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• Antonius Petrus Johannes Hultermans, Tilburg († 1996)
• Anna Helena Maria (Ans) SERNEE, Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2002)
• Alfred Oscar Hubert De Wachter, Hingene († 2016)
• Aart van den Brink, Harderwijk († 1923)
• Alfred CRANSWICK, Holborn, London, England († 2002)
• Bertus (Bert) van den Berg, Wijk bij Duurstede († 2001)
• Arved Stangl, Roselle, Carroll County, Iowa († 2001)
• Berend Jan Woertman, Colmschate († 1945)
• Chris (Christiaan Jacobus) Bus, Meppel, Nederland († 2014)
• Christiaan Jacobus Bus, Meppel († 2014)

• Addison Albert Schmoyer (68), Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States of America
• * Johannes Timmermans (74), Boxtel
• Adriaan Werkema (65), Ezinge
• Antje Wigboldij (66), Termunten
• Aaltjen HOF (41), Nieuwleusen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Benjamin Charles Wilbur (0), Ontario, San Bernardino, California, United States
• Barbara de Beer (73), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Carolus Ludovicus Raemdonck (63), Hamme
• Adriana Wijnanda Jacoba van Houweninge (92), Oosterbeek,Gemeente Renkum,Gelderland,Netherlands
• Aleida ter Weele (73), Enter, gemeente Wierden

• 1920 » Bert Williams, English footballer († 2004)
• 1920 » Stewart Udall, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 37th United States Secretary of the Interior († 2010)
• 1921 » Carol Channing, American actress, singer, and dancer († 2019)
• 1921 » E. Fay Jones, American architect, designed the Thorncrown Chapel († 2004)
• 1921 » John Agar, American actor († 2002)
• 1921 » Mario Lanza, American tenor and actor († 1959)
• 1922 » Joanne Dru, American actress († 1996)
• 1923 » Norman Mailer, American journalist and author († 2007)
• 1925 » Benjamin Hooks, American minister, lawyer, and activist († 2010)
• 1926 » Tom Alston, American baseball player († 1993)

• 1892 » Charles Spurgeon, English pastor and author (b. 1834)
• 1900 » John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, Scottish nobleman (b. 1844)
• 1907 » Timothy Eaton, Canadian businessman, founded Eaton's (b. 1834)
• 1923 » Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish painter and critic (b. 1869)
• 1933 » John Galsworthy, English novelist and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1942 » Henry Larkin, American baseball player and manager (b. 1860)
• 1944 » Jean Giraudoux, French author and playwright (b. 1882)
• 1954 » Edwin Howard Armstrong, American engineer, invented FM radio (b. 1890)
• 1954 » Vivian Woodward, English captain and footballer (b. 1879)
• 1955 » John Mott, American activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)

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.
• February 10 » Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas
• April 28 » Wembley Stadium is opened, named initially as the Empire Stadium.
• June 9 » Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.
• October 6 » The Turkish National Movement enters Constantinople.
• November 9 » In Munich, Germany, police and government troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria. The failed coup is the work of the Nazis.
• 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 31, 1923 was between 5.0 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.