About the day » Thursday May 15, 1924Calender converter

• Nn, Arnhem († 1924)
• Albertha Fijtje Oudhof, Bunnik, Utrecht, Nederland († 1990)
• Anna Maria de Bont, Alkmaar († 2016)
• Andreas Joannes Gerardus De Wit, Oppuurs († 2001)
• , Tongerlo († 1987)
• Anthonia (Toos) Ciggaar, Sassenheim, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2014)
• Aeiko Doornbosch, Nijmegen († 1984)
• Adriana Groen, Schoorl,, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1984)
• Albert Jans RENKEMA, Grootegast Groningen Netherlands († 1989)
• Abraham Pieter Poppe, Middelburg († 1945)

• Adriaan Marie Antoon Elemans (0), Ede, Gelderland (NL.)
• Anna Maria von Westphalen zu Fürstenberg (74), Gross-Hluschitz,, Czech Republic
• Aaltje Schimmel (72), Apeldoorn
• Alberdina Antonetta Maria van Zagten (78), Den Haag,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Klamer (1), Odoorn, Drenthe, Nederland
• Alida Hermans (77), Hillegom, South Holland, Netherlands
• Alida Boverman (70), Hilversum
• Aaltje Jelles Wouda (67), Drachten, Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Barbara Josephina REMITS (76), Hasselt, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie
• Albert Bergman (60), raalte

• 1922 » Jakucho Setouchi, Japanese nun and author
• 1922 » Sigurd Ottovich Schmidt, Russian historian and ethnographer († 2013)
• 1923 » John Lanchbery, English-Australian composer and conductor († 2003)
• 1923 » Richard Avedon, American sailor and photographer († 2004)
• 1924 » Maria Koepcke, German-Peruvian ornithologist and zoologist († 1971)
• 1925 » Andrei Eshpai, Russian pianist and composer († 2015)
• 1925 » Carl Sanders, American soldier, pilot, and politician, 74th Governor of Georgia († 2014)
• 1925 » Mary F. Lyon, English geneticist and biologist († 2014)
• 1925 » Roy Stewart, Jamaican-English actor and stuntman († 2008)
• 1926 » Clermont Pépin, Canadian pianist, composer, and educator († 2006)

• 1914 » Ida Freund, Austrian-born chemist and educator (b. 1863)
• 1919 » Hasan Tahsin, Turkish journalist (b. 1888)
• 1924 » Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1926 » Joseph James Fletcher, Australian biologist (b. 1850)
• 1928 » Umegatani Tōtarō I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 15th Yokozuna (b. 1845)
• 1935 » Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian-Russian painter and theoretician (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1864)
• 1945 » Charles Williams, English author, poet, and critic (b. 1886)
• 1945 » Kenneth J. Alford, English soldier, bandmaster, and composer (b. 1881)
• 1948 » Edward J. Flanagan, Irish-American priest, founded Boys Town (b. 1886)

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.
• February 5 » The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal.
• 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.
• 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.
• May 8 » The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory) into Lithuania.
• June 2 » U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
• September 28 » The first aerial circumnavigation is completed by a team from the US Army.

The temperature on May 15, 1924 was between 12.2 °C and 22.8 °C and averaged 16.8 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.