1922
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
| Decades: | 1890s 1900s 1910s – 1920s – 1930s 1940s 1950s |
| Years: | 1919 1920 1921 – 1922 – 1923 1924 1925 |
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
- February 18 - Helen Gurley Brown, American publisher (d. 2012)
- March 1 – Yitzhak Rabin, 5th Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1995)
- March 12 – Jack Kerouac, American writer (d. 1969)
- March 17 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bengali founder (d. 1975)
- March 28 – Joey Maxim, American boxer (d. 2001)
- April 3 – Doris Day, actress (d. 2019)
- April 15 - Michael Ansara, Syrian-American actor (d. 2013)
- April 16 – Kingsley Amis, English writer (d. 1955)
- June 10 – Judy Garland, American actress (d. 1969)
- June 16 – Wayne Mixson, American politician
- July 14 – Robin Olds, American fighter pilot (d. 1970)
- August 24 – René Lévesque, Canadian politician (d. 1987)
- September 9 – Warwick Estevam Kerr, Brazilian entomologist
- November 23 – Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Spanish politician
- Rafael Ishkhanyan, Armenian historian (d. 1996)
Deaths
Books
- Ulysses by James Joyce