In the year 1922, The first successful insulin treatment of diabetes is made (Jan 11), Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced for sedition in India (Mar 18), the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated in Washington D.C. (May 30), BBC is formed in London (Oct 18), Benito Mussolini becomes the Premier in Italy (Oct 30), the U.S.S.R. is formed (Dec 30) - and all these fine people were born:
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1922-0115 Sylvia Lawler* (b Corben) geneticist - Bournemouth, England (1996/74)
1922-0117 Betty White* actress/ comedian - Oak Park, IL USA (2021/99)
1922-0120 Ed Westcott* photographer - Chattanooga, TN USA (2019/97)
1922-0121 Telly Savalas* actor - Garden City, Long Island, NY USA (1994/72)
1922-0205 György Szepesi* journalist/sports commentator - Budapest, Hungary (2018/96)
1922-0206 Patrick Macnee* actor - Paddington, London, England (2015/93)
1922-0207 Hattie Jacques* actress/comedian - Sandgate, Kent, England (1980/58)
1922-0208 Mick Micheyl* singer/songwriter/sculptor - Lyons, France (2019/97)
1922-0211 Leif Wager* actor - Helsinki, Finland (2002/80)
1922-0216 Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer* WW2 night fighter ace - Calw, Württemberg, Weimar Germany (1950/28)
1922-0218 Juhan Smuul (b Schmuul) writer - Koguva, Muhu, Estonia, Soviet Union (1971/49)
1922-0224 Steven Hill* actor - Seattle, WA USA (2016/94)
1922-0301 Yitzhak Rabin* Israeli politician/N - Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine (1995/73)
1922-0307 Ejner Johansson* art historian/documentary film director/ grandfather of Scarlett Johansson - Copenhagen, Denmark (2001/79)
1922-0307 Mochtar Lubis* journalist/ novelist - Padang, West Sumatra, Dutch East Indies (2004/82)
1922-0310 Sarah Mavis Dabbs* All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player - Largo, FL USA (2000/78)
1922-0320 Carl Reiner* stand-up comedian/ actor/director - The Bronx, NY USA (2020/98)
1922-0323 Marty Allen* actor/comedian/philanthropist - Pittsburgh, PA USA (2018/95)
1922-0325 Eileen Ford* model agency executive - New York, NY USA (2014/92)
1922-0327 Taavi Törmälehto* soldier/Mannerheim Cross Knight - Haapavesi, Finland (2007/85)
1922-0328 Neville Bonner* indegenious politician - Ukerebagh Island, NSW, Australia (1999/76)
1922-0329 Francisco Rodríguez Adrados* Hellenist/ linguist/ translator - Salamanca, Spain (2020/98)
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1922-0403 Doris Day* (b Kappelhoff) actress/singer/ animal welfare activist - Cincinnati, OH USA (2019/97)
1922-0409 Heikki Savolainen* actor - Pori, Finland (1975/52)
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1922-0413 Julius Nyerere* teacher/politician/P - Butiama, Tanganyika (1999/77)
1922-0415 Harold Washington* lawyer/politician/first black mayor of Chicago - Chicago, IL USA (1987/65)
1922-0418 Paulo Noguiera Neto* environmentalist - São Paulo, Brazil (2019/96)
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1922-0422 Charles Mingus* jazz musician/ bandleader/composer - Nogales, AZ USA (1979/56)
1922-0424 Matti Lehtinen* opera singer/narrator - Lappeenranta, Finland (2022/100)
1922-0426 Margaret Scott* ballet dancer/teacher/choreographer active in Australia - Johannesburg, South Africa (2019/96)
1922-0427 Martin Gray* writer/ Holocaust survivor - Warsaw, Poland (2016/93)
1922-0427 Jack Klugman* actor - Philadelphia, PA USA (2012/90)
1922-0429 Toots Thielemans* jazz musician/composer - Brussels, Belgium (2016/94)
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1922-0513 Bea Arthur* actress/ comedian - Brooklyn, NY USA (2009/86)
1922-0515 Selma Engel-Wijnberg* Holocaust survivor - Groningen, Netherlands (2018/96)
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1922-0522 William Wright Abbot III* archivist/historian - Louisville, GA USA (2009/87)
1922-0524 Kevin Laffan* actor/ playwright (Emmerdale)/ screenwriter - Wednesbury, Staffordshire, England (2003/80)
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1922-0526 Lorraine Monk* (b Spurrell) photographer/ producer - Montreal, QB Canada (2020/98)
1922-0527 Christopher Lee* actor - Belgravia, London, England (2015/93)
1922-0528 Tuomas Gerdt* soldier/ Mannerheim Cross Knight - Heinävesi, Finland (2020/98)
1922-0529 Edith Roger* dancer/ choreographer/stage director - Son, Norway (2023/100)
1922-0531 Denholm Elliott* actor - Ealing, London, England (1992/70)
1922-0601 Bibi Ferreira* actress/singer/director - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2019/96)
1922-0601 Povel Ramel* singer/entertainer - Östermalm, Stockholm, Sweden (2007/85)
1922-0603 Bogalay Tint Aung* Burmese composer/ director/writer - Bogale, British Burma (2021/99)
1922-0610 Judy Garland* actress - Grand Rapids, MN USA (1969/47)
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1922-0614 Annikki Mäki (b Myllykoski)* WW2 veteran/ - Peräseinäjoki, Finland - Article(FIN) ******
