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• Anne Roelof Dijkstra, groningen († 1991)
• Catharina Geertruida Veken († 1980)
• Bertha Gezina Rietberg, Haarlemmermeer († 1986)
• Barthold Jacob Lintelo Baron de Geer, Utrecht († 1988)
• Adrianus Gerardus Josephus Neuteboom, Kamerik,, Utrecht, Nederland († 1989)
• Allan Aubrey Allies, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa († 2006)
• Barthold Jacob Lintelo de Geer van Jutphaas, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1988)
• Antje Jacoba van Dijk, Amsterdam († 2006)
• Catherine Farrell († 2002)
• Catharina Josephina Sleegers, Nieuwkuijk († 1925)

• Anna Maria Verdonschot (74), Weert, Limburg, Nederland
• Antje Barneveld (85), Aalsmeer, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Adriaantje van Grootheest (80), Ede
• Arij Jacob de Klerck (89), Castricum
• Bartholomeus van den Dungen (0), Westerhoven (gemeente Bergeijk)
• Ariaantje Boer (59), Sliedrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Agatha van der Voorden (2), Rotterdam, Provincie Zuid-Holland
• Adriana Amerentia Blom (62), Amersfoort
• Adrianus Hendricus Verbisen (32), Schoten (België)
• Annie GANLEY (60), Goole, Yorkshire, England

• 1922 » B. Neminathan, Sri Lankan politician
• 1922 » Grace Hartigan, American painter and educator († 2008)
• 1922 » Joey Maxim, American boxer and actor († 2001)
• 1922 » Neville Bonner, Australian politician († 1999)
• 1923 » Paul C. Donnelly, American scientist and engineer († 2014)
• 1923 » Thad Jones, American trumpet player and composer († 1986)
• 1924 » Fred Flanagan, Australian footballer († 2013)
• 1924 » Freddie Bartholomew, American actor († 1992)
• 1925 » Dorothy DeBorba, American child actress († 2010)
• 1925 » Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Russian actor († 1994)

• 1910 » Édouard Colonne, French violinist and conductor (b. 1838)
• 1917 » Albert Pinkham Ryder, American painter (b. 1847)
• 1923 » Charles Hubbard, American archer (b. 1849)
• 1927 » Joseph-Médard Émard, Canadian archbishop (b. 1853)
• 1929 » Katharine Lee Bates, American poet and songwriter (b. 1859)
• 1929 » Lomer Gouin, Canadian lawyer and politician, 13th Premier of Quebec (b. 1861)
• 1934 » Mahmoud Mokhtar, Egyptian sculptor and educator (b. 1891)
• 1941 » Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian police officer (b. 1877)
• 1941 » Marcus Hurley, American basketball player and cyclist (b. 1883)
• 1941 » Virginia Woolf, English novelist, essayist, short story writer, and critic (b. 1882)

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.
• July 11 » Eric Liddell won the gold medal in 400m at the 1924 Paris Olympics, after refusing to run in the heats for 100m, his favoured distance, on the Sunday.
• August 28 » The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
• September 28 » The first aerial circumnavigation is completed by a team from the US Army.
• October 27 » The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
• December 19 » German serial killer Fritz Haarmann is sentenced to death for a series of murders.

The temperature on March 28, 1924 was between 0.3 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.