- April 22 – Charles Mingus, American musician (d. 1979)
- April 23 – Marjorie Cameron, American writer, painter, actress and occultist (d. 1995)
- April 24 – Susanna Agnelli, Italian politician (d. 2009)
- April 27 – Jack Klugman, American actor (The Odd Couple and Quincy, M.E.)
- April 28 – Alistair MacLean, Scottish writer (d. 1987)
May–June
- May 1 – Vitaly Popkov, Russian fighter ace (d. 2010)
- May 4 – Eugenie Clark, American marine biologist known as the "Shark Lady"
- May 7
- May 10 – Nancy Walker, American movie and television actress (Rhoda) (d. 1992)
- May 11 – Ameurfina Melencio-Herrera, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
- May 13
- May 14 – Franjo Tuđman, President of Croatia (d. 1999)
- May 15 – Jakucho Setouchi, Japanese writer and Buddhist nun
- May 18
- May 19 – Joe Gilmore, Irish, longest running Head Barmen at The Savoy Hotel's American Bar
- 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 – Sir Christopher Lee, English actor
- May 28 – Lou Duva, American boxing trainer
- May 29
- May 30 – Hal Clement, American writer (d. 2003)
- May 31 – Denholm Elliott, English actor (d. 1992)
- June 1 – Povel Ramel, Swedish musician (d. 2007)
- June 2 – Charlie Sifford, American golfer
- June 10
- June 18 – Claude Helffer, French pianist (d. 2004)
- June 19 – Aage Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)
- June 22 – 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 3 – Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo painter, called Corneille (d. 2010)
- July 6 – William Schallert, American actor
- July 13 – Anker Jørgensen, Danish politician
- 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 (d. 2008)
- July 21 – Mollie Sugden, British actress (d. 2009)
- July 27 – Norman Lear, American television writer and producer
- July 31 – Bill Kaysing, American writer (d. 2005)
- August 3 – Robert Sumner, American evangelist and author
- August 5 – Sandy Kenyon, American actor (d. 2010)
- August 8 – Alberto Granado, Cuban writer and scientist (d. 2011)
- August 15 – Lukas Foss, German-born composer (d. 2009)
- August 17 – Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician (d. 1979)
- August 21 – Mel Fisher, American treasure hunter and founder of the Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Museum (d. 1998)
- August 23 – George Kell, baseball player (d. 2009)
- August 24
- August 27 – Sosuke Uno, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1998)
September–October
- September 1
- September 3
- September 7 – David Croft, British writer, producer and actor (d. 2011)
- September 8
- Sid Caesar, American actor and comedian (Your Show of Shows)
- Lyndon LaRouche, American self-styled economist and political activist
- September 9
- September 10 – Yma Súmac, Peruvian singer (d. 2008)
- September 12 – Jackson Mac Low, American poet (d. 2004)
- September 15
- September 17 – Vance Bourjaily, American writer, novelist, playwright, journalist, and essayist (d. 2010)
- September 22 – Chen Ning Yang, Chinese-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- September 24 – Floyd Levin, American-born musicologist (d. 2007)
- 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 – Coleen Gray, American actress
- October 26 – Madelyn Dunham, American maternal grandmother of Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States (d. 2008)
- October 27 – Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (d. 1998)
- October 28 – Butch van Breda Kolff, American basketball coach (d. 2007)
- October 31
November–December
- November 6 – Vivian Kellogg, American professional baseball player
- November 8 – Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon (d. 2001)
- November 9
- November 11 – Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist (Slaughterhouse Five) (d. 2007)
- November 14
- November 15 – David Sidney Feingold, American biochemist
- November 16
- November 17 – 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 – Donald Tennant, American advertising agency executive (d. 2001)
- November 25 – Shelagh Fraser, British actress (d. 2000)
- November 26 – Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist (Peanuts) (d. 2000)
- December 2 – Leo Gordon, American actor (d. 2000)
- December 5 – William Davidson, American sports owner (d. 2009)
- December 9 – Redd Foxx, American comedian (Sanford and Son) (d. 1991)
- December 11 – Dilip Kumar, Indian actor
- December 12 – Christian Dotremont, Belgian painter and writer (d. 1979)
- 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 21 – Itubwa Amram, Nauruan pastor and politician (d. 1989)
- December 22
- 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 (Marvel Comics)
- December 29 – William Gaddis, American writer (d. 1998)
Deaths
January–June
- January 1 – István Kühár, Slovene (Prekmurian) writer and politician (b. 1887)
- January 5 – Ernest Shackleton, Irish explorer (b. 1874)
- January 10 – Okuma Shigenobu, 8th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1838)
- January 22
- January 23 – Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor (b. 1855)
- January 27
- February 1
- 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 4 – Bert Williams, American entertainer (b. 1874)
- 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)
- April 9 – Hans Fruhstorfer, German lepidopterist {b. 1866)
- May 3 – Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian Communist politician (b. 1888)
- May 7 – Max Wagenknecht, German composer (b. 1857)
- May 12 – John Martin Poyer, United States Navy Commander and the 12th Governor of American Samoa (b. 1861)
- 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 20 – Vittorio Monti, Italian Composer (b. 1868)
- June 26 – Albert I of Monaco (b. 1848)
July–December
- July 4 – Lothar von Richthofen, German World War I flying ace (b. 1894)
- July 20 – Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician (b. 1856)
- July 22 – Jokichi Takamine, Japanese chemist (b. 1854)
- 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, British newspaper magnate (b. 1865)
- August 22 – Michael Collins, Irish leader (killed in ambush) (b. 1890)
- August 29 – Georges Sorel, French socialist (b. 1847)
- September 4
- September 10 – Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, English 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 1 – Lima Barreto, Brazilian writer (b. 1881)
- November 7 – Sam Thompson, American baseball player (b. 1860)
- November 18 – Marcel Proust, French author (In Search of Lost Time) (b. 1871)
- November 23 – Eduard Seler, Prussian scholar and Mesoamericanist (b. 1849)
- November 24 – Robert Erskine Childers, Irish novelist and nationalist (executed) (b. 1870)
- November 30 – René Cresté, French actor and director (b. 1881)
- December 12 – John Wanamaker, American businessman (b. 1838)
- December 13 – Hannes Hafstein, 1st Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1861)
- December 16 – Gabriel Narutowicz, President of Poland (b. 1865)
Nobel Prizes
References