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• Berendina Slot, enter († 2014)
• Auktje Drent, Hengelo († 2001)
• Anna Augustina Koot, Pati, Semarang, Java, Ned. Indie
• Agnes ( A.T.M.) schuurman († 1993)
• August "Guus" KESER, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland († 2002)
• Antje Dekkers, Barneveld († 2009)
• Arnoldus van Sleen, Steenwijk († 1926)
• Aafje van den Born, Blaricum († 2016)
• Antonius Franciscus Maria van Eenbergen, Gemert († 2007)
• Berendje Scheffer († 2007)

• Anna Maria Catharina Bertram (41), 's Gravenhage
• Albertje Wanningen (77), Smilde, Drenthe, Nederland
• Alexander Preston Baker (83), Shawnee, Pottawatomie Co., Oklahoma
• Berber Geerts Kuipers (83), Leeuwarderadeel, Friesland, Netherlands
• Adrianus Cornelis de Rave (9), rotterdam
• Anna Maria Catharina BERTRAM (41)
• Adriaan Segeren (57), Soest
• Alberta Maria Koekkoek (12), Overwetering (Olst), Ov, The Netherlands
• arend hendriksz van leeningen (72), Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aldert Dijker (81), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1921 » Alan Hale, Jr., American actor († 1990)
• 1921 » Sahir Ludhianvi, Indian poet and songwriter († 1980)
• 1922 » Carl Furillo, American baseball player († 1989)
• 1922 » Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer († 2008)
• 1922 » Ralph H. Baer, German-American video game designer, created the Magnavox Odyssey († 2014)
• 1922 » Shigeru Mizuki, Japanese author and illustrator († 2015)
• 1922 » Yevgeny Matveyev, Russian actor and director († 2003)
• 1924 » Anthony Caro, English sculptor and illustrator († 2013)
• 1924 » Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2010)
• 1924 » Sean McClory, Irish-American actor and director († 2003)

• 1917 » Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and businessman, founded the Zeppelin Company (b. 1838)
• 1923 » Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)
• 1923 » Krišjānis Barons, Latvian linguist and author (b. 1835)
• 1930 » Edward Terry Sanford, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, United States Assistant Attorney General (b. 1865)
• 1930 » William Howard Taft, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 27th President of the United States (b. 1857)
• 1935 » Hachikō, Japanese dog (b. 1923)
• 1937 » Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1902)
• 1941 » Sherwood Anderson, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1876)
• 1942 » José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player and theoretician (b. 1888)
• 1944 » Fredy Hirsch, German Jewish athlete who helped thousands of Jewish children in the Holocaust (b. 1916)

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.
• March 3 » TIME magazine is published for the first time.
• April 15 » Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes.
• May 26 » The first 24 Hours of Le Mans was held and has since been run annually in June.
• October 15 » The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic.
• October 16 » The Walt Disney Company is founded.
• October 22 » The royalist Leonardopoulos–Gargalidis coup d'état attempt fails in Greece, discrediting the monarchy and paving the way for the establishment of the Second Hellenic Republic.

The temperature on March 8, 1923 was between 2.1 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 4.0 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.