About the day » Tuesday December 16, 1924Calender converter

• Clarence Harold Pense, Cromwell, Seminole County, Oklahoma, Verenigde Staten († 2011)
• Cornelis Johannes Picokrie, Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg († 1945)
• Cornelia Adriana Rusman, Hillegom († 1986)
• Antoon Joseph Bitter, Ubach over Worms († 2001)
• Berend Zwiggelaar, Erica gem Emmen († 2012)
• Albert Witvoet, Klazienaveen, Emmen († 1996)
• Clementina Fröberg, , Rotterdam,, South Holland, Netherlands († 2012)
• Albert Verswijver, Ekeren († 1992)
• Anneke Jaarsma, Heiloo, NH, Nederland († 2012)
• Antoon Bitter, Ubach over Worms,, Limburg, Nederland († 2001)

• Adriana Dresme (68), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adrianus Pullens (64)
• Aaltje Buiten (75), Wormer
• Adam Tabbers, Adam
• Anthonia Bernhart (25), Rotterdam
• Anne Jans de Leeuw (63), Haskerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Antje Remerie (44), Ooststellingwerf,Friesland,Nederland
• Adriana de Klerk (54), Houten
• Adam Tabbers (77), Waspik
• Adriana de Regt (79), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1921 » Eulalio González, Mexican singer-songwriter, director, producer, and screenwriter († 2003)
• 1922 » Cy Leslie, American record producer, founded Pickwick Records († 2008)
• 1923 » Ernst Florian Winter, Austrian-American historian and political scientist († 2014)
• 1923 » Menahem Pressler, German-American pianist
• 1924 » Nicolas Sidjakov, Latvian-American illustrator († 1993)
• 1926 » A. N. R. Robinson, Trinidadian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Trinidad and Tobago († 2014)
• 1926 » James McCracken, American tenor and actor († 1988)
• 1926 » Jeffrey Stone, American actor and screenwriter († 2012)
• 1927 » Peter Dickinson, Rhodesian-English author and poet († 2015)
• 1927 » Randall Garrett, American author and poet († 1987)

• 1908 » American Horse, American tribal leader and educator (b. 1840)
• 1917 » Frank Gotch, American wrestler (b. 1878)
• 1921 » Camille Saint-Saëns, French pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1835)
• 1922 » Gabriel Narutowicz, Lithuanian–Polish engineer and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Poland (b. 1865)
• 1928 » Elinor Wylie, American poet and author (b. 1885)
• 1935 » Thelma Todd, American actress and comedian (b. 1905)
• 1936 » Frank Eugene, American-German photographer and educator (b. 1865)
• 1940 » Billy Hamilton, American baseball player and manager (b. 1866)
• 1940 » Eugène Dubois, Dutch paleoanthropologist (b. 1858)
• 1943 » George Bambridge, English diplomat (b. 1892)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
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.
• March 8 » A mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah.
• May 8 » The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania.
• October 7 » Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes prime minister of Greece for a short period of time.
• October 27 » The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
• December 20 » Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison.
• December 24 » Albania becomes a republic.

The temperature on December 16, 1924 was between 0.6 °C and 4.7 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.