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• Clarence Allan TAGGART, Toronto, Ontario, Canada († 2006)
• Alida (Alie) van Dooijeweert, Waardenburg († 2022)
• arthur Jean knipping († 2008)
• Donald Lyle Smithlin, Tacoma WA († 2001)
• Ed Stolk, Amsterdam N.H († 2002)
• Dudley Don Ramaker, Cedar Grove, Wisconsin († 2021)
• Antoon Jansen, Gorssel († 2007)
• Christina Alberdina Kies, Oldenzaal († 1993)
• Belia Smit, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands († 1943)
• Anna Catharina Sluiter, Haarlem († 2006)

• Antoon Joseph Handels (55), Kerkrade (L
• Ada Moor Fish (57), Larkspur, Marin, California, Verenigde Staten
• Albertus Jans van der Linde (50), Zwolle
• Arie van ES (32), Rotterdam
• Casper Theodoor Croes (46), Aruba
• Augustus Dumarey (85), Westkerke
• Akke van Minnen (79), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Cornelia Binnendijk (68), Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaantje de Wit (72), Woudenberg
• Cornelia Binnendijk (68), Naaldwijk, Zuid Holland

• 1927 » Ray Nagel, American football player and coach († 2015)
• 1927 » Richard Body, English politician († 2018)
• 1928 » Pernell Roberts, American actor († 2010)
• 1929 » Jack Sanford, American baseball player and coach († 2000)
• 1929 » Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley, English lawyer and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster († 2012)
• 1930 » Fred Saberhagen, American soldier and author († 2007)
• 1930 » Warren Rudman, American soldier, lawyer, and politician († 2012)
• 1931 » Don Martin, American cartoonist († 2000)
• 1931 » Kalju Pitksaar, Estonian chess player († 1995)
• 1931 » Robert Morse, American actor

• 1908 » Louis-Napoléon Casault, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1823)
• 1909 » George Meredith, English novelist and poet (b. 1828)
• 1909 » Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1860)
• 1910 » Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish author and publisher (b. 1841)
• 1910 » Pauline Viardot, French soprano and composer (b. 1821)
• 1911 » Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1860)
• 1922 » Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
• 1941 » Werner Sombart, German economist and sociologist (b. 1863)
• 1943 » Ōnishiki Daigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 28th Yokozuna (b. 1883)
• 1947 » Hal Chase, American baseball player and manager (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. 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.
• May 15 » A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123.
• July 27 » The Geneva Convention of 1929, dealing with treatment of prisoners-of-war, is signed by 53 nations.
• August 24 » Second day of two-day Hebron massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attacks on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, result in the death of 65–68 Jews; the remaining Jews are forced to flee the city.
• December 19 » The Indian National Congress promulgates the Purna Swaraj (the Declaration of the Independence of India).
• December 27 » Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin orders the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class".

The temperature on May 18, 1929 was between 6.2 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (15%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.