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• Aeilke Bakema, Sappemeer († 1960)
• Baby Boy Mitchell, Mpls, Minn († 1919)
• Antonius Jan van Zuijlen, Amsterdam († 1944)
• Antonius Jan van Zuijlen, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1944)
• Aart Elbertsen, Numansdorp, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 2001)
• Bauke Jasper, Sneek († 1922)
• Carl Clemens Zwiebel, Jackson Center, Shelby Co. Ohio († 1991)
• Berendina Jacoba Voorhorst, Epe, Nederland († 1919)
• Bontje Dijkstra († 1999)
• Adriana Tollenaar († 2007)

• Aaltje Ottens (4), Groningen
• Allebertus Mijs (73), Vessem
• Aaltje Stoer (71), Apeldoorn
• Albert Wheeler Todd ***** (64), Harvard, McHenry, Illinois
• Anthonius van Vliet (74), Linschoten
• Engeltje Pieters Broesder (77), Oostwold
• Adriaan van Peet (72), Meerkerk
• Alida Maria Adolphina de CHOU (0), Onkerzele, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgique
• Andrew Joseph Dupont (52), Perry County, Indiana, Verenigde Staten
• Aaltien Smit (73)

• 1915 » Bob Kane, American author and illustrator († 1998)
• 1915 » Marghanita Laski, English journalist and author († 1988)
• 1916 » Anne Sharp, Scottish soprano and actress († 2011)
• 1917 » Marie Foster, American activist († 2003)
• 1918 » Doreen Tovey, English author († 2008)
• 1919 » Frank Piasecki, American engineer and pilot († 2008)
• 1920 » Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, French mathematician and academic († 1996)
• 1921 » R. K. Laxman, Indian illustrator († 2015)
• 1921 » Ted Ditchburn, English footballer and manager († 2005)
• 1922 » George Miller, American educator and politician, Mayor of Tucson († 2014)

• 1898 » Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter and illustrator (b. 1824)
• 1915 » Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist and photographer (b. 1828)
• 1917 » James Carroll Beckwith, American painter and academic (b. 1852)
• 1922 » George Cadbury, English businessman (b. 1839)
• 1935 » Dutch Schultz, American mob boss (b. 1902)
• 1937 » Nils Wahlbom, Swedish actor (b. 1886)
• 1938 » Ernst Barlach, German sculptor and playwright (b. 1870)
• 1943 » Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, Canadian poet and painter (b. 1912)
• 1944 » Louis Renault, French engineer and businessman, co-founded the Renault Company (b. 1877)
• 1945 » Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian soldier and politician, Minister President of Norway (b. 1887)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Hendrika
8. Adriana
9. Catharina
10. Petronella
11. Grietje
12. Jacoba
13. Aaltje
14. Helena
15. Geertruida
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 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.7 million citizens.
• February 5 » Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists.
• February 21 » German socialist Kurt Eisner is assassinated. His death results in the establishment of the Bavarian Soviet Republic and parliament and government fleeing Munich, Germany.
• March 2 » The first Communist International meets in Moscow.
• April 16 » Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier.
• May 1 » German troops enter Munich to suppress the Bavarian Soviet Republic.
• December 26 » Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee, allegedly establishing the Curse of the Bambino superstition.

The temperature on October 24, 1919 was between -2.3 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 4.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.