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• Christaan Antonius Does, Voorhout († 1983)
• Albartus Jan Regelink († 2006)
• Anna Catharina Maria Hackfoort, Haarlem († 2012)
• Frederika Datema, Oosterhesselen († 2005)
• Catharina Verbeeth, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1999)
• Christiaan Antonius Does, Voorhout († 1983)
• Doreen Winifred Turner, Swansea, Wales, Groot Brittanië († 2012)
• Arnoldus Bijvelds, Erp († 1991)
• Alain Chomel de Varagnes, Lyon († 1992)
• Christopher Lake Clark († 1987)

• David James Todd (54), Noxubee, Mississippi, United States
• Casimirus Judocus MOENS (63), Wieze,9280,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Morselt (0), Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Maria Hubertina Vroomen (78), Kerkrade
• Casimirus Moens Moens (63)
• Casimirus, Jodocus Moens (63), Wieze
• Aaltje Bossch (44), Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Aloysius Tassens (74), Aalst-bij-Sint-Truiden, België
• Cornelis de Bruijn (48), Dubbeldam
• de Raaij (0), amsterdam, Nederland

• 1921 » Kenneth Arrow, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2017)
• 1922 » George Kell, American baseball player and sportscaster († 2009)
• 1922 » Jean Darling, American actress and singer († 2015)
• 1922 » Nazik Al-Malaika, Iraqi poet and academic († 2007)
• 1923 » Edgar F. Codd, English-American computer scientist and programmer († 2003)
• 1924 » Ephraim Kishon, Israeli author, screenwriter, and director († 2005)
• 1924 » Robert Solow, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1925 » Robert Mulligan, American director and producer († 2008)
• 1926 » Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist and academic († 2006)
• 1926 » Gyula Hernádi, Hungarian author and screenwriter († 2005)

• 1900 » Kuroda Kiyotaka, Japanese general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1840)
• 1924 » Heinrich Berté, Slovak-Austrian composer (b. 1856)
• 1926 » Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (b. 1895)
• 1927 » Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist convicted of murder (b. 1888)
• 1927 » Nicola Sacco, Italian anarchist convicted of murder (b. 1891)
• 1933 » Adolf Loos, Austrian architect and theoretician, designed Villa Müller (b. 1870)
• 1937 » Albert Roussel, French composer and educator (b. 1869)
• 1944 » Abdülmecid II, Ottoman sultan (b. 1868)
• 1944 » Stefan Filipkiewicz, Polish painter and illustrator (b. 1879)
• 1949 » Helen Churchill Candee, American geographer, journalist, and author (b. 1858)

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 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.
• July 11 » Eric Liddell won the gold medal in 400m at the 1924 Paris Olympics, after refusing to run in the heats for 100m, his favoured distance, on the Sunday.
• July 24 » Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
• October 7 » Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes prime minister of Greece for a short period of time.
• December 19 » German serial killer Fritz Haarmann is sentenced to death for a series of murders.

The temperature on August 23, 1924 was between 8.5 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (39%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.