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• Aarnoud de Landmeter († 1981)
• Alida Agatha Hettinga, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2008)
• Aaltje Boerendans, Doornspijk († 1983)
• Anje Medema, Huizinge, Middelstum, Groningen, Nederland († 1922)
• barbara wilhelmina (bertha) joosten, helden-koningslust († 1993)
• Aarnoud de Landmeter, Vlissingen († 1981)
• Anthonia Johanna Gerarda Hanselaar, Utrecht, Utrecht, NL († 1922)
• Arie Koek, Haaften († 2005)
• Anna Johanna Huisman, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland. Netherlands († 1979)
• Almina Johanna Carolina Suyderhoud, Tjiwidej

• Elfering (0), Eierland
• Alberdina Johanna Starink (60), Deventer
• Andries Johannes Snoek (81), Teteringen
• Adriana Duijndam (75), Monster, Nederland
• Andries WORP (79), Edam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Maria van Dongen (73), Waspik, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adolf Soestbergen (78), Maarssen
• Aaltje van Duinen (75), Dreumel, Gelderland, Nederland
• de Jong (0), Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Duijndam (75), Monster

• 1919 » Eric Brown, Scottish-English captain and pilot († 2016)
• 1920 » Errol Barrow, first Prime Minister of Barbados († 1987)
• 1921 » Lincoln Alexander, Canadian lawyer and politician, 23rd Canadian Minister of Labour († 2012)
• 1922 » Paul Scofield, English actor († 2008)
• 1922 » Predrag Vranicki, Croatian Marxist Humanist, and member of the Praxis school in the 1960s in Yugoslavia († 2002)
• 1922 » Telly Savalas, American actor († 1994)
• 1923 » Alberto de Mendoza, Argentine actor († 2011)
• 1923 » Lola Flores, Spanish singer, dancer, and actress († 1995)
• 1923 » Pahiño, Spanish footballer († 2012)
• 1924 » Benny Hill, English actor, singer, and screenwriter († 1992)

• 1914 » Theodor Kittelsen, Norwegian painter and illustrator (b. 1857)
• 1918 » Jan Drozdowski, Polish pianist and music teacher (b. 1857)
• 1919 » Ahmed Muhtar Pasha, Ottoman general and politician, 277th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1839)
• 1919 » Gojong of Korea (b. 1852)
• 1924 » Vladimir Lenin, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1870)
• 1926 » Camillo Golgi, Italian physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
• 1928 » George Washington Goethals, American general and engineer (b. 1858)
• 1931 » Felix Blumenfeld, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1863)
• 1932 » Lytton Strachey, English writer and critic (b. 1880)
• 1933 » George Moore, Irish author, poet, and critic (b. 1852)

• 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.
• June 29 » France grants 1km at Vimy Ridge "freely, and for all time, to the Government of Canada, the free use of the land exempt from all taxes".
• July 1 » The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 begins in the United States.
• August 26 » Greco-Turkish War (1919–22): Turkish army launched what has come to be known to the Turks as the "Great Offensive" (Büyük Taarruz). The major Greek defense positions were overrun.
• August 30 » Battle of Dumlupınar: The final battle in the Greco-Turkish War ("Turkish War of Independence").
• September 27 » King Constantine I of Greece abdicates his throne in favor of his eldest son, George II.
• 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.

The temperature on January 21, 1922 was between -0.4 °C and 4.7 °C and averaged 1.5 °C. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.