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 
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* 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 
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* 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 
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* 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 
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* 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 
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* 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 
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* 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 
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* 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 
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* 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 
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* 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 
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* October 9 – Fyvush Finkel, American actor (d. 2016)
* October 31 – Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress (d. 2005)

### November 
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* 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 
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* 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 
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### April 
### May 
### June 
### July 
### August 
* August 22 - Michael Collins

### September 
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### December 
## Books 
* *Ulysses* by James Joyce

## Movies released 
* *Nanook of the North*