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• Allegonda Antonia van de Donk, Eindhoven († 1922)
• Audrey McLAUCHLAN, Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland, Australie († 1922)
• Betty Jane Wittenbach († 2001)
• Alida Willemina van Egmond, Rijnsburg, Zuid-Holland, South Holland, The Netherlands († 2002)
• Bebita (Betty) Marie Delaronde, Jackfish, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada († 1997)
• Albertus Moleman, Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1992)
• Aafje Kuiper, Meppel († 2005)
• Adele Marie Sullivan, Cabell County, WV († 2007)
• Anna Catharina Luijcx, Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland († 1992)
• Anna van Rijn, Katwijk († 1944)

• Anje Pieters Groenendal (92), Uithuizermeeden, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Catharina van Didden (56), Stein, Limburg, Nederland
• Aaltje Pot (35), Gasselte
• Adriana Johanna Outermans (33), Middelburg
• Antonius Klaassen (18), Vught
• Albert BERGHUIS (67), Baflo
• Adriana van Wijk (76), Rotterdam
• Arien Corneliszoon Zijp (63), Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Paulina Labree (70), Rotterdam
• Andreas Luiken (51), Heerenveen

• 1920 » Douglass Wallop, American author and playwright († 1985)
• 1921 » Alan Hale, Jr., American actor († 1990)
• 1921 » Sahir Ludhianvi, Indian poet and songwriter († 1980)
• 1922 » Carl Furillo, American baseball player († 1989)
• 1922 » Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer († 2008)
• 1922 » Ralph H. Baer, German-American video game designer, created the Magnavox Odyssey († 2014)
• 1922 » Shigeru Mizuki, Japanese author and illustrator († 2015)
• 1922 » Yevgeny Matveyev, Russian actor and director († 2003)
• 1924 » Anthony Caro, English sculptor and illustrator († 2013)
• 1924 » Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2010)

• 1917 » Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and businessman, founded the Zeppelin Company (b. 1838)
• 1923 » Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)
• 1923 » Krišjānis Barons, Latvian linguist and author (b. 1835)
• 1930 » Edward Terry Sanford, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, United States Assistant Attorney General (b. 1865)
• 1930 » William Howard Taft, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 27th President of the United States (b. 1857)
• 1935 » Hachikō, Japanese dog (b. 1923)
• 1937 » Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1902)
• 1941 » Sherwood Anderson, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1876)
• 1942 » José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player and theoretician (b. 1888)
• 1944 » Fredy Hirsch, German Jewish athlete who helped thousands of Jewish children in the Holocaust (b. 1916)

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

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. Margaretha
16. Helena

• 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.
• 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 7.0 million citizens.
• February 8 » United States President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio set in the White House.
• July 24 » The draft of the British Mandate of Palestine was formally confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations; it came into effect on 26 September 1923.
• October 18 » The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.
• October 19 » British Conservative MPs vote to terminate the coalition government with the Liberal Party.
• November 24 » Nine Irish Republican Army members are executed by an Irish Free State firing squad. Among them is author Erskine Childers, who had been arrested for illegally carrying a revolver.
• December 16 » President of Poland Gabriel Narutowicz is assassinated by Eligiusz Niewiadomski at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw.

The temperature on March 8, 1922 was between 4.5 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 11.8 mm of rain. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (7%). The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.