About the day » Wednesday May 9, 1928Calender converter

• Barbara Ann Scott, Ottawa, Ottawa Municipality, Ontario, Canada († 2012)
• Adrianus Johannes van Meer, Steenbergen, Holland († 1959)
• Antonij Christiaan Pfundt, Den Haag († 2017)
• Adrianus Antonius van Pinxten, Sint-Michielsgestel († 1938)
• Antonius Wilhelmus Maria Snels, Goirle († 1998)
• Billy Gene Conner, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, Verenigde Staten († 1969)
• Allegonda Francina Dekkers, Luyksgestel († 2006)
• Bonnie Jonell de Kock, DeMotte-Indiana (USA) († 2018)
• Annie BILLEN, Hasselt, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie († 1935)
• "Baudouin" Amaury Heman Ernest Colette Ghislain de Ghellinck d'Elseghem Vaernewyck, Bruxelles († 1998)

• Aaltje de Vries (74), Muntendam, Groningen, Nederland
• ADRIANA HOOGENBOEZEM (77), OVERSCHIE
• Agatha Margaretha van Looijen (78), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, NL
• Aaltje Gooijert (74), Muntendam
• Christiaan RIBBENS (13), Rotterdam
• Balster Jans Nienhuis (61), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Kleverlaan (65), Egmond-Binnen
• Alfred Eugene Joseph Dormal (79), Marneffe, 4210, België
• Adriana HOOOGENBOEZEM (77), Overschie
• Antje van der Meer (81), 's Gravenzande

• 1924 » Bulat Okudzhava, Russian singer, poet, and author († 1997)
• 1926 » John Middleton Murry, Jr., English soldier, pilot, and author († 2002)
• 1927 » Manfred Eigen, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2019)
• 1928 » Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater († 2012)
• 1928 » Pancho Gonzales, American tennis player († 1995)
• 1928 » Ralph Goings, American painter († 2016)
• 1930 » Joan Sims, English actress († 2001)
• 1930 » Kalifa Tillisi, Libyan historian and linguist († 2010)
• 1931 » Vance D. Brand, American pilot, engineer, and astronaut
• 1932 » Conrad Hunte, Barbadian cricketer († 1999)

• 1914 » C. W. Post, American businessman, founded Post Foods (b. 1854)
• 1915 » Anthony Wilding, New Zealand tennis player and cricketer (b. 1883)
• 1915 » François Faber, Luxembourgian-French cyclist and soldier (b. 1887)
• 1918 » George Coșbuc, Romanian journalist and poet (b. 1866)
• 1931 » Albert Abraham Michelson, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1933 » John Arthur Jarvis, English swimmer (b. 1872)
• 1935 » Ernst Bresslau, German zoologist (b. 1877)
• 1938 » Thomas B. Thrige, Danish businessman (b. 1866)
• 1942 » Józef Cebula, Polish priest and saint (b. 1902)
• 1944 » Han Yong-un, Korean poet and social reformer (b. 1879)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Petrus
8. Gerrit
9. Adrianus
10. Jacob
11. Gerardus
12. Jacobus
13. Wilhelmus
14. Antonius
15. Arie
16. Dirk

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Adriana
8. Hendrika
9. Catharina
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Margaretha
14. Grietje
15. Aaltje
16. Helena

• 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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
• January 31 » Leon Trotsky is exiled to Alma-Ata.
• April 14 » The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, reaches Greenly Island, Canada - the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
• June 8 » Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing ("Northern Capital").
• October 2 » The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded.
• October 10 » Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
• December 6 » The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.

The temperature on May 9, 1928 was between 0.7 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain. There was 10.3 hours of sunshine (67%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.