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• Cornelis Schouten († 1945)
• Alexander Schenkels, Den Helder († 2005)
• Barbara Johanna Josefina (Bep) van Holsteijn, Wateringen, Nederland († 2022)
• Dorothea Jonanna Sessler, Osceola Township Franklin County, Iowa († 2020)
• Alida Anthonia Theresia Kemp, Reeuwijk († 2014)
• August Wilhelm Antonius Jansen, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1996)
• Cornelis Wilhelmus Broeders, Gilze en Rijen († 1937)
• Doris Jean Hoel, Somerville, Butler, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 2014)
• Barbara Jane PRATT, Ludington, Mason, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 1985)
• Berend Wilting, Erm, gem. Sleen, Nederland († 2003)

• Aaltjen Hietveld (61), Harfsen (Lochem)
• Anna Roobeek (81), Bergen
• Aaltjen van Zanten (85), Deventer
• Aaltje Hietveld (61), Harfsen
• Anna Helena Grothe (30)
• Albertus Scholten (41), Raalte
• Albert Hermann Bollmer (35), Rühlertwist, Twist
• Albert Jans Huitema (89), Oosterzee
• Amalia Augusta Lange (59), Janesville, Waseca County, Minnesota, United States of America
• Albert Jans Huitema (89), Lemmer, Lemsterland, Friesland, Nederland

• 1925 » Brent Scowcroft, American general and diplomat, 9th United States National Security Advisor († 2020)
• 1927 » Richie Ashburn, American baseball player and sportscaster († 1997)
• 1928 » Hans Küng, Swiss theologian and author
• 1928 » Patrick McGoohan, Irish-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 2009)
• 1931 » Emma Andijewska, Ukrainian poet, writer and painter
• 1932 » Gail Kobe, American actress and producer († 2013)
• 1932 » Gay Brewer, American golfer († 2007)
• 1932 » Peter Hall, English geographer, author, and academic († 2014)
• 1933 » Philip Roth, American novelist († 2018)
• 1933 » Phyllis Newman, American actress and singer († 2019)

• 1914 » Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian priest, geologist, and volcanologist (b. 1850)
• 1919 » Emma Bell Miles, American writer, poet, and artist of Appalachia (b. 1879)
• 1930 » Arthur Balfour, Scottish-English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1848)
• 1930 » Henry Lefroy, Australian politician, 11th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1854)
• 1942 » Clinton Hart Merriam, American zoologist, ornithologist, and entomologist (b. 1855)
• 1944 » William Hale Thompson, American rancher and politician, 41st Mayor of Chicago (b. 1869)
• 1949 » James Newland, Australian soldier and policeman (b. 1881)
• 1949 » James Somerville, English admiral and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Somerset (b. 1882)
• 1950 » Edgar Rice Burroughs, American soldier and author (b. 1875)
• 1950 » Norman Haworth, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)

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.
• April 6 » Huey P. Long, Governor of Louisiana, is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.
• May 1 » The 7.2 M_w  Kopet Dag earthquake shakes the Iran–Turkmenistan border region with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing up to 3,800 and injuring 1,121.
• September 24 » Jimmy Doolittle performs the first flight without a window, proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
• October 29 » The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or "Black Tuesday", ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.
• 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.
• December 19 » The Indian National Congress promulgates the Purna Swaraj (the Declaration of the Independence of India).

The temperature on March 19, 1929 was between -3.3 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 0.5 °C. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.