1922-0616 Wayne Mixson* farmer/ politician/Governor of Florida - New Brockton, AL USA (2020/98)
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1922-0708 Albert Leo “Al” Sullivan* Seaman Second Class/one of the Sullivan quintet whose deaths led way to the Sole Survivor Policy – Waterloo, IA USA (1942/20)
1922-0717 Sid Collins* (b Cahn) broadcaster/the radio voice of the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race - Indianapolis, IN USA (1977/54)
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1922-0722 Dan Rowan* actor - Beggs, OK USA (1987/65)
1922-0723 Sydney Lassick* actor (One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest) - Chicago, IL USA (2003/80)
1922-0726 Blake Edwards* filmmaker - Tulsa, OK USA (2010/88)
1922-0726 Jason Robards* actor - Chicago, IL USA (2000/78)
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1922-0802 Betsy Bloomingdale* socialite/philanthropist - Los Angeles, CA USA (2016/93)
1922-0803 Su Bai* archaeologist/ bibliographer - Shenyang, China (2018/95)
1922-0809 Philip Larkin* poet/novelist/librarian - Coventry, Warwickshire, England (1985/63)
1922-0811 Sara Luzita* (b Jacobs) dancer - Hanley, Staffordshire, England ******
1922-0822 Micheline Presle* (Chassagne) actress - Paris, France (2024/101)
1922-0824 René Lévesque* journalist/ politician/premier of Quebec - Campbellton, NB Canada (1987/65)
1922-0825 Gloria Dea* (b Metzner) magician/ actress/ dancer - Oakland, CA USA (2023/100)
1922-0831 André Baudry* writer/founder of Arcadie - Rethondes, France (2018/95)
1922-0902 Arthur Ashkin* optical scientist/N2018 - Brooklyn, NY USA (2020/98)
1922-0908 Sid Caesar* comic actor/ writer/- Yonkers, NY USA (2014/91)
1922-0908 Lyndon LaRouche* political activist - Rochester, NH USA (2019/96)
1922-0909 Hans Georg Dehmelt* German-American physicist/N/to U.S. at age 29 - Görlitz, Weimar Republic (2017/94)
1922-0915 Jackie Cooper* actor - Los Angeles, CA USA (2011/88)
1922-0918 Dottie Thomas* hematology researcher - TX USA (2015/92)
1922-0919 Emil Zátopek* long-distance runner/OG - Kopřivnice, Czechoslovakia (2000/78)
1922-0919 Dana Zátopková* (b Ingrová) athlete (javelin/OG)/wife of Emil Zátopek - Fryštát, Czechoslovakia (2020/97)
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1922-0923 Louise Latham* actress (Marnie) - Hamilton, TX USA (2018/95)
1922-0929 Lizabeth Scott* (b Emma Matzo) actress - Scranton, PA USA (2015/92)
1922-0930 Helge Herala* actor - Hämeenlinna, Finland (2010/87)
1922-1001 Chen-Ning Yang* physicist/N - Hefei, China*****
1922-1007 Martha Stewart* (b Haworth) singer/actress - Bardwell, KY USA (2021/98)
1922-1009 Fyvush Finkel* actor - Brooklyn, New York USA (2016/93)
1922-1031 Barbara Bel Geddes* actress - New York, NY USA (2005/82)
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1922-1104 Olof Bäckström* electrical engineer/designer of Fiskars scissors - Kirkkonummi, Finland (1998/75)
1922-1106 Marcia Yockey* meteorologist - Muncie, IN USA (2000/77)
1922-1108 Christiaan Barnard* cardiac surgeon - Beaufort West, Union of South Africa (2001/78)
1922-1109 Dorothy Dandridge* actress/singer/ dancer - Cleveland, OH USA (1965/42)
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1922-1111 George Blake* British spy/double agent for the Soviet Union - Rotterdam, Netherlands (2020/98)
1922-1111 Kurt Vonnegut* author - Indianapolis, IN USA (2007/84)
1922-1113 Madeleine Sherwood* actress - Montreal, QC Canada (2016/93)
1922-1114 Boutros Boutros-Ghali* diplomat/UN Secretary-General - Cairo, Egypt (2016/93)
1922-1116 José Saramago* writer/N - Azinhaga, Santarém, Portugal (2010/87)
1922-1119 Ann Katharine Mitchell* (b Williamson) cryptanalyst/ psychologist - Oxford, England (2020/97)
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1922-1126 Charles M. Schulz* cartoonist - Minneapolis, MN USA (2000/77)
1922-1129 Aino Mantsas* actress/wife of Matti Kassila - Helsinki, Finland (1979/56)
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1922-1208 Lucian Freud* German-British painter/ draftsman/grandson of Sigmund Freud - Berlin, Weimar Republic (2011/88)
1922-1208 Jean Porter* actress - Cisco, TX USA (2018/95)
1922-1209 Redd Foxx* actor - St. Louis, MO USA (1991/68)
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1922-1211 Dilip Kumar* actor/producer - Peshawar, British India (2021/98)
1922-1211 Maila Nurmi* (b Syrjäniemi) actress/of Finnish descent - Gloucester, MA USA (2008/85)
1922-1214 Nikolay Basov* physicist/ educator/N - Usman, Russia, Soviet Union (2001/78)
1922-1214 Don Hewitt* newsreporter/ creator of 60 minutes - New York, NY USA (2009/68)
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1922-1221 Paul Winchell* (b Wilchinsky) ventriloquist/ actor/inventor - New York City, NY USA (2005/82)
1922-1224 Ava Gardner* actress - Grabtown, NC USA (1990/67)
1922-1228 Stan Lee* comic-book writer/ editor/producer - New York, NY USA (2018/95)
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