1922

1922 in other calendars
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

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

1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday in the Julian calendar. It was the 1922nd year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 922nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 22nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1920s. As of the start of the year, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar. The Julian calendar remained in localized use until the following year (1923).

1922 was the final year to be in the public domain under the 1976 Copyright Act. It entered the public domain in 1998.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, American actress (d. 2016)
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. 2019)
December 24 – Ava Gardner, American actress (d. 1990)

Deaths