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• Andreas Willekens, Lommel, Limburg, België († 1929)
• Antonius Johannes van Alphen, Gilze en Rijen, Nederland († 2001)
• Anna Maria Catharina BERGMANS, Gerdingen Belgie († 2014)
• Adriaan Hendrik van Boven, Delft († 1996)
• Anna Maria van Brugge, Haarlem († 2009)
• Adriana Huberdina Francisca Akkermans, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1931)
• Adriana Hendrika Wilhelmina Schoofs, Bladel en Netersel († 2010)
• Casper Gustav Kenneth Wrede af Elimä, Viipuri, Finland († 1998)
• Albert van 't Veld (vantveld, van tveld, van het Veld, van der Velden), Heerde, Nederland († 1929)
• Adriana Ackers, Driebergen († 2000)

• Andreas Fredericus Vlekke (87), Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Jacoba Metzger (70), Leiden
• Antje Brand (6), Amsterdam, Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aart Prijn (51), Tiel, Nederland
• Aaltje Hendriks Uithof (79), Drachten
• Geerse (0), Vrouwenpolder
• Aafje de Jong, IJsselstein
• Adriana SMAN (61), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Cornelis Domhof (50), Amsterdam
• Anna Cornelia Verhulst (78), Baarle-Nassau

• 1921 » Barney Danson, Canadian colonel and politician, 21st Canadian Minister of National Defence († 2011)
• 1922 » Audrey Meadows, American actress and banker († 1996)
• 1925 » Jack Lemmon, American actor († 2001)
• 1926 » Birgitte Reimer, Danish film actress
• 1926 » Neal Cassady, American author and poet († 1968)
• 1930 » Alejandro Rey, Argentinian-American actor and director († 1987)
• 1931 » James Dean, American actor († 1955)
• 1932 » Cliff Allison, English racing driver and businessman († 2005)
• 1932 » John Williams, American pianist, composer, and conductor
• 1933 » Elly Ameling, Dutch soprano

• 1910 » Hans Jæger, Norwegian philosopher and activist (b. 1854)
• 1914 » Dayrolles Eveleigh-de-Moleyns, 4th Baron Ventry, Irish hereditary peer (b. 1828)
• 1915 » François Langelier, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 10th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1838)
• 1921 » George Formby Sr, English actor and singer (b. 1876)
• 1921 » Peter Kropotkin, Russian zoologist, geographer, and philologist (b. 1842)
• 1928 » Theodor Curtius, German chemist (b. 1857)
• 1932 » Yordan Milanov, Bulgarian architect, designed the Sveti Sedmochislenitsi Church (b. 1867)
• 1935 » Eemil Nestor Setälä, Finnish linguist and politician, Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs (b. 1864)
• 1936 » Charles Curtis, American lawyer and politician, 31st Vice President of the United States (b. 1860)
• 1945 » Italo Santelli, Italian fencer and coach (b. 1866)

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 11 » Kingdom of Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty.
• February 21 » In the first battle of the Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong against the Nationalist government of China, a 24,000-strong rebel force led by Zhang Zongchang was defeated at Zhifu by 7,000 NRA troops.
• 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.
• September 24 » Jimmy Doolittle performs the first flight without a window, proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
• 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.

The temperature on February 8, 1929 was between -9.2 °C and -4.0 °C and averaged -6.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.