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• Bonnie Lee Etta Sykes, Pickens McCurtain County Oklahoma, Verenigde Staten († 2001)
• Antonius Josephus Johannes (Ton) Steman, Amsterdam Noord-Holland Nederland († 1984)
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• Carlos Noyez († 1994)
• Anna Francisca van Herp, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1985)
• Billy Francis Wells, Lindale, Smith Co., Tx († 1985)
• Albert de Jong, Noordeloos († 1998)
• Anna Catharina Tuk († 2001)
• ANNA van 't Noordende, Amsterdam, Nederland († 2009)
• (Stillborn) WIND, Arnhem Gelderland Netherlands († 1924)

• Adriaan Blom, 's-Gravenmoer, Nederland
• Apollonia Johanna Maria Sonnenberg (90), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Anna Peters (1), Bocholtz, Limburg, Nederland
• Albertus van Breda (0), Beusichem (Buren) (GL)
• Anna Maria Philomena van Loenhout (75), Halsteren, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arie Middag (80), Bunnik
• Anna Maria Elisabeth Senden Zenden (62), Overije(B)
• Agnès Joseph DUBOIS (67), Soumagne, 62099, Liège, Belgique
• Alice Marie Justin (79), Cranston, Rhode Island
• Aart Boeve (82), Elspeet

• 1922 » Carl Furillo, American baseball player († 1989)
• 1922 » Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer († 2008)
• 1922 » Ralph H. Baer, German-American video game designer, created the Magnavox Odyssey († 2014)
• 1922 » Shigeru Mizuki, Japanese author and illustrator († 2015)
• 1922 » Yevgeny Matveyev, Russian actor and director († 2003)
• 1924 » Anthony Caro, English sculptor and illustrator († 2013)
• 1924 » Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2010)
• 1924 » Sean McClory, Irish-American actor and director († 2003)
• 1925 » Warren Bennis, American scholar, author, and academic († 2014)
• 1926 » Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter († 2001)

• 1917 » Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and businessman, founded the Zeppelin Company (b. 1838)
• 1923 » Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)
• 1923 » Krišjānis Barons, Latvian linguist and author (b. 1835)
• 1930 » Edward Terry Sanford, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, United States Assistant Attorney General (b. 1865)
• 1930 » William Howard Taft, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 27th President of the United States (b. 1857)
• 1935 » Hachikō, Japanese dog (b. 1923)
• 1937 » Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1902)
• 1941 » Sherwood Anderson, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1876)
• 1942 » José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player and theoretician (b. 1888)
• 1944 » Fredy Hirsch, German Jewish athlete who helped thousands of Jewish children in the Holocaust (b. 1916)

• 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 12 » George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue received its premiere in a concert titled "An Experiment in Modern Music", in Aeolian Hall, New York, by Paul Whiteman and his band, with Gershwin playing the piano.
• April 15 » Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
• August 4 » Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established.
• September 9 » Hanapepe massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.
• October 27 » The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
• 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.

The temperature on March 8, 1924 was between -4.3 °C and 7.6 °C and averaged 1.2 °C. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.