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 – 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 )

Composer Constant Lambert ( 1936 ) compares Stravinsky's choice of " the drabbest and least significant phrases " in L ' Histoire du Soldat to Gertrude Stein's in " Helen Furr and Georgine Skeene " ( 1922 ), specifically: " veryday they were gay there, they were regularly gay there everyday.

In an effort to keep those finds from leaving Iraq, British traveler, intelligence agent, archaeologist, and author Gertrude Bell began collecting the artifacts in a government building in Baghdad in 1922.

In 1922, at age eleven, he bought his first book of poetry, Arthur Waley's A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems, and at age seventeen one of his poems, " Spire Song ", was accepted for publication in the twelfth volume of Transition, a literary journal based in Paris that served as a forum for some of the greatest proponents of modernism — Djuna Barnes, James Joyce, Paul Éluard, Gertrude Stein and others.

" was written by Gertrude Stein as part of the 1913 poem Sacred Emily, which appeared in the 1922 book Geography and Plays.

And his work evolved with his first exhibition at New York's National Arts Club in 1922 and the following year at Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's Studio Club in New York City.

He died from typhoid ( contracted during a visit to the Near East ) in 1922, being survived by his wife Lucie Gertrude, and their four sons and a daughter.

Richard and Nerina had four children: Ernest, a particle physicist and innovator in particle accelerators ; Gertrude (* 1922 ), a PhD biologist and wife of the mathematician Jürgen Moser ( 1928 – 1999 ); Hans, a physicist who participated in the Manhattan Project ; and Leonore, a professional musician and wife of the mathematician Jerome Berkowitz ( 1928 – 1998 ).

In 1922 he married Gertrude Strunck, but divorced four years later.

Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell ( 22 September 1847-27 November 1922 ) was an English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet.

Born in Sydney, Australia, in 1922 to Arthur Hoyle ( 1896 – 1971 ) and Gertrude Underwood ( 1895 – 1972 ), he served in the Royal Air Force as a navigator during World War II with 460 Squadron and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.

Following the recommendations of Romano Guardini and the Benedictines of Maria Laach Abbey under Abbot Ildefons Herwegen, the Augustinian canon Pius Parsch of Klosterneuburg Monastery celebrated so-called " Community Masses " ( Gemeinschaftsmessen ) in the Church of St. Gertrude ( Klosterneuburg ) in 1922, in which parts of the Mass were sung by the people in the German language.

* 1922 – Leonard Baskin, American sculptor and illustrator ( d. 2000 )

* 1922 – Ernie Freeman, American pianist and arranger ( d. 2001 )

* 1922 – Jean Darling, American actress and singer

* 1922 – George Kell, American baseball player ( d. 2009 )

* 1922 – Richard Blackwell, American actor, journalist, fashion designer, and critic ( d. 2008 )

* 1922 – Regina Resnik, American soprano

* 1922 – Barbara Hale, American actress

* 2012 – Martin Poll, American movie producer ( b. 1922 )

* 1852 – Cap Anson, American baseball player ( d. 1922 )

* ABC ( 1922 automobile ), a planned American car

* 1922 – The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated.

* 1999 – Al Hirt, American trumpeter and bandleader ( b. 1922 )

* 1922 – J. D. Cannon, American actor ( d. 2005 )

* 1997 – Eugene Stoner, American engineer and weapons designer ( b. 1922 )

Bill Macy ( born Wolf Mavin Garber, May 18, 1922 ) is an American television and stage actor.

* 2010 – Blake Edwards, American film director ( b. 1922 )

* 1922 – Jean Ritchie, American folk singer

* 1922 – Cy Leslie, American music and video executive ( d. 2008 )

* 2005 – Jack Anderson, American journalist ( b. 1922 )

* 1922 – Benjamin A. Gilman, American politician

* 1922 – Paul Picerni, American actor ( d. 2011 )