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• Anna Maria Leferink, Borne († 2009)
• Catharina Maria Deen, Grootebroek († 1925)
• Antje Osinga, Burgwerd († 1945)
• van Brenk, Kesteren († 1924)
• Alida Maria Hogedoorn, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2013)
• Antonia Stephanie (Nieke) Vananderoye, Alken, België († 2013)
• Aukje Bijlsma, - († 2010)
• Aarnout Pieter Schrier, Kats, Zeeland, Nederland († 2015)
• Alfons Gerard Demeersseman, Westrozebeke († 1982)
• Bertha Adriana Brouwer, Hilversum, Hilversum, North Holland, Netherlands († 2012)

• Adriaan Markenstein (46), Rotterdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Blom (24), Leiden
• Effie Estelle Duckett (39), Laurens County, South Carolina, Verenigde Staten
• christiaan emme johannes van hengel (39), groningen
• Cornelis Muller (83), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Kooijman (83), Puttershoek
• Cornelis Charles Constantijn Meriba (73), .Paramaribo, Paramaribo, Suriname
• Christianus Verdaasdonk (0), Middelburg Nederland
• Cristobal Limon (0), San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, México
• Cornelia Petronella Maria van Went (87), Naaldwijk

• 1921 » Émile Genest, Canadian-American actor († 2003)
• 1921 » Garry Davis, American pilot and activist, created the World Passport († 2013)
• 1922 » Adolfo Celi, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter († 1986)
• 1922 » Norman Lear, American screenwriter and producer
• 1923 » Mas Oyama, South Korean-Japanese martial artist († 1994)
• 1924 » Otar Taktakishvili, Georgian composer and conductor († 1989)
• 1924 » Vincent Canby, American historian and critic († 2000)
• 1927 » Guy Carawan, American singer and musicologist († 2015)
• 1927 » Pierre Granier-Deferre, French director and screenwriter († 2007)
• 1927 » Will Jordan, American comedian and actor († 2018)

• 1916 » Charles Fryatt, English captain (b. 1872)
• 1916 » William Jonas, English footballer († 1890)
• 1917 » Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1841)
• 1921 » Myrddin Fardd, Welsh writer and antiquarian scholar (b. 1836)
• 1924 » Ferruccio Busoni, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1866)
• 1931 » Auguste Forel, Swiss neuroanatomist and psychiatrist (b. 1848)
• 1938 » Tom Crean, Irish seaman and explorer (b. 1877)
• 1941 » Alfred Henry O'Keeffe, New Zealand painter and educator (b. 1858)
• 1942 » Karl Pärsimägi, Estonian painter (b. 1902)
• 1946 » Gertrude Stein, American novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1874)

• 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 22 » Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• January 25 » The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the French Alps, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
• 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.
• 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 19 » German serial killer Fritz Haarmann is sentenced to death for a series of murders.

The temperature on July 27, 1924 was between 8.9 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 11.5 mm of rain. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.