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 – Ralph H. Baer, German-born American inventor

Water skiing was invented in 1922 when Ralph Samuelson used a pair of boards as skis and a clothesline as a tow rope on Lake Pepin in Lake City, Minnesota.

* Ralph F. Hirschmann ( 1922 – 2009 ), biochemist who led synthesis of the first enzyme.

* includes Bars And Shadows: The Prison Poems Of Ralph Chaplin originally published in 1922 and then in 2004 as Project Gutenberg EBook.

At the first NFL formation meetings held on August 20, 1920 and September 17, 1920 at Ralph Hay's Hupmobile dealership located in Canton, Ohio, the Triangles were represented by their manager Carl Storck as they became charter members of the new league called the American Professional Football Association, until 1922 when it was renamed the National Football League.

Ralph H. Baer ( born March 8, 1922 ) is a German-born American video game pioneer, inventor, engineer, known as " The Father of Video Games ", who is noted for his many contributions to games and the video game industry.

* 1922 – Ralph Cordiner, BA Economics-Political Science, CEO and Chairman, General Electric, Corp .( 1958 – 1963 ); President ( 1950 – 1958 )

William Ralph " Bill " Blass ( June 22, 1922 – June 12, 2002 ) was an American fashion designer, born in Fort Wayne, Indiana .< ref name =" bio ">

Ralph McPherran Kiner ( born October 27, 1922 ) is an American former Major League Baseball player and has been an announcer for the New York Mets since the team's inception.

* Ralph Rawdon: a Story in Verse ( 1922 )

Heaton's son Ralph V joined the firm in 1922 on the commercial part of the business, eventually rising to the position of company secretary.

Finally, in 1922, Ralph Walter Graystone Wyckoff ( 1897 – 1994 ) authored The Analytical Expression of the Results of the Theory of Space Groups, a book which contained, among other things, tables with the positional coordinates, both general and special, permitted by the symmetry elements.

* Ralph L. Hunt, 1922 – 1943

Her poems " Motion and Stillness ", " Four Nights ", " The New Ghost ", and " The Water Mill " were set to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams in Four Poems by Fredegond Shove for baritone and piano ( 1922 ).

In 1922, Lytton Strachey and Ralph Partridge, both members of the Bloomsbury group, bought Ham Spray House ( for £ 2, 300 ), and several of that group and other writers and artists spent time there from then until Ralph died in 1960, including:

Alvin Ralph Dark ( born January 7, 1922 ), nicknamed " Blackie " and " The Swamp Fox ", is a former shortstop and manager in Major League Baseball who played for five National League teams from 1946 to 1960.

In 1922, Lake City native Ralph Samuelson invented the sport of water skiing on the lake which.

Ralph Wilford Samuelson ( July 3, 1904 – August 28, 1977 ) was the inventor of water skiing, which he first performed in the summer of 1922 in Lake City, Minnesota, just before his 19th birthday.

* Historical Records of Australia, series 1, vols 12-17 ; E. S. Hall, Reply in Refutation of the Pamphlets of Lieut-Gen R. Darling ( Lond, 1833 ), by R. Robison ; L. N. Rose, ‘ The Administration of Governor Darling ’, Journal and Proceedings ( Royal Australian Historical Society ), vol 8, part 2, 1922, pp 49 – 96 and vol 8, part 3, 1922, pp 97 – 176 ; Parliamentary Debates ( Great Britain ) ( 3 ), 29, 30 ; Parliamentary Papers ( House of Commons, Great Britain ), 1828 ( 538 ), 1830 ( 586 ), 1830-31 ( 241 ), 1831-32 ( 163, 620 ), 1835 ( 580 ); A. S. Forbes, Sydney Society in Crown Colony Days ( State Library of New South Wales ); manuscript catalogue under Ralph Darling ( State Library of New South Wales ).

* 1923 Geoffrey Ingram Taylor & Constance F. Elam, The Distortion of an Aluminium Crystal during a Tensile Test. 1922 Thomas Ralph Merton & S. Barratt: On the Spectrum of Hydrogen.

In 1922, while working for a newspaper in Minneapolis and still answering to the name John McNally, he and a friend, Ralph Hanson, heard they could make extra money by playing football for a semipro football team in the city.