About the day » Saturday May 29, 1909Calender converter

• Aafke Dijkstra, Duurswoude, gem. Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland († 1957)
• Anna Barbara MATSCHISKE, Bochum (D)
• Abraham C Koedyker, Lansing, Illinois, VS († 2002)
• Anna Mae McGartland, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 1983)
• Abraham van Klaveren, Rhenen,Gemeente Rhenen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1943)
• Adrianus Jonkers, Gameren, Nederland († 1972)
• van Wijk, rotterdam († 1909)
• Margje Deuten, Oosterhesselen († 1909)
• Klaasje Deuten, Oosterhesselen
• Adrianus Hubertus de Jong, Rotterdam

• Anna Maria Stokhof (21)
• Andries van Meerten (33), Kesteren
• Berendina Noordhoff (76), Nieuwolda
• Anna Catharina Emming (76), Altenberge
• Antonie Wilhelmus Huguenin (76)
• Adriana Verhagen (63), Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Alexandre Joseph Depienne (48), saint-andré-les lille nord france
• Barbara Therese BOENS (64), Roeselare
• Cornelis Rood (50), Heerhugowaard,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Franciscus (Schwarte) van Rieke (82), Exloermond, Odoorn

• 1903 » Bob Hope, English-American actor, singer, and producer († 2003)
• 1904 » Hubert Opperman, Australian cyclist and politician († 1996)
• 1905 » Sebastian Shaw, English actor, director, and playwright († 1994)
• 1906 » T. H. White, Indian-English author († 1964)
• 1907 » Hartland Molson, Canadian captain and politician († 2002)
• 1908 » Diana Morgan, Welsh-English playwright and screenwriter († 1996)
• 1910 » Ralph Metcalfe, American sprinter and politician († 1978)
• 1913 » Tony Zale, American boxer († 1997)
• 1914 » Stacy Keach Sr., American actor († 2003)
• 1914 » Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese-Indian mountaineer († 1986)

• 1896 » Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist and academic (b. 1814)
• 1903 » Bruce Price, American architect, designed the Château Frontenac and American Surety Building (b. 1845)
• 1910 » Mily Balakirev, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1837)
• 1911 » W. S. Gilbert, English playwright and poet (b. 1836)
• 1914 » Henry Seton-Karr, English explorer, hunter, and author (b. 1853)
• 1914 » Laurence Sydney Brodribb Irving, English author and playwright (b. 1871)
• 1917 » Kate Harrington, American poet and educator (b. 1831)
• 1919 » Robert Bacon, American colonel and politician, 39th United States Secretary of State (b. 1860)
• 1920 » Carlos Deltour, French rower (b. 1864)
• 1921 » Abbott Handerson Thayer, American painter and educator (b. 1849)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Jacoba
11. Petronella
12. Grietje
13. Aaltje
14. Geertruida
15. Neeltje
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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.8 million citizens.
• January 9 » Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180km; 112mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
• January 16 » Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
• April 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
• August 24 » Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
• October 26 » An Jung-geun assassinates Japan's Resident-General of Korea.
• November 18 » Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of José Santos Zelaya.

The temperature on May 29, 1909 was between 8.1 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.