About the day » Wednesday January 2, 1929Calender converter

• Arie van Heukelingen * († 1993)
• Charles Ross Barefoot, West St. Clair Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania († 1971)
• Cornelis Pieter Coumou († 1990)
• Cornelis Marcelus van der Klaauw, Noordwijkerhout († 2014)
• Antonius lambertus Johannes Dirne, Oudenbosch, Nederland († 2008)
• Dirk Andries Louis Hitz, Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2013)
• Alie van der Werf, Zeist, Nederland († 1994)
• Anna Elisabeth Letterle, Düsseldorf-Eller (NRW) D († 1982)
• Cornelis Onrust († 2004)
• Arie van Heukelingen († 1993)

• Aaltje Griffioen (0), Amsterdam
• Carolus Joannes van Elsacker (85), Brecht, Belgium
• Albert Felix Joseph Bogaerts (56), Herpen
• Adriana Kornelia van Duijven (72), Bergen op Zoom
• boy-2 Sims (0), Grayson County, Kentucky
• Angeline Benscoter (92), Pennsylvania Township, Mason County, Illinois
• Carola Brath (20), Dresden, Landeshauptstadt Dresden, Sachsen
• Aukje Geertsema (73)
• Anna van der Valk (94), 's-Gravenhage
• Arie Adriaansz Bras (71), Dubbeldam, zh.nld

• 1920 » Isaac Asimov, American writer and professor of biochemistry († 1992)
• 1921 » Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey player († 2007)
• 1926 » Gino Marchetti, American football player († 2019)
• 1928 » Dan Rostenkowski, American politician († 2010)
• 1929 » Tellervo Koivisto, Finnish politician, former First Lady of Finland
• 1931 » Toshiki Kaifu, Japanese lawyer and politician, 76th Prime Minister of Japan
• 1934 » John Hollowbread, English footballer, goalkeeper († 2007)
• 1936 » Roger Miller, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor († 1992)
• 1938 » David Bailey, English photographer and painter
• 1938 » Lynn Conway, American computer scientist and electrical engineer

• 1913 » Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (b. 1855)
• 1915 » Karl Goldmark, Hungarian violinist and composer (b. 1830)
• 1917 » Léon Flameng, French cyclist (b. 1877)
• 1920 » Paul Adam, French author (b. 1862)
• 1924 » Sabine Baring-Gould, English author and scholar (b. 1834)
• 1939 » Roman Dmowski, Polish politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1864)
• 1941 » Mischa Levitzki, Russian-American pianist and composer (b. 1898)
• 1946 » Joe Darling, Australian cricketer and politician (b. 1870)
• 1950 » James Dooley, Irish-Australian politician, 21st Premier of New South Wales (b. 1877)
• 1951 » William Campion, English colonel and politician, 21st Governor of Western Australia (b. 1870)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Hendrika
8. Adriana
9. Catharina
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Grietje
13. Geertruida
14. Aaltje
15. Margaretha
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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
• January 6 » Mother Teresa arrives by sea in Calcutta, India, to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people.
• June 8 » Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
• June 17 » The town of Murchison, New Zealand Is rocked by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake killing 17. At the time it was New Zealand's worst natural disaster.
• September 7 » Steamer Kuru capsizes and sinks on Lake Näsijärvi near Tampere in Finland. One hundred thirty-six lives are lost.
• December 24 » A four alarm fire breaks out in the West Wing of the White House in Washington, D.C.
• December 27 » Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin orders the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class".

The temperature on January 2, 1929 was between -1.4 °C and 0.7 °C and averaged -0.1 °C. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.