Title: 1922 Content: == 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. == 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) === 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 12 – Hussein Onn, Prime Minister of Malaysia (d. 1990) * 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, 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 === * 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) == Deaths == * January 22 - Pope Benedict XV == Books == *Ulysses by James Joyce == Movies released == *Nanook of the North