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• Alfred Van Hooydonck, Merksem, België († 1988)
• Adriana Pieternella Berrevoets, Zierikzee
• Adrien Xavier PORTEJOIE, ( Montjean, 16240, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France († 1978)
• Albertus Hendrikus van Leeuwen, Wijk bij Duurstede, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adriana Bosch, Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Franciscus van der Put, Dongen, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Alida Pieternella Hagoort, Rotterdam († 1991)
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• Alyda Jacoba ROTGANS, Rotterdam
• Aagje Kos, Huizen († 1994)

• Adriaan Braam (69), 's-Heer Abtskerke
• Auke Thijssen Zwarts (81), Beets, Opsterland, Friesland, Netherlands
• Antonij Hunting (65), Arnhem
• Antonius Hunting (65), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anne Sjoerds Hoekstra, Lemmer, Friesland, Nederland
• Anton(ie) van GIJTENBEEK (87), Tuil
• Albert PETERSEN (64), Berry, New South Wales, Australia
• Auke Swarts (81), Beets, Opsterland, Friesland, Netherlands
• Antonia Maria AMSTEL (60), Hagestein
• Andries Florisson (41)

• 1898 » Denise Legeay, French actress († 1968)
• 1898 » Ross Barnett, American lawyer and politician, 52nd Governor of Mississippi († 1987)
• 1898 » Sergei Eisenstein, Russian director and screenwriter († 1948)
• 1899 » Martti Haavio, Finnish poet and mythologist († 1973)
• 1900 » Ernst Busch, German actor and singer († 1980)
• 1902 » Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler, coach, and academic († 1970)
• 1903 » Fritz Houtermans, Polish-German physicist and academic († 1966)
• 1904 » Arkady Gaidar, Russian journalist and author († 1941)
• 1904 » George Balanchine, Georgian-American dancer, choreographer, and director, co-founded the New York City Ballet († 1983)
• 1905 » Willy Hartner, German physicist, historian, and academic († 1981)

• 1879 » Anthony Durnford, Irish colonel (b. 1830)
• 1879 » Henry Pulleine, English colonel (b. 1838)
• 1892 » Joseph P. Bradley, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1813)
• 1900 » David Edward Hughes, Welsh-American physicist, co-invented the microphone (b. 1831)
• 1901 » Emil Erlenmeyer, German chemist and academic (b. 1825)
• 1901 » Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (b. 1819)
• 1921 » George Streeter, American captain and businessman (b. 1837)
• 1922 » Camille Jordan, French mathematician and academic (b. 1838)
• 1922 » Fredrik Bajer, Danish educator and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)
• 1922 » Pope Benedict XV (b. 1854)

• 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 August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.2 million citizens.
• January 1 » The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.
• March 18 » Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic.
• May 17 » Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
• June 28 » The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
• August 22 » Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to make a public appearance in an automobile.
• December 28 » The Syracuse Athletic Club defeated the New York Philadelphians, 5–0, in the first indoor professional football game, which was held at Madison Square Garden.

The temperature on January 22, 1902 was between 7.3 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 7.8 °C.