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• (Levenloos) Folkerts Hooghiem († 1924)
• Clifford B** BOLDT, Miller, Hand, Dakota du Sud, États-Unis († 2014)
• Alberta M. Marre, Rock Island, Illinois († 1997)
• Antoon Van Acker, Zele, België († 1996)
• Dirk de Roode, 's Gravenhage († 1995)
• Amábile Izé, Nova Veneza, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 2017)
• Cornelia Kamphorst, Hilversum († 1992)
• "Johannes" Maria Heinrich Robert Hermann Taddäus Hildprandt von und zu Ottenhausen, Dolní Rožínka, Tchéquie († 1997)
• Antje Stoof, Leiden († 2011)
• elisabeth petronella engelina (lies) korsten, meijel († 2013)

• Bernardus Eijmers (75), Renkum, Nederland
• (2) Johannes Cornelis van Dijk (67), Woensdrecht, Noord-Brabant, Nederland Nederland
• Cecil Alfred GRENFELL (60), Wilton Park, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire
• Antonia van Barneveld (27), Barneveld, Gelderland, Netherlands
• (1) Maria Beers (34), Oudkarspel, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Anna van der Made (63)
• Adriana van der Kaaij (4), Den Haag, Nederland
• Asselina Dijkstra (0), Ter Apel (Vlagtwedde)
• Adriana van der Kaaij (4), den Haag
• Berendina Hendrika Lans (42), Malang, Indonesië

• 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)
• 1927 » Stuart Rosenberg, American director and producer († 2007)

• 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)
• 1953 » Tazio Nuvolari, Italian race car driver and motorcycle racer (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.
• February 12 » George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue received its premiere in a concert titled "An Experiment in Modern Music", in Aeolian Hall, New York, by Paul Whiteman and his band, with Gershwin playing the piano.
• May 8 » The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania.
• June 26 » The American occupation of the Dominican Republic ends after eight years.
• September 9 » Hanapepe massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
• November 4 » Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female elected as governor in the United States.
• November 23 » Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.

The temperature on August 11, 1924 was between 9.7 °C and 22.9 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was 10.3 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.