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• Aaltje IJmes Jongema, Hennaard (Hennaarderadeel) († 2008)
• Adriana (Jean) Rovers, Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2001)
• Arend Eding, Westerbork, Drenthe, Nederland († 2003)
• Akke Geertsma, Harich († 1962)
• Antonius Egbertus Schoots, Tiel († 1989)
• Antonia Elisabeth Abelskamp, Tolkamer, Gelderland, Netherlands († 2012)
• Adèle Louise Pinkhof, Amsterdam († 1943)
• Moens, Middelburg († 1924)
• Annegien Woltman, Meppel, Drenthe, Nederland († 2010)
• Arij Cornelis van der Hoek, rotterdam, Nederland († 1997)

• Antonia Anna Alberta Lintgreen (50)
• Antonia Versteeg (60), Utrecht
• Moens (0), Middelburg
• Adriana ROS (89), Scheveningen, gemeente 's-Gravenhage (Z-H)
• ANNA CORNELIA NEVE (77), ROTTERDAM
• Adriaantje Maria van Veen (71), Nieuwenhoorn
• Adelheid Emma Wilhelmina Theresia van Waldeck-Pyrmont (65), 's-Gravenhage, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Mathilde Eijkenboom (21), Bilsen (Belgie)
• Alfred Edwards (0), Oxford, Ontario, Canada
• Antje Taedes de Vries (38), Leeuwarden

• 1921 » Alfréd Rényi, Hungarian mathematician and theorist († 1970)
• 1921 » Dušan Pirjevec, Slovenian historian and philosopher († 1977)
• 1921 » Usmar Ismail, Indonesian filmmaker († 1971)
• 1922 » Carl Reiner, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 2020)
• 1922 » Larry Elgart, American saxophonist and bandleader († 2017)
• 1922 » Ray Goulding, American actor and screenwriter († 1990)
• 1923 » Con Martin, Irish footballer and manager († 2013)
• 1923 » Shaukat Siddiqui, Pakistani journalist, author, and activist († 2006)
• 1925 » John Ehrlichman, American lawyer, 12th White House Counsel († 1999)
• 1927 » John Joubert, South African-English composer and academic († 2019)

• 1909 » Friedrich Amelung, Estonian historian and businessman (b. 1842)
• 1918 » Lewis A. Grant, American general and lawyer (b. 1828)
• 1925 » George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, English politician, 35th Governor-General of India (b. 1859)
• 1929 » Ferdinand Foch, French field marshal (b. 1851)
• 1930 » Arthur F. Andrews, American cyclist (b. 1876)
• 1931 » Hermann Müller, German journalist and politician, 12th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)
• 1933 » Giuseppe Zangara, Italian-American assassin of Anton Cermak (b. 1900; executed)
• 1940 » Alfred Ploetz, German physician, biologist, and eugenicist (b. 1860)
• 1945 » Dorothy Campbell, Scottish-American golfer (b. 1883)
• 1946 » Amadeus William Grabau, American-Chinese geologist, paleontologist, and academic (b. 1870)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Petrus
9. Adrianus
10. Jacobus
11. Jacob
12. Gerardus
13. Wilhelmus
14. Hendrikus
15. Antonius
16. Arie

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Aaltje
13. Geertruida
14. Grietje
15. Helena
16. Alida

• 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 7.2 million citizens.
• February 8 » Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
• June 10 » Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
• July 24 » Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
• October 7 » Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes prime minister of Greece for a short period of time.
• October 25 » The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the Daily Mail; the Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives' landslide election win four days later.
• December 24 » Albania becomes a republic.

The temperature on March 20, 1924 was between -1.7 °C and 5.4 °C and averaged 1.6 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (79%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.