1922 in History

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 279

• Jan 1 Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, American Democratic Senator from South Carolina (1966-2005), born in Charleston, South Carolina
• Jan 3 Morten Nielsen, Danish poet/resistance fighter
• Jan 5 Admiral Sir Anthony Synnot, Chief of the Australian Defence Force, born in Corowa, Australia (d. 2001)
• Jan 9 Har Gobind Khorana, Indian-American biochemist (Nobel 1968), born in Raipur, Punjab, British India (d. 2011)
• Jan 9 Ahmed Sékou Touré, first President of Guinea (1958-84), born in Faranah, Guinea (d. 1984)
• Jan 11 Neville Duke, English test pilot
• Jan 11 Ernle Bradford, English historian and writer (d. 1986)
• Jan 12 Tadeusz Żychiewicz, Polish journalist and art historian, born in Bratkowice, Poland (d. 1994)
• Jan 15 Sir Eric Willis, Australian politician, born in Murwillumbah, Australia (d. 1999)
• Jan 17 Luis Echeverria Alvarez, president Mexico
• Jan 17 Nicholas Katzenbach, lawyer (US Attorney General), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2012)
• Jan 18 Bob Bell, American clown, born in Flint, Michigan (d. 1997)
• Jan 19 Ken Hughes, director (Casino Royale), born in Liverpool, England
• Jan 20 James Hanson, English industrialist, born in Huddersfield, United Kingdom (d. 2004)
• Jan 21 Jean P Vroom, Dutch sculptor
• Jan 22 Howard Moss, poet/editor (New Yorker)
• Jan 24 Charles Socarides, American psychiatrist, born in Brockton, Massachusetts (d. 2005)
• Jan 25 Jules de Palm, Antilles writer, born in Curaçao (d. 2013)
• Jan 27 Wilfrid Bourne, QC/Clerk of the Crown in Chancery
• Jan 28 Robert W Holley, American biochemist, worked with RNA (Nobel '68)
• Jan 29 Gerda Steinhoff, Nazi concetration camp supervisor (d. 1946)
• Jan 31 Michael Wilford, diplomat
• Feb 1 Bogumil Witalis Andrzejewski, professor of Cushtic Languages
• Feb 3 Bill Chappell Jr, (Rep-D-FL, 1969- )
• Feb 4 Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Indian classical singer (khayal form of singing, bhajans, abhangs), born in Ron, Karnataka, India (d. 2011)
• Feb 10 Harold Hughes, American politician, Governor of Iowa (D) and US Senator, born in Ida County, Iowa (d. 1996)
• Feb 10 Árpád Göncz, Hungarian politician, 1st post-communist President (1990-2000), born in Budapest (d. 2015)
• Feb 13 Lord Pym of Sandy, British minister of foreign affairs
• Feb 13 Gordon Tullock, American economist
• Feb 13 Tristram Coffin, San Marino, California, folklorist (The Book of Christmas Folklore, The Old Ball Game), (d. 2012)
• Feb 15 Herman Kahn, NJ, writer (Thinking About the Unthinkable)
• Feb 15 John B. Anderson, American politician and 1980 Republican presidential candidate, born in Rockford, Illinois (d. 2017)
• Feb 16 Paul van 't Veer, Dutch journalist/writer (Het Vrije Volk)
• Feb 17 Enrico Banducci, American nightclub owner (d. 2007)
• Feb 18 Eric Gairy, first Prime Minister of Grenada (1974-1979)
• Feb 18 Helen Gurley Brown, American author/publisher and editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, born in Green Forest, Arkansas, (d. 2012)
• Feb 18 Juhan Smuul, Estonian author, born in Muhu, Estonia (d. 1971)
• Feb 19 Beant Singh, politiician
• Feb 22 William J. Baumol, American economist (Baumol’s cost disease), born in South Bronx, New York (d. 2017)
• Feb 24 Richard Hamilton, English early pop art painter, born in London, England (d. 2011)
• Feb 27 Mervyn Jones, author (Nobody's Fault, 5 Hungarian Writers)
• Feb 27 Hans Rookmaaker, Dutch professor and art historian (d. 1977)
• Mar 1 William M Gaines, publisher (MAD Magazine)

