1922

This article is about the year 1922. For the committee of British Conservative MPs, see 1922 Committee. For other uses, see 1922 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century 20th century 21st century
Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
Years:	1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925

1922 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1922 MCMXXII
Ab urbe condita	2675
Armenian calendar	1371 ԹՎ ՌՅՀԱ
Assyrian calendar	6672
Baháʼí 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) 4619 or 4412     — to — 壬戌年 (Water Dog) 4620 or 4413
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	阴金鸡年 (female Iron-Rooster) 2048 or 1667 or 895     — to — 阳水狗年 (male Water-Dog) 2049 or 1668 or 896

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.

Events

January

January 11: Use of insulin for diabetes.

• January – The year begins with the British Empire at its largest extent, covering a quarter of the world and ruling over one in four people on earth.
• January 7 – Dáil Éireann, the parliament of the Irish Republic, ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64–57 votes.
• January 8 – The Social Democratic Youth League of Norway is founded.
• January 10 – Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dáil Éireann.
• January 11 – The first successful insulin treatment of diabetes is made, by Frederick Banting in Toronto.
• January 12 – The British government releases the remaining Irish prisoners captured in the War of Independence.
• January 13 – The flu epidemic has claimed 804 victims in Britain.
• January 15 – Michael Collins becomes Chairman of the Irish Provisional Government.
• January 24 – Christian K. Nelson patents the Eskimo Pie.
• January 26 – Italian forces occupy Misrata in Libya. The reconquest of Libya begins.
• January 28 – Knickerbocker Storm: Snowfall from the biggest-ever recorded snowstorm in Washington, D.C., causes the roof of the Knickerbocker Theatre to collapse, killing 98.
• January 29 – The union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador is dissolved.
• January 30 – The Philippines introduced the radio named KZKZ-AM. The Radio in the Philippines served for 91 years.

February

February 1: William Desmond Taylor murdered.

• February – Ring Magazine is first published.
• February 1 – Irish American film director William Desmond Taylor is found murdered at his home in Los Angeles; the case is never solved.
• February 2 – Ulysses, by James Joyce, is published in Paris on his 40th birthday by Sylvia Beach.
• February 5 – DeWitt and Lila Wallace publish the first issue of Reader's Digest.
• February 6
  • Pope Pius XI (Achille Ratti) succeeds Pope Benedict XV as the 259th pope.
  • Five Power Naval Disarmament Treaty signed between the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, France and Italy. Japan returns some of its control over the Shandong Peninsula to China.
• February 8
  • President of the United States Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.
  • In the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, the Cheka becomes the Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravlenie (GPU), a section of the NKVD.
• February 14
  • Finnish Minister of the Interior Heikki Ritavuori is assassinated by Ernst Tandefelt.
  • Baragoola, last of the Binngarra class Manly ferries, is launched at Balmain, New South Wales.
• February 15 – Inaugural session of the Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ).
• February 25 – French serial killer Henri Désiré Landru is beheaded by the guillotine.
• February 26 – A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States.
• February 28 – Unilateral Declaration of Egyptian Independence by the United Kingdom ends its protectorate over Egypt and grants the country nominal independence, reserving control of military and diplomatic matters.

February 28: Egypt independent.

March

• March 2
  • An ice mass breaks the Oder Dam in Breslau.
  • The British Civil Aviation Authority is established.
• March 4 – The movie Nosferatu is released.
• March 11 – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested in Bombay for sedition.
• March 13 – 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.
• March 15 – Egypt having gained self-government from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.
• March 18 – In British India, Mahatma Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for sedition (he serves only two).
• March 20 – The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
• March 22 – Radio station WLW in Cincinnati, Ohio begins broadcasting.
• March 23 – Queensland, Australia abolishes the Legislative Council (Upper House).

