Historical figures in 1922
The atlas holds 73 people and 112 moments here, in 1922. The most recorded lives are Albert Einstein, Agatha Christie and Katherine Mansfield. Among them Writers, Political Leaders and Performers.
Notable people
Agatha Christie
in 1922
5 moments here
English novelist, playwright, and memoirist, internationally known for detective fiction featuring Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.…
Agostinho Neto
in 1922
1 moment here
António Agostinho Neto was an Angolan physician, poet, anti-colonial leader, president of the MPLA, and the first president of independent Angola.…
Ahmed Sékou Touré
in 1922
1 moment here
Guinean nationalist, trade-union leader, and Guinea’s first president, serving from independence in 1958 until his death in 1984.…
Alan Turing
in 1922
1 moment here
English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computing pioneer. Turing studied at Cambridge and Princeton, worked at Bletchley Park during the…
Albert Einstein
in 1922
14 moments here
German-born theoretical physicist who transformed modern physics through special and general relativity, foundational work on quantum theory, and…
Albert Luthuli
in 1922
1 moment here
Albert John Luthuli was a South African teacher, traditional leader, anti-apartheid activist, and President-General of the African National Congress.…
Alexander Graham Bell
in 1922
1 moment here
Scottish-born Canadian-American inventor, scientist, teacher of the deaf, and engineer best known for patenting the first practical telephone.…
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
in 1922
1 moment here
French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944) pioneered airmail flying in Europe, Africa, and South America, wrote works including…
Arthur Conan Doyle
in 1922
1 moment here
Scottish-born British physician and writer best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh,…
Bảo Đại
in 1922
2 moments here
Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thụy, known as Bảo Đại, was the final emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty and later chief of state of the State of Vietnam.…
Benito Mussolini
in 1922
2 moments here
Italian journalist, Fascist leader, and dictator of Italy from 1922 until his removal in 1943.…
Bertrand Russell
in 1922
1 moment here
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, was an English philosopher, mathematician, logician, writer, and public campaigner.…
Charles de Gaulle
in 1922
1 moment here
French army officer, leader of Free France during the Second World War, head of France's Provisional Government, and president of the French Fifth…
Chiang Kai-shek
in 1922
1 moment here
Chinese military commander, revolutionary, and statesman. Chiang Kai-shek led the Nationalist government of China through the Northern Expedition,…
Christiaan Barnard
in 1922
1 moment here
South African cardiac surgeon who led the team that performed the first successful human-to-human heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape…
Deng Xiaoping
in 1922
1 moment here
Chinese revolutionary, statesman, and paramount leader of the People’s Republic of China from 1978 to 1989.…
Diego Rivera
in 1922
1 moment here
Mexican painter and muralist Diego Rivera was a central figure in Mexican muralism. His documented movements include study in Mexico and Europe, work…
Enrico Fermi
in 1922
1 moment here
Italian and naturalized-American physicist whose documented movements trace a path from Rome and Pisa through European study in Göttingen and Leiden,…
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
in 1922
1 moment here
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as New York state senator, assistant secretary of the Navy,…
Frank Lloyd Wright
in 1922
1 moment here
American architect, designer, writer, and educator whose career spanned more than seven decades.…
Franz Kafka
in 1922
2 moments here
German-language Jewish Czech writer whose fiction transformed modern literature. Born and educated in Prague, Kafka trained as a lawyer and worked…
Frida Kahlo
in 1922
1 moment here
Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón) was born in Coyoacán and spent much of her life in Mexico City.…
Gabriela Mistral
in 1922
1 moment here
Chilean poet, educator, journalist, and diplomat born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga. Mistral taught across Chile, worked on Mexican educational reform,…
George Bernard Shaw
in 1922
1 moment here
Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and political activist. Born in Dublin, Shaw moved to London in 1876, became a leading Fabian and dramatist,…
Moments
- 1922 British Empire Exhibition tour in Australia Agatha Christie
- 1922 British Empire Exhibition tour in Canada Agatha Christie
- 1922 British Empire Exhibition tour in New Zealand Agatha Christie
- 1922 British Empire Exhibition tour in South Africa Agatha Christie
- 1922 Surfing at Waikiki Agatha Christie
- 1922 Birth in Faranah Ahmed Sékou Touré
- 1922 Hazelhurst Preparatory School Alan Turing
- 1922 Lectures and receives imperial audience in Tokyo Albert Einstein
- 1922 Speaks in Colombo Albert Einstein
- 1922 Speaks in Singapore Albert Einstein
- 1922 Teacher at Adams College Albert Luthuli
- 1922 Pilot training at Casablanca Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- 1922 Summers in Porthcurno Bertrand Russell
- 1922 Aboard SS Yongfeng Chiang Kai-shek
- 1922 Employment at Hutchinson shoe factory Deng Xiaoping
- 1922 Paints Creation at the National Preparatory School Diego Rivera
- 1922 Begins The Castle at Špindlerův Mlýn Franz Kafka
- 1922 National Preparatory School student Frida Kahlo
- 1922 Arrival at Rangoon George Orwell
- 1922 Police training at Mandalay George Orwell
- 1922 Transcontinental return journey Hideki Tojo
- 1922 Rhodes Scholar at Oxford Howard Florey
- 1922 Return to Moscow Igor Tamm
- 1922 Meeting his father at Adyar Jiddu Krishnamurti
- 1922 Visits Lenin at Gorki Joseph Stalin
- 1922 Cleveland simultaneous exhibition José Raúl Capablanca
- 1922 London tournament and London Rules José Raúl Capablanca
- 1922 Summer retreat in Scituate Kahlil Gibran
- 1922 Rome journey with Amédée Ozenfant Le Corbusier
- 1922 Seminary studies in Dakar Léopold Sédar Senghor
- 1922 Matriculation at Baku State University Lev Landau
- 1922 Family stay in France Marguerite Duras
- 1922 Stay in Heringsdorf Maxim Gorky
- 1922 Harvard tropical-medicine appointment Max Theiler
- 1922 Tropical-medicine diploma in London Max Theiler
- 1922 Popular University teaching Miguel Ángel Asturias
- 1922 St. Regis Hotel residence Nikola Tesla
- 1922 First stay in Dinard Pablo Picasso
- 1922 Return to Sydney theatrical troupe P. L. Travers
- 1922 Family relocation to Whittier Richard Nixon
- 1922 Secondary school in Valparaíso Salvador Allende
- 1922 Arrives to study in Madrid Salvador Dalí
- 1922 Family reunion in Dresden Sergei Rachmaninoff
- 1922 Appears with associates in Berlin Sigmund Freud
- 1922 Student at Hindu High School Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- 1922 General headquarters moved to Shaoguan Sun Yat-sen
- 1922 Return to Paris with Pound T. S. Eliot
- 1922 Writing in Yugashima Yasunari Kawabata
- 1922 Paris X-ray treatment Katherine Mansfield
- 1922 Closing the Washington Naval Conference Warren G. Harding