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• "Monique" Marie Joseph Elisabeth Tréton de Vaujuas-Langan, Launay-Villiers, Mayenne, France († 2018)
• Arnoldus Eugenius Schwalbe, Tjiandjur, Nederlands-Indië († 1969)
• Aaltje Rotmensen, Mekelermeer, Zweeloo († 2015)
• Ad Meijers († 1944)
• Dirk van den Berge, Velsen († 1997)
• Abram Hendrik Kuchler, Vlaardingen, Nederland († 1988)
• Berend Gerrit Johan Boneschansker, Zwolle, Overijssel, Netherlands († 1986)
• Cornelis van der Marel, Katwijk († 1956)
• Cornelis Hendrikus van den Oetelaar, Boxtel († 1991)
• Barendina Wilhelmina de Haan, Nigtevecht († 2005)

• Aaltje Van Der Weide (25), Hoogeveen
• Adriana (2) Kostermans (80), Zundert
• Amalia Louis (56), Soerabia (NOI)
• Allegonda van der Schoot (48), Schijndel
• Bernardina Büinck (58), Bocholt-Hemden (D)
• Aaltje van der Weide (25), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Agatha Sinnige (1), Heemskerk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Christina de Cuba (66), Aruba
• Aaltje van der Weide (25), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna van der Net (46), Rotterdam

• 1917 » Tex Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1985)
• 1919 » Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin, Azerbaijani mathematician and theorist († 1984)
• 1921 » Kenneth Arrow, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2017)
• 1921 » Sam Cook, English cricketer and umpire († 1996)
• 1922 » George Kell, American baseball player and sportscaster († 2009)
• 1922 » Jean Darling, American actress and singer († 2015)
• 1922 » Nazik Al-Malaika, Iraqi poet and academic († 2007)
• 1923 » Edgar F. Codd, English-American computer scientist and programmer († 2003)
• 1924 » Ephraim Kishon, Israeli author, screenwriter, and director († 2005)
• 1924 » Robert Solow, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

• 1892 » Deodoro da Fonseca, Brazilian field marshal and politician, 1st President of Brazil (b. 1827)
• 1900 » Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1840)
• 1924 » Heinrich Berté, Slovak-Austrian composer (b. 1856)
• 1926 » Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (b. 1895)
• 1927 » Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist convicted of murder (b. 1888)
• 1927 » Nicola Sacco, Italian anarchist convicted of murder (b. 1891)
• 1933 » Adolf Loos, Austrian architect and theoretician, designed Villa Müller (b. 1870)
• 1937 » Albert Roussel, French composer and educator (b. 1869)
• 1944 » Abdülmecid II, Ottoman sultan (b. 1868)
• 1944 » Stefan Filipkiewicz, Polish painter and illustrator (b. 1879)

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.
• 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.
• June 21 » The Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg general strike.
• June 23 » Estonian War of Independence: The decisive defeat of the Baltische Landeswehr in the Battle of Cēsis; this date is celebrated as Victory Day in Estonia.
• June 28 » The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending the state of war between Germany and the Allies of World War I.
• September 10 » Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
• September 18 » The Netherlands gives women the right to vote.

The temperature on August 23, 1919 was between 12.3 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 5.3 mm of rain. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.