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• Elisabeth Johanna Maria van Steijn, Noordwijkerhout († 2022)
• Cornelis Guijt, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2021)
• Elizabeth Catharina Keij, Groningen
• Coba Mulder, Steggerda, Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Netherlands († 2001)
• Colette Maximilienne Delie de Wasseige, Namur, Belgique († 2011)
• Alida Maria Anna van der Vegt, Dongen († 2007)
• Christiaan Antonius Marinus Jansen, Den Haag († 2001)
• Aline Leonie Simoens, Oelegem († 1991)
• Dorothy May Wagner, Pennsylvania († 2003)
• Albert Koning, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 1924)

• Aleida Schrijver (78), Wijhe
• Boslooper (0), Rotterdam Zhl. NL
• Antje de Vogel (63), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arij van der Hoeven (68), Vlaardingen
• van Breugel (8)
• Adrianus Wilmsen (82), Baarle-Hertog, Antwerpen, België
• Apolonia_Adriana Dries (28), Den Haag
• Anna Maria Antonetta Stokman (22), Haarlem
• Apolonia Adriana Dries (28), Loosduinen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Wilmsen Adrianus (82), Baarle-Hertog, Antwerpen, België

• 1919 » Liberace, American pianist and entertainer († 1987)
• 1920 » Martine Carol, French actress († 1967)
• 1921 » Harry Carey, Jr., American actor, producer, and screenwriter († 2012)
• 1923 » Merton Miller, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2000)
• 1923 » Peter Underwood, English parapsychologist and author († 2014)
• 1923 » Victoria Fromkin, American linguist and academic († 2000)
• 1924 » Dawda Jawara, 1st President of the Gambia († 2019)
• 1925 » Nílton Santos, Brazilian footballer († 2013)
• 1925 » Nancy Roman, American astronomer († 2018)
• 1925 » Ola Vincent, Nigerian banker and economist († 2012)

• 1910 » Henri-Edmond Cross, French Neo-Impressionist painter (b. 1856)
• 1913 » Louis Perrier, Swiss architect and politician (b. 1849)
• 1920 » Levi P. Morton, American politician, 22nd United States Vice President (b. 1824)
• 1926 » Mehmed VI, Ottoman sultan (b. 1861)
• 1936 » Leonidas Paraskevopoulos, Greek general and politician (b. 1860)
• 1938 » Joseph Strauss, American engineer, co designed The Golden Gate Bridge (b. 1870)
• 1943 » Alfred Hoche, German psychiatrist and academic (b. 1865)
• 1944 » George Ade, American journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1866)
• 1946 » Bruno Tesch, German chemist and businessman (b. 1890)
• 1947 » Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)

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 16 » Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
• April 26 » The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
• June 27 » Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH.4B biplane.
• October 29 » Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
• October 31 » The first of 160 consecutive days of 100° Fahrenheit at Marble Bar, Western Australia.
• November 8 » Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.

The temperature on May 16, 1923 was between 4.4 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 11.6 mm of rain. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.