About the day » Friday December 15, 1922Calender converter

• Bernice Martina Hofkamp, Leota, Nobles County, Minnesota († 2012)
• Bessie Virginia Gladden Jones [Bu], North Carolina († 1973)
• Anna van den Hooven († 1968)
• Cornelia Johanna Drevyn, Harnett, New Hanover Co., North Carolina, Verenigde Staten († 2012)
• Berendina Zanting, Veeningen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2011)
• Cornelis Wagtmans, Hoeven († 2001)
• van den Munchof, Horst, Li.NL († 1993)
• Bertram Alfred Essam, Hackney, London († 2006)
• Cornelia Maria Cecilia van Rossum, Amsterdam († 2005)
• Arie den Dulk, Scheveningen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1963)

• Aaltje Baukes Visser (73), Bergum, gem. Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriana van den Dungen (70), Waalre
• Adrianus Arnoldus Gerardus Marie Vriens (70), Vlaardingen
• Cornelia Armbrust (58), Stadskanaal
• ? ? (74)
• Catharina van der Laan (83), Alkmaar
• Antje Kornelis van der Ploeg (84), Kollumerland
• Cornelia de Velder (84), Sioux Center, Sioux County, Iowa
• Augustinus Antonius Huijbregts (1), Breda
• Anna Johannes Heddema (48), Leeuwarden

• 1919 » Max Yasgur, American dairy farmer and host of the Woodstock Music & Art Fair († 1973)
• 1920 » Gamal al-Banna, Egyptian author and scholar († 2013)
• 1920 » Kurt Schaffenberger, German-American sergeant and illustrator († 2002)
• 1921 » Alan Freed, American radio host († 1965)
• 1923 » Freeman Dyson, English-American physicist and mathematician († 2020)
• 1923 » Pierre Cossette, American producer and manager († 2009)
• 1923 » Uziel Gal, German-Israeli engineer, designed the Uzi gun († 2002)
• 1923 » Valentin Varennikov, Russian general and politician († 2009)
• 1924 » Frank W. J. Olver, English-American mathematician and academic († 2013)
• 1924 » Ruhi Sarıalp, Turkish triple jumper and educator († 2001)

• 1878 » Alfred Bird, English chemist and businessman, invented baking powder (b. 1811)
• 1890 » Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa Lakota tribal chief (b. 1831)
• 1943 » Fats Waller, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1904)
• 1944 » Glenn Miller, American bandleader and composer (b. 1904)
• 1947 » Arthur Machen, Welsh journalist and author (b. 1863)
• 1947 » Crawford Vaughan, Australian politician, 27th Premier of South Australia (b. 1874)
• 1950 » Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Deputy Prime Minister of India (b. 1875)
• 1958 » Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1962 » Charles Laughton, English-American actor, director, and producer (b. 1899)
• 1965 » M. Balasundaram, Sri Lankan journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1903)

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.0 million citizens.
• April 24 » The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation.
• June 1 » The Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded.
• June 24 » The American Professional Football Association is renamed the National Football League.
• June 30 » In Washington D.C., U.S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes and Dominican Ambassador Francisco J. Peynado sign the Hughes–Peynado agreement, which ends the United States occupation of the Dominican Republic.
• October 27 » A referendum in Rhodesia rejects the country's annexation to the South African Union.
• November 15 » At least 300 are massacred during a general strike in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

The temperature on December 15, 1922 was between -1.3 °C and 4.2 °C and averaged 1.6 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.