April

• April 3 – Joseph Stalin is appointed General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party.
• April 7
  • Teapot Dome scandal: The United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome oil reserves in Wyoming.
  • The first midair collision occurs, between a Daimler Airway de Havilland DH.18 and a Compagnie des Grands Express Aériens Farman Goliath over Poix-de-Picardie, Amiens, France.
• April 10 – The historic Genoa Conference commences in Genoa. The representatives of 34 countries convene to speak about monetary economics in the wake of World War I.
• April 12 – The United Kingdom's Prince of Wales arrives in Yokohama aboard HMS Renown and rides by train to Tokyo, starting a one month visit to Japan.
• April 13 – The State of Massachusetts opens all public offices to women.
• April 16 – The Treaty of Rapallo marks a rapprochement between the Weimar Republic and Bolshevik Russia.
• April 22 – The Lambda Chapter of the Joe Whelan Sorority, Incorporated (the first chapter of a black sorority in New York State) is chartered.
• April 24 – The first portion of the Imperial Wireless Chain, a strategic international wireless telegraphy network created to link the British Empire, is opened, from England to Egypt.

May

• May 5 – In The Bronx, construction begins on Yankee Stadium.
• May 11 – Radio station KGU begins broadcasting in Hawaii.
• May 12 – A 20-ton meteorite lands near Blackstone, Virginia, USA.
• May 18 – Sergei Diaghilev, Igor Stravinsky, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Erik Satie and Clive Bell dine together in Paris, at the Majestic hotel, their only joint meeting.
• May 19 – The All-Russian Young Pioneer Organisation is established.
• May 29 – British Liberal MP Horatio Bottomley is jailed for seven years for fraud.
• May 30 – In Washington, D.C., the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.

June

• June 1
  • The Royal Ulster Constabulary is officially founded.
  • Bolshevik forces defeat Basmachi troops under Enver Pasha.
• June 11 – U.S. première of Robert J. Flaherty's Nanook of the North, the first commercially successful feature length documentary film.
• June 14 – U.S. President Warren G. Harding makes his first speech on the radio.
• June 22 – Irish Republican Army agents assassinate British Army field marshal Sir Henry Wilson in London; the assassins are sentenced to death on July 18.
• June 24 – Weimar Republic foreign minister Walter Rathenau is assassinated; the murderers are captured on July 17.
• June 26 – Louis Honoré Charles Antoine Grimaldi becomes Reigning Prince Louis II of Monaco.
• June 28 – The Irish Civil War and Battle of Dublin begin when the Irish National Army, using artillery loaned by the British, begins to bombard the anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army forces occupying the Four Courts in Dublin. Fighting in Dublin lasts until July 5.

July

May 30: Lincoln Memorial dedicated.

• July 11 – The Hollywood Bowl opens.
• July 20 – The German protectorate of Togoland is divided into the League of Nations mandates of French Togoland and British Togoland.
• July 27 – Cherkess (Adyghe) Autonomous Oblast established within the Russian SFSR.
• July – Hyperinflation in Germany means that 563 marks are now needed to buy a single American dollar - almost double the 263 needed eight months before and dwarfing the mere 12 needed in April 1919 and even the 47 needed in December of that year.

August

• August 2 – A typhoon hits Shantou, China, killing more than 5,000 people.
• August 22 – Irish Civil War: General Michael Collins is assassinated in West Cork.
• August 23
  • Morocco revolts against the Spanish.
  • The Turkish large-scale attack opened against Greek forces in Afyon. Turkish victory is achieved on August 27.
• August 28 – Japan agrees to withdraw its troops from Siberia.
• August – Hyperinflation in Germany sees the value of the Papiermark against the dollar rise to 1,000.

September

• September 9 – Turkish forces pursuing withdrawing Greek troops enter Izmir, effectively ending the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922).
• September 11
  • The Sun News-Pictorial, a predecessor of the Melbourne, Australia Herald Sun, is founded.
  • The Mandate of Palestine is approved by the Council of the League of Nations.
• September 13
  • The Gdynia Seaport Construction Act is passed by the Polish Parliament.
  • The highest temperature in recorded history is taken in at 136.4 degrees F (58 degrees C), in El Aziziyah, Libya in the shade.
• September 13–15 – The Great Fire of Smyrna destroys most of Izmir. Responsibility is disputed.
• September 17 – Dutch cyclist Piet Moeskops becomes World Champion Sprinter.
• September 18 – Hungary joins the League of Nations.
• September 29 – Drums in the Night (Trommeln in der Nacht) becomes the first play by Bertolt Brecht to be staged, at the Munich Kammerspiele.

