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• Elizabeth Ann Burns, England († 2016)
• Anna Catharina Jacoba van Gansewinkel, Weert, Limburg, Nederland († 1988)
• Anne DECKERS, Antwerpen, 2000, Antwerpen, Belgique († 2014)
• Berendina Ebbinge († 1974)
• Christianus Hendrikus van Zutphen, Dinther, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1995)
• Ale Dillema, Gerkesklooster († 1989)
• Elizabeth Dirkje van der Houwen, 's Gravenzande († 1932)
• Doris Jean Jines, East Saint Louis, St Clair, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 2010)
• Berend Jan Keizer, Groningen († 2018)
• Anna Maria Roeloffzen, Hengelo († 2015)

• Adrianus Petrus van der Helm (2), Schipluiden
• Berend Grefhorst (0), Apeldoorn
• Anna Adriana Catharina Mohr (82), s'Gravenhage, Zuid Holland, Netherlands
• Albertus Zomer (85), Haarlem, Noord Holland, Netherlands
• Amanda Mandy Jane Abston (60), Lebanon, Boone, Indiana, United States
• Cornelia Termorshuizen (62), Delft
• Alida Maria Heumen (51), 's Hertogenbosch
• Catharina ter Woort (61), Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Andrew Pencak (43), Detroit, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Carolus Wilhelmus Johannes Beerens (74), 's-Gravenhage

• 1929 » Arte Johnson, American actor and comedian († 2019)
• 1929 » Fireball Roberts, American race car driver († 1964)
• 1929 » Masaharu Kawakatsu, Japanese biologist
• 1930 » Buzz Aldrin, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
• 1931 » David Lee, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1931 » Hachidai Nakamura, Japanese pianist and composer († 1992)
• 1932 » Lou Fontinato, Canadian ice hockey player († 2016)
• 1934 » Hennie Aucamp, South African poet, author, and academic († 2014)
• 1934 » Tom Baker, English actor
• 1935 » Dorothy Provine, American actress, singer, and dancer († 2010)

• 1913 » José Guadalupe Posada, Mexican engraver and illustrator (b. 1852)
• 1915 » Arthur Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun, Irish businessman, philanthropist, and politician (b. 1840)
• 1920 » Georg Lurich, Estonian-Russian wrestler and strongman (b. 1876)
• 1921 » Mary Watson Whitney, American astronomer and academic (b. 1847)
• 1924 » Henry "Ivo" Crapp, Australian footballer and umpire (b. 1872)
• 1936 » George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1865)
• 1940 » Omar Bundy, American general (b. 1861)
• 1944 » James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist and academic (b. 1860)
• 1947 » Andrew Volstead, American member of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1860)
• 1947 » Josh Gibson, American baseball player (b. 1911)

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 28 » Japanese forces attack Shanghai.
• May 21 » Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
• May 28 » In the Netherlands, construction of the Afsluitdijk is completed and the Zuiderzee bay is converted to the freshwater IJsselmeer.
• July 9 » The state of São Paulo revolts against the Brazilian Federal Government, starting the Constitutionalist Revolution.
• July 30 » Premiere of Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short.
• November 24 » In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.

The temperature on January 20, 1932 was between -3.2 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 0.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.