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• Bastiaan van de Werken, Nieuwkoop, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 2008)
• Antonius Johannes de Groot, Voorhout († 1925)
• Albert Jan van den Poll, Ambt Hardenberg († 1924)
• Anthonius Adrianus Sieraad, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, NL († 1981)
• Antje Johanna van de Vooren, Arnhem († 2021)
• Anna Adriana Hordijk († 2003)
• Baarthoud Corving, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1994)
• Alida Kooij, Overschie († 2007)
• Anna Cornelia Zwanenburg, Bodegraven († 2012)
• Alida Kooy, Overschie, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2007)

• Aaltje Jansen (70), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Andries Arnoldus Maertzdorff (75), Herwen en Aerdt
• Aleida Hendrica Elizabeth Willemsen (84), Arnhem
• Alberta Adriana Kerkhof (53), Deil West Betuwe (GL)
• Alberta Adriana Kerkhof (53), Deil, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltjen Hup (75), Harderwijk
• Nn Duinkerken (0), Hollandscheveld
• Antonetta VAN GESTEL (53), Gilze Rijen,North-Brabant,Netherlands
• Anna Wiering (32), Wervershoof, Medemblik, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alle Jacobs Slagter (89), Zevenhuizen Leek

• 1921 » Jean Richard, French actor and singer († 2001)
• 1922 » Barbara Hale, American actress († 2017)
• 1922 » Lord Kitchener, Trinidadian singer († 2000)
• 1923 » Alfred Bieler, Swiss ice hockey player († 2013)
• 1923 » Beryl Platt, Baroness Platt of Writtle, English engineer and politician († 2015)
• 1924 » Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2005)
• 1924 » Henry Hyde, American commander, lawyer, and politician († 2007)
• 1924 » Roy Mason, English miner and politician, Secretary of State for Defence († 2015)
• 1925 » Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer and author († 2005)
• 1926 » Doug Insole, English cricketer († 2017)

• 1906 » Luis Martín, Spanish religious leader, 24th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1846)
• 1912 » Martha Ripley, American physician (b. 1843)
• 1917 » Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist and academic (b. 1858)
• 1923 » Savina Petrilli, Italian religious leader (b. 1851)
• 1936 » Milton Brown, American singer and bandleader (b. 1903)
• 1936 » Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer and conductor (b. 1879)
• 1938 » George Bryant, American archer (b. 1878)
• 1942 » Aleksander Mitt, Estonian speed skater (b. 1903)
• 1942 » Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American heiress, sculptor and art collector, founded the Whitney Museum of American Art (b. 1875)
• 1943 » Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral (b. 1884)

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.
• January 22 » Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• February 1 » Russia–United Kingdom relations are restored, over six years after the Communist revolution.
• February 5 » The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal.
• April 1 » The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
• July 24 » Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
• October 25 » The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the Daily Mail; the Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives' landslide election win four days later.

The temperature on April 18, 1924 was between -1.9 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 11.0 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.