October

Benito Mussolini and Fascist Blackshirts during the March on Rome.

• October 1 – G.I. Gurdjieff opens his Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man at Fontainebleau in France.
• October 3 – Rebecca L. Felton becomes the first female US senator, when Georgia's governor gives her a temporary appointment, pending an election to replace Senator Thomas Watson, who had died suddenly.
• October 18 – The British Broadcasting Company is formed.
• October 23 – The German army occupies Saxony and crushes the Soviet Republic of Saxony.
• October 25 – The Third Dáil enacts the Constitution of the Irish Free State.
• October 28
  • In Italy, the March on Rome brings the National Fascist Party and Benito Mussolini to power.
  • The Red Army occupies Vladivostok.
• October 30 – Benito Mussolini becomes the youngest ever Prime Minister of Italy at age 39.
• October
  • 3,000 German marks are now needed to buy a single American dollar - triple the figure three months ago.
  • The Russian Civil War ends with the colonies remaining part of Russia.

November

• November 1
  • The Ottoman Empire is abolished and its last sultan Mehmed VI, abdicates.
  • A broadcasting license fee of ten shillings is introduced in the United Kingdom.
• November 4 – In Egypt, English archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
• November 12 – Sigma Gamma Rho (ΣΓΡ) Sorority, Incorporated is founded by seven educators in Indianapolis, Indiana. The group becomes an incorporated national collegiate sorority on December 30, 1929, when a charter is granted to the Alpha Chapter at Butler University in Indianapolis.
• November 14 – The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) begins radio service in the United Kingdom, broadcasting from station 2LO in London.
• November 15 – In the United Kingdom general election forced by the Conservatives' withdrawal from the coalition government, the Conservative Party wins an overall majority. (The 1922 Committee, popularly believed to take its name from this occasion, is not founded until the following year.)
• November 17 – Former Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI leaves for exile in Italy.
• November 19 – Abdul Mejid II, Crown Prince of the Ottoman Empire, is elected Caliph.
• November 21 – Rebecca Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first woman United States Senator.
• November 24 – 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.

Howard Carter in the King Tutankhamen's tomb

• November 26 – Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3,000 years.

December

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is created. (Coat of arms until 1936).

• December 5 – The British Parliament enacts the Irish Free State Constitution Act, by which it legally sanctions the new Constitution of the Irish Free State.
• December 6 – The Irish Free State officially comes into existence. George V becomes the Free State's monarch. Tim Healy is appointed first Governor-General of the Irish Free State and W. T. Cosgrave becomes President of the Executive Council.
• December 11 – End of the trial of Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters at the Old Bailey in London for the murder of Th
• December 16 – Gabriel Narutowicz, sworn on December 11 as first president of the Second Polish Republic, is assassinated by a right-wing sympathizer in Warsaw.
• December 20 – Antigone by Jean Cocteau appears on stage in Paris, with settings by Pablo Picasso, music by Arthur Honegger and costumes by Gabrielle Chanel.
• December 27 – Commissioning of Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō, the first purpose-designed aircraft carrier to be commissioned.
• December 30 – Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and the Transcaucasia come together to form the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. It was eventually dissolved in 1991.
• 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.

Date unknown

• Wracked by rapid inflation and political assassinations and motivated by hostility and arrogance as well, the Weimar Republic announces its inability to pay more and proposes a moratorium on reparations for 3 years.
• Kurd Istigdul Djemijetin, the Kurdish Independence Committee, is founded.
• Inter-Parliamentary Union.
• Earl W. Bascom, rodeo cowboy and artist, designs and makes rodeo's first hornless bronc saddle at Lethbridge, Alberta Canada.
• Vegemite is invented by Australian entrepreneur Fred Walker.
• The Molly Pitcher Club is formed to promote the repeal of prohibition in the United States.
• Thompson Webb founds the The Webb School of California for boys in Claremont.
• The Barbary Lion becomes extinct in the wild, with the last killed in Morocco, in the area of the Zelan and Beni Mguild Forests.
• The Amur Tiger becomes extinct in South Korea.
• The California grizzly bear becomes extinct.
• Bronisław Malinowski's influential ethnological text Argonauts of the Western Pacific is published.

