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.

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1922 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1922 MCMXXII
Ab urbe condita	2675
Armenian calendar	1371 ԹՎ ՌՅՀԱ
Assyrian calendar	6672
Bahá'í calendar	78–79
Balinese saka calendar	1843–1844
Bengali calendar	1329
Berber calendar	2872
British Regnal year	12 Geo. 5 – 13 Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar	2466
Burmese calendar	1284
Byzantine calendar	7430–7431
Chinese calendar	辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 4618 or 4558 — to — 壬戌年 (Water Dog) 4619 or 4559
Coptic calendar	1638–1639
Discordian calendar	3088
Ethiopian calendar	1914–1915
Hebrew calendar	5682–5683
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1978–1979
- Shaka Samvat	1843–1844
- Kali Yuga	5022–5023
Holocene calendar	11922
Igbo calendar	922–923
Iranian calendar	1300–1301
Islamic calendar	1340–1341
Japanese calendar	Taishō 11 (大正１１年)
Javanese calendar	1852–1853
Juche calendar	11
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4255
Minguo calendar	ROC 11 民國11年
Nanakshahi calendar	454
Thai solar calendar	2464–2465
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Iron-Bird) 2048 or 1667 or 895 — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Water-Dog) 2049 or 1668 or 896

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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.

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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)

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)

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 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)