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• Adriaan van Klinken, Ouwerkerk († 2002)
• Clyde Wilber Sedman, Tennessee († 1993)
• Apolonia koorneef, Vlaardingen († 1996)
• Charlotte (Jean) Summers, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 2011)
• Angelina Johanna Maria (Lina) Rombouts, 's-Hertogenbosch († 2015)
• Catharina Maria Wilhelmina Giesbers, Susteren, Limburg, Netherlands († 2006)
• Berend u. Gepkea Tochter Barkela, Weenermoor, Ostfriesland, Hannover, Preußen († 1924)
• Anna Louise Eeman, Amsterdam, Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2010)
• Anna Henrica Cornelia Stofmeel, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1999)
• Arnold Da Costa Da Fonceca, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1943)

• Antonius Alphonsus Kalberg (70), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Adriaantje Noordijk (65), St. Philipsland
• Allegonda Maria van Peperstraten (0), Oude Tonge, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Eisinga (56), Veenhuizen
• Abraham De Hooge (80)
• Adriana Louwerse (85), Koudekerke, Veere, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Adriana Louwerse (85), Koudekerke
• Anna Maria Gieske (59), Haarlem
• Albert Jan van den Poll (0), Ambt Hardenberg
• Antonia Rorijs (2), Rotterdam

• 1920 » Gene Leis, American guitarist, composer, and producer († 1993)
• 1920 » Marvin Mandel, American lawyer and politician, 56th Governor of Maryland († 2015)
• 1921 » Anna Lee Aldred, American jockey († 2006)
• 1921 » Leon Henkin, American logician († 2006)
• 1921 » Roberto Tucci, Italian Jesuit leader, cardinal, and theologian († 2015)
• 1922 » David Smith, politician in Rhodesia and Zimbabwe († 1996)
• 1922 » Erich Hartmann, German colonel and pilot († 1993)
• 1925 » Hugh O'Brian, American actor († 2016)
• 1925 » John Kraaijkamp, Sr., Dutch actor († 2011)
• 1926 » Rawya Ateya, Egyptian captain and politician († 1997)

• 1906 » Pierre Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
• 1909 » Signe Rink, Greenland-born Danish writer and ethnologist (b. 1836)
• 1914 » Charles Sanders Peirce, American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1839)
• 1915 » Thomas Playford II, English-Australian politician, 17th Premier of South Australia (b. 1837)
• 1916 » Ephraim Shay, American engineer, designed the Shay locomotive (b. 1839)
• 1926 » Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian-Swiss statistician and theorist (b. 1874)
• 1930 » Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1827)
• 1937 » Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington, English cartographer and politician (b. 1856)
• 1937 » William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist and zoologist (b. 1865)
• 1941 » Johanna Müller-Hermann, Austrian composer (b. 1878)

• 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 25 » The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the French Alps, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
• February 14 » The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
• March 3 » The 407-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished, when Caliph Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman Caliphate is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk.
• March 3 » The Free State of Fiume is annexed by the Kingdom of Italy.
• April 1 » The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
• December 24 » Albania becomes a republic.

The temperature on April 19, 1924 was between 5.8 °C and 11.1 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.