About the day » Thursday January 17, 1924Calender converter

• Cornelis van Ingen, Utrecht,, Utrecht, Nederland († 1998)
• Adriaantje van Geemen, Monnickendam, Waterland, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2010)
• Chalmer LeRoy Hann († 1999)
• Anna Cornelia Margaretha Segaar, Leiden († 2016)
• Arris Teunisz van Duijvenbode, Katwijk († 1945)
• Anna Geertruida Abelen, Odoorn, Drenthe, Nederland († 2023)
• Adriaantje van Geemen, Monnickendam († 2010)
• Antonius Cornelis van Veen, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1925)
• Aaltje Valk, Andijk († 1998)
• Arris van Duijvenbode, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1945)

• Aaltje Ariana van SPIERENBURG (62), rotterdam
• Aaltje Beuling (42)
• Agnes Hubertina Bollen (76), Uijckhoven (B.)
• (42), rotterdam
• Aaltje Meulenkamp (0), Ambt Hardenberg
• Alvira Aurelia Dickson (77), Cannonville, Garfield, Utah, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana de Nijs (64), Bergen op Zoom, N-Br, NL
• Aaltje Barelds (40), (DR) Norg-Langeloo
• Aagje van Eijk (58), Harmelen, Nederland
• Adrianus Hendrikus Blokland (60), Hardinxveld

• 1922 » Betty White, American actress, game show panelist, television personality, and animal rights activist
• 1922 » Luis Echeverría, Mexican academic and politician, 50th President of Mexico
• 1922 » Nicholas Katzenbach, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 65th United States Attorney General († 2012)
• 1923 » Rangeya Raghav, Indian author and playwright († 1962)
• 1924 » Jewel Plummer Cobb, American biologist, cancer researcher, and academic († 2017)
• 1924 » Rik De Saedeleer, Belgian footballer and journalist († 2013)
• 1925 » Abdul Hafeez Kardar, Pakistani cricketer and author († 1996)
• 1925 » Gunnar Birkerts, Latvian-American architect († 2017)
• 1925 » Robert Cormier, American author and journalist († 2000)
• 1926 » Newton N. Minow, American lawyer and politician

• 1908 » Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1835)
• 1909 » Francis Smith, Australian lawyer, judge, and politician, 4th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1819)
• 1911 » Francis Galton, English polymath, anthropologist, and geographer (b. 1822)
• 1927 » Juliette Gordon Low, American founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA (b. 1860)
• 1930 » Gauhar Jaan, One of the first performers to record music on 78 rpm records in India. (b. 1873)
• 1931 » Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia (b. 1864)
• 1932 » Ahmet Derviş, Turkish general (b. 1881)
• 1932 » Albert Jacka, Australian captain, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1893)
• 1933 » Louis Comfort Tiffany, American stained glass artist (b. 1848)
• 1936 » Mateiu Caragiale, Romanian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1885)

• 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.
• March 16 » In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, Fiume becomes annexed as part of Italy.
• June 10 » Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
• July 11 » Eric Liddell won the gold medal in 400m at the 1924 Paris Olympics, after refusing to run in the heats for 100m, his favoured distance, on the Sunday.
• September 9 » Hanapepe massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
• 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.

The temperature on January 17, 1924 was between -8.4 °C and -3.3 °C and averaged -6.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.