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 – Pat Peppler, American football coach and executive

* 1922 – Léo Tindemans, Belgian politician

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

The musical duo Perrey and Kingsley ( Jean-Jacques Perrey, b. 1929 and Gershon Kingsley, b. 1922 ) are pioneers in the field of electronic music.

Gershon Kingsley ( born Götz Gustav Ksinski ; October 28, 1922 ; Bochum, Germany ) a contemporary German American composer, is a pioneer of electronic music and the Moog synthesizer and founder of the First Moog Quartet, as a partner in the electronic music duo Perrey and Kingsley, and writer of rock-inspired compositions for Jewish religious ceremonies.

Kingsley was born Götz Gustav Ksinski in 1922 in Bochum, Germany to a Roman Catholic mother and a Jewish Father.

The Anglican Church of Canada developed its first Book of Common Prayer separately from the English version in 1918, which received final authorization from General Synod in 1922.

Wegener was the first to use the phrase " continental drift " ( 1912, 1915 ) ( in German " die Verschiebung der Kontinente " – translated into English in 1922 ) and formally publish the hypothesis that the continents had somehow " drifted " apart.

The adventures of the Cimbri are described by the Danish nobel-prize-winning author, Johannes V. Jensen, himself born in Himmerland, in the novel Cimbrernes Tog ( 1922 ), included in the epic cycle Den lange Rejse ( English The Long Journey, 1923 ).

* 1922 – Lucian Freud, English painter ( d. 2011 )

* 1922 – John Brunt, English soldier, Victoria Cross holder ( d. 1944 )

* 1985 – Philip Larkin, English writer and jazz critic ( b. 1922 )

* 1922 – Richard Mayes, English actor ( d. 2006 )

* 1944 – John Brunt, English military officer ( b. 1922 )

1922 English translation by Arthur James Grant, London: Chatto & Windus, via Internet Archive.

* 1922 – Richard Hamilton, English painter ( d. 2011 )

* 1922 – Hattie Jacques, English actress ( d. 1980 )

* 1922 – Jim Laker, English cricketer ( d. 1986 )

* 1922 – Ernle Bradford, English historian and writer ( d. 1986 )

* 1895 – Jane Bunford, English giant ( d. 1922 )

* 1922 – Mollie Sugden, English actress ( d. 2009 )

* Babur ( 1922 ) The Baburnama ; translated into English by Annette Beveridge

* 1922 – Len Shackleton, English footballer ( d. 2000 )

Michael George Francis Ventris, OBE ( 12 July 1922 – 6 September 1956 ) was an English architect who, along with John Chadwick and Alice Kober, deciphered Linear B, a previously unknown ancient script discovered at Knossos by Arthur Evans.

* 1922 – Michael Ainsworth, English cricketer ( d. 1978 )

* 2008 – John Hewer, English actor ( b. 1922 )