Births

January

• January 1 – Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, U.S. Senator from South Carolina
• January 5 – Helen Smith, American female baseball player
• January 7
  • Alvin Dark, American baseball player and manager
  • Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flutist (d. 2000)
• January 8
  • Jan Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (d. 1986)
  • Abbey Simon, American classical pianist
• January 9
  • Har Gobind Khorana, Indian biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2011)
  • Ahmed Sékou Touré, African politician (d. 1984)
• January 10 – Terence Kilmartin, Irish journalist and translator (d. 1991)
• January 12 – Tadeusz Żychiewicz, Polish journalist, art historian and publicist (d. 1994)
• January 13 – Albert Lamorisse, French film director (d. 1970)
• January 16 – Ernesto Bonino, Italian singer (d. 2008)
• January 17
  • Nicholas Katzenbach, former U.S. Attorney General (d. 2012)
  • Betty White, American actress, television personality and animal welfare activist
• January 19 – Guy Madison, American actor (d. 1996)
• January 21
  • Lincoln Alexander, Canadian politician (d. 2012)
  • Sam Mele, American baseball player and manager
  • Telly Savalas, American actor and singer (d. 1994)
  • Paul Scofield, English actor (d. 2008)
• January 22,
  • Leonel Brizola, Brazilian politician (d. 2004)
  • Annabelle Lee, American female professional baseball player (d. 2008)
  • Howard Moss, American poet, dramatist, and critic (d. 1987)
• January 24 – Charles Socarides, American psychiatrist (d. 2005)
• January 26
  • Bob Thomas, American Hollywood biographer and reporter (d. 2014)
  • Ellen Vogel, Dutch film and television actress
• January 28 – Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1993)
• January 29 – Gerda Steinhoff, German Nazi war criminal (d. 1946)
• January 30 – Dick Martin, American comedian (d. 2008)

February

• February 1 – Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano (d. 2004)
• February 2 – Stoyanka Mutafova, Bulgarian actress
• February 6
  • Bill Johnston, Australian cricketer (d. 2007)
  • Patrick Macnee, British actor
  • Denis Norden, British television and radio scriptwriter and personality
• February 9
  • Kathryn Grayson, American actress (d. 2010)
  • Jim Laker, British cricketer (d. 1986)
• February 10 – Árpád Göncz, President of Hungary
• February 12 – Tun Hussein Onn, third Prime Minister of Malaysia (d. 1990)
• February 13 – Gordon Tullock, American economist
• February 15 – John Bayard Anderson, U.S Congressman and Presidential candidate
• February 17
  • Enrico Banducci, American nightclub owner (d. 2007)
  • Marshall Teague, American race car driver (d. 1959)
• February 18
  • Helen Gurley Brown, American editor and publisher (d. 2012)
  • Connie Wisniewski, American female professional baseball player (d. 1995)
• February 22 – Esperanza Magaz, Cuban-born Venezuelan actress (d. 2013)
• February 24
  • Richard Hamilton, British painter (d. 2011)
  • Steven Hill, American actor
• February 26
  • William Baumol, American economist
  • Margaret Leighton, British actress (d. 1976)
  • Karl Aage Præst, Danish football player (d. 2011)

