page_title: 1922
section_title: May
hierarchical_section_title: 1922 / Deaths / May
caption_attribution_description: Ernest Solvay
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: May 3 – Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian Communist politician (b. 1888)
  May 7 – Max Wagenknecht, German composer (b. 1857)
  May 12 – John Martin Poyer, United States Navy Commander, 12th Governor of American Samoa (b. 1861)
  May 15 – Leslie Ward, English portrait artist, caricaturist (b. 1851)
  May 16 – Rudolf Montecuccoli, Austro-Hungarian admiral (b. 1843)
  May 18 – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1845)
  May 19 – Son Byong-hi, Korean activist (b. 1861)
  May 21 – Michael Mayr, Austrian politician, 2nd Chancellor of Austria (b. 1864)
  May 26 – Ernest Solvay, Belgian chemist, philanthropist and entrepreneur (b. 1838)
caption: Ernest Solvay
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