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• Clementina Bernardina (Tini) Stockmann, Roelofarendsveen, Nh, Nederland († 2019)
• Helmut Kerkhoff († 2009)
• Avis# Louise Thompson, South Carolina († 1983)
• Hendrikus Jacobus Mattheus (Henk) Meijer, Amsterdam, Nederland († 2011)
• Elisabeth (Betty) Presser, 's-Gravenzande, Nederland († 2021)
• Aaltje Poelman († 2011)
• Evertje aan het Rot, Bergentheim († 2021)
• Hendrikus Jacobus Mattheus Meijer, Amsterdam († 2011)
• Elsiena Smit, Emmer-Erfscheidenveen, Emmen († 1931)
• Ertle Bowman Todd ****, Lumberton, Robeson, North Carolina, Verenigde Staten († 2019)

• Anna Wilhelmina Poker (0), Onstwedde, GRO, Nederland
• Anna Wilhelmina POKER (0)
• Abraham Chadwick Jr (86), Payette, Payette, Idaho, United States
• Brasilia Whitaker de Oliveira (61), Brasil
• Anna Elisabeth Lenaerts (47), Beek
• Alphonsus Antonius Maria Henricus van Beurden (1), Tilburg
• Aart de Koster (77), Kedichem
• Bernhard Hendrik Maarten Karel Vorst van Bülow (80), Rome
• Anna Maria Jannes (51), Den Helder
• Bauke Klazes Schotanus (75), Menaldumadeel, Friesland, Nederland

• 1926 » Bowie Kuhn, American lawyer and businessman († 2007)
• 1927 » Cleo Laine, English singer and actress
• 1928 » Ion Mihai Pacepa, Romanian general
• 1928 » William Rodgers, Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank, English politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence
• 1929 » Joan Plowright, English actress
• 1929 » John Hollander, American poet, critic, and educator († 2013)
• 1929 » Marcel Bozzuffi, French actor, director, and screenwriter († 1988)
• 1929 » Virginia Held, American philosopher, author, and academic
• 1930 » Bernie Ecclestone, English businessman
• 1931 » Harold Battiste, American saxophonist, pianist, and composer († 2015)

• 1914 » Richard Heuberger, Austrian composer and critic (b. 1850)
• 1916 » Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist and academic (b. 1838)
• 1916 » Oswald Boelcke, German WWI flying ace (b. 1891)
• 1917 » Dimitrios Votsis, Greek lawyer and politician (b. 1841)
• 1917 » Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1831)
• 1918 » Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician and politician (b. 1845)
• 1929 » Bernhard von Bülow, German soldier and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1849)
• 1936 » Newton Moore, Australian soldier and politician, 8th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1870)
• 1939 » Alice Brady, American actress (b. 1892)
• 1941 » Filipp Goloshchyokin, Soviet politician (b. 1876)

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. Antonius
14. Gerardus
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. Margaretha
14. Geertruida
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.
• 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.
• May 16 » In Hollywood, the first Academy Awards ceremony takes place.
• June 1 » The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.
• August 11 » Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
• November 18 » Grand Banks earthquake: Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on the Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula.
• November 29 » U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd leads the first expedition to fly over the South Pole.
• December 24 » A four alarm fire breaks out in the West Wing of the White House in Washington, D.C.

The temperature on October 28, 1929 was between 1.8 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.