page_title: 1922
section_title: February
hierarchical_section_title: 1922 / Births / February
caption_attribution_description: Photo of Renata Tebaldi as Madame Butterfly from an appearance on the television program The Bell Telephone Hour.
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: February 1 – Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano (d. 2004)
  February 2
  Robert Chef d'Hôtel, French athlete (d. 2019)
  Juan Marichal, Spanish-Canarian historian, literary critic and essayist (d. 2010)
  Stoyanka Mutafova, Bulgarian actress (d. 2019)
  James L. Usry, American politician, first African-American mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey (d. 2002)
  February 4
  Bernard Kalb, American journalist
  William Edward Phipps, American actor, producer (d. 2018)
  February 6
  Witold Kieżun, Polish economist
  Patrick Macnee, British actor (d. 2015)
  Denis Norden, British television, radio scriptwriter and personality (d. 2018)
  Haskell Wexler, American cinematographer (d. 2015)
  February 7
  Hattie Jacques, English actress (d. 1980)
  Antonio Nardini, Italian historian and author (d. 2020)
  February 8
  Yuri Averbakh, Russian chess player and author
  Audrey Meadows, American actress (d. 1996)
  February 9
  Kathryn Grayson, American actress (d. 2010)
  Jim Laker, British cricketer (d. 1986)
  February 10 – Árpád Göncz, President of Hungary (d. 2015)
  February 12 – Hussein Onn, third Prime Minister of Malaysia (d. 1990)
  February 13
  David O. Moberg, American sociologist
  Hal Moore, American Lieutenant general, non-fiction writer (d. 2017)
  Gordon Tullock, American economist (d. 2014)
  February 15
  John Bayard Anderson, American Congressman, presidential candidate (d. 2017)
  Poul Thomsen, Danish actor (d. 1988)
  February 16 – Frédéric Rossif, French film, television director (d. 1991)
  February 17
  Enrico Banducci, American nightclub owner (d. 2007)
  Tommy Edwards, American singer, songwriter (d. 1969)
  February 18
  Helen Gurley Brown, American editor, publisher (d. 2012)
  J. Keith Fraser, Canadian physical geographer
  Eric Gairy, 1st Prime Minister of Grenada (d. 1997)
  Connie Wisniewski, American female professional baseball player (d. 1995)
  February 19 – Margherita Marchione, American Roman Catholic sister, writer, teacher and apologist
  February 22
  Esperanza Magaz, Cuban-born Venezuelan actress (d. 2013)
  Mohd Hamdan Abdullah, Malaysian politician (d. 1977)
  Newton Knight, American farmer, soldier and Southern Unionist in Mississippi and Civil War guerrilla (b. 1829)
  February 23 – James L. Holloway III, American naval officer (d. 2019)
  February 24
  Ruth Godfrey, American film actress (d. 1985)
  Richard Hamilton, British painter (d. 2011)
  Steven Hill, American actor (d. 2016)
  February 25 – Molly Reilly, Canadian aviator (d. 1980)
  February 26
  William Baumol, American economist (d. 2017)
  Margaret Leighton, British actress (d. 1976)
  Paatje Phefferkorn, Dutch martial artist
  Karl Aage Præst, Danish football player (d. 2011)
caption: Renata Tebaldi
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