About the day » Monday March 17, 1924Calender converter

• Adrianna Van Kerrebroeck, De Pinte († 1926)
• Alice ARNOLS, Henis (Limburg) (B) († 2004)
• Arie GRANDIA, Brakel (Gld.) († 1924)
• Annie Josefina Adriana Moonen, Loon op Zand († 1999)
• Aaffien Theodora Helle, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Bertha Frederika Stibbe, Amsterdam, Nederland († 1942)
• Albertus Bijl de, Deurne, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 2001)
• * Carel Frederik Hendrik van Tuyll van Serooskerken, Geldrop († 2014)
• Bastiaantje van der Valk († 1954)
• Anna Maria Schaaij, Rotterdam († 1941)

• Adriana BROUWER (64), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Maria Christina PHILIPSEN (75), Eindhoven,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Swaantina Paulina Tichelaar (43), Vries
• * Koenraad Cornelis Ottevanger (43), Gorinchem
• Albert King (50), aged 49 years, Mudgee, NSW, AU
• Abram van Vliet (81), Amsterdam
• Annigje Geugjens Houwer (87), ,, Drachten, Smallingerland, Friesland, Netherlands
• Adrianus Petrus Dietvorst (64), Loosduinen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Brouwer (65), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Arie Martinusz Harteveld (83), Scheveningen

• 1919 » Nat King Cole, American singer, pianist, and television host († 1965)
• 1920 » Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladeshi politician, 1st President of Bangladesh († 1975)
• 1921 » Meir Amit, Israeli general and politician, 12th Israeli Minister of Communications († 2009)
• 1922 » Patrick Suppes, American psychologist and philosopher († 2014)
• 1924 » Stephen Dodgson, English composer and educator († 2013)
• 1925 » Gabriele Ferzetti, Italian actor († 2015)
• 1926 » Siegfried Lenz, Polish-German author and playwright († 2014)
• 1927 » Betty Allen, American soprano and educator († 2009)
• 1928 » William John McKeag, Canadian businessman and politician, 17th Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba († 2007)
• 1930 » Paul Horn, American-Canadian flute player and saxophonist († 2014)

• 1893 » Jules Ferry, French lawyer and politician, 44th Prime Minister of France (b. 1832)
• 1917 » Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (b. 1838)
• 1926 » Aleksei Brusilov, Georgian-Russian general (b. 1853)
• 1937 » Austen Chamberlain, English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1863)
• 1940 » Philomène Belliveau, Canadian artist (b. 1854)
• 1946 » Dai Li, Chinese general (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Aleksandra Ekster, Russian-French painter and set designer (b. 1882)
• 1956 » Fred Allen, American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and author (b. 1894)
• 1956 » Irène Joliot-Curie, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1957 » Ramon Magsaysay, Filipino captain and politician, 7th President of the Philippines (b. 1907)

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.
• 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.
• November 23 » Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.
• November 27 » In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
• December 19 » German serial killer Fritz Haarmann is sentenced to death for a series of murders.
• December 19 » The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.
• December 20 » Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison.

The temperature on March 17, 1924 was between -1.6 °C and 7.5 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (68%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.