List of Famous people who died in 1922

John Munro Longyear, Sr. was an American businessman and noted developer of timber and mineral lands in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan who became the central figure behind the Arctic Coal Company, which surveyed and mined coalfields on Spitsbergen, now Svalbard, from 1905 to 1916. This company developed a settlement on Spitsbergen able to accommodate up to around 500 people which became known as Longyear City, now Longyearbyen, adjacent Advent Bay.

Gisbert Johann Eduard Kapp was an Austrian-English electrical engineer.

Robert Diez was a German sculptor.

John Franklin Shafroth was a representative, member of the United States Senate, and Governor of Colorado.

James Ole Davidson was an American merchant and politician in Wisconsin. He served as Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin and the 21st Governor of the U.S. state of Wisconsin.

Luke Edward Wright was a United States political figure. He served as Governor-General of the Philippines between 1904 and 1906 and also as Secretary of War from 1908 to 1909.

Philippe Antoine Francoise Barbier was a French organic chemist. He is best known for his two named reactions in organic synthesis, the Barbier reaction and the Barbier-Wieland degradation, as well as for his role in the creation of organomagnesium reagents with his student, Victor Grignard.

The Rt. Hon. Walter MacMurrough Kavanagh, PC, was a Member of Parliament (MP) who represented Carlow County from 1908 to 1910.

Richard Foerster was a German classical scholar.