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• Annie Hughes, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland († 1990)
• Berendina van der Weerd, Kampen, OV, NED († 2010)
• Antje Jager, Hoogezand († 2009)
• Anna Meinen, Slood, Hoogeveen († 2017)
• Cornelia Hendrika de Vries de Vries, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 1992)
• Adriana Deutekom, Rotterdam
• Arie Nijgh, Katwijk († 1984)
• Antje Jager, Hoogezand, Groningen, Nederland († 2009)
• Aloijsius Borm, Graauw,, Zeeland, Nederland († 1985)
• Cornelia Johanna Verhagen, Wassenaar, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2003)

• Adrianus van Poppel (75), Tilburg, the Netherlands
• Anna Jacoba de Bruijn (73), Hilversum
• Anna Jacoba Bruijn, de (73), Hilversum Nhl. Nederland
• "Arthur" Wills John Wellington Trumbull Blundell Hill (46)
• Adriana Johanna Maas (52), Ginneken, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Jacoba Bruijn, de (73), Hilversum
• Aaltje Veenbaas (34), Wommels, Friesland, Nederland
• Anthonij de Korte (77), Sommelsdijk
• Aaltje van de Poll (55), Rhenen
• Antje Blonk (75), Nieuwkoop

• 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)
• 1922 » Joe Weatherly, American race car driver († 1964)

• 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. Jacob
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Wilhelmus
13. Albert
14. Gerardus
15. Hendrikus
16. Johan

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Aaltje
12. Jacoba
13. Helena
14. Geertruida
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 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.6 million citizens.
• January 17 » Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles take place between the Red Guards and the White Guard.
• June 10 » The Austro-Hungarian battleship SMSSzent István sinks off the Croatian coast after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat; the event is recorded by camera from a nearby vessel.
• October 1 » World War I: The Egyptian Expeditionary Force captures Damascus.
• October 30 » World War I: Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen, a state union of Kingdom of Hungary and Triune Kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia is abolished with decisions of Croatian and Hungarian parliaments
• November 13 » World War I: Allied troops occupy Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
• December 16 » Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas declares the formation of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic; it is dissolved in 1919.

The temperature on May 29, 1918 was between 5.2 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 11.9 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.