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• Adrianus Godefridus Maria Leijtens, Drunen (Noord-Brabant, NLD) († 1997)
• Anna Catharina Theunissen, Nijmegen,, Gelderland, Nederland († 2011)
• Antonius van Emmerloot, Rotterdam, ZH, Nederland († 1994)
• Anthonius Johannes Josephus van der Borg, Groningen († 1946)
• Anna Marie Hook, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 1973)
• Arij van der Hoeven, rotterdam († 1991)
• NN Matthijssen, Utrecht († 1919)
• Antonius Josephus Stadhouders, Gilze en Rijen († 1920)
• Anna Catharina Roovers, Alphen en Riel († 1991)
• Adriana Maatje Vader, Middelburg († 2002)

• Berendt Koppel (84), København, Danmark
• Aloijsius Johannes (Louis) Reijntjes (23), Apeldoorn
• Bastianus (Bastiaan) Warmerdam (92), Hillegom, ZH, Nederland
• Alfred Thomas TITCHMARSH (55), Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire, England
• Alexis Leautaud (20), Arnhem
• Anna Gertrudis Plum (68), Ubach over Worms, Landgraaf
• Anna Zegers (69), Alphen en Riel
• Antero Augusto de Albuquerque Bloem (41), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
• Aloijsius Johannes Reijntjes (24), Apeldoorn
• Bertha van Heuvelen (7), Ede

• 1918 » Augusta Dabney, American actress († 2008)
• 1918 » James Daly, American actor († 1978)
• 1918 » Paul Rudolph, American architect and academic, designed the Lippo Centre († 1997)
• 1919 » Manolis Andronikos, Greek archaeologist and academic († 1992)
• 1920 » Bob Montana, American illustrator († 1975)
• 1920 » Gianni Rodari, Italian writer († 1980)
• 1920 » Ted Fujita, Japanese-American meteorologist and academic († 1998)
• 1920 » Vern Stephens, American baseball player († 1968)
• 1922 » Coleen Gray, American actress († 2015)
• 1922 » Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington, English politician († 2018)

• 1910 » Chulalongkorn, Thai king (b. 1853)
• 1915 » W. G. Grace, English cricketer and physician (b. 1848)
• 1916 » Richard McFadden, Scottish footballer and soldier (b. 1889)
• 1917 » Eugène Grasset, Swiss illustrator (b. 1845)
• 1921 » John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish businessman, founded Dunlop Rubber (b. 1840)
• 1935 » Charles Demuth, American painter and educator (b. 1883)
• 1939 » Zane Grey, American dentist and author (b. 1872)
• 1942 » Ralph Rainger, American pianist and composer (b. 1901)
• 1943 » Wakashima Gonshirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 21st Yokozuna (b. 1876)
• 1944 » Charles Glover Barkla, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Jacob
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Gerardus
13. Hendrikus
14. Wilhelmus
15. Albert
16. Dirk

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Hendrika
8. Adriana
9. Catharina
10. Petronella
11. Grietje
12. Jacoba
13. Aaltje
14. Helena
15. Geertruida
16. Alida

• 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.
• The Netherlands had about 6.7 million citizens.
• April 13 » Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British Indian Army troops lead by Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer killed approx 379-1000 unarmed demonstrators including men and women in Amritsar, India; and approximately 1,500 injured.
• April 16 » Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army launches the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius in modern Lithuania.
• May 15 » The Winnipeg general strike begins. By 11:00, almost the whole working population of Winnipeg had walked off the job.
• June 14 » John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart from St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
• June 23 » Estonian War of Independence: The decisive defeat of the Baltische Landeswehr in the Battle of Cēsis; this date is celebrated as Victory Day in Estonia.
• November 11 » Latvian forces defeat the West Russian Volunteer Army at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence.

The temperature on October 23, 1919 was between -2.1 °C and 14.2 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.