Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
Years: 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 - 1927 - 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932
Events:
Art, Culture & Fashion
Births:
- January 10 - Gisele MacKenzie[?], singer
- January 10 - Johnnie Ray[?], singer (+ 1990)
- January 17 - Eartha Kitt[?], actress, singer
- January 28 - Hiroshi Teshigahara[?], director
- January 29 - Edward Abbey[?], environmentalist (+ 1989)
- January 30 - Olof Palme, Swedish prime minister
- February 2 - Stan Getz[?], musician (+ 1991)
- February 3 - Val Doonican[?], Irish singer and entertainer
- February 7 - Juliette Greco[?], singer and actor
- February 10 - Leontyne Price[?], lyric soprano
- February 15 - Harvey Korman[?], actor, comedian
- February 20 - Sidney Poitier, actor
- February 21 - Erma Bombeck, writer, humorist (+ 1996)
- February 21 - Hubert de Givenchy[?], fashion designer
- March 1 - Harry Belafonte, musician and actor
- March 1 - Robert Bork, law professor
- March 6 - Wes Montgomery, musician
- March 6 - Gordon Cooper[?], astronaut
- March 10 - Paul Wunderlich[?], painter, graphic artist, sculptor
- March 10 - Jupp Derwall[?], football coach
- March 11 - Joachim Fuchsberger[?], actor
- March 16 - Vladimir Komarov, cosmonaut
- March 16 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Senator from New York
- March 18 - George Plimpton, writer
- March 21 - Hans-Dietrich Genscher, politician
- March 24 - Martin Walser[?], author
- March 27 - Mstislav Rostropovich, conductor, musician
- March 31 - Cesar Chavez, labor activist (+ 1993)
- March 31 - William Daniels[?], actor
- April 6 - Gerry Mulligan[?], musician (+ 1996)
- May 9 - Wim Thoelke[?], show master (+ 1995)
- May 13 - Herbert Ross[?], director (+ 2001)
- May 20 - Bud Grant[?], Canadian and American football coach
- May 23 - Dieter Hildebrandt[?], cabaret artiste
- May 25 - Robert Ludlum, science fiction writer (+ 2001)
- May 30 - Clint Walker[?], actor
- July 4 - Gina Lollobrigida[?], actress
- August 23 - Dick Bruna, illustrator
- October 16 - Günter Grass, German novelist
- October 18 - George C. Scott, film and stage actor
- December 8 - Vladimir Shatalov, cosmonaut
- Bob Fosse, choreographer and director
Deaths:
Nobel Prizes: