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• Adrianus Marinus (Adrie Janus) van Gurp, Nieuw-Vossemeer, Nederland († 2007)
• van Roest, Benschop († 1922)
• Antonius Gerhardus Groot Koerkamp, Gorssel († 1946)
• Annie Adriana Cornelia Toorians, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2002)
• Antonius Christiaans, Langenboom, Nederland († 1998)
• Antonius Johannes Josephus Goedemans, Utrecht († 1987)
• Albertine Dewilde, Hasselt, België († 2011)
• Albertus Johan Koers, Diepenveen († 1991)
• Carolus Maria van Breugel, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2011)
• Adriana Catharina Maria van den Bergh, Laren († 1944)

• Christina van Erkel (70), Eindhoven
• Alphons Adriaens (64)
• Aaltje van Netten (35), Woudsend, Friesland, Nederland
• Alphonsius Andreas CHRISTIAENS (71)
• Hendrikus Vos (74)
• Arie de Bruijn (8), Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Carolina Juliana Sarneel (81), Hulst, Nederland
• Alphonsus Andreas Christiaens (71), Sint-Niklaas, België
• Aaltje Danhof (86), Usquert (gem. Het Hogeland)
• Antonie Pieter. Roubos (60), Rotterdam

• 1920 » Early Wynn, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster († 1999)
• 1920 » John Maynard Smith, English biologist and geneticist († 2004)
• 1920 » Sun Myung Moon, Korean religious leader; founder of the Unification Church († 2012)
• 1921 » Cary Middlecoff, American golfer and sportscaster († 1998)
• 1921 » Marianne Grunberg-Manago, Russian-French biochemist and academic († 2013)
• 1923 » Jacobo Timerman, Argentinian journalist and author († 1999)
• 1923 » Norman Kirk, New Zealand engineer and politician, 29th Prime Minister of New Zealand († 1974)
• 1923 » Vladimir Kazantsev, Russian runner († 2007)
• 1924 » Earl Scruggs, American banjo player († 2012)
• 1924 » Kim Dae-jung, South Korean soldier and politician, 8th President of South Korea, Nobel Prize laureate († 2009)

• 1913 » Frederick Hitch, English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1856)
• 1917 » Hendrick Peter Godfried Quack, Dutch economist and historian (b. 1834)
• 1918 » Georg Cantor, German mathematician and philosopher (b. 1845)
• 1919 » Theodore Roosevelt, American colonel and politician, 26th President of the United States (b. 1858)
• 1921 » Devil Anse Hatfield, American guerrilla leader (b. 1839)
• 1922 » Jakob Rosanes, Ukrainian-German mathematician and chess player (b. 1842)
• 1928 » Alvin Kraenzlein, American hurdler and long jumper (b. 1876)
• 1933 » Vladimir de Pachmann, Ukrainian-German pianist (b. 1848)
• 1934 » Herbert Chapman, English footballer and manager (b. 1878)
• 1937 » André Bessette, Canadian saint (b. 1845)

• 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 28 » The United Kingdom ends its protectorate over Egypt through a Unilateral Declaration of Independence.
• March 18 » In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience, of which he serves only two.
• July 20 » The League of Nations awards mandates of Togoland to France and Tanganyika to the United Kingdom.
• October 31 » Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy
• November 26 » Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.
• December 16 » President of Poland Gabriel Narutowicz is assassinated by Eligiusz Niewiadomski at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw.

The temperature on January 6, 1922 was between -9.1 °C and 0.7 °C and averaged -2.4 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.