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• Aleida Bernardina Cornelissen, Gendt († 1922)
• Albertus Dirk BOONE, Zevenhuizen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1991)
• Ada Mae Jones, Jefferson County, Texas († 1999)
• alexandre poson († 1981)
• (Boy)Daniel Mattheus de Haas († 1991)
• Aaltje Bakker, Olterterp, Friesland, Nederland († 2015)
• Antone J Stage († 1994)
• Arnoldus Schuijl, Tiel († 2008)
• Albert Hendrikus Jager, Hoogkerk († 2006)
• Anton Jacob Korma, Groningen († 2021)

• Abram Spaans (75), Haarlemmermeer
• Aagtje Schilder (76), Castricum
• Agnes Theodora Maria van Leeuwen (36), Tilburg
• Aagje Krook (27), Zaandam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Romein (91), Zutphen
• Alfons De Pauw (1)
• Adriana van Veen (87), Culemborg, Gelderland, NL
• Alida Henderika HAACK (64), Grijpskerk, Groningen, Nederland
• Albert Bokhove (32), Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Machielsen (57), Weststellingwerf, 8471, Nederland

• 1918 » Muriel Spark, Scottish playwright and poet († 2006)
• 1920 » Mike Scarry, American football player and coach († 2012)
• 1920 » Zao Wou-Ki, Chinese-French painter († 2013)
• 1921 » Patricia Robins, British writer and WAAF officer († 2016).
• 1921 » Peter Sallis, English actor († 2017)
• 1921 » Teresa Mattei, Italian feminist partisan and politician († 2013)
• 1922 » Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano and actress († 2004)
• 1923 » Ben Weider, Canadian businessman, co-founded the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness († 2008)
• 1924 » Emmanuel Scheffer, German-Israeli footballer, coach, and manager († 2012)
• 1924 » Richard Hooker, American novelist († 1997)

• 1903 » Sir George Stokes, Anglo-Irish physicist, mathematician, and politician (b. 1819)
• 1907 » Léon Serpollet, French businessman (b. 1858)
• 1908 » Carlos I of Portugal (b. 1863)
• 1922 » William Desmond Taylor, American actor and director (b. 1872)
• 1924 » Maurice Prendergast, American painter (b. 1858)
• 1928 » Hughie Jennings, American baseball player and manager (b. 1869)
• 1936 » Georgios Kondylis, Greek general and politician, 128th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1878)
• 1940 » Philip Francis Nowlan, American author, created Buck Rogers (b. 1888)
• 1940 » Zacharias Papantoniou, Greek journalist and critic (b. 1877)
• 1944 » Piet Mondrian, Dutch-American painter (b. 1872)

• 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.
• April 5 » The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated.
• May 10 » The United States annexes the Kingman Reef.
• September 18 » The Kingdom of Hungary is admitted to the League of Nations.
• 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 8 » Northern Ireland ceases to be part of the Irish Free State.
• December 30 » The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is formed.

The temperature on February 1, 1922 was between -1.0 °C and 4.2 °C and averaged 1.7 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.