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• Berta Geertruida van Dam, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland Nederland († 1941)
• Antonius Johannes Wouters, Reusel, Reusel-De Mierden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2007)
• Barend Johannes Berg van den († 2000)
• Annigje Prop, Diever, Westerveld, Drenthe, Nederland († 1948)
• Charles Adrianus Vinckx († 1995)
• Catharina Anthonia van Maaren, Gameren († 2009)
• Antoon Christian Siebelink, Harderwijk, GE Netherlands († 1995)
• Cecilia B. Pokicinski († 2001)
• Adrianus Johannes Louwers, Eindhoven († 1992)
• Catharina Petronella Buskermolen, Kudelstaart, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2013)

• Aagje de Boer (68), Zd-Scharwoude
• Adrianus Koorneef (58), Rotterdam
• Aaltje Brons (76), Barneveld
• Adriana Dekkers (84), Helvoirt, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria Rovers (80), Uden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alida van der Breggen (49), Loosduinen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Van Bol'es (74), Rotterdam
• Alida Harmsen (26), 's-Gravenhage
• Antonetta Theodora Plantinga (49), Groningen
• Annigien (Anna) Bouwman (68), Oak Park, Cook, Illinois, Verenigde Staten

• 1920 » John Addison, English-American soldier and composer († 1998)
• 1920 » Leo McKern, Australian-English actor († 2002)
• 1920 » Sid Fleischman, American author and screenwriter († 2010)
• 1920 » Traudl Junge, German secretary († 2002)
• 1922 » Harding Lemay, American screenwriter and playwright († 2018)
• 1923 » Heinz Wallberg, German conductor († 2004)
• 1925 » Cornell Borchers, Lithuanian-German actress and singer († 2014)
• 1925 » Ervin Kassai, Hungarian basketball player and referee († 2012)
• 1925 » Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist and engineer († 2004)
• 1925 » Mary Hinkson, American dancer and choreographer († 2014)

• 1912 » Max Burckhard, Austrian theater director (b. 1854)
• 1914 » Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss lawyer and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
• 1914 » Gaston Calmette, French journalist (b. 1858)
• 1914 » John Murray, Scottish oceanographer, biologist, and limnologist (b. 1841)
• 1925 » August von Wassermann, German bacteriologist and hygienist (b. 1866)
• 1930 » Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish general and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1870)
• 1935 » Aron Nimzowitsch, Latvian-Danish chess player (b. 1886)
• 1935 » John James Rickard Macleod, Scottish physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
• 1936 » Marguerite Durand, French actress, journalist, and activist (b. 1864)
• 1937 » Alexander von Staël-Holstein, Estonian orientalist and sinologist (b. 1877)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Adrianus
10. Jacob
11. Jacobus
12. Gerardus
13. Wilhelmus
14. Dirk
15. Antonius
16. Hendrikus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Adriana
8. Hendrika
9. Catharina
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Grietje
14. Helena
15. Margaretha
16. Aaltje

• 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 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 7.1 million citizens.
• January 9 » Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight.
• February 16 » Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
• March 20 » The Arts Club of Chicago hosts the opening of Pablo Picasso's first United States showing, entitled Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso, becoming an early proponent of modern art in the United States.
• July 24 » The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in World War I.
• August 16 » The United Kingdom gives the name "Ross Dependency" to part of its claimed Antarctic territory and makes the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand its administrator.
• August 23 » Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John P. Richter performed the first mid-air refueling on De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours.

The temperature on March 16, 1923 was between 0.7 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.