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• Edmond Constantinus Van Nimmen, Buggenhout († 2012)
• Adrianus Jozef Brouwer, Alkmaar
• Dirk van de Wetering, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 2019)
• Elisabeth Maria Sijkens, Geldrop († 2006)
• Adriana Johanna Aerts, Oud Gastel († 1998)
• Douglas Harold Sumrow, Celeste, Hunt County, Texas, Verenigde Staten († 2003)
• Andre Vrinten, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1984)
• Angelique Schreuel, Semarang, Java, Ned. Indie († 1930)
• Catharina Maria Gitzels, Zwaag († 1963)
• Bernard Hendrik van Os, AMSTERDAM, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2000)

• Aafke Arends Poll (85), Wierum
• Adriana Cornelia van den Heuvel (73), Rijsbergen
• Andries Christoffer Wolthekker (76), Assen
• Anje Bijmolt (57), Tjamsweer gem. Appingedam
• Adriana Magdalena AKKERMANS (77), Wagenberg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alijda Voskuilen (64), Soest
• Adriaan DE VROOMEN (37), Sliedrecht (NL/ZH)
• Adrianus Romme (84), Beek,, Limburg, Nederland
• Alida Johanna Verbeek (39), Loosduinen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan de Vroomen (37), Sliedrecht

• 1924 » Allan McLeod Cormack, South-African-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1998)
• 1925 » Louis Stokes, American lawyer and politician († 2015)
• 1927 » Régine Crespin, French soprano and actress († 2007)
• 1928 » Hans Herrmann, German race car driver
• 1928 » Vasily Lazarev, Russian colonel, physician, and astronaut († 1990)
• 1929 » Elston Howard, American baseball player and coach († 1980)
• 1929 » Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow († 2008)
• 1930 » Paul West, English-American author, poet, and academic († 2015)
• 1931 » Tom Wesselmann, American painter and sculptor († 2004)
• 1932 » Majel Barrett, American actress and producer († 2008)

• 1900 » Ernest Dowson, English poet, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1867)
• 1908 » Friedrich von Esmarch, German surgeon and academic (b. 1823)
• 1918 » Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1882)
• 1930 » Horst Wessel, German SA officer (b. 1907)
• 1931 » Nellie Melba, Australian soprano and actress (b. 1861)
• 1934 » Edward Elgar, English composer and academic (b. 1857)
• 1944 » Leo Baekeland, Belgian-American chemist and engineer (b. 1863)
• 1946 » Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (b. 1885)
• 1948 » John Robert Gregg, Irish-American publisher and educator (b. 1866)
• 1955 » Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (b. 1868)

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. Catharina
9. Adriana
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.
• February 9 » Members of the Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang assassinated the labor recruiter Bazin, prompting a crackdown by French colonial authorities.
• February 26 » President Calvin Coolidge signs an executive order establishing the 96,000 acre Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
• May 16 » In Hollywood, the first Academy Awards ceremony takes place.
• September 24 » Jimmy Doolittle performs the first flight without a window, proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
• November 29 » U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd leads the first expedition to fly over the South Pole.
• December 3 » President Herbert Hoover delivers his first State of the Union message to Congress. It was presented in the form of a written message rather than a speech.

The temperature on February 23, 1929 was between -2.7 °C and 6.9 °C and averaged 1.8 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.