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 )

Born in Pulau Keladi, Pekan, Pahang on March 11, 1922, Tun Razak is the first of two children to Dato ' Hussein bin Mohd Taib and Hajah Teh Fatimah bt Daud.

Tun Hussein bin Dato ' Onn ( February 12, 1922 — May 29, 1990 ) who is of 3 / 4 Malay and 1 / 4 Circassian ancestry was the third Prime Minister of Malaysia, ruling from 1976 to 1981.

Abdülmecid II, ( also with various alternate spellings, including Abdul Mejid, Aakhir Khalifatul Muslimeen Sultan Abd-ul-Mejid, ( Abdülmecid, The Caliph of Islam and the servant of Medina and Mecca ) Abdul Medjit (; Abdülmecid el-Sânî ) ( May 29 / 30, 1868 – 23 August / 23 September 1944 ; reigned 19 November 1922 – 3 March 1924 )) was the last Caliph of Islam from the Ottoman Dynasty, nominally the 37th Head of the Ottoman Imperial House from 1922 to 1924.

Among the noted British creations of this type were Nawab Hashim Ali Khan ( 1858 – 1940 ), Nawab Khwaja Abdul Ghani ( 1813 – 1896 ), Nawbab Abdool Luteef ( 1828 – 1893 ), Nawab Faizunnesa Choudhurani ( 1834 – 1904 ), Nawab Ali Chowdhury ( 1863 – 1929 ), Nawbab Syed Shamsul Huda ( 1862 – 1922 ) and Nawbab Sirajul Islam ( 1848 – 1923 ), Nawab Alam yar jung Bahadur, M. A, Madras, B. A., B. C. L., Barr-At-Law ( 1888 – 1975 ).

Jaafar ibni Abdul Rahman, GCB ( 19 July 1922 – 27 December 2008 ) was the tenth Yang di-Pertuan Agong ( equivalent to King ) of Malaysia from 26 April 1994 until 25 April 1999 and the fourth Yang di-Pertuan Besar of modern Negeri Sembilan.

* Ungku Abdul Aziz ( born 1922 ), British-Malay academic administrator

The story contains the first mention of Abdul Alhazred, a fictional authority on the occult who would later be mentioned in most of Lovecraft's major Cthulhu Mythos stories, including " The Hound " ( 1922 ), " The Festival " ( 1923 ), " The Call of Cthulhu " ( 1926 ), The Case of Charles Dexter Ward ( 1927 ), " The Dunwich Horror " ( 1928 ), " The Whisperer in Darkness " ( 1930 ) At the Mountains of Madness ( 1931 ), " The Dreams in the Witch House " ( 1932 ), " The Thing on the Doorstep " ( 1933 ), and " The Shadow out of Time " ( 1934 ).

In 1922 Tarabai Mane left Abdul Karim Khan, which apparently had a major impact on his music-making it pensive and meditative.

He was born in Johor Bahru, Johor on February 12, 1922 to Dato Onn Jaafar and Datin Halimah Hussein.

The men who had constituted themselves as the Committee of the Free Officers Movement and led the 1952 Revolution were Lieutenant Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser ( 1917-70 ), Major Abdel Hakim Amer ( 1919-67 ), Lieutenant Colonel Anwar El-Sadat ( 1918-81 ), Major Salah Salem ( 1920-62 ), Major Kamal el-Din Hussein ( 1921-99 ), Wing Commander Gamal Salem ( 1918-2001 ), Squadron Leader Hassan Ibrahim ( 1917-90 ), Major Khalid Mohieddin ( 1922 -), and Wing Commander Abdel Latif Boghdadi ( 1917-99 ); Major Hussein el-Shafei ( 1918-2005 ) and Lieutenant Colonel Zakaria Mohieddin ( 1918-2012 ) joined the committee later.

Two women held the title of sultana during the short-lived Sultanate of Egypt: Melek Tourhan, the wife of Sultan Hussein Kamel, and Nazli Sabri, the wife of Sultan Fuad I. Nazli Sabri became Queen following the establishment of the Kingdom of Egypt in 1922, and it is with the latter title that she is almost always associated.

* Hussein Hilmi Pasha-( 1855 – 1922 ), Ottoman statesman born on Lesbos to a family of Greek ancestry who had formerly converted to Islam.

Scottish educated Andrew Bonar Law led a Conservative government from 1922 to 1923 and another Scot, Ramsey MacDonald, would be the Labour Party's first Prime Minister in 1924 and again from 1929-35.

* 1922 – The King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III, appoints Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister.

* 1922 – Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy.

In September 1922 the British Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, appealed repeatedly to King for Canadian support in the Chanak crisis, in which a war threatened between Britain and Turkey.

* May 19 – Sosuke Uno, Prime Minister of Japan ( b. 1922 )

* December 4 – Hannes Hafstein, 1st Prime Minister of Iceland ( d. 1922 )

* June 14 – Yamagata Aritomo, Japanese Prime Minister ( d. 1922 ).

Until 1922, the Prime Minister was called " President of the Ministers " ( Prezydent Ministrów ).

The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Sir James Craig, speaking in the Parliament in October 1922 said that “ when the 6th of December is passed the month begins in which we will have to make the choice either to vote out or remain within the Free State .”.

Prime Minister Craig left for London with the memorial embodying the address on the night boat that evening, 7 December 1922.

On 13 December 1922 Prime Minister Craig addressed the Parliament informing them that the King had responded to the Parliament ’ s address as follows:

He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and led a Wartime Coalition Government between 1916 and 1922 and was the Leader of the Liberal Party from 1926 to 1931.

The Italian fascist régime ( 1922 – 45 ) of Prime Minister Benito Mussolini regarded the bourgeoisie as an obstacle to Modernism in aid to transforming Italian society.

After Lloyd George ceased to be Prime Minister in late 1922, the two Liberal factions enjoyed an uneasy truce, which was deepened in late 1923 when Stanley Baldwin called an election on the issue of tariffs, which had been a major cause of the Liberal landslide of 1906.

At the 1922 general election, Attlee became MP for the constituency of Limehouse, which he represented while Deputy Prime Minister.

The modern Cabinet system was set up by Prime Minister David Lloyd George during his premiership 1916 – 1922, with a Cabinet Office and Secretariat, committee structures, unpublished Minutes, and a clearer relationship with departmental Cabinet Ministers.

The Prime Minister's residence from 1920 until 1922 was Cabin Hill, later to become the junior school for Campbell College.

However, as president of the Privy Council from 1909 to 1922, Yamagata remained the power behind the government and dictated the selection of future Prime Ministers until his death.

Viscount was a Japanese politician and the 20th Prime Minister of Japan from 13 November 1921 to 12 June 1922.

Viscount was a career officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy, cabinet minister, and Prime Minister of Japan from 12 June 1922 to 24 August 1923.

Abd al-Muhsin Al-Saadoon, Honorary KCMG ()‎ ( 1879 – 1929 ) was an Iraqi politician who served as Prime Minister of Iraq four separate times between 1922 and 1929.

Austen Chamberlain resigned as Party Leader, Lloyd George resigned as Prime Minister and Bonar Law returned on 23 October 1922 in both jobs.

Dimitrios Gounaris () ( January 5, 1866, Patras – November 15, 1922, Athens ) was the Prime Minister of Greece from March 10, 1915 to August 23, 1915 and April 8, 1921 to May 16, 1922.