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• Dries Kwakkel, Hattem, Gelderland, Nederland († 2018)
• Engelina Johanna Cornelia Duijndam, Noordwijk († 2009)
• Dirk Vanderlaan, Amstelveen, Nederland († 1991)
• Bryant Alan Fehlberg, Tasmania, Australia († 2003)
• Emile Streignaerts, Sint-Truiden, België († 2004)
• Franciscus Maria van Diem, Goirle († 1994)
• Frederic Adrien Revalk, Koog aan de Zaan († 2005)
• Catrien Catharina van der Wal, Heerde, Nederland († 1999)
• Adriana Petronella van Gelder, Rotterdam († 2002)
• Charles R Spross, Ohio, United States († 2004)

• Anna van de WEGE (77), Zaamslag, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adrianus (2) van Baarlen (19), Rotterdam
• Arigje STUIJ (70), Sliedrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Abram Roza (93), vlaardingen (zuid holland)
• Andries Hendriks EMMINK (58), Meppel, Drenthe, Nederland
• Catherine FOLTZER (78), Illfurth, 68, Haut Rhin, Alsace, FRANCE
• Adriana Anna Verbruggen (49), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Abram Roza (93), Vlaardingen
• Bastiaan van Rij (63), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Annegien Sanders (84), Dalen, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1925 » Andrei Eshpai, Russian pianist and composer († 2015)
• 1925 » Carl Sanders, American soldier, pilot, and politician, 74th Governor of Georgia († 2014)
• 1925 » Mary F. Lyon, English geneticist and biologist († 2014)
• 1925 » Roy Stewart, Jamaican-English actor and stuntman († 2008)
• 1926 » Anthony Shaffer, English author, playwright, and screenwriter († 2001)
• 1926 » Clermont Pépin, Canadian pianist, composer, and educator († 2006)
• 1926 » Peter Shaffer, English playwright and screenwriter († 2016)
• 1930 » Jasper Johns, American painter and sculptor
• 1931 » Ken Venturi, American golfer and sportscaster († 2013)
• 1935 » Don Bragg, American pole vaulter

• 1914 » Ida Freund, Austrian-born chemist and educator (b. 1863)
• 1919 » Hasan Tahsin, Turkish journalist (b. 1888)
• 1924 » Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1926 » Joseph James Fletcher, Australian biologist (b. 1850)
• 1928 » Umegatani Tōtarō I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 15th Yokozuna (b. 1845)
• 1935 » Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian-Russian painter and theoretician (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1864)
• 1945 » Charles Williams, English author, poet, and critic (b. 1886)
• 1945 » Kenneth J. Alford, English soldier, bandmaster, and composer (b. 1881)
• 1948 » Edward J. Flanagan, Irish-American priest, founded Boys Town (b. 1886)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Adrianus
9. Petrus
10. Jacob
11. Jacobus
12. Wilhelmus
13. Antonius
14. Gerardus
15. Hendrikus
16. Dirk

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Wilhelmina
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Aaltje
14. Margaretha
15. Grietje
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 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 7.8 million citizens.
• February 18 » Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft.
• April 22 » The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.
• June 16 » Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR.
• July 30 » In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first FIFA World Cup.
• August 16 » The first color sound cartoon, Fiddlesticks, is released by Ub Iwerks.
• September 17 » The Kurdish Ararat rebellion is suppressed by the Turks.

The temperature on May 15, 1930 was between 2.7 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (50%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.