About the day » Monday May 5, 1924Calender converter

• Clazina Honkoop, Hekendorp,Gemeente Oudewater,Utrecht,Netherlands († 1956)
• Adrianus Lambertus Verhulst, Dongen († 2005)
• Cornelis van Eijk, Rotterdam († 1925)
• Cor van 't Veer († 2013)
• Berendina KNOOP, Almelo († 2010)
• Cornelis Oerlemans, Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg († 1924)
• Andrianus Krikke, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland († 1996)
• Cornelis, Tilburg († 1924)
• André Couckuyt, Kuurne, WVL, B († 1982)
• Ootjers, Broek op Langedijk († 1999)

• Adeline CERRE (80), Coteau Du Lac, 1654534, Quebec, Canada
• Casper Portegies (65), Haarlem
• Veldhuizen, Vledder
• Bastiaantje Weeda (66), 's-Gravendeel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Benjamin Franklin Lewis (67), Stanford, Lincoln, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana Stabij (63), Sliedrecht
• Arij van Santen (76), Voorschoten, ZH, Nederland
• Adriaan de Fouw (64), Middelburg
• Adrianus Jacobus Marie van Maarschalkerweerd (54), Strijen
• Anna Lelieveld (40), Stompwijk, Leidschendam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands

• 1919 » Georgios Papadopoulos, Greek colonel and politician, 169th Prime Minister of Greece († 1999)
• 1921 » Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1999)
• 1922 » Irene Gut Opdyke, Polish nurse and humanitarian († 2003)
• 1923 » Cathleen Synge Morawetz, Canadian mathematician († 2017)
• 1923 » James Gilbert, Scottish television producer and director († 2016)
• 1923 » Richard Wollheim, English philosopher and academic († 2003)
• 1923 » William C. Campbell, American golfer († 2013)
• 1925 » Leo Ryan, American soldier, educator, and politician († 1978)
• 1927 » Pat Carroll, American actress
• 1929 » Ilene Woods, American actress († 2010)

• 1902 » Bret Harte, American short story writer and poet (b. 1836)
• 1907 » Şeker Ahmed Pasha, Turkish soldier and painter (b. 1841)
• 1913 » Henry Moret, French painter (b. 1856)
• 1916 » John MacBride, Irish soldier and rebel (b. 1865)
• 1916 » Maurice Raoul-Duval, French polo player (b. 1866)
• 1921 » Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian journalist and publicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1924 » A. Sabapathy, Sri Lankan journalist and politician (b. 1853)
• 1931 » Glen Kidston, English pilot and race car driver (b. 1899)
• 1942 » Qemal Stafa, Albanian politician (b. 1920)
• 1947 » Ty LaForest, Canadian-American baseball player (b. 1917)

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 25 » The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the French Alps, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
• February 8 » Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
• 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.
• July 24 » Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
• September 28 » The first aerial circumnavigation is completed by a team from the US Army.
• December 19 » German serial killer Fritz Haarmann is sentenced to death for a series of murders.

The temperature on May 5, 1924 was between 2.0 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.