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• Aldora Mae "Toby" Tobin, New Washington, Crawford, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 2008)
• Adriana Alida Steeneveld, Rijswijk, Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 2012)
• Albertus Rutgerus de Vlieger († 1989)
• Catharina Pietjouw, Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Nederland († 1927)
• Antje Lamens, Zegwaart († 1984)
• Cornelis VAN SLIEDREGT, Middelharnis, ZH, Nederland († 1945)
• Alexander Johannes (Alex) Speekenbrink, Eindhoven († 2014)
• Carla Schell, Venlo,, Limburg, Nederland († 1962)
• Anna Maria Bouwhuis, Delden, Stad († 1997)
• Attje Tolsma, Drachten, Smallingerland, Friesland, Netherlands († 2011)

• Catharina Cornelia van de Rijt (60), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Abraham Touw (75), Nieuw-Helvoet
• Antonij van der Pol (77), sint-michielsgestel
• Catharina Krabbe (55), Amsterdam
• Clazina Maria Schimmel (60), Bussum (Gooise Meren)
• ARENDJE VAN SPRONSEN (2), MONSTER
• Catharina Johanna BORGMAN (78), Groningen Groningen Netherlands
• Antje Velthuijs (78), Akersloot, Nederland
• Abraham ten Hoven (66), Amersfoort
• Catharina Krabbé (54), Amsterdam

• 1918 » Donald Regan, American colonel and politician, 11th White House Chief of Staff († 2003)
• 1919 » Doug Young, American voice actor († 2018)
• 1920 » Adele Goldstine, American computer programmer († 1964)
• 1920 » Alicia Alonso, Cuban ballerina and choreographer, founded the Cuban National Ballet († 2019)
• 1922 » Cécile DeWitt-Morette, French mathematician and physicist († 2017)
• 1922 » Itubwa Amram, Nauruan pastor and politician († 1989)
• 1922 » Paul Winchell, American actor, voice artist, and ventriloquist († 2005)
• 1923 » Wataru Misaka, American basketball player († 2019)
• 1926 » Arnošt Lustig, Czech author and playwright († 2011)
• 1926 » Joe Paterno, American football player and coach († 2012)

• 1920 » Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, Somalian general, founded the Dervish movement (b. 1856)
• 1929 » I. L. Patterson, American politician, 18th Governor of Oregon (b. 1859)
• 1933 » Knud Rasmussen, Greenlandic anthropologist and explorer (b. 1879)
• 1935 » Kurt Tucholsky, German-Swedish journalist and author (b. 1890)
• 1935 » Ted Birnie, English footballer and manager (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Frank B. Kellogg, American lawyer and politician, 45th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
• 1937 » Ted Healy, American comedian and actor (b. 1896)
• 1937 » Violette Neatley Anderson, American judge (b. 1882)
• 1940 » F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1896)
• 1945 » George S. Patton, American general (b. 1885)

• 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 » Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebel against the League of Nations' decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control.
• June 9 » Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.
• June 27 » Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH.4B biplane.
• September 26 » The German government accepts the occupation of the Ruhr.
• September 29 » The British Mandate for Palestine takes effect, creating Mandatory Palestine.
• September 29 » The French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon takes effect.

The temperature on December 21, 1923 was between -4.9 °C and 2.1 °C and averaged -0.7 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (58%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.