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• Adriana Ludwina Dries, Rotterdam († 2007)
• Agnes Marie Beck, Dayton, Ohio
• Gravel, Versen, Meppen, Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany († 1914)
• Alma Lee Burk, Waurika, Jefferson County, Oklahoma, Verenigde Staten († 2001)
• Abraham de Rijke, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1957)
• Aletta van den Berg, Willige Langerak († 2003)
• Adriana Ludwina Dries, Rotterdam († 2007)
• Agnes Kouckuyt, Westouter, WVL, B († 1981)
• Andries Both, zevenhuizen (zuid holland)
• Anna Maria Wilhelmina Sieben, Nederweert, Limburg, Nederland, Nederland († 1919)

• Adriana Willemen (42), Antwerpen (België)
• Anna Jacoba Simons (15), Kranenburg, Nederland
• Ariaantje Maria Noordermeer (72), Oostvoorne, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan van Nijnatten (70), Ginneken en Bavel, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Anthonius Cornelis van der Kroon (1), Abcoude-Proostdij, de Ronde Venen, Utrecht, Nederland
• (75), Groesbeek
• Antje Begeman
• Andrew Thomas MCDILL (76), South Henderson, Henderson, Illinois
• Gravel (0), Versen, Meppen, Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Alberdina Jonkman (54), Bleskensgraaf, Nederland

• 1905 » Barnett Newman, American painter and etcher († 1970)
• 1906 » Joe Primeau, Canadian ice hockey player and coach († 1989)
• 1913 » Victor Mature, American actor († 1999)
• 1915 » Bill Peet, American author and illustrator († 2002)
• 1915 » John Serry Sr., Italian-American concert accordionist and composer (d.2003)
• 1917 » John Raitt, American actor and singer († 2005)
• 1918 » John Forsythe, American actor († 2010)
• 1921 » Geraldine Pittman Woods, American science administrator and embryologist († 1999)
• 1923 » Jack Burke Jr., American golfer
• 1923 » Paddy Chayefsky, American author and screenwriter († 1981)

• 1888 » Edward Lear, English poet and illustrator (b. 1812)
• 1899 » Alfred Sisley, French-English painter (b. 1839)
• 1906 » Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1818)
• 1928 » Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Scottish field marshal (b. 1861)
• 1931 » Henri Mathias Berthelot, French general during World War I (b. 1861)
• 1933 » Sara Teasdale, American poet (b. 1884)
• 1934 » Fritz Haber, Polish-German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
• 1941 » Ioannis Metaxas, Greek general and politician, 130th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1871)
• 1944 » William Allen White, American journalist and author (b. 1868)
• 1946 » Harry Hopkins, American businessman and politician, 8th United States Secretary of Commerce (b. 1890)

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

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

• 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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
• August 27 » World War I: Battle of Étreux: A British rearguard action by the Royal Munster Fusiliers during the Great Retreat.
• September 1 » St. Petersburg, Russia, changes its name to Petrograd.
• September 1 » The last known passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
• September 13 » World War I: The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France.
• October 5 » World War I: An aircraft successfully destroys another aircraft with gunfire.
• December 8 » World War I: A squadron of Britain's Royal Navy defeats the Imperial German East Asia Squadron in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.

The temperature on January 29, 1914 was between 1.9 °C and 5.2 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.