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• Albertus Koning, Scheveningen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2010)
• Cornelis John van Beekum († 2017)
• Albert Wigbold, Hengelo († 2007)
• Chirstiaan Dina de Water, Den Haag († 2012)
• Edna Irene CHRISTENSEN, Hinckley, Millard County, Utah, United States of America († 2017)
• Christianus Albertus Wessels, Haarlemmermeer († 2009)
• Arnoldus Albertus van Kol, Nijmegen († 2001)
• Catharina Theissling, Castricum, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1924)
• Cornelis Varkevisser, Den Haag († 1998)
• Alfred VAN MOPPES, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 1999)

• Corstiana Jacomina van Winkelhoff (16), IJsselmonde
• Antonia Priem (54), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Caroline Ellen Anderson (84), Fountain Green, Sanpete, Utah, Verenigde Staten
• Antonius MARS (66), Zwolle
• Amélia Eugênia Teixeira Leite (84), Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
• Alice Rauch de Nyék (73), Zagreb, Croatie
• Albert Greenhalgh (68), Easington, Durham
• Catharina Hofenk (66), Kring van Dorth (Gorssel)
• Barendtje de Heer (85), Barendrecht
• Christine Wilhelmina Johanna Delphina Rudolph (64), Bangil

• 1922 » Leon M. Lederman, American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate († 2018)
• 1923 » Francisco de Andrade, Portuguese sailor
• 1924 » Jeremiah Denton, American admiral and politician († 2014)
• 1924 » Marianne Bernadotte, Swedish actress and philanthropist
• 1925 » Antony Carbone, American actor
• 1925 » D. A. Pennebaker, American documentary filmmaker († 2019)
• 1925 » Evan Hultman, American politician
• 1925 » Pandel Savic, American football player († 2018)
• 1925 » Philip Carey, American actor († 2009)
• 1925 » Taylor Hardwick, American architect, designed Haydon Burns Library and Friendship Fountain Park († 2014)

• 1919 » Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1929 » Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1874)
• 1930 » Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1845)
• 1931 » Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian-German economist and mathematician (b. 1868)
• 1932 » Bahíyyih Khánum, Iranian writer and leader in the Baha'i faith (b. 1846)
• 1932 » Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven, South African poet and politician (b. 1873)
• 1933 » Freddie Keppard, American cornet player (b. 1890)
• 1933 » Irving Babbitt, American scholar, critic, and academic (b. 1865)
• 1940 » Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist and physician (b. 1857)
• 1940 » Robert Wadlow, American giant, 8"11' 271 cm (b.1918)

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.
• March 16 » In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, Fiume becomes annexed as part of Italy.
• 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.
• June 26 » The American occupation of the Dominican Republic ends after eight years.
• August 4 » Diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Soviet Union are established.
• August 28 » The Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.

The temperature on July 15, 1924 was between 8.1 °C and 24.6 °C and averaged 17.9 °C. There was 13.1 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.