1922

1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday in the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday in the Julian calendar.

 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.
 Assassination of Michael Collins.

 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)
 January 24 – Miguel Gustavo, Brazilian journalist, radio personality and composer (d. 1972)

 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 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, American actress (d. 2016)
 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. 2019)
 December 24 – Ava Gardner, American actress (d. 1990)

 Deaths 

 January 
 January 22 - Pope Benedict XV 

 February 

 March 

 April 

 May 

 June 

 July 

 August 
 August 22 - Michael Collins

 September 

 October 

 November 

 December 

 Books 
 Ulysses by James Joyce

 Movies released 
 Nanook of the North