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• Amedeé Augustus VAN OSSELAER († 2000)
• Armande Maria Joseph Angele COX, Hasselt, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie († 1999)
• Apolonia van Veen, 's Gravenhage († 1923)
• de Goede, Rotterdam († 1923)
• Catharina Elisabeth van der Linde († 1946)
• andrée ernestine ARBION, Saint-Waast-la-Vallée (F-59) Hauts de France († 2021)
• Antonis Adrianus Leijtens, Waalwijk († 2008)
• Anna Jongsma, Koedijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1993)
• († 2000)
• Adolf Egbert Koch, Utrecht

• Age Jurres Heegstra (71), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands
• Aloysius Leonardus Moerman (84), Zande,8680,West-Vlaanderen,België
• Anna Cornelia Heijselaar (58), Den Helder, Nederland
• Anna Cornelisdr. ENDE,VAN DEN (74), Maasland,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Cornelisdr van den Ende (74), Maasland, Nederland
• Adley Oleus Bastin (79), Linden, Perry, Tennessee, Verenigde Staten
• Anna van den Ende (74), Maasland
• Ambrosius Johannes Coster (77), rotterdam
• Aaltje Venema (59), Assen
• Adrianus Johannes Bouwens (49), Raamsdonk

• 1920 » Tina Strobos, Dutch psychiatrist known for rescuing Jews during World War II († 2012)
• 1921 » Daniel Gélin, French actor, director, and screenwriter († 2002)
• 1921 » Harry W. Brown, American colonel and pilot († 1991)
• 1921 » Karel van het Reve, Dutch historian and author († 1999)
• 1921 » Leslie Broderick, English lieutenant and pilot († 2013)
• 1921 » Yuri Kochiyama, American activist († 2014)
• 1922 » Arthur Gorrie, Australian hobby shop proprietor († 1992)
• 1924 » Sandy Wilson, English composer and songwriter († 2014)
• 1925 » Malcolm X, American minister and activist († 1965)
• 1925 » Pol Pot, Cambodian general and politician, 29th Prime Minister of Cambodia († 1998)

• 1904 » Auguste Molinier, French librarian and historian (b. 1851)
• 1904 » Jamsetji Tata, Indian businessman, founded Tata Group (b. 1839)
• 1906 » Gabriel Dumont, Canadian Métis leader (b. 1837)
• 1907 » Benjamin Baker, English engineer, designed the Forth Bridge (b. 1840)
• 1912 » Bolesław Prus, Polish journalist and author (b. 1847)
• 1915 » John Simpson Kirkpatrick, English-Australian soldier (b. 1892)
• 1918 » Gervais Raoul Lufbery, French-American soldier and pilot (b. 1885)
• 1935 » T. E. Lawrence, British colonel and archaeologist (b. 1888)
• 1936 » Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall, British Islamic scholar (b. 1875)
• 1939 » Ahmet Ağaoğlu, Azerbaijani-Turkish journalist and publicist (b. 1869)

• 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 20 » The Arts Club of Chicago hosts the opening of Pablo Picasso's first United States showing, entitled Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso, becoming an early proponent of modern art in the United States.
• April 26 » The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
• June 18 » Checker Taxi puts its first taxi on the streets.
• July 1 » The Parliament of Canada suspends all Chinese immigration.
• July 24 » The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in World War I.
• September 29 » The First American Track & Field championships for women are held.

The temperature on May 19, 1923 was between 1.3 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.