The Stern – Gerlach experiment of 1922 provided further evidence of the quantum nature of the atom.

* 1869 – Henri Désiré Landru, French serial killer ( d. 1922 )

* 1922 – The Turkish army takes the Aegean city of Afyonkarahisar from the Greeks.

* 1922 – Freddie Laker, English businessman, founded Laker Airways ( d. 2006 )

* 1922 – Philip Larkin, English poet ( d. 1985 )

* 1922 – A typhoon hits Shantou, Republic of China killing more than 50, 000 people.

* 1922 – Geoffrey Dutton, Australian author and historian ( d. 1998 )

* 1922 – Gábor Agárdy, Hungarian actor ( d. 2006 )

* 1922 – Six Irish Catholic civilians are shot and beaten-to-death by a gang of policemen in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

* 1922 – Charles I of Austria ( b. 1887 )

* 1998 – Gene Evans, American actor ( b. 1922 )

* 2012 – Lionel Bowen, Australian politician ( b. 1922 )

* 1863 – Géza Gárdonyi, Hungarian writer and journalist ( d. 1922 )

* 2001 – Christopher Hewett, English actor ( b. 1922 )

* 2002 – Carmen Silvera, English actress ( b. 1922 )

* 1892 – Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer ( d. 1922 )

* 1922 – Rory Calhoun, American actor ( d. 1999 )

* 1922 – Rudi Gernreich, Austrian-American fashion designer ( d. 1985 )

* 1922 – Gertrude Himmelfarb, American historian

* 1922 – Károly Reich, Hungarian illustrator ( d. 1988 )

* 1922 – The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed.

* 1922 – Kingsley Amis, English author ( d. 1995 )

* 1922 – Pat Peppler, American football coach and executive

* 1922 – Léo Tindemans, Belgian politician

* 1847 – Robert Comtesse, Swiss politician ( d. 1922 )

Christiaan Neethling Barnard ( 8 November 1922 – 2 September 2001 ) was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first successful human-to-human heart transplant.

* September 2 – Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon ( b. 1922 )

* September 2 – Christiaan Barnard ( b. 1922 ), South African cardiac surgeon.

Christiaan Barnard, pioneering heart transplant surgeon ( 1922 – 2001 )

* Christiaan de Wet ( 1854 – 1922 ), Boer general, rebel leader and politician

* Christiaan Barnard ( 1922 – 2001 ), a South African surgeon, who performed the world's first heart transplant operation

Benedict taught her first anthropology course at Barnard college in 1922 and among the students there was Margaret Mead, whom Benedict convinced to switch major from Psychology to Anthropology.

Under Coach Lester Barnard in 1922, Memphis's football team gave a ring of truth to that old student yell about Tigers.

Barnard stayed on as president after Dunn's death in 1922, running the team for Dunn's widow and estate.

Under Coach Lester Barnard in 1922, Memphis's football team gave a ring of truth to that old student yell about Tigers.

* In 1922, Sacadura Cabral and Gago Coutinho were the first to cross the South Atlantic in an airship.

* 1922 – At Windsor Castle, King George V receives the colours of the six Irish regiments that are to be disbanded – the Royal Irish Regiment, the Connaught Rangers, the South Irish Horse, the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment, the Royal Munster Fusiliers and the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.

* 1922 – Etienne Leroux, South African author ( d. 1989 )

** from 1 October 1922 Walvisbaai's administration ( still merely having a Magistrate until its 16 March 1931 Municipal status, thence a Mayor ) was also assigned to South West Africa Mandate

* 1922 – A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexation to the South African Union.

In 1922, faced with the decision to join the Union of South Africa as a fifth province or accept nearly full internal self-autonomy, the white electorate cast their votes against South African integration.

At the age of 15, after a short time in the electrical trade, in 1922 Askin joined the Government Savings Bank of New South Wales as a Clerk.

In January 1922, during a later expedition, Shackleton died on board ship while moored in King Edward Cove, South Georgia.

** Sir Eric Willis, Australian politician, former Premier of New South Wales ( b. 1922 )

The composer returned to South America for a tour beginning in May 1922.

Ernest Frederick " Fritz " Hollings ( born January 1, 1922 ) served as a Democratic United States Senator from South Carolina from 1966 to 2005, as well as the 106th Governor of South Carolina ( 1959 – 1963 ) and the 77th Lieutenant Governor ( 1955 – 1959 ).

* London and South Western Railway, a railway company operating in England from 1838 to 1922

The relatively small city of South Norfolk had become an incorporated town within Norfolk County in 1919, and became an independent city in 1922.

' Betz ' has served Scouts in the South Suburbs of Chicago and Northwest Indiana since 1922.

' Betz ' has served Scouts in the South Suburbs of Chicago and Northwest Indiana since 1922.

* Hugo Fox ( born February 2, 1897 in South Whitley ; died December 29, 1969 in South Whitley ) was the principal bassoonist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1922 to 1949.

Because many people confused South Stillwater with the City of Stillwater, the City changed its name to Bayport in 1922.

* Marshall Parker, South Carolina politician, was born in Seaboard in 1922.

The following high schools were also established: Malvern Preparatory School in Pennsylvania ( 1842 ); St. Rita of Cascia High School in Chicago ( 1909 ); St. Augustine High School in San Diego, California ( 1922 ); Villanova Preparatory School in Ojai, California ( 1925 ); Cascia Hall Preparatory School in Tulsa, Oklahoma ( 1926 ); Monsignor Bonner High School in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania ( 1953 ); St. Augustine College Preparatory School in South Jersey ( 1959 ); Austin Preparatory School in Reading, Massachusetts ( 1961 ) and in 1962, Providence Catholic High School, which serves the Diocese of Joliet in Illinois.