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• van Meeteren († 1971)
• Adriana Kraat, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1926)
• Cornelis Anker, Bergambacht († 2004)
• aaltje hendrika VISSER, oud-beijerland († 2010)
• Clair R. Barefoot, West St. Clair Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania († 1978)
• Alfons De Bock, Dendermonde, Oost-Vlaanderen, Vlaanderen († 1988)
• Albert Heyninck, Stekene († 2001)
• Assina Kuipers, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1993)
• * Adriana van Emst, 's Gravenhage († 2010)
• Anna Louise Johanne Boeschoten, 's-Graveland, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2004)

• Antonius Kwik (8), Woensdrecht, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aagje LANGEDIJK (86), Zaandam
• Andries van Pelt (46), Nijmegen
• Alexis Hollaender Prof (83), Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
• Alexander Joseph Kriechelberg (53), Kerkrade (L
• Albert Jans Visser (45), Groningen, Nederland
• Alida Bogaards (71), Noordwijkerhout
• Albarta Christina Wackers (43), Rotterdam
• Albert Nieboer, Veendam
• Age Franses Postma (68), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1919 » Red Buttons, American actor († 2006)
• 1921 » Ken Adam, German-born English production designer and art director († 2016)
• 1923 » Claude King, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2013)
• 1923 » James E. Bowman, American physician and academic († 2011)
• 1924 » Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy, Indian cardinal († 2014)
• 1927 » Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Dutch captain and pilot († 1977)
• 1927 » Robert Allen, American pianist and composer († 2000)
• 1928 » Andrew Greeley, American priest, sociologist, and author († 2013)
• 1928 » P. J. Vatikiotis, Israeli-American historian and political scientist († 1997)
• 1928 » Tage Danielsson, Swedish author, actor, and director († 1985)

• 1915 » Ross Barnes, American baseball player and manager (b. 1850)
• 1917 » Jaber II Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ruler (b. 1860)
• 1922 » Christiaan de Wet, South African general and politician, State President of the Orange Free State (b. 1854)
• 1922 » Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Croatian engineer, invented the mechanical pencil (b. 1871)
• 1927 » Inayat Khan, Indian mystic and educator (b. 1882)
• 1931 » Athanasios Eftaxias, Greek politician, 118th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1849)
• 1933 » Josiah Thomas, English-Australian miner and politician (b. 1863)
• 1937 » Lou Andreas-Salomé, Russian-German psychoanalyst and author (b. 1861)
• 1938 » Hans Litten, German lawyer and jurist (b. 1903)
• 1941 » Banjo Paterson, Australian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1864)

• 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 3 » The 407-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished, when Caliph Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman Caliphate is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk.
• April 1 » The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
• May 10 » J. Edgar Hoover is appointed first Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and remains so until his death in 1972.
• June 10 » Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
• December 19 » The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.

The temperature on February 5, 1924 was between 3.8 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.