Curated category
1922 births
- Lotte MotzLotte Motz left her home in Vienna on the 16th of August 1922, but she did not return. Her family fled Austria in 1941 following the Anschluss, a political…
- Jack KerouacOn the 17th of May 1928, a six-year-old boy named Jack Kerouac knelt in a church pew in Lowell, Massachusetts. He made his first Confession that day and…
- Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis on the 11th of November 1922. He descended from a long line of German Americans whose family fortune rested on the…
- Judy GarlandFrances Ethel Gumm stood on the stage of her father's movie theater in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, at the age of two. She sang a chorus of Jingle Bells…
- William R. LucasWilliam Ray Lucas was born in Newbern, Tennessee on the 1st of March 1922. He graduated from Memphis State College with a degree in chemistry in 1943.
- Stan LeeStanley Martin Lieber entered the world on the 28th of December 1922. He was born in a Manhattan apartment at the corner of West 98th Street and West End…
- Michael FlandersMichael Henry Flanders was born on the 1st of March 1922 in Hampstead, London. He grew up as the third child and only son to Percy Henry Flanders and his…
- Marshall HodgsonMarshall Hodgson was born on the 11th of April 1922 in Richmond, Indiana. He grew up within a practicing Quaker family that shaped his early worldview.
- Philip LarkinPhilip Arthur Larkin was born on the 9th of August 1922 at 2 Poultney Road in the Radford district of Coventry. He grew up as the only son and younger child…
- Gerald HoltonGerald James Holton was born on the 23rd of May 1922, in Berlin, Germany. He grew up in a Jewish family where his father worked as an attorney specializing…
- Annemarie SchimmelAnnemarie Schimmel was born on the 7th of April 1922 in Erfurt, Germany. Her father Paul worked as a postal worker while her mother Anna came from a family…
- Pauline BaynesPauline Diana Baynes was born on the 9th of September 1922 at 67 Brunswick Place in Hove, East Sussex. Her family moved to India when she was still a baby.
- Richard Hamilton (artist)Richard William Hamilton arrived in the world on the 24th of February 1922 within the London district of Pimlico. He left school without any formal…
- Robert BerksRobert Berks entered the world on the 26th of April 1922 inside Hecht House in Boston. This early environment shaped his perspective before he ever touched a…
- William BaumolWilliam Jack Baumol was born on the 26th of February 1922 in the South Bronx. His parents Solomon and Lillian had both immigrated to America from Eastern…
- Alexander ZinovievAlexander Zinoviev was born on the 29th of October 1922 in Pakhtino, a village within the Kostroma Governorate. His family belonged to the state peasants…