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• Breunisje Dooijenwaard, Ermelo Gld († 1922)
• Bernardus Maria van Dijk, Haarlem († 2003)
• van den Boom, Dinther, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1982)
• Adrianus Johannes van Gulick, Sint-Michielsgestel († 1986)
• Alle Minnema, Gerkesklooster, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland († 1989)
• B.H. Josef Sijben, Voerendaal († 2000)
• Bartelina Middeljans, Valthermond († 1922)
• Arend Cornelis (Arie) Postma, amsterdam, Nederland († 1981)
• Allegonda Maria van Erp, Berghem, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1982)
• Alle Hendriks Minnema, Buitenpost, Nederland († 1989)

• Aafke Dijkstra (76), Groningen
• Chistiaan Vijzelaar (66), Hoorn
• Antonetta Sanders (86), Son en Breugel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Christiaan Vijzelaar (66), Hoorn
• Barbara Eijkenboom (19), Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
• Aurelia Spencer (87), Farmington, Utah, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelia Braamse (63), Goes (Goes) (Zeeland)
• Anna Stehouwer (68)
• Aafke Dijkstra (76), Groningen
• Clazina Wilhelmina van den Burg (70), Sappemeer, Nederland

• 1916 » Dennis Poore, English race car driver and businessman († 1987)
• 1918 » Jimmy Rowles, American singer-songwriter and pianist († 1996)
• 1919 » Malcolm Forbes, American publisher and politician († 1990)
• 1921 » Gene Roddenberry, American screenwriter and producer († 1991)
• 1924 » Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2011)
• 1924 » William Marshall, American actor, director, and opera singer († 2003)
• 1925 » Claude Gauvreau, Canadian poet and playwright († 1971)
• 1926 » Angus Scrimm, American actor and author († 2016)
• 1927 » L. Q. Jones, American actor and director
• 1928 » Shiv Prasaad Singh, Indian Hindi writer(d.1998)

• 1900 » Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1833)
• 1914 » Franz Xavier Wernz, German religious leader, 25th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1844)
• 1915 » Tevfik Fikret, Turkish poet and educator (b. 1867)
• 1923 » Vilfredo Pareto, Italian sociologist and economist (b. 1845)
• 1928 » Stephanos Skouloudis, Greek banker and diplomat, 97th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1838)
• 1929 » Sergei Diaghilev, Russian critic and producer, founded Ballets Russes (b. 1872)
• 1932 » Louis Anquetin, French painter (b. 1861)
• 1936 » Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet, playwright, and director (b. 1898)
• 1942 » Harald Kaarmann, Estonian footballer (b. 1901)
• 1945 » Tomás Burgos, Chilean philanthropist (b. 1875)

• 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 2 » Ulysses by James Joyce is published.
• March 10 » Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released after nearly two years for an appendicitis operation.
• April 3 » Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
• April 24 » The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation.
• October 19 » British Conservative MPs vote to terminate the coalition government with the Liberal Party.
• October 29 » King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy appoints Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister.

The temperature on August 19, 1922 was between 6.9 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 12.0 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.