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• Dionisius van der Mee, Leiden († 1988)
• Bonnie Mae Sytsma, Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa († 2020)
• Eloise Kittrell Riddle <K USS-SSDI>1, Daytona Beach, Volusia County, Florida ac († 2006)
• ANNIE VAN DER MEULEN († 1997)
• Boukje Anema, Witmarsum († 2009)
• Dionisius van der Mee, Leiden (Zuid-Holland) († 1988)
• Arnars Ragnarsson († 2001)
• Aalbertus Theodorus van Iterson, Geldermalsen (West Betuwe) (GL) († 1932)
• Andreas Adrianus Belleman, Egmond-Binnen († 1994)
• Cornelia Alberta de Kok, 's-Gravenhage († 1996)

• Anna Maria Barendregt (73), Voorburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Hillebrand (56), Rotterdam
• Antonia Maria Murk (78), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Robbersen (72), Rotterdam
• Antje Goukes van der ZAAG (84), Bedum, Groningen, Nederland
• Arendina Jantina Oosterloo (7), Assen
• Anna-Maria Barendregt (73), Voorburg
• Anna Catharina Brouwers (83), Gilze-Rijen, Nederland
• Antonius Abbenhuis (75), Velp
• Arendina Jantina Oosterloo (6), Assen,, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1929 » Alejandro Jodorowsky, Chilean-French director and screenwriter
• 1929 » Chaim Potok, American rabbi and author († 2002)
• 1930 » Benjamin Fain, Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and academic († 2013)
• 1930 » Roger Craig, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1930 » Ruth Rendell, English author († 2015)
• 1931 » Buddy Ryan, American football coach († 2016)
• 1931 » Jiřina Jirásková, Czech actress and singer († 2013)
• 1933 » Craig L. Thomas, American captain and politician († 2007)
• 1934 » Alan Bates, English actor († 2003)
• 1934 » Barry Humphries (Dame Edna Everage), Australian comedian, actor, and author

• 1905 » William Bickerton, English-American religious leader, leader in the Latter Day Saint movement (b. 1815)
• 1909 » Geronimo, American tribal leader (b. 1829)
• 1912 » Edgar Evans, Welsh sailor and explorer (b. 1876)
• 1919 » Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1841)
• 1934 » Albert I of Belgium (b. 1875)
• 1934 » Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player and theoretician (b. 1862)
• 1939 » Willy Hess, German violinist and educator (b. 1859)
• 1946 » Dorothy Gibson, American actress and singer (b. 1889)
• 1961 » Lütfi Kırdar, Turkish physician and politician, Turkish Minister of Health (b. 1887)
• 1961 » Nita Naldi, American actress (b. 1894)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Aaltje
13. Geertruida
14. Helena
15. Margaretha
16. Grietje

• 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 8.1 million citizens.
• January 12 » Hattie Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
• June 24 » A bloodless revolution instigated by the People's Party ends the absolute power of King Prajadhipok of Siam (now Thailand).
• July 8 » The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, closing at 41.22.
• September 23 » The unification of Saudi Arabia is completed.
• October 15 » Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
• December 7 » German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.

The temperature on February 17, 1932 was between -2.5 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 1.3 °C. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.