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Max Wagenknecht, German pianist and composer (born 1857)
Max Otto Arnold Wagenknecht was a German composer of organ and piano music.
Max Wagenknecht, German pianist and composer (born 1857)
The 1920s
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1922
Dorothy Levitt, English racing driver and journalist (born 1882)
Dorothy Elizabeth Levitt was a British racing driver and journalist. She was the first British woman racing driver, holder of the world's first water speed record, the women's worl…
Dorothy Levitt, English racing driver and journalist (born 1882)
1922
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1845)
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran was a French physician who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1907 for his discoveries of parasitic protozoans as causative agents of i…
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1845)
1922
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William Halse Rivers Rivers was an English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist known for treatment of First World War officers suffering shell shock. Rivers' …
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Lillian Russell, American actress and singer (born 1860)
Lillian Russell was an American actress and singer. She became one of the most famous actresses and singers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, praised for her beauty and st…
Lillian Russell, American actress and singer (born 1860)
1922
Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer and academic (born 1851)
Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn was a Dutch astronomer. He carried out extensive studies of the Milky Way. He found that the apparent movement of stars was not randomly distributed but h…
Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer and academic (born 1851)
1922
Walther Rathenau, German businessman and politician, 7th German Minister for Foreign Affairs (born 1867)
Walther Rathenau was a German industrialist, writer and politician who served as foreign minister of Germany from February 1922 until his assassination in June 1922.
Walther Rathenau, German businessman and politician, 7th German Minister for Foreign Affairs (born 1867)
1922
Satyendranath Dutta, Indian poet and author (born 1882)
Satyendranath Dutta was a Bengali poet and is considered the "wizard of rhymes". Satyendranath Dutta was an expert in many disciplines of intellectual enquiry including medieval In…
Satyendranath Dutta, Indian poet and author (born 1882)
1922
Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 19th Yokozuna (born 1874)
Hitachiyama Taniemon was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture. He was the sport's 19th yokozuna from 1903 till 1914. His great rivalry with Umegatan…
Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 19th Yokozuna (born 1874)
1922
Albert I, Prince of Monaco (born 1848)
Albert I was Prince of Monaco from 10 September 1889 until his death in 1922. He devoted much of his life to oceanography, exploration and science. Alongside his expeditions, Alber…
Albert I, Prince of Monaco (born 1848)
1922
Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet and playwright (born 1885)
Viktor Vladimirovich Khlebnikov, better known by the pen name Velimir Khlebnikov, was a Russian poet and playwright, a central part of the Russian Futurist movement, but his work a…
Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet and playwright (born 1885)
1922
Lothar von Richthofen, German lieutenant and pilot (born 1894)
Lothar Siegfried Freiherr von Richthofen was a German First World War fighter ace credited with 40 victories. He was a younger brother of top-scoring ace Manfred von Richthofen and…
Lothar von Richthofen, German lieutenant and pilot (born 1894)
1922
Maria Teresia Ledóchowska, Polish-Austrian nun and missionary (born 1863)
Mary Theresa Ledóchowska, ; 29 April 1863 – 6 July 1922), was a Polish Catholic religious sister who founded the Missionary Sisters of St. Peter Claver, dedicated to spreading Cath…
Maria Teresia Ledóchowska, Polish-Austrian nun and missionary (born 1863)
1922
Cathal Brugha, Irish revolutionary and politician, active in the Easter Rising, Irish War of Independence; first Ceann…
Cathal Brugha was an Irish republican politician who served as Minister for Defence from 1919 to 1922, Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann in January 1919, the first president of Dáil …
Cathal Brugha, Irish revolutionary and politician, active in the Easter Rising, Irish War of Independence; first Ceann…
1922
Martin Dies Sr., American journalist and politician (born 1870)
Martin Dies was a Texas politician and a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives. His son Martin Dies Jr. was also a member of the United States House of Re…
Martin Dies Sr., American journalist and politician (born 1870)
1922
Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician and theorist (born 1856)
Andrey Andreyevich Markov was a Russian mathematician celebrated for his pioneering work in stochastic processes. He extended foundational results—such as the law of large numbers …
Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician and theorist (born 1856)
1922
Jōkichi Takamine, Japanese-American chemist and academic (born 1854)
Jokichi Takamine was a Japanese chemist. He is known for being the first to isolate adrenaline in 1901.
Jōkichi Takamine, Japanese-American chemist and academic (born 1854)
1922
Irish Republican Army gunmen assassinated British member of parliament Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson
The Irish Republican Army of 1922–1969 was a sub-group of the original pre-1922 Irish Republican Army, characterised as the Anti-Treaty IRA for its opposition to the Anglo-Irish Tr…
Irish Republican Army gunmen assassinated British member of parliament Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson
1922
The Soviet government created the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within the Georgian SSR
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), also known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until its dissolution in 1991.…
The Soviet government created the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within the Georgian SSR
1922
The first portion of the Imperial Wireless Chain, a strategic international wireless telegraphy communications network c
The Imperial Wireless Chain was a strategic international communications network of powerful long range radiotelegraphy stations, created by the British government to link the coun…
The first portion of the Imperial Wireless Chain, a strategic international wireless telegraphy communications network c
1922
Sixteen-year-old Lilian Salkeld became the first woman to walk from London to Brighton
The London to Brighton walk was a competitive walking race held on the road from London, England, to the south coast resort of Brighton. In the era before organised sport individua…
Sixteen-year-old Lilian Salkeld became the first woman to walk from London to Brighton
1922
The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D
The Lincoln Memorial is a U.S. national memorial honoring Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, located on the western end of the National Mall of Washington, D…
The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D
1922
Seven of the sixteen American railroad labor organizations staged a nationwide strike (striking workers pictured) that…
The following is a list of unions and brotherhoods playing a significant role in the railroad industry of the United States of America. Many of these entities changed names and mer…
Seven of the sixteen American railroad labor organizations staged a nationwide strike (striking workers pictured) that…
1922
Brazilian Army rebels took over Fort Copacabana and launched a rebellion in Rio de Janeiro against President Epitácio…
Tenentism was a political philosophy of junior army officers, generally from the burgeoning middle-class and unsatisfied with the oligarchic structure of the republic who significa…
Brazilian Army rebels took over Fort Copacabana and launched a rebellion in Rio de Janeiro against President Epitácio…