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• Alfons Hubert Peyffers, Alken, België († 1946)
• Albert MINNER, Pamel,1760,Brabant Flamand,Bruxelles Capitale,BELGIQUE († 2014)
• Berendina Jacoba Rondhuis († 1974)
• Agnes Hendriks, Angeren († 2012)
• Aaltje Elmers, Diepenveen († 2000)
• Catho Johanna Kuijpers, Huisseling († 1987)
• Braskey G. Bentley, North Carolina († 1999)
• Bernice Marie Dudley, Adair, Iowa, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika († 2017)
• Albert Hulleman († 1979)
• Anna Adriana Kortekaas, Warmond († 2007)

• Aafke Teenstra (62), Grootegast, Groningen, Nederland
• Alida Reevers (92), Haarlem
• Adriana Catharina Oremus (52), Haarlem
• B Ike (83), Groningen
• Annette MEIJER (74), Enkhuizen (Noord-Holland)
• Westland (0), Utrecht
• Aaltjen Bloemkolk (81), Voorst
• Barbara Elisabeth Silon (95), Delft, South Holland, Netherlands
• Arthur Ghislain van Waes (5), IJzendijke
• Adrianus Heemskerk (60), Hillegom

• 1922 » Harding Lemay, American screenwriter and playwright († 2018)
• 1923 » Heinz Wallberg, German conductor († 2004)
• 1925 » Cornell Borchers, Lithuanian-German actress and singer († 2014)
• 1925 » Ervin Kassai, Hungarian basketball player and referee († 2012)
• 1925 » Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist and engineer († 2004)
• 1925 » Mary Hinkson, American dancer and choreographer († 2014)
• 1926 » Charles Goodell, American lawyer and politician († 1987)
• 1926 » Jerry Lewis, American actor and comedian († 2017)
• 1927 » Daniel Patrick Moynihan, American sociologist and politician, 12th United States Ambassador to the United Nations († 2003)
• 1927 » Vladimir Komarov, Russian pilot, engineer, and astronaut († 1967)

• 1912 » Max Burckhard, Austrian theater director (b. 1854)
• 1914 » Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss lawyer and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
• 1914 » Gaston Calmette, French journalist (b. 1858)
• 1914 » John Murray, Scottish oceanographer, biologist, and limnologist (b. 1841)
• 1925 » August von Wassermann, German bacteriologist and hygienist (b. 1866)
• 1930 » Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish general and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1870)
• 1935 » Aron Nimzowitsch, Latvian-Danish chess player (b. 1886)
• 1935 » John James Rickard Macleod, Scottish physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
• 1936 » Marguerite Durand, French actress, journalist, and activist (b. 1864)
• 1937 » Alexander von Staël-Holstein, Estonian orientalist and sinologist (b. 1877)

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 » Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years imprisonment for his participation in the "Beer Hall Putsch" but spends only nine months in jail.
• May 8 » The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania.
• June 26 » The American occupation of the Dominican Republic ends after eight years.
• September 17 » The Border Protection Corps is established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet raids and local bandits.
• October 27 » The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.

The temperature on March 16, 1924 was between -1.0 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 3.2 °C. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.