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

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

Leonard Clemence “ Leo ” Tindemans () ( born 16 April 1922 ) is a Belgian politician and the 43rd Prime Minister.

* 1922 – Alain de Changy, Belgian racing driver ( d. 1994 )

* 1922 – Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Belgian painter ( d. 2010 )

* August 20 – Christian Dotremont, Belgian painter and writer ( b. 1922 )

During the same period, Spaak was also a tennis star, and played for the Belgian team in the 1922 Davis Cup.

Guy Thys ( 6 December 1922 – 1 August 2003 ) was the most successful Belgian national football coach in history.

Ernest Gaston Joseph Solvay ( 16 April 1838 – 26 May 1922 ) was a Belgian chemist, industrialist and philanthropist.

Among the friends he made in his travels were King Albert I of Belgium, who made him a Commander of the Crown and Honorary Belgian Consul for Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, and Queen Marie of Romania, whose 1926 visit to the United States was largely at his behest, and who granted him the Order of the Crown in the Degree of the Grand Cross ; and Marshall Joseph Joffre, whom Hill took on a trip around the world in 1922.

During Belgian occupation in 1922, he was briefly imprisoned for publishing journal not approved by the occupation authorities.

Marcel Honoree Nestor, Knight Neels ( born 30 December 1922 ), known with his pseudonym Marc Sleen, is a Flemish / Belgian comics artist and cartoonist.

Jean-François Thiriart ( 1922 — 23 November 1992 ) was a Belgian politician.

In War Department General Orders No. 52 of 1922, the United States announced the award of the Medal of Honor to the Belgian unknown soldier: " By virtue of the authority vested by law in the President of the United States, the Congressional Medal of Honor, emblem of the highest military ideals and virtues, is bestowed in the name of the Congress of the United States upon the unknown, unidentified Belgian soldier in a desire to add all that is possible to the imperishable glory won by the soldiers of Belgium who fought as comrades of the American soldiers during the World War, and to commemorate with them the deeds of the nations associated with the United States of America, by paying this tribute to their unknown dead.

The term had appeared much earlier, however, in the work of the polymathic Patrick Geddes and in a 1922 book review by Christopher Murray Grieve (" Hugh MacDiarmid ") for the Scottish Chapbook that predicted a " Scottish Renascence as swift and irresistible as was the Belgian Revival between 1880 and 1910.

By late 1922, the German defaults on payments had grown so serious and regular that a crisis engulfed the Reparations Commission ; the French and Belgian delegates urged occupying the Ruhr as a way of pressuring Germany to make more of an effort to pay, while the British delegate urged a lowering of the payments.

* August 20-Christian Dotremont, Belgian painter and poet ( born 1922 )

In 1922 Absil won the Belgian Prix de Rome and in 1934 the Prix Rubens, which allowed him to travel to Paris, France.

In 1922, the first group of Belgian missionary sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary ( Immaculati Cordis Mariae ) arrived headed by Mother Marie Andrea and followed by Mother Marie Ambroise in 1923.

* Mr. Charles Baron Woeste ( February 26, 1837-April 5, 1922 ), Belgian Minister of State