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• Antonius Gerardus Blokpoel, 's Gravenhage († 1996)
• Charlotte Cornelia Helena Kaptein, Berkel en Rodenrijs, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1997)
• Frederik ten Kate, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2001)
• Adrianus Gerardus van Aart, Etten-Leur († 1993)
• Elizabeth Teuntje Nobel († 1996)
• Elly Mensen († 1980)
• Arnoud Cornelis Nicolaas Coppelmans, Eindhoven († 2015)
• Ernestus Elling, de Maten, emmen († 1992)
• Antje Brandhorst, Utrecht († 2007)
• Harold Dewayne Statzer, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Verenigde Staten († 1956)

• Albert Eli Beebe (79), Three Rivers, St. Joseph Co.Michigan
• van Beek, Nieuwer Amstel
• Aloysius Van Hoeyland (78), Melsele, Beveren, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• Adelbert Van Waldeck Bergheim (71)
• Anna Katharina Ploum (77), Heerlen
• Annie Theresia Oude Steenhof (0), Tubbergen
• Annigje Alberts De Jonge (77), Wanneperveen
• Anna van der Staaij (67), Dordrecht
• Albertus (Bart) Hetterscheid (71), Beek (Bergh)
• Allan Norman Grotenhuis (28), Random Lake, Wisconsin

• 1928 » Hans Herrmann, German race car driver
• 1929 » Elston Howard, American baseball player and coach († 1980)
• 1929 » Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow († 2008)
• 1930 » Paul West, English-American author, poet, and academic († 2015)
• 1931 » Tom Wesselmann, American painter and sculptor († 2004)
• 1932 » Majel Barrett, American actress and producer († 2008)
• 1937 » Tom Osborne, American football player, coach, and politician
• 1938 » Diane Varsi, American actress († 1992)
• 1938 » Paul Morrissey, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1938 » Sylvia Chase, American broadcast journalist († 2019)

• 1908 » Friedrich von Esmarch, German surgeon and academic (b. 1823)
• 1918 » Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1882)
• 1930 » Horst Wessel, German SA officer (b. 1907)
• 1931 » Nellie Melba, Australian soprano and actress (b. 1861)
• 1934 » Edward Elgar, English composer and academic (b. 1857)
• 1944 » Leo Baekeland, Belgian-American chemist and engineer (b. 1863)
• 1946 » Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (b. 1885)
• 1948 » John Robert Gregg, Irish-American publisher and educator (b. 1866)
• 1955 » Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (b. 1868)
• 1965 » Stan Laurel, English actor and comedian (b. 1890)

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

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

• 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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 8.3 million citizens.
• April 12 » The strongest surface wind gust in the world at the time of 231mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire. It has since been surpassed.
• May 23 » Infamous American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
• May 23 » The Auto-Lite strike culminates in the "Battle of Toledo", a five-day melée between 1,300 troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6,000 picketers.
• May 28 » Near Callander, Ontario, Canada, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne; they will be the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
• August 11 » The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island.
• October 9 » An Ustashe assassin kills King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France, in Marseille.

The temperature on February 23, 1934 was between 1.4 °C and 3.5 °C and averaged 2.5 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.