The year in history
1922
Someone born in 1922 turns 104 in 2026
1922 (MCMXXII) 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 (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) 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.
What happened in 1922
Dáil Éireann, the parliament of the Irish Republic, ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64–57 votes.
17 – Modern Art Week in São Paulo marks the start of Modernism in Brazil.
Edward, Prince of Wales, inaugurates the Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College in Dehradun, India, marking a capitulation of the Governor General and Secretary of State for India to growing pressure for Indianization of the officer cadre of the Indian Army.
Joseph Stalin is appointed General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party.
British Liberal MP Horatio Bottomley is jailed for seven years for fraud.
Louis Honoré Charles Antoine Grimaldi becomes Reigning Prince Louis II of Monaco.
Irish Civil War: General Michael Collins is assassinated in West Cork.
The Mandate of Palestine is approved by the Council of the League of Nations.
Rebecca Latimer Felton becomes the first female U.S. senator when Georgia's governor gives her a temporary appointment pending an election to replace Senator Thomas Watson, who has died suddenly.
Benito Mussolini, 39, becomes the youngest ever Prime Minister of Italy.
Popular author and anti-Treaty Republican Erskine Childers is executed by firing squad in Dublin, after conviction by an Irish Free State military court for the unlawful possession of a gun, a weapon presented to him by Michael Collins in 1920 as a gift.
December – The year ends with hyperinflation showing no sign of slowing down in Germany, with 7,000 marks now needed to buy a single American dollar.
Famous people born in 1922
Fritz Hollings
American politician (d. 2019)
January 1 →
Luis Echeverría
50th President of Mexico (d. 2022)
January 17 →
Joanne Dru
American actress (d. 1996)
January 31 →
Kathryn Grayson
American actress (d. 2010)
February 9 →
Richard Hamilton
British painter (d. 2011)
February 24 →
Cyd Charisse
American actress, dancer (d. 2008)
March 8 →
Carl Reiner
American film director, producer, actor, and comedian (d. 2020)
March 20 →
Gale Storm
American singer, actress (d. 2009)
April 5 →
Charles Mingus
African-American musician (d. 1979)
April 22 →
Eugenie Clark
American marine biologist (d. 2015)
May 4 →
Otto Carius
German tank commander (d. 2015)
May 27 →
Tibor Baranski
Hungarian-American educator (d. 2019)
June 11 →
Pierre Cardin
Italian-born French fashion designer (d. 2020)
July 2 →
Käbi Laretei
Estonian and Swedish concert pianist (d. 2014)
July 14 →
Mollie Sugden
English comedy actress (d. 2009)
July 21 →
Philip Larkin
English poet (d. 1985)
August 9 →
Gloria Dea
American actress, dancer, and magician (d. 2023)
August 25 →
Manolis Glezos
Greek Resistance fighter (d. 2020)
September 9 →
Hammer DeRoburt
first President of Nauru (d. 1992)
September 25 →
Yumeji Tsukioka
Japanese actress (d. 2017)
October 14 →
Norodom Sihanouk
King of Cambodia (d. 2012)
October 31 →
José Saramago
Portuguese author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)
November 16 →
Gérard Philipe
French actor (d. 1959)
December 4 →
Itubwa Amram
Nauruan pastor and politician (d. 1989)
December 21 →