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• Carolyn Nell Wentz, Findlay, Hancock, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 1998)
• Alfons Josef Arthur Maria Verbeeck, Oploo Nederland († 2016)
• Bernice Zuidema, Kalamazoo, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 1990)
• Charles Edwin Cornish, Shoreham, West Sussex, England († 1976)
• Cornelia van Oosten, Voorburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1983)
• Co Saat († 2010)
• Arend Witvliet († 1997)
• Annie Reidnied, Semarang
• Antonius Wilhelmus van de Sanden, Tilburg († 1979)
• Achilles Julius Maryns, Gent († 2008)

• Cornelis Rietveld (26), Woerden
• Cornelia Petronella Gall (45), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Cornelis van der Laan (1), Delft
• Cornelis Rietveld (26), Woerden
• Bastiana Boudina (Boudewina) de Ruiter (Ruijter) (85), Lexmond, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aaltje Houdijk (75)
• Annigje van der Schee (47), Reeuwijk
• Antonie Jenneboer (77), Saasveld
• Catherine Sievers (30), South Yarra, Victoria, Australia
• Alex Cranford (30)

• 1921 » Michael A. Epstein, English pathologist and academic
• 1922 » Bill Macy, American actor († 2019)
• 1922 » Kai Winding, Danish-American trombonist and composer († 1983)
• 1923 » Hugh Shearer, Jamaican journalist and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Jamaica († 2004)
• 1923 » Jean-Louis Roux, Canadian actor and politician, 34th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec († 2013)
• 1924 » Jack Whitaker, American sportscaster († 2019)
• 1924 » Priscilla Pointer, American actress
• 1925 » Lillian Hoban, American author and illustrator († 1998)
• 1927 » Ray Nagel, American football player and coach († 2015)
• 1927 » Richard Body, English politician († 2018)

• 1908 » Louis-Napoléon Casault, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1823)
• 1909 » George Meredith, English novelist and poet (b. 1828)
• 1909 » Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
• 1910 » Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish author and publisher (b. 1841)
• 1910 » Pauline Viardot, French soprano and composer (b. 1821)
• 1911 » Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1860)
• 1922 » Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
• 1941 » Werner Sombart, German economist and sociologist (b. 1863)
• 1943 » Ōnishiki Daigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 28th Yokozuna (b. 1883)
• 1947 » Hal Chase, American baseball player and manager (b. 1883)

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

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. Helena
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 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 7.2 million citizens.
• February 1 » Russia–United Kingdom relations are restored, over six years after the Communist revolution.
• February 5 » The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal.
• June 2 » U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
• October 25 » The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the Daily Mail; the Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives' landslide election win four days later.
• October 31 » World Savings Day is announced in Milan, Italy by the Members of the Association at the 1st International Savings Bank Congress (World Society of Savings Banks).
• November 4 » Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female elected as governor in the United States.

The temperature on May 18, 1924 was between 8.6 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.