About the day » Sunday December 21, 1924Calender converter

• Anna Parlevliet, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2019)
• Betty L. Berchtold Tartar († 2011)
• Catharina, Francisca Lijmbach, Bergen op Zoom (NL) († 2011)
• Aaltje Schippers, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2017)
• Antonia Henrica Johanna de Cock, Delft († 2017)
• Arnold Albert Ritten, Millerville, Douglas County, Minnesota, United States of America († 1987)
• Anna Willemina Van Beek († 2007)
• Arie van Duijvenvoorde, Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1965)
• Anna Wilhelmina van BEEK († 2007)
• Aart Buizer († 1993)

• Aaltje Wester (81), Nieuw-Beerta, Groningen, Nederland
• Aleida TIEBEN (48), Oosseld (Doetinchem) Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth Veugelaers (78), Neer, Lim, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth Veugelers (78), Neer
• anna SARAS (72), utrecht
• Allegonda van Nistelrooij (62), Eindhoven
• Arnoldus Johannes Joseph Krapels (34), 's Gravenhage
• Anette van de Voort (71), Utrecht
• CHARLES C. SHORT (73), Kane, McKean, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Andries van Dijk (67), oud-beijerland (zuid holland)

• 1918 » Donald Regan, American colonel and politician, 11th White House Chief of Staff († 2003)
• 1919 » Doug Young, American voice actor († 2018)
• 1920 » Adele Goldstine, American computer programmer († 1964)
• 1920 » Alicia Alonso, Cuban ballerina and choreographer, founded the Cuban National Ballet († 2019)
• 1922 » Cécile DeWitt-Morette, French mathematician and physicist († 2017)
• 1922 » Itubwa Amram, Nauruan pastor and politician († 1989)
• 1922 » Paul Winchell, American actor, voice artist, and ventriloquist († 2005)
• 1923 » Wataru Misaka, American basketball player († 2019)
• 1926 » Arnošt Lustig, Czech author and playwright († 2011)
• 1926 » Joe Paterno, American football player and coach († 2012)

• 1920 » Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, Somalian general, founded the Dervish movement (b. 1856)
• 1929 » I. L. Patterson, American politician, 18th Governor of Oregon (b. 1859)
• 1933 » Knud Rasmussen, Greenlandic anthropologist and explorer (b. 1879)
• 1935 » Kurt Tucholsky, German-Swedish journalist and author (b. 1890)
• 1935 » Ted Birnie, English footballer and manager (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Frank B. Kellogg, American lawyer and politician, 45th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
• 1937 » Ted Healy, American comedian and actor (b. 1896)
• 1937 » Violette Neatley Anderson, American judge (b. 1882)
• 1940 » F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1896)
• 1945 » George S. Patton, American general (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.
• February 8 » Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
• February 12 » George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue received its premiere in a concert titled "An Experiment in Modern Music", in Aeolian Hall, New York, by Paul Whiteman and his band, with Gershwin playing the piano.
• May 21 » University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".
• October 27 » The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
• December 1 » The National Hockey League's first United States-based franchise, the Boston Bruins, played their first game in league play at home, at the still-extant Boston Arena indoor hockey facility.
• December 19 » German serial killer Fritz Haarmann is sentenced to death for a series of murders.

The temperature on December 21, 1924 was between 2.1 °C and 6.1 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.