March

• March 1
  • William Gaines, American magazine publisher (d. 1992)
  • Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1995)
• March 4
  • Richard E. Cunha, American cinematographer and film director (d. 2005)
  • Martha O'Driscoll, American film actress (d. 1998)
  • Dina Pathak, Gujarati theatre and film actress (d. 2002)
• March 5 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director (d. 1975)
• March 6 – Wanda Klaff, German Nazi war criminal (d. 1946)
• March 8
  • Ralph H. Baer, German-born American inventor
  • Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer (d. 2008)
  • Yevgeny Matveyev, Russian actor and film director (d. 2003)
  • Mizuki Shigeru, Japanese author
• March 9
  • Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedian and magician (d. 1984)
  • Flemming Valdemar, Count of Rosenborg, (d. 2002)
• March 11 – Tun Abdul Razak, second Prime Minister of Malaysia (d. 1976)
• March 12
  • Jack Kerouac, American author (d. 1969)
  • Lane Kirkland, American union leader (d. 1999)
• March 16 – Harding Lemay, American television scriptwriter and playwright
• March 17 – Patrick Suppes, American philosopher
• March 18 – Egon Bahr, German politician
• March 20 – Carl Reiner, American film director, producer, actor, and comedian
• March 21
  • Russ Meyer, American film director and producer (d. 2004)
  • Mujibur Rahman, Prime Minister of Bangladesh (d. 1975)
• March 22
  • Josephine Kabick, American professional baseball player (AAGPBL) (d. 1978)
  • Claire Schillace, American baseball player (AAGPBL) (d. 1999)
• March 23 – Robert Simons, English cricketer and cricket administrator (d. 2011)
• March 27 – Stefan Wul, French writer (d. 2003)
• March 28
  • Felice Chiusano, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra) (d. 1990)
  • Joey Maxim, American boxer (d. 2001)
• March 31 – Richard Kiley, American actor and singer (d. 1999)

April

• April 1 – William Manchester, American writer (d. 2004)
• April 3
  • Doris Day, American actress, singer and dancer
  • Maurice Riel, Canadian senator (d. 2007)
• April 4 – Elmer Bernstein, American composer (d. 2004)
• April 5
  • Tom Finney, English footballer (d. 2014)
  • Christopher Hewett, British actor (d. 2001)
  • Gale Storm, American singer and actress (d. 2009)
• April 7 – Mongo Santamaria, Cuban jazz musician (d. 2003)
• April 9 – Arthur Batanides, American actor (d. 2000)
• April 13 – Julius Nyerere, President of Tanzania (d. 1999)
• April 14 – Ali Akbar Khan, Indian musician (d. 2009)
• April 16
  • Kingsley Amis, English novelist (d. 1995)
  • Leo Tindemans, former Belgian Prime Minister
• April 19 – Erich Hartmann, German World War II fighter pilot, highest-scoring ace in world history (d. 1993)
• April 22 – Charles Mingus, American musician (d. 1979)
• April 23 – Marjorie Cameron, American writer, painter, actress and occultist (d. 1995)
• April 24 – Susanna Agnelli, Italian politician (d. 2009)
• April 27 – Jack Klugman, American actor (d. 2012)
• April 28 – Alistair MacLean, Scottish writer (d. 1987)

May

• May 1 – Vitaly Popkov, Russian fighter ace (d. 2010)
• May 4 – Eugenie Clark, American marine biologist
• May 7
  • Darren McGavin, American actor (d. 2006)
  • Joe O'Donnell, American documentary photographer, photojournalist (d. 2007)
• May 10 – Nancy Walker, American actress, singer and director (d. 1992)
• May 11 – Ameurfina Melencio-Herrera, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
• May 12 – Murray Gershenz, American character actor and entrepreneur (d. 2013)
• May 13
  • Otl Aicher, German graphic artist (d. 1991)
  • Michael Ainsworth, British cricketer (d. 1978)
  • Bea Arthur, American actress and comedienne (d. 2009)
• May 14 – Franjo Tuđman, first President of Croatia (d. 1999)
• May 15 – Jakucho Setouchi, Japanese writer and Buddhist nun
• May 18
  • Gerda Boyesen, Norwegian-born body psychotherapist (d. 2005)
  • Bill Macy, American actor (Maude)
  • Kai Winding, Danish-born musician (d. 1983)
• May 19 – Joe Gilmore, Irish barman (Savoy Hotel's American Bar)
• May 21 – James Lopez Watson, American judge (d. 2001)
• May 22 – Quinn Martin, American television producer (d. 1987)
• May 25 – Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician (d. 1984)
• May 27
  • Otto Carius, German tank commander
  • Sir Christopher Lee, English actor
• May 28
  • Lou Duva, American boxing trainer
  • Tuomas Gerdt, Finnish soldier, last living Knight of the Mannerheim Cross
• May 29
  • Eleanor Coerr, American writer (d. 2010)
  • Iannis Xenakis, Greek composer (d. 2001)
• May 30 – Hal Clement, American writer (d. 2003)
• May 31 – Denholm Elliott, English actor (d. 1992)

