About the day » Tuesday May 29, 1917Calender converter

• Albert Zwolle, Heerenveen, Friesland, Nederland († 2007)
• Andries Gerrit Doppenberg, Voorthuizen († 1993)
• Annette Hardij, Maastricht († 2002)
• Adriana Jimmink, 's-Gravenhage
• Andries Gerrit Doppenberg, Voorthuizen, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1993)
• Anna Louisa (Wieske\Louise) LEMPERS, Heerlen (NL/LI) († 1988)
• Alida Geertruida Dignum, Zijpe, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1946)
• Anna Hendrika Braams, Rotterdam († 1975)
• Anna Hendrika Braams, Rotterdam, Nederland († 1975)
• Anna Burgersdijk, 's-Gravenzande, Nederland († 1988)

• Albertus Jordaan (95), Winnebago (Maine), Verenigde Staten
• Annigje Knol (0), Beilen
• Albertina Hendrika van Steennis (40), Utrecht
• Anna Jozefa Frings (20), Vaals
• Anna Paulina von NATZMER (74), Lochem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Allard (0), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Santing (77), Ruinerwold, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Vroon (0), Buurmalsen (West Betuwe) (GL)
• Asse Jans WINTER (66), Barsbeek (Vollenhove, Ambt)
• ?? Strijker (0), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1913 » Tony Zale, American boxer († 1997)
• 1914 » Stacy Keach Sr., American actor († 2003)
• 1914 » Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese-Indian mountaineer († 1986)
• 1915 » Karl Münchinger, German conductor and composer († 1990)
• 1917 » John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States († 1963)
• 1917 » Marcel Trudel, Canadian historian, author, and academic († 2011)
• 1919 » Jacques Genest, Canadian physician and academic († 2018)
• 1920 » Clifton James, American actor († 2017)
• 1920 » John Harsanyi, Hungarian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2000)
• 1921 » Norman Hetherington, Australian cartoonist and puppeteer († 2010)

• 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)
• 1935 » Josef Suk, Czech violinist and composer (b. 1874)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Adriana
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Aaltje
14. Grietje
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 6.5 million citizens.
• March 8 » The United States Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
• June 4 » The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World.
• September 14 » The Russian Empire is formally replaced by the Russian Republic.
• November 2 » The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".
• November 20 » World War I: Battle of Cambrai begins: British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are later pushed back.
• November 24 » In Milwaukee, nine members of the Milwaukee Police Department are killed by a bomb, the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history until the September 11 attacks in 2001.

The temperature on May 29, 1917 was between 9.5 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.