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• Anna Catharina Beemsterboer, Harenkarspel, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1921)
• Arnoldus Looije, Rotterdam († 1998)
• Adriaantje Hakvoort, Urk († 1999)
• Anthoon Menning, Munsterscheveld, Emmen († 1920)
• Anna Catharina Kuijt, Zaandam († 1920)
• Albert Löwensteyn, Haarlem, The Netherlands († 1991)
• Adriaantje Hakvoort († 1999)
• Arie van Gelder, 's Gravenhage († 1998)
• Aleida Geertruida Olde Daalhuis, Losser († 2003)
• Antje Aalders, Nieuw-Roden († 1999)

• Aletta Petronella van der Waarden (79), Teteringen, Nederland
• Ann MacRae (86), Nevada Valley, Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Abraham Samuel Isaacs (68)
• Antonia Taconis (81), Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Abraham de Vries (26), Zuid-Eschmarke
• Antonie Venmans (84), Tilburg
• Anna Maria Kivits (18), Rijswijk
• Antonetta Alida Maria Tiddens (80), Groningen
• Antonie Venmans (84), Tilburg,North Brabant,Netherlands
• Anna Catharina Kuijt (0), Zaandam

• 1915 » Barbara Billingsley, American actress († 2010)
• 1915 » Phillip Glasier, English author and academic († 2000)
• 1917 » Gene Rayburn, American game show host and actor († 1999)
• 1921 » Dimitri Fampas, Greek guitarist and composer († 1996)
• 1921 » Hawkshaw Hawkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1963)
• 1922 » Jim Wright, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 56th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives († 2015)
• 1922 » Ruth Roman, American actress († 1999)
• 1923 » Peregrine Worsthorne, English journalist and author
• 1924 » Frank Corsaro, American actor and director († 2017)
• 1925 » Lewis Glucksman, American businessman and philanthropist († 2006)

• 1899 » Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist and publisher, founded Moody Publishers (b. 1837)
• 1902 » Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German-Austrian psychiatrist and author (b. 1840)
• 1915 » Rose Talbot Bullard, American medical doctor and professor (b. 1864)
• 1917 » Frances Xavier Cabrini, Italian-American nun and saint (b. 1850)
• 1918 » Aristeidis Moraitinis, Greek lieutenant and pilot (b. 1891)
• 1919 » Hermann Weingärtner, German gymnast (b. 1864)
• 1925 » Amelie Beese, German pilot and engineer (b. 1886)
• 1939 » Ma Rainey, American singer (b. 1886)
• 1940 » Nathanael West, American author and screenwriter (b. 1903)
• 1941 » Karel Hašler, Czech actor, director, composer, and screenwriter (b. 1879)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Adriana
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Aaltje
13. Geertruida
14. Grietje
15. Helena
16. Margaretha

• 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 6.8 million citizens.
• January 2 » The second Palmer Raid, ordered by the US Department of Justice, results in 6,000 suspected communists and anarchists being arrested and held without trial.
• January 8 » The steel strike of 1919 ends in failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers labor union.
• February 10 » About 75% of the population in Zone I votes to join Denmark in the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites.
• February 24 » The Nazi Party (NSDAP) was founded by Adolf Hitler in the Hofbräuhaus beer hall in Munich, Germany
• February 29 » Czechoslovak National Assembly adopts the Constitution.
• September 16 » The Wall Street bombing: A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City killing 38 and injuring 400.

The temperature on December 22, 1920 was between 2.0 °C and 5.4 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.