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• Antonina Maria Geertruid Philippi, Seefeld (Dld) († 2012)
• Aaltje Houkes, Groningen († 1976)
• Adrianus (Aad) Knegt, Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1977)
• August Van Hissenhoven, Aartselaar 2630 († 2003)
• Adriaantje Johanna Koenderman, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2004)
• Adrianus Josephus Wilhelmus van den Biggelaar, Oisterwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1935)
• Anna Overdijk, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2014)
• de Koning, Montfoort, Utrecht, Nederland († 1924)
• Assinck, Eibergen Berkelland Gelderland Nederland († 1924)
• Agnes HAMER, Amsterdam,, Pays-Bas

• Adriana Roos
• Christina Rietveld (64), Utrecht
• Cornelia Catharina van der Valk (57), Rotterdam
• Barradina Goedhart, Bandoeng
• Anna Marie Van der Pol (65), North Bergen,Hudson,New Jersey,United States
• Catharina Heeren (82), Zundert
• Abrahamina Johanna Weemeijer (81), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Johanna van Velsen (66), Overschie
• Aaltje van Ruler (0), Barneveld, Gelderland, Nederland
• Berendina Olink (70), Hengelo

• 1922 » Anker Jørgensen, Danish trade union leader and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Denmark († 2016)
• 1922 » Helmy Afify Abd El-Bar, Egyptian military commander († 2011)
• 1922 » Ken Mosdell, Canadian ice hockey player († 2006)
• 1922 » Leslie Brooks, American actress († 2011)
• 1923 » Ashley Bryan, American children's book author and illustrator
• 1924 » Johnny Gilbert, American game show host and announcer
• 1925 » Huang Zongying, Chinese actress and writer
• 1925 » Suzanne Zimmerman, American competition swimmer and Olympic medalist
• 1926 » Robert H. Justman, American director, producer, and production manager († 2008)
• 1926 » T. Loren Christianson, American politician († 2019)

• 1907 » Henrik Sillem, Dutch target shooter and jurist (b. 1866)
• 1911 » Allan McLean, Scottish-Australian politician, 19th Premier of Victoria (b. 1840)
• 1921 » Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourger physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
• 1922 » Martin Dies Sr., American journalist and politician (b. 1870)
• 1927 » Mimar Kemaleddin Bey, Turkish architect and academic, designed the Tayyare Apartments (b. 1870)
• 1934 » Mary E. Byrd, American astronomer and academic (b. 1849)
• 1936 » Kojo Tovalou Houénou, Beninese lawyer and politician (b. 1887)
• 1941 » Ilmar Raud, Estonian chess player (b. 1913)
• 1945 » Alla Nazimova, Russian-American actress, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1879)
• 1946 » Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer and curator (b. 1864)

• 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.
• March 16 » In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, Fiume becomes annexed as part of Italy.
• April 15 » Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
• May 21 » University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr. murder 14-year-old Bobby Franks in a "thrill killing".
• 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.
• December 19 » The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.

The temperature on July 13, 1924 was between 15.3 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 18.8 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.