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• Antonius Jacobus Maria Klaassen, Gilze en Rijen († 1972)
• Casper Hendricus Schurman, Voorburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1986)
• Gerardus Hendricus van Holsteijn, Den Haag, Nederland († 1965)
• Ben de Haan, Drongelen († 1982)
• Anna Maria Manders, Someren, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1933)
• Charles Nathan (Nate) Case, North Hoosick, Rensselaer, New York, Verenigde Staten († 2005)
• Anna Sczewenko († 2000)
• Betty Lou de Jong († 2010)
• Adriana Maria de BOET († 1953)
• Anna ? Pesi († 1995)

• Anthonius Joseph van der Born (56), Leiderdorp,Leiderdorp,Zuid-Holland,Nederland
• Antonij Bitterling (88), Hoogland
• Antje Zorge (66), Hoogkerk, Groningen, Nederland
• Anthonius Jacobus (Anton) van der zijde (44), 's-Gravenhage
• Adriaantje Huisman (44), Numansdorp, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• August Heinrich Friedrich Stagge (76), Darlingerode (Landkrs. Harz, Sachsen-Anhalt)
• Antje de Jong (79), Middelstum, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Maria Barbara Wijnands (62), Maastricht
• Anthonius Johannes de Koning (43), Oldenzaal
• Antje Steffens Elgersma (48), Schraard, Wonseradeel, Friesland, Nederland

• 1929 » Betty Dodson, American author and educator
• 1929 » Yasser Arafat, Egyptian-Palestinian engineer and politician, 1st President of the Palestinian National Authority († 2004)
• 1930 » Jackie Brenston, American singer-songwriter and saxophonist († 1979)
• 1930 » Roger McCluskey, American race car driver († 1993)
• 1932 » Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, English cardinal († 2017)
• 1932 » Richard Meale, Australian pianist and composer († 2009)
• 1932 » Robert D. Hales, American captain and religious leader († 2017)
• 1933 » Prince Rupert Loewenstein, Spanish-English banker and manager († 2014)
• 1934 » Kenny Baker, English actor († 2016)
• 1936 » A. S. Byatt, English novelist and poet

• 1923 » Kate Douglas Wiggin, American author and educator (b. 1856)
• 1930 » Tom Norman, English businessman and showman (b. 1860)
• 1932 » Kate M. Gordon, American activist (b. 1861)
• 1939 » Frederick Carl Frieseke, American painter and educator (b. 1874)
• 1940 » Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Polish-German technician and inventor, invented the Nipkow disk (b. 1860)
• 1943 » Antonio Alice, Argentinian painter and educator (b. 1886)
• 1943 » Simone Weil, French philosopher and activist (b. 1909)
• 1946 » James Clark McReynolds, American lawyer and judge, 48th United States Attorney General (b. 1862)
• 1954 » Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 14th President of Brazil (b. 1882)
• 1956 » Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese director and screenwriter (b. 1898)

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.
• January 28 » Japanese forces attack Shanghai.
• February 18 » The Empire of Japan creates the independent state of Manzhouguo (the obsolete Chinese name for Manchuria) free from the Republic of China and installed former Chinese Emperor Aisin Gioro Puyi as Chief Executive of the State.
• May 15 » In an attempted coup d'état, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is assassinated.
• September 5 » The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger.
• September 23 » The unification of Saudi Arabia is completed.

The temperature on August 24, 1932 was between 8.5 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.