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• Carmella T. La Fronza, Pennsylvania († 2008)
• Betty Jean McKelvy († 1994)
• Adriaan Goudzwaard, Schiedam († 2000)
• Antonius Martinus Rijnbout, Zundert († 2003)
• Andreas Petrus Van der Veeken, Gilze en Rijen († 1991)
• Adam Pieter van der Klooster, Rotterdam († 2003)
• Anje (Annie) Haarlemmer, Slochteren, Groningen, Netherlands († 1988)
• Anna Petronella Hubertina Leurs, Venlo, Nederland († 2004)
• Bertram Greve, Amsterdam,Gemeente Amsterdam,North Holland,Netherlands († 1983)
• Anna Bieseman, Amsterdam († 2002)

• Carl Adolph Henrik Timmerman (66), Rosenvµngets alle 17, K²benhavn
• Ann Nash (101), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• Bodine Clark (23)
• Antje Kansen (91), Broek op Langedijk
• Evert Lut (20), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Evert Lut (20), Leiden
• Anna Helena Eikholt (0), Groesbeek
• DIRKJE HEIJNIS (69), VLAARDINGEN
• Cornelis Goudswaard (0), spijkenisse (zuid holland)
• Attje Ales Visser (70), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland

• 1919 » Luis Olmo, Puerto Rican-American baseball player and manager († 2017)
• 1920 » Chuck Rayner, Canadian ice hockey player († 2002)
• 1920 » Mike Douglas, American singer and talk show host († 2006)
• 1921 » Alex Haley, American historian and author († 1992)
• 1922 » John "Mule" Miles, American baseball player († 2013)
• 1923 » Stan Chambers, American journalist and actor († 2015)
• 1925 » Arlene Dahl, American actress, businesswoman and writer
• 1925 » Floyd Curry, Canadian ice hockey player and manager († 2006)
• 1926 » Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-English chemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2018)
• 1927 » Raymond Leppard, English harpsichord player and conductor († 2019)

• 1892 » Enrico Betti, Italian mathematician and academic (b. 1813)
• 1903 » Eugenio María de Hostos, Puerto Rican-American sociologist, philosopher, and lawyer (b. 1839)
• 1908 » Khudiram Bose, Indian Bengali revolutionary (b. 1889)
• 1919 » Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Carnegie Steel Company and Carnegie Hall (b. 1835)
• 1921 » Mary Sumner, English philanthropist, founded the Mothers' Union (b. 1828)
• 1936 » Blas Infante, Spanish historian and politician (b. 1885)
• 1937 » Edith Wharton, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1862)
• 1939 » Jean Bugatti, German-Italian engineer (b. 1909)
• 1939 » Siegfried Flesch, Austrian fencer (b. 1872)
• 1945 » Stefan Jaracz, Polish actor and theater producer (b. 1883)

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.
• October 28 » Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government.
• October 31 » Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy
• November 15 » At least 300 are massacred during a general strike in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• November 21 » Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first female United States Senator.
• November 24 » Nine Irish Republican Army members are executed by an Irish Free State firing squad. Among them is author Erskine Childers, who had been arrested for illegally carrying a revolver.
• November 26 » The Toll of the Sea debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor. (The Gulf Between was the first film to do so, but it was not widely distributed.)

The temperature on August 11, 1922 was between 7.0 °C and 17.5 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.