June

• June 1 – Povel Ramel, Swedish musician (d. 2007)
• June 2 – Charlie Sifford, American golfer
• June 10
  • Robert Alan Aurthur, American screenwriter (d. 1978)
  • Judy Garland, American singer and actress (d. 1969)
• June 18 – Claude Helffer, French pianist (d. 2004)
• June 19 – Aage Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009)
• June 22 – Mona Lisa, Filipino actress
• June 24 – Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (d. 1988)
• June 26 – Eleanor Parker, American actress (d. 2013)
• June 29 – Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet (d. 1991)

July

• July 2 – Pierre Cardin, French fashion designer
• July 3 – Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo painter, called Corneille (d. 2010)
• July 6 – William Schallert, American actor
• July 13 – Anker Jørgensen, Danish politician
• July 15 – Leon M. Lederman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• July 18 – Thomas Kuhn, American philosopher of science (d. 1996)
• July 19
  • George McGovern, American politician, historian and author (d. 2012)
  • Tuanku Jaafar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman, King of Malaysia (d. 2008)
• July 21 – Mollie Sugden, British actress (d. 2009)
• July 22 – Alan Stephenson Boyd, American railroad executive and 1st United States Secretary of Transportation
• July 27 – Norman Lear, American television writer and producer
• July 31 – Bill Kaysing, American writer (d. 2005)

August

• August 3 – Robert Sumner, American evangelist and author
• August 5 – Sandy Kenyon, American actor (d. 2010)
• August 8 – Alberto Granado, Cuban writer and scientist (d. 2011)
• August 9 – Philip Larkin, English poet (d. 1985)
• August 15 – Lukas Foss, German-born composer (d. 2009)
• August 17 – Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician (d. 1979)
• August 21 – Mel Fisher, American treasure hunter and founder of the Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Museum (d. 1998)
• August 23 – George Kell, baseball player (d. 2009)
• August 24
  • René Lévesque, 23rd Premier of Quebec (d. 1987)
  • Howard Zinn, American social activist and historian (d. 2010)
• August 27 – Sosuke Uno, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1998)

September

• September 1
  • Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-born American actress and dancer (d. 2007)
  • Vittorio Gassman, Italian actor and director (d. 2000)
• September 3
  • Steffan Danielsen, Faroese painter (d. 1976)
  • Salli Terri, Canadian mezzo-soprano (d. 1996)
• September 7 – David Croft, British writer, producer and actor (d. 2011)
• September 8
  • Sid Caesar, American actor and comedian (d. 2014)
  • Lyndon LaRouche, American self-styled economist and political activist
• September 9
  • Hans Georg Dehmelt, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • Manolis Glezos, Greek Resistance fighter
  • Warwick Kerr, Brazilian geneticist
• September 10 – Yma Súmac, Peruvian singer (d. 2008)
• September 12 – Jackson Mac Low, American poet (d. 2004)
• September 15
  • Jackie Cooper, American actor and director (d. 2011)
  • Gaetano Cozzi, Italian historian (d. 2001)
  • Phyllis Koehn, American female professional baseball player (d. 2007)
• September 17 – Vance Bourjaily, American writer, novelist, playwright, journalist, and essayist (d. 2010)
• September 22 – Chen Ning Yang, Chinese-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• September 24 – Floyd Levin, American-born musicologist (d. 2007)
• September 25 – Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (d. 1992)

