page_title: 1922
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1922 / Births / January
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of actress Betty White at the 41st Emmy Awards.
context_page_description: 1922 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 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 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.
context_section_description: January 1 – Fritz Hollings, American politician (d. 2019)
  January 2 – Blaga Dimitrova, Bulgarian poet and politician (d. 2003)
  January 3 – John R. Schmidhauser, American politician (d. 2018)
  January 4
  Haven J. Barlow, American politician
  Karl-Erik Nilsson, Swedish wrestler (d. 2017)
  January 5 – Helen Smith, American female baseball player (d. 2019)
  January 6 – Hugo Broch, German lieutenant and pilot
  January 8 – Jan Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (d. 1986)
  January 9
  Har Gobind Khorana, Indian biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2011)
  Ahmed Sékou Touré, Guinean politician, President of Guinea (1958-1984) (d. 1984)
  January 10 – Terence Kilmartin, Irish journalist, translator (d. 1991)
  January 12 – Tadeusz Żychiewicz, Polish journalist, art historian and publicist (d. 1994)
  January 13
  Bud Anderson, American fighter pilot
  Albert Lamorisse, French film director (d. 1970)
  January 14 – Guy Stern, German literary scholar
  January 16 – Ernesto Bonino, Italian singer (d. 2008)
  January 17
  Miodrag Jovanović, Serbian footballer (d. 2009)
  Luis Echeverría, 50th President of Mexico
  Nicholas Katzenbach, United States Attorney General (d. 2012)
  Bell M. Shimada, American fisheries scientist (d. 1958)
  Betty White, American actress, television personality and animal welfare activist
  January 19
  Lila Cockrell, former Mayor of San Antonio (d. 2019)
  Guy Madison, American actor (d. 1996)
  January 20
  Ray Anthony, American trumpet player, composer, bandleader and actor
  Bhisadej Rajani, Taiwanese prince
  Ed Westcott, American photographer (d. 2019)
  January 21
  Lincoln Alexander, Canadian politician (d. 2012)
  Sam Mele, American baseball player, manager (d. 2017)
  Telly Savalas, American actor, singer (d. 1994)
  Paul Scofield, English actor (d. 2008)
  January 22,
  Leonel Brizola, Brazilian politician (d. 2004)
  Annabelle Lee, American female professional baseball player (d. 2008)
  Howard Moss, American poet, dramatist, and critic (d. 1987)
  Bill Waterhouse, Australian bookmaker, businessman and barrister (d. 2019)
  January 24 – Charles Socarides, American psychiatrist (d. 2005)
  January 26
  Bob Thomas, American Hollywood biographer, reporter (d. 2014)
  Ellen Vogel, Dutch film, television actress (d. 2015)
  January 28 – Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1993)
  January 29 – Gerda Steinhoff, German Nazi war criminal (d. 1946)
  January 30
  Rosemary Kuhlmann, American soprano and actress (d. 2019)
  Dick Martin, American comedian (d. 2008)
  January 31 – Joanne Dru, American actress (d. 1996)
caption: Betty White
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