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• Adrianus van Zon, Alphen aan de Maas,, Gelderland, Nederland († 1976)
• Albert Kloppenburg, Nieuwe Pekela,Groningen,Niederlande († 2015)
• Arnoldus Jacobus Aloisius Willems, Weebosch († 1925)
• Bastiaantje van Rumpt, Nieuwe-Tonge, Nederland († 2000)
• Anne de Vries († 2009)
• Adriaan Cornelis Buenen, Den Dungen († 1982)
• Antonius Arnoldus(Noud) van Roosmalen, Eindhoven († 1957)
• Anna De Keyser, Bavegem († 2002)
• Arnoldus Jacobus Aloisius WILLEMS, Bergeijk-Weebosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1925)
• Adrianus Hubertus Josephus Abbeelen van den, Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1992)

• Alpheus Almiron Peck (80)
• Ariaantje van der Houwen (76), Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aagje Klooster, ten (1), Zwartsluis gem. Zwartewaterland Ov. NL
• Carolina Maria Blom (76), Laren, NH, Nederland
• Antje Lieuwes Bouma (70), Finkum
• Antonius van der Pol (68), veghel
• Bernard Heinrich Witte (73), Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
• Adriana Jansen (23), Rotterdam
• Anna Elisabeth Sluiter (78), Delft
• Adolf Wilhelmus Barendse (70), Naaldwijk

• 1922 » Halina Czerny-Stefańska, Polish pianist and educator († 2001)
• 1922 » Luis Zuloaga, Venezuelan baseball player († 2013)
• 1922 » Tomás Balduino, Brazilian bishop († 2014)
• 1923 » Giannis Dalianidis, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter († 2010)
• 1924 » Taylor Mead, American actor and poet († 2013)
• 1925 » Daphne Oram, British composer and electronic musician († 2003)
• 1925 » Irina Korschunow, German author and screenwriter († 2013)
• 1925 » Sri Lal Sukla, Indian author († 2011)
• 1926 » Billy Snedden, Australian lawyer and politician, 17th Attorney-General for Australia († 1987)
• 1926 » Valerie Pearl, English historian and academic († 2016)

• 1909 » Spencer Trask, American financier and philanthropist (b. 1844)
• 1910 » Archibald Hoxsey, American pilot (b. 1884)
• 1910 » John Moisant, American pilot and engineer (b. 1868)
• 1921 » Boies Penrose, American lawyer and politician (b. 1860)
• 1936 » Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish philosopher, author, and poet (b. 1864)
• 1948 » Malcolm Campbell, English racing driver and journalist (b. 1885)
• 1949 » Rıza Tevfik Bölükbaşı, Turkish philosopher, poet, and politician (b. 1869)
• 1949 » Raimond Valgre, Estonian pianist and composer (b. 1913)
• 1950 » Charles Koechlin, French composer and educator (b. 1867)
• 1951 » Murtaza Hasan Chandpuri, Indian Muslim scholar (b. 1868)

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.
• January 22 » Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 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.
• February 8 » Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
• 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.
• December 20 » Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison.

The temperature on December 31, 1924 was between 2.0 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.