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• Catharina Herwig, Veghel, Nederland († 1954)
• Antonia Wilhelmina Zegers († 1924)
• Adrianus (Arie) Peekel, Wijk aan Zee († 1985)
• Aart Gerrit Pellicaan, De Werken en Sleeuwijk († 1958)
• Arie Otto Boot, Reeuwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1927)
• Stroo, Vlissingen
• Byron Osterweil († 1995)
• Basil T. Arend († 2010)
• Buddy Lee Johnson, Wills Point Texas († 1969)
• Aimé Jozef De Smet, Maldegem († 2005)

• Antonius Wilhelmus van der Linden (49), Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland
• AALTJE DE RIDDER (68), ROTTERDAM
• Adolf EISSES (72), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriana van der Pluijm (81), Rotterdam
• Arthur Earl LAHR (43), Pennsylvania VS
• Amelie DEHASQUE (81), Landen,Provincie Vlaams-Brabant,Flanders,Belgi
• Abraham de Jong (33), Rotterdam
• Antonet Jaspers (85), Maastricht
• Berendina Johanna Maria Hazes (73), Haarlem
• Bote Hamstra (56), Groningen

• 1920 » Gino Valenzano, Italian race car driver († 2011)
• 1922 » Marc-Adélard Tremblay, Canadian anthropologist and academic († 2014)
• 1923 » Doris Burn, American author and illustrator († 2011)
• 1923 » Gus Bodnar, Canadian ice hockey player and coach († 2005)
• 1924 » Clement Freud, German-English radio host, academic, and politician († 2009)
• 1924 » Ruth Kobart, American actress and singer († 2002)
• 1925 » Franco Leccese, Italian sprinter († 1992)
• 1926 » Marilyn Erskine, American actress
• 1926 » Thorbjörn Fälldin, Swedish farmer and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Sweden († 2016)
• 1927 » Josy Barthel, Luxembourgian runner and politician, Luxembourgian Minister for Energy († 1992)

• 1924 » G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist and academic (b. 1844)
• 1931 » David Kldiashvili, Georgian author and playwright (b. 1862)
• 1935 » Anastasios Papoulas, Greek general (b. 1857)
• 1938 » George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (b. 1863)
• 1939 » Louis Trousselier, French cyclist (b. 1881)
• 1941 » Karin Boye, Swedish author and poet (b. 1900)
• 1942 » Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author (b. 1874)
• 1944 » Charles Jordan, American magician (b. 1888)
• 1945 » Ernst-Robert Grawitz, German physician (b. 1899)
• 1947 » Hans Biebow, German SS officer (b. 1902)

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.
• 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.
• June 26 » The American occupation of the Dominican Republic ends after eight years.
• July 24 » Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
• October 31 » World Savings Day is announced in Milan, Italy by the Members of the Association at the 1st International Savings Bank Congress (World Society of Savings Banks).
• November 4 » Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female elected as governor in the United States.

The temperature on April 24, 1924 was between 5.0 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (12%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.