• Mar 5 Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bologna Italy, director (Teorema, Pigsty)
• Mar 6 Ruben Ayala, Chino, California, politician (California State Senator 1974-1998) (d. 2012)
• Mar 7 Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician (fluid dynamics), born in Kologriv, Soviet Russia (d. 2004)
• Mar 8 Heinar Kipphardt, German writer and playwright (In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer), born in Heidersdorf, Lower Silesia (d. 1982)
• Mar 8 Shigeru Mizuki, Japanese soldier and Manga artist (GeGeGe no Kitarō), born in Sakaiminato, Tittori (d. 2015)
• Mar 8 Ralph Baer, Creator of the first video game console
• Mar 11 Abdul Razak bin Hussain, premier of Malaysia (1970-77)
• Mar 11 Cornelius Castoriadis, Greek philosopher and economist, born in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (d. 1997)

• Mar 12 Lane Kirkland, union president (AFL-CIO)
• Mar 14 Colin Fletcher, Welsh author and pioneering backpacker (Walking Through Time), born in Cardiff, Wales (d. 2007)
• Mar 16 Geoffrey Freeman Allen, railway writer
• Mar 16 Harding Lemay, American writer (Another World), born in North Bangor, New York
• Mar 17 Megan Bull, British head mistress (Holloway Jail)

• Mar 18 Egon Bahr, German journalist/politician, born in Treffurt, Thuringia (d. 2015)

• Mar 20 Arnold Burgen, college president (Academia Europaea)
• Mar 20 Doug Barnard Jr, (Rep-D-GA, 1977- )
• Mar 24 Onna White, Canadian choreographer (d. 2005)
• Mar 25 Tobias Schneebaum, American writer, anthropologist and explorer, born in NYC, New York (d. 2005)
• Mar 26 William Milliken, American politician, longest serving Governor of Michigan (1969-83), born in Traverse City, Michigan
• Mar 26 Oscar Sala, Italian-born Brazilian nuclear physicist, born in Milan, Italy (d. 2010)
• Mar 27 Margaret Stacey, English sociologist who helped shape the distinctively British genre of empirical sociology, born in London (d. 2004)
• Mar 27 Stefan Wul, French sci-fi author (The Temple of the Past), born in Paris (d. 2003)
• Mar 28 Neville Bonner, the first Indigenous Australian to become a member of the Parliament of Australia, born in Ukerebagh Island, New South Wales (d. 1999)
• Mar 30 J F Coates, naval architect
• Apr 1 William Manchester, Attleboro Mass, historian (Death of a President)
• Apr 2 Nicolay G. Basov, Soviet physicist who specialized in quantum electronics (laser, maser) and 1964 Nobel laureate, born in Usman, Russia (d. 2001)
• Apr 9 Carl Amery [Christian Anton Mayer], German writer, born in Munich (d. 2005)
• Apr 9 Gerald Moverley, first Bishop of the Diocese of Hallam in Yorkshire, born in Bradford, England (d. 1996)
• Apr 9 Michael Palliser, head of British diplomatic service, born in Reigate, Surrey (d. 2012)
• Apr 11 Antoine Blondin, French writer (L'Europe buissonnière), born in Paris (d. 1991)
• Apr 13 John Braine, English novelist (Life at the Top), born in Bradford, Yorkshire (d. 1986)
• Apr 13 Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian politician and 1st President of Tanzania (1964-1985), born in Butiama, Tanganyika (d. 1999)
• Apr 15 Harold Washington, 1st African American mayor of Chicago (D, 1983-87), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1987)
• Apr 16 Christopher Samuel Youd, British sci-fi author (Tripods Trilogy), born in Huyton, Lancashire, England (d. 2012)
• Apr 16 Kingsley Amis, English novelist (Lucky Jim, James Bond Dossier), born in London, England (d. 1995)
• Apr 16 Leo Tindemans, Belgian statesman, Prime Minister of Belgium (1974-78), born in Zwijndrecht, Belgium (d. 2014)
• Apr 19 Erich Hartmann, German WW II pilot (downed 352 Russian aircraft), born in Weissach, Württemberg, Weimar Republic (d. 1993)
• Apr 19 Luigi Barbarito, Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, born in Atripalda, Italy (d. 2017)
• Apr 22 Richard Diebenkorn, American painter (Ocean Park Paintings), born in Portland, Oregon (d. 1993)
• Apr 23 Boy Ecury [Segundo Jorge Adelberto Ecury], member of the Dutch Resistance in World War II, born in Oranjestad, Aruba (d. 1944)
• Apr 23 Diarmuid Downs, British automotive engineer, born in London (d. 2014)
• Apr 26 J. C. Holt, English medieval historian, born in Yorkshire, England (d. 2014)
• Apr 26 Jeanne Sauvé, 23rd Governor-General of Canada (1984-90), born in Prud'homme, Saskatchewan, Canada (d. 1993)
• Apr 27 Martin Gray, Polish-born American writer, holocaust survivor, born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 2016)
• Apr 28 William Broomfield, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan), born in Royal Oak, Michigan (d. 2019)
• Apr 28 Alistair MacLean, Scottish novelist (The Guns of Navarone), born in Shettleston, Glasgow, Scotland (d. 1987)
• Apr 29 Parren J Mitchell, (Rep-D-MD, 1971- )
• May 2 A. M. Rosenthal, American journalist and newspaper editor (NY Times), born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada (d. 2006)
• May 4 John Paul Hammerschmidt, American politician (Rep-R-AR, 1967-93), born in Harrison, Arkansas (d. 2015)
• May 6 Alan Ross, British poet and editor (London Magazine), born in Calcutta, India (d. 2001)
• May 6 Carlos Moorhead, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California), born in Long Beach, California (d. 2011)
• May 6 John Ernest, American constructionist artist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1994)
• May 6 Camille Laurin, Quebec psychiatrist and politician (Parti Québécois), born in Charlemagne, Quebec (d. 1999)

