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• de Vries, Bellingwolde, Nederland († 1924)
• Clayton Buffkin, Columbus County, North Carolina († 1973)
• Allan Stephen Chase († 2007)
• Barbara Pepels, Stein, Limburg, Nederland († 1994)
• Adrianus Petrus Maria Droog, Naaldwijk,Zuid Holland, Nederland († 2000)
• Arnoldus Maria (Noud) Vogels, Lieshout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2004)
• Agatha Catharina Scholte, Schiedam († 1994)
• Adriana Antonia Grada de Jongh, Tiel, Nederland († 2011)
• Arie van der Heul, Krimpen aan de Lek († 2014)
• Annie Christien Sellen († 2005)

• van Tol, Hilversum
• Steur (0), Eindhoven
• Anton Rust (45), Den Haag, Nederland
• Aart de Man (53), Geervliet, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Berendina Blom (86), Hengelo (Goy)
• Adriana Berendina Blom (86), Gooi (Hengelo)
• Arthur Spence Carver (48), Ashby St Mary, Norfolk, England
• Anna van Vliet (24), Berghem, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltjen Weustenenk (78), Hengelo
• Aaltjen Weustenenk (78), Bekveld (Hengelo gld)

• 1921 » Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs, English historian and academic († 2016)
• 1921 » Gaston Rébuffat, French mountaineer and author († 1985)
• 1922 » Darren McGavin, American actor and director († 2006)
• 1922 » Joe O'Donnell, American photographer and journalist († 2007)
• 1923 » Anne Baxter, American actress († 1985)
• 1923 » Bülent Ulusu, Turkish admiral and politician, 18th Prime Minister of Turkey († 2015)
• 1923 » Jim Lowe, American singer-songwriter, disc jockey, and radio host († 2016)
• 1924 » Albert Band, French-American director and producer († 2002)
• 1925 » Lauri Vaska, Estonian-American chemist and academic († 2015)
• 1927 » Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German-American author and screenwriter († 2013)

• 1917 » Albert Ball, English fighter pilot (b. 1896)
• 1922 » Max Wagenknecht, German pianist and composer (b. 1857)
• 1924 » Alluri Sitarama Raju, Indian activist (b. 1897/1898)
• 1925 » William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, English businessman and politician (b. 1851)
• 1937 » Ernst A. Lehmann, German captain and author (b. 1886)
• 1938 » Octavian Goga, Romanian politician, former Prime Minister (b. 1881)
• 1940 » George Lansbury, English journalist and politician (b. 1859)
• 1941 » James George Frazer, Scottish-English anthropologist and academic (b. 1854)
• 1942 » Felix Weingartner, Croatian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1863)
• 1943 » Fethi Okyar, Turkish colonel and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1880)

• 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).
• April 15 » Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
• August 28 » The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
• September 17 » The Border Protection Corps is established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet raids and local bandits.
• December 1 » The National Hockey League's first United States-based franchise, the Boston Bruins, played their first game in league play at home, at the still-extant Boston Arena indoor hockey facility.

The temperature on May 7, 1924 was between 6.3 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.