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• Bram Coenraats, De Bilt († 2001)
• Barbara Wilhelmina Johanna Meuter, Beesel († 2020)
• Anna Katharina Schepers, Emmer-Compascuum, Gemeente Emmen, Drenthe, Niederlande († 1925)
• BAREND MOSTERT, NIJKERK († 1986)
• Bertus Theodorus Maes, Albina († 2005)
• Carl Garvin Keith Jr., Mississippi († 2004)
• Anna Maria van Weert, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland, Nederland († 2006)
• Antonetta Allegonda Verberne, Waalre († 2004)
• Chrystal Thelma Zeeryp, Zeeland Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 1924)
• Anna Elizabeth Luiken, Eldora, Hardin County, Iowa († 2004)

• Alphonsus Gerardus Cornelius Helsen (2), Geel, België
• Aaltje Klein Nulend (80), Erve Eikendal, Rande nr 100, Diepenveen
• Anna Elisabeth Frese (41), Glandorf-Sudendorf, Preussen
• Akke Rientses Rienstra (79), Parrega, Friesland, Nederland
• Aart Dokter (71), Nijkerk
• Aaltje Kalkman (88), Ouderkerk aan de IJssel
• Alida Gerarda Johanna Bult (53), Zwolle
• Aaltje Barelds (40), Norg, Drenthe, Netherlands(Langeloo)
• Aleida Lamers (91), Wehl
• Agatha Agnes Soeterbroek (42), Berkel en Rodenrijs,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1920 » Alberto Crespo, Argentinian race car driver († 1991)
• 1920 » Elliott Reid, American actor and screenwriter († 2013)
• 1921 » Francesco Scavullo, American photographer († 2004)
• 1923 » Anthony Hecht, American poet († 2004)
• 1923 » Gene Feist, American director and playwright, co-founded the Roundabout Theatre Company († 2014)
• 1924 » Katy Jurado, Mexican actress († 2002)
• 1925 » James Robinson Risner, American general and pilot († 2013)
• 1925 » Peter Hirsch, German-English metallurgist and academic
• 1928 » Pilar Lorengar, Spanish soprano and actress († 1996)
• 1928 » William Kennedy, American novelist and journalist

• 1906 » Marshall Field, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Marshall Field's (b. 1834)
• 1917 » George Dewey, American admiral (b. 1837)
• 1919 » Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 5th President of Brazil (b. 1848)
• 1933 » Bekir Sami Kunduh, Turkish politician (b. 1867)
• 1936 » Albert Fish, American serial killer, rapist and cannibal (b. 1870)
• 1938 » Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay Indian author and playwright (b. 1876)
• 1942 » Carole Lombard, American actress and comedian (b. 1908)
• 1942 » Ernst Scheller, German lawyer and politician, Mayor of Marburg (b. 1899)
• 1942 » Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (b. 1850)
• 1942 » Villem Grünthal-Ridala, Estonian poet and linguist (b. 1885)

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.
• March 3 » The 407-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished, when Caliph Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman Caliphate is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk.
• April 1 » The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
• May 10 » J. Edgar Hoover is appointed first Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and remains so until his death in 1972.
• September 17 » The Border Protection Corps is established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet raids and local bandits.
• December 20 » Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison.
• December 24 » Albania becomes a republic.

The temperature on January 16, 1924 was between -7.8 °C and 0.4 °C and averaged -3.1 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.