1922
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.
Births
January
January 9 - Ahmed Sekou Toure, President of Guinea (d. 1984)
January 17 - Luis Echeverria, 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)
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 - Arpad Goncz, President of Hungary (d. 2015)
February 12 - Hussein Onn, Prime Minister of Malaysia (d. 1990)
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 Tudman, 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 Jorgensen, 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 - Milos Jakes, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (d. 2020)
August 24 - Rene Levesque, Canadian politician (d. 1987)
August 27 - Sosuke 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, Portuguese writer (d. 2010)
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. 2022)
December 24 - Ava Gardner, American actress (d. 1990)
Deaths
January 22 - Pope Benedict XV
Books
Ulysses by James Joyce
Movies released
Nanook of the North