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• Adrianus Wilhelmus van Meel, Oisterwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1997)
• Adrianus van Meel, Oisterwijk († 1997)
• Antonie Landman, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1993)
• Antonia Maria Adriana van Ierland, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1978)
• Anneke jellema, Sneek († 1976)
• André van Wanrooij, Kaatsheuvel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1986)
• Antoinette Amance Augustine BOUILLAUD († 2013)
• 'n Levenloos geboren dochter van de Lange, Ter Aar (Langeraar) († 1923)
• Antonia van Ierland, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1978)
• Cornelia Johanna Elisabeth van Iterson, Oegstgeest († 1923)

• Antoinette Clara Johanna Velthuijs (57), Nijmegen
• Adriaan Valkenburg (71), Wouw
• Arend Vreeken (70), Aalsmeer, Aalsmeer, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Alphonsius Antonius Marks (66), Eindhoven (Noord-Brabant, NLD)
• ? Veuger (0), Hoogeveen nederland
• Antoinette Clara Johanna Velthuijs VELDHUIS (57), Nijmegen, 1689, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aasne Sophia Wood (66), Juneau Co., Wisconsin
• Anje van der Tuuk (58), Baflo
• Antoon de Bruin (11), Groesbeek
• ? ? (73)

• 1921 » Akio Morita, Japanese businessman, co-founded Sony († 1999)
• 1921 » Eddie Barclay, French record producer, founded Barclay Records († 2005)
• 1922 » Gil Merrick, English footballer († 2010)
• 1922 » Michael Bentine, English actor and screenwriter († 1996)
• 1922 » Seán Flanagan, Irish footballer and politician, 7th Irish Minister for Health († 1993)
• 1923 » Anne Jeffreys, American actress and singer († 2017)
• 1923 » Patrick J. Hannifin, American admiral († 2014)
• 1924 » Alice Babs, Swedish singer and actress (b. 1924)
• 1924 » Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and politician, Mayor of Dallas († 1998)
• 1925 » David Jenkins, English bishop and theologian († 2016)

• 1904 » Whitaker Wright, English businessman (b. 1846)
• 1926 » John Flannagan, American priest and academic (b. 1860)
• 1932 » William Wrigley, Jr., American businessman, founded the Wrigley Company (b. 1861)
• 1942 » Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician and academic (b. 1868)
• 1943 » Harry H. Laughlin, American sociologist and eugenicist (b. 1880)
• 1943 » Nikolai Vavilov, Russian botanist and geneticist (b. 1887)
• 1946 » Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch-American astronomer and academic (b. 1884)
• 1946 » Oskar Kallas, Estonian linguist and diplomat (b. 1868)
• 1947 » Grace Moore, American soprano and actress (b. 1898)
• 1948 » Kâzım Karabekir, Turkish general and politician, 5th Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (b. 1882)

• 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.
• February 10 » Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas
• April 18 » Yankee Stadium: "The House that Ruth Built" opens.
• April 28 » Wembley Stadium is opened, named initially as the Empire Stadium.
• August 2 » Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes U.S. President upon the death of President Warren G. Harding.
• October 13 » Ankara becomes the capital of Turkey.
• December 21 » United Kingdom and Nepal formally signed an agreement of friendship, called the Nepal–Britain Treaty of 1923, which superseded the Treaty of Sugauli signed in 1816.

The temperature on January 26, 1923 was between 5.4 °C and 6.8 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.