List of Famous people who died in 1922

Princess Helen of Waldeck and Pyrmont was a member of the British royal family by marriage. She was the fifth daughter and child of George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, and his first wife, Princess Helena of Nassau.

Hannes Þórður Pétursson Hafstein was an Icelandic politician and poet. In 1904 he became the first Icelander to be appointed to the Danish Cabinet as the Minister for Iceland in the Cabinet of Deuntzer and was – unlike the previous Minister for Iceland Peter Adler Alberti – responsible to the Icelandic Althing.

George Ellsworthy "Roy" Redgrave was an English stage and silent film actor. Redgrave is considered to be the first member of the Redgrave acting dynasty.

Heinrich Rubens was a German physicist. He is known for his measurements of the energy of black-body radiation which led Max Planck to the discovery of his radiation law. This was the genesis of quantum theory.

Max Abraham was a German physicist known for his work on electromagnetism and his opposition to the theory of relativity.

William Nevill Cobbold, familiarly known as Nevill or "Nuts" Cobbold, was one of the leading footballers of the Victorian era and on several occasions a member of the England national football team. As late as 1922, at the time of his death, he could be described as "the most famous association football forward of all time", and certainly – in the words of his Times obituary – "the most individually brilliant dribbler, the player who could most often put in those thrusts that no skill could parry".

Joseph Watson, 1st Baron Manton was an English industrialist from Leeds, Yorkshire.

Endicott Peabody Saltonstall was an American attorney who served as District Attorney of Middlesex County, Massachusetts from 1921 to 1922.

Sir Stephen Herbert Gatty (abt.1850-1922) was the Chief Justice of Gibraltar from 16 January 1895 to 1905. He was formerly a judge of the Supreme Court of the Straits Settlements. On December 19, 1904, he was named a Knight Bachelor.