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• Arpe Groen († 1929)
• Adrianus van der Heiden, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1993)
• Aloyisius KEMFERS, Apeldorn(Dld) († 1980)
• André Jean Vreven, Gelinden, België († 2005)
• Anna Krax, Marl († 1985)
• Baroness Nicole of Bodmann, St. Jean-le-Blanc († 1961)
• Alfred Kossmann, Rotterdam († 1998)
• Anna Josephina Van Ophuizen, Millingen aan de Rijn, Gelderland, Nederland († 1923)
• Aart Brons, Amersfoort, Gemeente Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland († 1998)
• Aldegonda Wilhelmina Christina Voermans, Venray († 1922)

• Slot (0), Coevorden, Drenthe, Nederland
• van Terwisga (0), Leeuwarden
• Adrianus Jacobus Prudon (83), Meppel, Drenthe, Nederland
• * Lukas de Jong (73), Lexmond
• (23), Woerden
• Albert Westera (57), Kampen, Overijssel, NL
• Albert Hendriks Schokker (77), Tijnje
• Abraham Asser (59), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Nicolaas van Dongen (67), Gilze en Rijen
• Aaltjen Molkenboer van Langen (64), Ambt Hardenberg

• 1919 » Jackie Robinson, American baseball player and sportscaster († 1972)
• 1920 » Bert Williams, English footballer († 2004)
• 1920 » Stewart Udall, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 37th United States Secretary of the Interior († 2010)
• 1921 » Carol Channing, American actress, singer, and dancer († 2019)
• 1921 » E. Fay Jones, American architect, designed the Thorncrown Chapel († 2004)
• 1921 » John Agar, American actor († 2002)
• 1921 » Mario Lanza, American tenor and actor († 1959)
• 1922 » Joanne Dru, American actress († 1996)
• 1923 » Norman Mailer, American journalist and author († 2007)
• 1925 » Benjamin Hooks, American minister, lawyer, and activist († 2010)

• 1892 » Charles Spurgeon, English pastor and author (b. 1834)
• 1900 » John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, Scottish nobleman (b. 1844)
• 1907 » Timothy Eaton, Canadian businessman, founded Eaton's (b. 1834)
• 1923 » Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish painter and critic (b. 1869)
• 1933 » John Galsworthy, English novelist and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1942 » Henry Larkin, American baseball player and manager (b. 1860)
• 1944 » Jean Giraudoux, French author and playwright (b. 1882)
• 1954 » Edwin Howard Armstrong, American engineer, invented FM radio (b. 1890)
• 1954 » Vivian Woodward, English captain and footballer (b. 1879)
• 1955 » John Mott, American activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)

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

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

• 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.0 million citizens.
• February 2 » Ulysses by James Joyce is published.
• April 5 » The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated.
• April 7 » The United States Secretary of the Interior leases federal petroleum reserves to private oil companies on excessively generous terms.
• July 1 » The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 begins in the United States.
• July 24 » The draft of the British Mandate of Palestine was formally confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations; it came into effect on 26 September 1923.
• November 26 » Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.

The temperature on January 31, 1922 was between 0.6 °C and 5.0 °C and averaged 2.7 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.