List of Famous people who died in 1922

Archibald Lang McLean was an Australian bacteriologist known for his role as chief doctor on the Sir Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition.

William Halse Rivers Rivers was an English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist, best known for his work treating First World War officers who were suffering from shell shock in order to return them to combat. Rivers' most famous patient was the poet Siegfried Sassoon, with whom he remained close friends until his own sudden death.

Wilhelm Ludwig Franz Hallwachs was a German physicist.

Osgood Hanbury Mackenzie (1842–1922) was a Scottish landowner and the creator of a famous garden at Inverewe, near Poolewe in Wester Ross.

Prince August Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, known in Brazil as Dom Augusto Leopoldo, was a prince of the Empire of Brazil and of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry. He was the second of four sons born to German Prince Ludwig August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Princess Leopoldina of Brazil.

Oscar Hertwig was a German zoologist and professor who also wrote about the theory of evolution in c. 1916, over 55 years after Charles Darwin's book The Origin of Species. He was the elder brother of zoologist-professor Richard Hertwig (1850–1937).The Hertwig brothers were the most eminent scholars of Ernst Haeckel from the University of Jena. They were independent of Haeckel's philosophical speculations but took his ideas in a positive way to widen their concepts in zoology. Initially, between 1879–1883, they performed embryological studies, especially on the theory of the coelom (1881), the fluid-filled body cavity. These problems were based on the phylogenetic theorems of Haeckel, i.e. the biogenic theory, and the "gastraea theory".

Louis Marie Olivier Duchesne was a French priest, philologist, teacher and a critical historian of Christianity and Roman Catholic liturgy and institutions.