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• Carl Newton Todd Sr, Cannon, Tennessee, United States († 2004)
• Carl Norman Wackerly, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 2007)
• Arnoldus Theodorus Roijackers, Aarle Rixtel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2008)
• Catharina Tesselaar († 1998)
• Arie Kros, Sliedrecht († 2019)
• Anne Douma, Schoterland,, Friesland, Nederland († 2004)
• Charles Arthur Southern Jr, Pascagoula, Jackson, Mississippi, Verenigde Staten († 1997)
• Adrian Petrus Smeets († 2011)
• - Reit, Veelerveen, Groningen, Nederland († 1924)
• Agnes Iverine Stortjønnli, Grane, Nordland, Norge († 2010)

• Augustinus Claes (51), Molenstede, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgie
• Arie van Aken (81), Papendrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Aerts (76), Helden, Limburg, Netherlands
• Angèle Driesen (2), Hasselt, België
• Albertus van Leeuwen (88), Ede Gld
• Aaltje Arjens Grouwstra (74), 's Gravenhage
• Benjamin Willem Van Dijk (85), Tholen(ZL)
• Anna Maria Zwaaneveld (41), Scheveningen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna - Johanna Eggenhuizen - Eggenhuisen (72), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Albertus Gelmers (42), Hoogeveen

• 1922 » Little Joe Cook, American singer-songwriter († 2014)
• 1922 » William Gaddis, American author and academic († 1998)
• 1923 » Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegalese historian, anthropologist, and physicist († 1986)
• 1923 » Dina Merrill, American actress, game show panelist, socialite, heiress, and businesswoman († 2017)
• 1923 » Morton Estrin, American pianist and educator († 2017)
• 1923 » Shlomo Venezia, Greek-Italian author and Holocaust survivor († 2012)
• 1923 » Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, French mathematician and physicist
• 1924 » Joe Allbritton, American businessman and publisher, founded the Allbritton Communications Company († 2012)
• 1924 » Kim Song-ae, Korean politician († 2014)
• 1925 » Pete Dye, American golfer and architect († 2020)

• 1900 » John Henry Leech, English entomologist (b. 1862)
• 1910 » Reginald Doherty, English tennis player (b. 1872)
• 1924 » Carl Spitteler, Swiss poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
• 1925 » Félix Vallotton, Swiss/French painter (b. 1865)
• 1926 » Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet and author (b. 1875)
• 1929 » Wilhelm Maybach, German engineer and businessman, founded Maybach (b. 1846)
• 1937 » Don Marquis, American journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1878)
• 1941 » Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician and scholar (b. 1873)
• 1944 » Khasan Israilov, Chechen rebel (b. 1910)
• 1949 » Tyler Dennett, American historian and author (b. 1883)

• 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 22 » Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• February 8 » Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
• March 3 » The Free State of Fiume is annexed by the Kingdom of Italy.
• March 16 » In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, Fiume becomes annexed as part of Italy.
• September 28 » The first aerial circumnavigation is completed by a team from the US Army.
• December 19 » German serial killer Fritz Haarmann is sentenced to death for a series of murders.

The temperature on December 29, 1924 was between 1.1 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 3.3 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.