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 )

* 1922 – Luis Aponte Martínez, Puerto Rican archbishop ( d. 2012 )

The founder of the POS and its best-known leader, Luis Emilio Recabarren, also founded the Communist Party of Chile ( – PCCh ) in 1922.

* 1922 – Luis Echeverría Álvarez, Mexican President of Mexico

* 1922 – José Luis López Vázquez, Spanish actor ( d. 2009 )

Luis Lacey, former captain of Argentine Polo Team in 1922.

Luis Miranda, the musical director of Puerto Rico's 65th Infantry Regiment Band, adapted the tune to be played as a march in 1922.

* Luis Somoza Debayle ( 1922 – 1967, ruled 1956 – 1963 ), his legitimate eldest son.

Luis Echeverría Álvarez ( born 17 January 1922 ) served as President of Mexico from 1970 to 1976.

James Joyce's Ulysses ( 1922 ), Enrique Jardiel Poncela's La Tournée de Dios ( 1932 ), Jorge Luis Borges ' The Garden of Forking Paths ( 1941 ), Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire ( 1962 ) and Julio Cortázar's Rayuela ( 1963 ; translated as Hopscotch ) are early examples predating the word " hypertext ", while a common pop-culture example is the Choose Your Own Adventure series in young adult fiction and other similar gamebooks.

* Luis Monti ( 1922 – 30 )

The family, originally from Zacatecas and Guanajuato, moved to Aguascalientes and then in 1922 to San Luis Potosí.

Luis Anastasio Somoza Debayle ( 18 November 1922 – 13 April 1967 ) was the President of Nicaragua from 29 September 1956 to 1 May 1963, but was effectively dictator of the country from 1956 until his death.

* José Luis López Vázquez ( born 1922 ), Spanish actor

* José Luis López Vázquez ( born 11 March 1922, Madrid ), Spanish film and TV actor

Ciro Luis Urriola Garrés ( 3 July 1863, Panama City-26 June 1922, Panama City ) was Panamanian politician.

The New York Times named Wald as one of the 12 greatest living American women in 1922 and she later received the Lincoln Medallion for her work as an " Outstanding Citizen of New York .” In 1937 a radio broadcast celebrated Wald's 70th birthday ; Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt read a letter from her son, President Franklin Roosevelt, in which he praised Wald for her “ unselfish labor to promote the happiness and well being of others .”

He died on September 7, 1922, 16 days short of his 70th birthday, from bronchopneumonia, as a complication of choledocholithiasis and cholangitis.