Deaths on January 22

Fredrik Bajer

Died on January 22, 1922

Fredrik Bajer, Danish educator and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)

Fredrik Bajer (21 April 1837 – 22 January 1922) was a Danish writer, teacher, and pacifist politician who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1908 together with Klas Pontus Arnoldson.

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Fredrik Bajer
Nobel Peace Prize

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Events on 1922

11 Jan

Diabetes mellitus
First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.
2 Feb

James Joyce
Ulysses by James Joyce is published.
13 Sep

Great Fire of Smyrna
The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences.
4 Nov

Tutankhamun
In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
24 Nov

Executions during the Irish Civil War
Nine Irish Republican Army members are executed by an Irish Free State firing squad. Among them is author Robert Erskine Childers, who had been arrested for illegally carrying a revolver.

Deaths on January 22

Fredrik Bajer

Died on January 22, 1922

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Events on 1922

Diabetes mellitus

James Joyce

Great Fire of Smyrna

Tutankhamun

Executions during the Irish Civil War