October

• October 1 – Burke Marshall, American lawyer and politician (d. 2003)
• October 5 – José Froilán González, Argentine race car driver (d. 2013)
• October 15 – Luigi Giussani, Italian Catholic priest (d. 2005)
• October 19 – Jack Anderson, American journalist (d. 2005)
• October 22 – John Chafee, American politician (d. 1999)
• October 23 – Coleen Gray, American actress
• October 24 – George Miller, American politician who served as the Mayor of Tucson, Arizona
• October 26 – Madelyn Dunham, American maternal grandmother of Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States (d. 2008)
• October 27
  • Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (d. 1998)
  • Ruby Dee, American actress, poet, activist, journalist and second wife of Ossie Davis (d. 2014)
• October 28 – Butch van Breda Kolff, American basketball coach (d. 2007)
• October 31
  • Barbara Bel Geddes, American former actress and children's book author (d. 2005)
  • Norodom Sihanouk, former King of Cambodia (d. 2012)

November

• November 3 – Townsend Cromwell, American oceanographer (d. 1958)
• November 5 – Sydney Kentridge, South African lawyer
• November 6 – Vivian Kellogg, American professional baseball player (d. 2013)
• November 8 – Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon (d. 2001)
• November 9
  • Raymond Devos, French humorist (d. 2006)
  • Dorothy Dandridge, American actress (d. 1965)
• November 11 – Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist (d. 2007)
• November 14
  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Egyptian Secretary General of the United Nations
  • Veronica Lake, American actress (d. 1973)
• November 15 – David Sidney Feingold, American biochemist
• November 16
  • Sidney Mintz, American anthropologist
  • José Saramago, Portuguese author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)
  • Hoang Minh Chinh, Vietnamese politician and dissident (d. 2008)
• November 17 – Stanley Cohen, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• November 19 – Yuri Knorozov, Russian linguist and epigrapher (d. 1999)
• November 23
  • Donald Tennant, American advertising agency executive (d. 2001)
  • Võ Văn Kiệt, Vietnamese politician and statesman (d. 2008)
• November 25 – Shelagh Fraser, British actress (d. 2000)
• November 26 – Charles M. Schulz, American cartoonist (d. 2000)

December

• December 2 – Leo Gordon, American actor (d. 2000)
• December 5 – William Davidson, American sports owner (d. 2009)
• December 8 – Lucian Freud, German born painter (d. 2011)
• December 9 – Redd Foxx, African-American comedian (d. 1991)
• December 11 – Dilip Kumar, Indian actor
• December 12 – Christian Dotremont, Belgian painter and writer (d. 1979)
• December 14 – Nikolay Basov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2001)
• December 17 – Alan Voorhees, American engineer and urban planner (d. 2005)
• December 20 – Charita Bauer, American actress/soap opera star (d. 1985)
• December 21 – Itubwa Amram, Nauruan pastor and politician (d. 1989)
• December 22
  • Jack Brooks, American politician (d. 2012)
  • Edythe Perlick, American female baseball player (d. 2003)
• December 23 – Micheline Ostermeyer, French athlete and musician (d. 2001)
• December 24 – Ava Gardner, American actress (d. 1990)
• December 28 – Stan Lee, American comics creator
• December 29 – William Gaddis, American writer (d. 1998)

Deaths

January–March

• January 1 – István Kühár, Slovene (Prekmurian) writer and politician (b. 1887)
• January 5 – Ernest Shackleton, Irish explorer (b. 1874)
• January 10 – Okuma Shigenobu, 8th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1838)
• January 22
  • Pope Benedict XV (b. 1854)
  • Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1837)
  • James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce, Irish-born politician, diplomat and historian (b. 1838)
• January 23 – Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor (b. 1855)
• January 27
  • Nellie Bly, American undercover journalist (b. 1864)
  • Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (b. 1840)
• February 1
  • Yamagata Aritomo, 3rd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1838)
  • William Desmond Taylor, Irish-born film director (b. 1872)
• February 3 – John Butler Yeats, Northern Irish artist (b. 1839)
• February 14 – Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish Minister of Interior (b. 1880)
• February 25 – Henri Désiré Landru, French serial killer (executed) (b. 1869)
• March 1 – Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer (b. 1892)
• March 4 – Bert Williams, American entertainer (b. 1874)
• March 10 – Harry Kellar, American magician (b. 1849)
• March 24 – Walter Parr, British preacher (b. 1871)

