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• Alphonse Eurlings, Lanaken († 2015)
• (l.l.) Post, Rotterdam († 1924)
• Antonius Egberts, Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland († 1924)
• Adrianus Johannes van de Westelaken, Den Dungen († 1985)
• Anna Avelina BOUWMAN († 1983)
• Adelbert Emile George Richard Perné, Bandung (Ned. Indië) († 2006)
• Agnès LEMAHIEU, Comines,7780,Hainaut,Wallonie,Belgique († 1999)
• Anna Henrietta Christina Kuiperi, Perbaoengan, Sumatra, Indonesië († 2015)
• Anneke Bastiaansen († 2008)
• Anthonie Beekman, Amsterdam († 1985)

• Alief Frances LANIER (42), Grant, Louisiana, Verenigde Staten
• Aukje Bouwes van der Meer (0), Jistrum, Tietjerkstradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• de Reus, Piershil
• Otten (0), Abcoude-Baambrugge
• Angenita Cornelia van der Lingen (0), Beusichem (Buren) (GL)
• Baukje Rudolphs Posthuma (82), Leeuwarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Adrianus Verbaten (0), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Baukje Posthuma (82), Leeuwarderadeel,, Friesland, Nederland
• Adrianus Joannes Franciscus van der Valk (19), Wateringen
• Anna Maria Haluwijn (90), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1922 » Andy Linden, American race car driver († 1987)
• 1922 » Gale Storm, American actress and singer († 2009)
• 1922 » Harry Freedman, Polish-Canadian horn player, composer, and educator († 2005)
• 1922 » Tom Finney, English footballer († 2014)
• 1923 » Ernest Mandel, German-born Belgian Marxist economist, Trotskyist activist and theorist († 1995)
• 1923 » Michael V. Gazzo, American actor († 1995)
• 1923 » Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, Vietnamese general and politician, 5th President of South Vietnam († 2001)
• 1924 » Igor Borisov, Soviet rower (d. before 2005)
• 1925 » Janet Rowley, American human geneticist († 2013)
• 1925 » Pierre Nihant, Belgian cyclist († 1993)

• 1918 » George Tupou II, King of Tonga (b. 1874)
• 1920 » Laurent Marqueste, French sculptor (b. 1848)
• 1921 » Alphons Diepenbrock, Dutch composer (b. 1862)
• 1921 » Sophie Elkan, Swedish-Jewish writer and translator (b. 1853)
• 1923 » George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English archaeologist and businessman (b. 1866)
• 1924 » Victor Hensen, German zoologist (b. 1835)
• 1928 » Roy Kilner, English cricketer and soldier (b. 1890)
• 1928 » Viktor Oliva, Czech painter and illustrator (b. 1861)
• 1929 » Francis Aidan Gasquet, English Benedictine monk (b. 1846)
• 1929 » Ludwig von Sybel, German archeologist (b. 1846)

• 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.
• April 15 » Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
• June 10 » Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
• August 28 » The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
• 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.
• 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 April 5, 1924 was between -1.1 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.