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• Feb 28 English Princess Mary marries Viscount Lascelles at Westminster Abbey

• Jan 4 Eliza Ann Gardner, African-American abolitionist and religious leader, dies at 90

• Jan 6 Jakob Rosanes, German mathematician (algebraic geometry and invariant theory), dies at 79
• Jan 7 Jonah Kūhiō Kalaniana'ole, Prince of the Kingdom of Hawaii, dies at 50
• Jan 8 Charles R Young, colonel, dies at 58, in Lagos Nigeria
• Jan 10 Frank Tudor, Australian Labor Opposition leader (b. 1866)
• Jan 15 John Kirk Barry, Dr/explorer David Livingstone's companion, dies at 89
• Jan 22 Benedict XV [Giacomo Paolo Giovanni Battista della Chiesa], Italian 258th pope (1914-22), dies at 67
• Jan 22 Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician, feminist and pacifist politician (Nobel 1908), dies at 84
• Jan 27 Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (I Mala Voglia), dies at 81

• Feb 3 Christiaan R de Wet, South African Boer general, dies at 67
• Feb 3 John Butler Yeats, Northern Irish artist (b. 1839)
• Feb 5 Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Croatian inventor (b. 1871)
• Feb 11 Gerardus J P Bolland, Dutch philosopher (Bolland Society), dies at 67
• Feb 14 Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish lawyer and politician (Minister of the Interior), assassinated at 41
• Feb 15 Clara [G Meijer-]Wichmann, German/Dutch anarchist/feminist, dies at 36
• Feb 23 Albert Victor Bäcklund, Swedish physicist (b. 1845)
• Feb 25 Henri Désiré Landru, French sex murderer, guillotined at 52
• Mar 22 Louis-Antoine Ranvier, French anatomist and historian, dies at 86
• Apr 1 Charles I, emperor (Austria)/King of Hungary (Charles IV), dies
• Apr 1 Jane Bunford, Britain's tallest-ever person measuring 2.41 metres (7 ft 11 in) at the time of her death, dies at 26
• Apr 2 Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (inkblot test - Rorschach test), dies at 37
• Apr 5 Charles F A Woeste, Belgian count/min of Justice, dies at 85
• Apr 9 Patrick Manson, Scottish physician and parasitologist (Father of tropical medicine), dies at 77
• Apr 21 Alessandro Moreschi, Italian castrato (b. 1858)
• Apr 30 David M Chumaceiro, Curacaos poet, dies
• May 4 Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian Bolshevik politician (b. 1888)
• May 18 Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), dies at 76
• May 19 Heinrich I Quincke, German internist (postural drainage), dies at 79
• May 28 John Munro Longyear, American capitalist and developer of timber and mineral lands, dies at 72
• May 30 David Mendes Chumaceiro, Curacaos poet (Adelfas), dies at 45
• Jun 4 William Halse Rivers, British psychologist/anthropologist, dies
• Jun 9 Albert Baertsoen, Flemish painter/etcher, dies at 56
• Jun 12 Wolfgang Kapp, German politician (Kapp putsch 1920), dies at 63
• Jun 18 John Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (studied the Milky Way), dies at 71
• Jun 19 Johannes C Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer, dies at 71
