About the day » Wednesday January 23, 1924Calender converter

• Age Pieters van der Weg, Warga († 1971)
• Antonius Franciscus Peters, Didam († 2004)
• (Stillborn) FENNEMA, Groningen Groningen Netherlands († 1924)
• Augustine Françoise LEPERLIER, L'Étang-Salé,97427,Réunion,Réunion,FRANCE († 1925)
• Arie van der Linden, Leiden
• Andries Roels Nicolai, Harkema Opeinde († 1997)
• Aaltje Annema, Poppingawier († 2003)
• Antonius Cornelius Petrus Raijmundus van der Meijs, Tilburg († 1924)
• Adrianus Hendrikus van Os, Tiel
• Aaltje van Doesburg († 2001)

• Charles Beach (67), Gagetown, Tuscola, Michigan, United States
• Anna Catherine Tricot (70), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Clara Jans (82), Delft,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana van Gorcom (60), Tilburg-Noord-Brabant-NL
• Anna Maria Wagemans (55), Urmond (Stein), Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Maria Helena Driessen (71), Heerlen, Limburg, Netherlands
• Arnold Pieter Frederik Johan Noorduijn (62), Arnhem
• Adriana Theodora Heesakkers (0), Mill en Sint Hubert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catharina Van Es (1), Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• gepke douma (73), liossens

• 1922 » Leon Golub, American painter and academic († 2004)
• 1922 » Tom Lewis, Australian politician, 33rd Premier of New South Wales († 2016)
• 1923 » Cot Deal, American baseball player and coach († 2013)
• 1923 » Horace Ashenfelter, American runner († 2018)
• 1923 » Walter M. Miller, Jr., American soldier and author († 1996)
• 1924 » Frank Lautenberg, American soldier, businessman, and politician († 2013)
• 1925 » Marty Paich, American pianist, composer, producer, and conductor († 1995)
• 1926 » Bal Thackeray, Indian journalist, cartoonist, and politician († 2012)
• 1927 » Fred Williams, Australian painter († 1982)
• 1927 » Lars-Eric Lindblad, Swedish-American businessman and explorer († 1994)

• 1921 » Mykola Leontovych, Ukrainian composer and conductor (b. 1877)
• 1922 » Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor and academic (b. 1855)
• 1922 » René Beeh, Alsatian painter and draughtsman (b. 1886)
• 1923 » Max Nordau, Austrian physician and author (b. 1849)
• 1931 » Anna Pavlova, Russian-English ballerina (b. 1881)
• 1937 » Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist and politician (b. 1876)
• 1939 » Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer and manager (b. 1903)
• 1943 » Alexander Woollcott, American actor, playwright, and critic (b. 1887)
• 1944 » Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter and illustrator (b. 1863)
• 1947 » Pierre Bonnard, French painter (b. 1867)

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 8 » A mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah.
• April 1 » The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
• April 8 » Sharia courts are abolished in Turkey, as part of Atatürk's Reforms.
• 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.
• November 4 » Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female elected as governor in the United States.
• December 19 » The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.

The temperature on January 23, 1924 was between -2.3 and 1.6 °C. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.