1922_in_Australia

1922 in Australia

Incumbents

May 4 – British author D. H. Lawrence arrives in Australia for a three-month holiday, where he will meet Mollie Skinner and write the novel Kangaroo.

January 5 – Anthony Synnot, Chief of the Defence Force (d. 2001)
January 23 – Tom Lewis, Premier of New South Wales
February 21 – Fos Williams, Australian rules footballer (d. 2001)
February 24 – Bill Morris, Australian rules footballer (d. 1960)
March 14 – Bob Bignell, soccer player
March 15 – Hesba Fay Brinsmead, children's author (d. 2003)
March 28 – Neville Bonner, first Indigenous federal MP (d. 1999)
March 29 – Mac Holten, Australian rules footballer and politician (d. 1996)
March 30 – John McLeay, Jr., politician (d. 2000)
April 10 – Nancy Millis, microbiologist
May 9 – Col Hoy, cricket umpire (d. 1999)
July 7 – Robert Raymond, filmmaker and television pioneer (d. 2003)
August 1 – Pat McDonald, actress (Number 96) (d. 1990)
August 23 – Ronald Wilson, High Court justice (d. 2005)
August 30 – Lionel Murphy, Attorney-General and High Court justice (d. 1986)
September 26 – Leonard Teale, actor (d. 1994)
November 1 – James Rowland, Chief of Air Force and Governor of New South Wales (d. 1999)
November 18 – Una Hale, operatic soprano (d. 2005)
December 6 – Gordon Ada, microbiologist
December 20 – Geoff Mack, country music singer
December 28 – Lionel Bowen, politician

January 10 – Frank Tudor (b. 1866), ALP opposition leader (1916–1921)
February 14 – Bertram Stevens (b. 1872), art critic
March 8 – Elizabeth Hope, Lady Hope (b. 1842), British evangelist
March 22 – Arthur Groom (b. 1852), politician and land agent
April 4 – Peter Waite (b. 1834), rancher and philanthropist
April 7 – James McGowen (b. 1855), Premier of New South Wales (1910–1913)
April 14 – Rose Summerfield (b. 1864), feminist and labour activist
April 24 – Colin Campbell Ross (b. 1892), publican executed for the Gun Alley murder
April 30 – Robert Carl Sticht (b. 1856), metallurgist
May 24 – James Arthur Pollock (b. 1865), physicist
May 25 – Roy Redgrave (b. 1873), silent film actor
May 31 – Jørgen Christian Jensen (b. 1891), Victoria Cross recipient
June 15 – Alfred Cecil Rowlandson (b. 1865), publisher
June 17 – Robert Philp (b. 1851), Premier of Queensland (1899–1903, 1907–1908)
July 11 – Hans Irvine (b. 1856), Victorian politician and vigneron
July 23 – Joseph Edmund Carne (b. 1855), geologist
July 30 – Harry Butler (b. 1889), aviator
September 2 – Henry Lawson (b. 1867), writer and poet
September 26 – Sir Charles Wade (b. 1863), Premier of New South Wales (1907–1910)
October 4 – Ellis Rowan (b. 1847), naturalist and illustrator
December 17 – David Lindsay (b. 1856), explorer