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• Cornelia A. Bakker, Texel († 1996)
• Caspar Lorenz Himmelreich, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1984)
• Bernhard Schulten, Westfalen († 1943)
• Elizabeth van der Veen, Bergum († 1997)
• Ans de Kruijf, Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1998)
• Dora GRUNES, Sanoc, Poland († 2020)
• Cornelis Kiele, Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Nederland († 1982)
• Cornelis Blokker, Broek op L'dijk († 1986)
• Antonius Bernardus Assinck, Beltrum, Gelderland, Netherlands († 2011)
• Erika Erica Elizabeth Fryda, Wattenscheid, Bochum, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany († 2012)

• Agnes Katharina Balzer (37), Mittelrode, Landkreis Fulda, Hessen, Duitsland
• Bjetje Thijsses BRAAKSMA (76), Haren, Groningen, Nederland
• Anthony Joseph Povel (59), Amsterdam,Gemeente Amsterdam,North Holland,Netherlands
• Anna Maria Laarakkers (85), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Touw, Nieuw Helvoet
• Abraham Sigebert Napoleon Scipio (60), Semarang
• Alida van 't Hof (77), Zaandam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Josephina Emilia Schoenmaekers (55)
• Christina VONK (53), Apeldoorn
• Antonetta Kunst (11), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1920 » Franco Lucentini, Italian author and screenwriter († 2002)
• 1921 » Bill Dudley, American football player († 2010)
• 1922 » Ava Gardner, American actress († 1990)
• 1923 » George Patton IV, American general († 2004)
• 1923 » William C. Schneider, American aerospace engineer († 1999)
• 1924 » Abdirizak Haji Hussein, Somalian soldier and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Somalia († 2014)
• 1924 » Lee Dorsey, American singer-songwriter († 1986)
• 1924 » Mohammed Rafi, Indian singer († 1980)
• 1924 » Norman Rossington, English actor († 1999)
• 1927 » Mary Higgins Clark, American author († 2020)

• 1914 » John Muir, Scottish-American geologist, botanist, and author, founded Sierra Club (b. 1838)
• 1920 » Stephen Mosher Wood, American lieutenant and politician (b. 1832)
• 1926 » Wesley Coe, American shot putter, hammer thrower, and discus thrower (b. 1879)
• 1931 » Carlo Fornasini, micropalaeontologist (b. 1854)
• 1931 » Flying Hawk, American warrior, educator and historian (b. 1854)
• 1935 » Alban Berg, Austrian composer and educator (b. 1885)
• 1938 » Bruno Taut, German architect and urban planner (b. 1880)
• 1941 » Siegfried Alkan, German composer (b. 1858)
• 1942 » François Darlan, French admiral and politician, 122nd Prime Minister of France (b. 1881)
• 1945 » Josephine Sabel, American singer and comedian (b. 1866)

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.
• January 25 » The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the French Alps, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
• July 24 » Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
• September 28 » The first aerial circumnavigation is completed by a team from the US Army.
• 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.
• November 27 » In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.

The temperature on December 24, 1924 was between 2.1 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.