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• Antonin de Lignaud de Lussac, Paris, 75056, France († 1977)
• Anton Hubert Nuchelmans, Ambarawa († 2019)
• Catharina Johanna Smit, Noordwijk († 2005)
• Casper Albertus Touw, Arnhem, The Netherlands († 2005)
• C. A. Anna Ulrich, Borgloon, België († 1999)
• Anna BECKX, Thimeon (B) († 1979)
• Arendtje Zondervan, IJsbrechtum († 1987)
• Casper Albertus Touw, Arnhem († 2005)
• Alvin Carroll (Cary) Trotter, Portland Multnomah County Oregon, Verenigde Staten († 2002)
• Annechien Hageman, Assen († 2014)

• Aafke Jacobs Wieringa (80), Bedum, Het Hogeland, Groningen, Nederland
• de Wilde (0), Borne
• Aart van Hell (69), Nijkerk, Gelderland, The Netherlands
• Albert Jan de Wilde (35), Voorst,Gemeente Voorst, Gelderland, Nederland
• Albertus (Bertus) van Amstel (74), Maren
• Albertus van Berkum (81), Olst, Olst-Wijhe, Overijssel, Nederland
• Akke Luitzens Buma (89), IJlst (Sudwest-Fryslan), Friesland, Nederland
• Alexandrina Geurdina Gramser Gramser (58), Bemmel
• Albertus van Berkum (82), Olst
• Alberdina Colenbrander (66), Arnhem

• 1914 » Bill Finger, American author and screenwriter, co-created Batman († 1974)
• 1915 » Georges Guétary, Egyptian-French singer, dancer, and actor († 1997)
• 1918 » Freddie Blassie, American wrestler and manager († 2003)
• 1921 » Barney Danson, Canadian colonel and politician, 21st Canadian Minister of National Defence († 2011)
• 1921 » Lana Turner, American actress († 1995)
• 1921 » Nexhmije Hoxha, Albanian politician († 2020)
• 1922 » Audrey Meadows, American actress and banker († 1996)
• 1925 » Jack Lemmon, American actor († 2001)
• 1926 » Birgitte Reimer, Danish film actress
• 1926 » Neal Cassady, American author and poet († 1968)

• 1907 » Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist and academic (b. 1854)
• 1910 » Hans Jæger, Norwegian philosopher and activist (b. 1854)
• 1914 » Dayrolles Eveleigh-de-Moleyns, 4th Baron Ventry, Irish hereditary peer (b. 1828)
• 1915 » François Langelier, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 10th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1838)
• 1921 » George Formby Sr, English actor and singer (b. 1876)
• 1921 » Peter Kropotkin, Russian zoologist, geographer, and philologist (b. 1842)
• 1928 » Theodor Curtius, German chemist (b. 1857)
• 1932 » Yordan Milanov, Bulgarian architect, designed the Sveti Sedmochislenitsi Church (b. 1867)
• 1935 » Eemil Nestor Setälä, Finnish linguist and politician, Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs (b. 1864)
• 1936 » Charles Curtis, American lawyer and politician, 31st Vice President of the United States (b. 1860)

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. 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. 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.
• 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.
• January 11 » First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.
• March 20 » The USSLangley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier.
• June 28 » The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.
• September 30 » The University of Alabama opens the American football season with a 110–0 victory over the Marion Military Institute, which still stands as Alabama's record for largest margin of victory and as their only 100 point game.
• November 21 » Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first female United States Senator.
• November 26 » The Toll of the Sea debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor. (The Gulf Between was the first film to do so, but it was not widely distributed.)

The temperature on February 8, 1922 was between -12.2 °C and -3.0 °C and averaged -7.9 °C. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.