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
Miguel Ángel Asturias
in 1922
1 moment here
Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright, journalist, and 1967 Nobel laureate. Asturias’s documented life moved between Guatemala, Europe,…
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
in 1922
3 moments here
Ottoman officer, Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, founder of the Republic of Turkey, and its first president.…
Nikola Tesla
in 1922
1 moment here
Serbian-American engineer and inventor best known for foundational work on alternating-current power systems, the induction motor, high-frequency…
Norodom Sihanouk
in 1922
1 moment here
Cambodian monarch, politician, and cultural figure who was king (1941–1955; 1993–2004), prime minister, chief of state, and leader in exile.…
Pablo Picasso
in 1922
1 moment here
Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and co-founder of Cubism. Born in Málaga, Picasso trained in A Coruña, Barcelona, and Madrid…
P. L. Travers
in 1922
1 moment here
Pamela Lyndon Travers, born Helen Lyndon Goff, was an Australian-British writer, actress, journalist, and creator of the Mary Poppins books.…
Richard Nixon
in 1922
1 moment here
Richard Milhous Nixon was an American lawyer, naval officer, congressman, senator, vice president, and the 37th president of the United States.…
Roald Amundsen
in 1922
1 moment here
Norwegian polar explorer Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (1872–1928) led the first successful transit of the Northwest Passage, reached the South…
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
in 1922
1 moment here
Japanese short-story writer of the Taishō period, born Ryūnosuke Niihara in Tokyo and adopted into the Akutagawa family.…
Salvador Allende
in 1922
1 moment here
Chilean physician and socialist politician who served as president of Chile from 3 November 1970 until his death during the 11 September 1973 coup.…
Salvador Dalí
in 1922
1 moment here
Spanish painter, sculptor, writer, designer, filmmaker, and leading exponent of Surrealism. Born in Figueres, Dalí trained in Madrid, joined the…
Sergei Rachmaninoff
in 1922
2 moments here
Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Born in the Novgorod Governorate of the Russian Empire, he studied and worked chiefly in Saint…
Sigmund Freud
in 1922
1 moment here
Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis. This chronology traces documented locations from his Moravian birthplace and Viennese education…
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
in 1922
1 moment here
Indian-American astrophysicist whose work established the Chandrasekhar limit and ranged across stellar structure, stellar dynamics, radiative…
Sun Yat-sen
in 1922
3 moments here
Chinese physician, revolutionary, and political thinker who founded the Republic of China and the Kuomintang.…
Syngman Rhee
in 1922
1 moment here
Syngman Rhee was a Korean independence activist and the first president of the Republic of Korea, serving from 1948 until his resignation in 1960.…
T. S. Eliot
in 1922
1 moment here
Thomas Stearns Eliot was a St. Louis-born poet, critic, editor, and playwright who studied in Massachusetts, Paris, Germany, and Oxford before making…
Vladimir Lenin
in 1922
3 moments here
Russian Marxist revolutionary, Bolshevik leader, political theorist, and founding head of government of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union.…
Warren G. Harding
in 1922
3 moments here
Warren G. Harding was the 29th president of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death in 1923.…
William Howard Taft
in 1922
1 moment here
William Howard Taft was an American lawyer, judge, colonial administrator, secretary of war, 27th president of the United States, and 10th chief…
Yang Chen-Ning
in 1922
1 moment here
Chinese-American theoretical physicist whose work in statistical mechanics, particle physics, gauge theory, and condensed-matter physics included the…
Yasunari Kawabata
in 1922
1 moment here
Japanese novelist and short-story writer, Nobel laureate in Literature in 1968. His documented movements include an Osaka and Ibaraki childhood,…
Yitzhak Rabin
in 1922
1 moment here
Israeli military officer, statesman, prime minister, ambassador, and 1994 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.…
Yun Ch'iho
in 1922
1 moment here
Korean politician, reformer, educator, Christian leader, diarist, and later Japanese colonial collaborator.…
Moments
- 1922 Colorado River Compact signing Herbert Hoover
- 1922 Schoolteacher in Puchberg Ludwig Wittgenstein
- 1922 Death in Paris's 16th arrondissement Marcel Proust
- 1922 Principal of Songdo Higher Common School Yun Ch'iho
- 1922 Departs Japan from Moji Albert Einstein
- 1922 Lectures in Osaka Albert Einstein
- 1922 Lectures in Sendai Albert Einstein
- 1922 Returns to lecture in Kyoto Albert Einstein
- 1922 Returns to Shanghai Albert Einstein
- 1922 Travels to Nikko Albert Einstein
- 1922 Visits Hakata and Kyushu University Albert Einstein
- 1922 Returned to Gorki after second stroke Vladimir Lenin