• Jun 22 Henry H Wilson, Field Marshal, murdered in London
• Jun 24 Walter Rathenau, German foreign minister, killed by anti-semites at 54
• Jun 26 Albert H K, monarch of Monaco (1889-1922), dies at 73
• Jun 28 Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet and playwright, dies at 36
• Jul 4 Lothar von Richthofen, German pilot, dies at 27
• Jul 6 Mary Theresa Ledóchowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic nun (founded the Missionary Sisters of St. Peter Claver), dies at 59
• Jul 7 Cathal Brugha, Chief of Staff of Irish Republican Army (b.1874)
• Jul 13 Martin Dies, American politician (b. 1870)
• Jul 17 Heinrich Rubens, German physicist, dies at 57
• Jul 19 Cornelis Adrianus Pekelharing, Dutch physician, dies on 74th birthday
• Jul 20 Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician (Markov Chain), dies at 66
• Jul 21 Djemal Pasha, dictator of Turkey, murdered
• Jul 22 Jokichi Takamine, Japanese-American biochemist who isolated adrenalin (epinephrine), which causes the body to respond to emergencies, the first pure hormone isolated from natural sources, dies at 67
• Jul 22 John Motley Morehead III, American chemist (commercial production of calcium carbide, important for welding), dies at 67
• Jul 29 Edward Gailliard, Flemish linguist and archaeologist, dies at 81

• Aug 2 Mina Kruseman, Dutch author and feminist, dies at 82

• Aug 14 Alfred CW Harmsworth, 1st viscount Northcliffe/newspaper magnate, dies

• Aug 28 Gaston of Orleans, Count of Eu, dies at 80
• Sep 2 Henry Lawson, Australian writer and poet (n the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses), dies at 55
• Sep 4 Georges Sorel, French philosopher and theorist of Sorelianism, dies at 74
• Sep 5 Georgette Agutte, French painter (b. 1867)
• Sep 8 Léon Bonnat, French painter, dies at 89
• Sep 30 Paul Barth, German philosopher and sociologist, dies at 64
• Oct 12 Daisy M C Baers, Flemish philosophy/theory, dies at 33
• Oct 12 Margriet Baers, Flemish philosopher and social worker, dies at 33
• Oct 24 George Cadbury, British chocolate and cocoa manufacturer (Cadbury), dies at 83
• Oct 25 Oskar Hertwig, German embryologist (discovered fertilization), dies at 73
• Oct 28 Hugo Verriest, Flemish writer and poet (Flemish Motion), dies at 81
• Nov 1 Alfred Capus, French journalist and playwright, dies at 63
• Nov 14 Rudolf Kjellén, Swedish political scientist and politician who first coined the term "geopolitics", dies at 58
• Nov 16 Max Abraham, German physicist (b. 1875)
• Nov 17 Robert Comtesse, Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1899-1912), dies at 75
• Nov 18 Marcel Proust, French intellectual and author (Recherche du Temps Perdu), dies at 51
• Nov 21 Ricardo Flores Magón, Mexican anarchist (b. 1874).
• Dec 5 Samuel Muller Fzn, Dutch historian/archivist, dies
• Dec 12 John Wanamaker, American merchant (Wanamakers Department Store), pioneer in marketing and Postmaster General, dies at 84
• Dec 13 Hannes Hafstein, Icelandic politician and poet (b. 1861)
• Dec 16 Gabriel Narutowicz, 1st President of Poland (Dec 7-16, 1922), assassinated