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• Henrikus Jacobus Mattheus Meijer, Amsterdam († 2011)
• Dale Lee Fyfe, Altoona, Wilson County, Kansas, Verenigde Staten († 1998)
• Etje van der Galiën, Akkerwoude, Nederland († 2013)
• Gordon Cecil Rivers, Harlan Co., Kentucky, Verenigde Staten († 1979)
• Doris Lou Fyfe, Altoona, Wilson County, Kansas, Verenigde Staten († 1993)
• Gilbert Leon Van de Velde, Wetteren († 1988)
• Cees Vos, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1997)
• Avis# Louise Thompson, South Carolina († 1983)
• Cornelis van Kampen, Stompwijk († 1992)
• Anna Bernice Higdon, Grayson County, Kentucky († 1990)

• Angeline Nichols (76), Providence, Webster, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten
• Alphonsus Antonius Maria Henricus van Beurden (1), Tilburg
• Anna Ates Zijlstra (62), amsterdam
• Bernardina Geertruida Aleida HASSELBACH (58), Arnhem, 1163, Gelderland, Nederland
• Afke Johans (Aafke) Godthelp (55), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bernhard Martin Heinrich Karl von Bülow (80), Roma, Lazio, Italy
• Anna Maria Jannes (51), Den Helder
• Aaltje Hoeve (6), Staphorst, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aart de KOSTER (77), Kedichem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Dates Jonker (67), Hoornsterzwaag

• 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. 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. 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.
• January 1 » The former municipalities of Point Grey, British Columbia and South Vancouver, British Columbia are amalgamated into Vancouver.
• January 6 » Mother Teresa arrives by sea in Calcutta, India, to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people.
• February 26 » President Calvin Coolidge signs an executive order establishing the 96,000 acre Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
• September 24 » Jimmy Doolittle performs the first flight without a window, proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
• December 24 » A four alarm fire breaks out in the West Wing of the White House in Washington, D.C.
• December 24 » Assassination attempt on Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen.

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.