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
George Orwell
in 1922
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George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, an English novelist, essayist, journalist, critic, and democratic socialist.…
Herbert Hoover
in 1922
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Herbert Clark Hoover was an American mining engineer, international relief administrator, U.S.…
Hideki Tojo
in 1922
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Japanese Imperial Army officer and politician who served as Japan's prime minister from 1941 to 1944.…
Howard Florey
in 1922
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Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who led the Oxford team that developed penicillin into a practical therapeutic drug.…
Igor Tamm
in 1922
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Soviet theoretical physicist and 1958 Nobel laureate in Physics, noted for work on Cherenkov radiation, nuclear physics, and controlled thermonuclear…
Jiddu Krishnamurti
in 1922
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Indian philosopher, speaker, and writer. Raised within the Theosophical Society, he became head of the Order of the Star in the East, dissolved it at…
Jomo Kenyatta
in 1922
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Jomo Kenyatta (c. 1897–1978) was a Kenyan anti-colonial activist and politician who became Kenya’s first prime minister in 1963 and first president…
Joseph Stalin
in 1922
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Soviet revolutionary and political leader, born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili in Gori, Georgia.…
José Raúl Capablanca
in 1922
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Cuban chess player and diplomat, world chess champion from 1921 to 1927. This chronology records documented physical presence at places of birth,…
Judy Garland
in 1922
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American actress, singer, and vaudevillian, born Frances Ethel Gumm. Garland rose from childhood vaudeville and MGM musical films to become a major…
Julius Nyerere
in 1922
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Tanzanian anti-colonial leader, political theorist, and founding president of Tanzania. Nyerere led the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU),…
Kahlil Gibran
in 1922
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Lebanese-American writer, poet, and visual artist, best known for The Prophet. Born in Bsharri, he emigrated to Boston as a child, studied in Beirut…
Katherine Mansfield
in 1922
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Katherine Mansfield (Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp, later Murry) was a New Zealand modernist short-story writer, poet, critic and diarist.…
Lawrence Bragg
in 1922
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Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer. Bragg shared the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics with his father, William Henry Bragg, for…
Le Corbusier
in 1922
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Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-born French architect, designer, painter, writer, and urban planner.…
Léopold Sédar Senghor
in 1922
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Senegalese poet, theorist of Négritude, and statesman who became Senegal’s first president in 1960.…
Lev Landau
in 1922
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Soviet theoretical physicist Lev Davidovich Landau was born in Baku, educated in Baku and Leningrad, and undertook formative research travel in…
Louis Armstrong
in 1922
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American jazz trumpeter, vocalist, bandleader, and entertainer whose career transformed jazz solo performance and made him an international cultural…
Ludwig Wittgenstein
in 1922
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Austro-British philosopher whose work in logic, language, mathematics, and mind shaped twentieth-century analytic philosophy.…
Marcel Proust
in 1922
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French novelist, essayist, and critic, best known for À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time).…
Marguerite Duras
in 1922
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French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker, born Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu.…
Marlene Dietrich
in 1922
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German-American actress and singer Marlene Dietrich (Marie Magdalene Dietrich) was born in Berlin and achieved international fame through stage,…
Maxim Gorky
in 1922
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Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov, known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian and Soviet writer, journalist, publisher, and political activist.…
Max Theiler
in 1922
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South African-American virologist and physician whose work at Harvard, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Yale contributed to the development of the 17D…
Moments
- 1922 Birth at Shaare Zedek Yitzhak Rabin
- 1922 Debates Bergson in Paris Albert Einstein
- 1922 Arrival for United States lecture tour Arthur Conan Doyle
- 1922 At the Imperial Hotel during Tokyo earthquake Frank Lloyd Wright
- 1922 Residence in Kilimani Jomo Kenyatta
- 1922 Birth at Mwitongo Julius Nyerere
- 1922 Month-long stay in Nagasaki Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
- 1922 First European visit after emigration Sergei Rachmaninoff
- 1922 Military review at Shaoguan Sun Yat-sen
- 1922 Convalesced after first stroke Vladimir Lenin
- 1922 Dedicates Lincoln Memorial William Howard Taft
- 1922 Colonial exhibition delegation Bảo Đại
- 1922 Studies at Lycée Condorcet Bảo Đại
- 1922 Stays with Ottla in Planá Franz Kafka
- 1922 Voyage to Mexico for educational reform Gabriela Mistral
- 1922 Birth in Grand Rapids Judy Garland
- 1922 Randogne hotel stay Katherine Mansfield
- 1922 Aboard the warship Yung Feng Sun Yat-sen
- 1922 Return to Paris Zhou Enlai
- 1922 Doctoral thesis submission Enrico Fermi
- 1922 First arrival at Ojai Jiddu Krishnamurti
- 1922 Arrival to join King Oliver in Chicago Louis Armstrong
- 1922 Put ashore near Wainwright Roald Amundsen
- 1922 Gettysburg Marine reenactment Warren G. Harding
- 1922 Independence Day in Marion Warren G. Harding
- 1922 Death at Beinn Bhreagh Alexander Graham Bell
- 1922 Meeting Michael Collins in Dublin George Bernard Shaw
- 1922 Final London visit Katherine Mansfield
- 1922 Commands at Dumlupınar Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 1922 Leads the Great Offensive from Kocatepe Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 1922 Birth at Caxicane Agostinho Neto
- 1922 Nobel lecture in Stockholm Lawrence Bragg
- 1922 Brief teaching post at Hassbach Ludwig Wittgenstein
- 1922 Departure for Bad Saarow Maxim Gorky
- 1922 Enters liberated İzmir Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- 1922 Return to Hawaii Syngman Rhee
- 1922 Fascist rally before the March on Rome Benito Mussolini
- 1922 Return to Milan during the March on Rome Benito Mussolini
- 1922 Returns to Equitable Building office Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 1922 Move to Fontainebleau Katherine Mansfield
- 1922 Residence at Gurdjieff's Institute Katherine Mansfield
- 1922 First theatre roles Marlene Dietrich
- 1922 Birth in Phnom Penh Norodom Sihanouk
- 1922 Returned to Moscow Vladimir Lenin
- 1922 Birth in Hefei Yang Chen-Ning
- 1922 Arrives at Kobe Albert Einstein
- 1922 First Shanghai stop Albert Einstein
- 1922 Travels from Kobe to Kyoto Albert Einstein
- 1922 Studied at the École de Guerre Charles de Gaulle
- 1922 Birth and childhood Christiaan Barnard