April–June

• April 1 – Emperor Karl I of Austria (b. 1887)
• April 2 – Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1884)
• April 9
  • Hans Fruhstorfer, German lepidopterist (b. 1866)
  • Patrick Manson, Scottish physician (b. 1844)
• April 14 – Cap Anson, American baseball player and MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1852)
• May 3 – Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian Communist politician (b. 1888)
• May 7 – Max Wagenknecht, German composer (b. 1857)
• May 12 – John Martin Poyer, United States Navy Commander and the 12th Governor of American Samoa (b. 1861)
• May 15 – Leslie Ward, English portrait artist and caricaturist (b. 1851)
• May 16 – Rudolf Montecuccoli, Austro-Hungarian admiral (b. 1843)
• May 18 – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1845)
• May 19 – Son, Byong-Hi, Korean activist (b. 1861)
• May 21 – Michael Mayr, Austrian politician, former Chancellor (b. 1864)
• June 4 – William Halse Rivers Rivers, English doctor (b. 1864)
• June 6
  • Lillian Russell, American singer and actress (b. 1861)
  • Richard Achilles Ballinger, American politician (b. 1858)
• June 18 – Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (b. 1851)
• June 20 – Vittorio Monti, Italian Composer (b. 1868)
• June 26 – Albert I of Monaco (b. 1848)
• June 28 – Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1885)

July–September

• July 4 – Lothar von Richthofen, German World War I flying ace (b. 1894)
• July 7 – Ioannis Svoronos, Greek numismatist (b. 1863)
• July 20 – Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician (b. 1856)
• July 22 – Jokichi Takamine, Japanese chemist (b. 1854)
• August 2 – Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born inventor (b. 1847)
• August 4 – Nikolai Nebogatov, Russian admiral (b. 1849)
• August 5
  • Harry Boland, Irish republican (b. 1887)
  • Tommy McCarthy, American baseball player and MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1863)
• August 12 – Arthur Griffith, President of Ireland (b. 1872)
• August 14 – Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, British newspaper magnate (b. 1865)
• August 22
  • Michael Collins, Irish political leader (b. 1890)
  • Thomas Brock, English sculptor (b. 1847)
• August 29 – Georges Sorel, French socialist (b. 1847)
• September 4 – James Young, Scottish footballer, motorcycle accident (b. 1882)
• September 5 – Sarah L. Winchester, American builder of the Winchester Mystery House (b. 1837)
• September 10 – Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, English poet (b. 1840)
• September 25 – Carlo Caneva, Italian general (b. 1845)
• September 26 – Thomas E. Watson, American politician and senator (b. 1856)

October–December

• October 7 – Marie Lloyd, English singer (b. 1870)
• October 30 – Géza Gárdonyi, Hungarian author (b. 1863)
• November 1 – Lima Barreto, Brazilian writer (b. 1881)
• November 7 – Sam Thompson, American baseball player and MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1860)
• November 14 – Godfrey Chevalier, American naval aviation pioneer (b. 1889)
• November 18 – Marcel Proust, French author (b. 1871)
• November 23 – Eduard Seler, Prussian scholar and Mesoamericanist (b. 1849)
• November 24 – Robert Erskine Childers, Irish novelist and nationalist (executed) (b. 1870)
• November 27 – Demetrio Castillo Duany, Cuban revolutionary, soldier, and politician (b. 1856)
• November 30 – René Cresté, French actor and director (b. 1881)
• December 12 – John Wanamaker, American businessman (b. 1838)
• December 13 – Hannes Hafstein, 1st Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1861)
• December 16 – Gabriel Narutowicz, President of Poland (b. 1865)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics – Niels Henrik David Bohr
• Chemistry – Francis William Aston
• Physiology or Medicine – Archibald Vivian Hill, Otto Fritz Meyerhof
• Literature – Jacinto Benavente
• Peace – Fridtjof Nansen

References

• 1922 Coin Pictures