About the day » Thursday May 29, 1919Calender converter

• Clarice Williams, Casey, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten († 2018)
• Aaltje Andries Booi, Drachten, Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland († 2009)
• Dirk Meijer, Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1988)
• Bessie Mae Knapp, Shawnee, Pottawatomie, Oklahoma, VS († 1979)
• Charles William Jones, North Carolina († 1987)
• Daniël Wijers († 2009)
• Antonius Demmers, Velsen († 1998)
• Christine Johanna Ort, Sawah Loento (Sumatra) († 1945)
• Borger, Wilson,Weber,Utah († 1976)
• Anna Maria Kaasenbrood, Haarlem († 2006)

• Anna Margaretha Catherine (John Herman Hagner) Prenger (86), Wardsville, Cole, Missouri, United States
• Bernardus Meurs van (34), Leeuwarden, Fr, Nederland
• Abraham Lakmaker (64), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arnoldus Franken (81), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelia van den Akker (2), Monster, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Houtlosser (49), Twisk
• Charles Wesley Showalter (74), Watts City, Los Angelas, California, United States
• Catharina (Kaatje) van der Veeke (70)
• Adriana Johanna Vermeer (2), Helvoirt
• Arnoldus FRANKEN (81), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, NEDERLAND

• 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 » Iannis Xenakis, Greek-French composer, engineer, and theorist († 2001)
• 1922 » Joe Weatherly, American race car driver († 1964)
• 1923 » Bernard Clavel, French author († 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. Jacob
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Gerardus
13. Hendrikus
14. Wilhelmus
15. Albert
16. Dirk

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

• 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 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 6.7 million citizens.
• May 15 » Greek occupation of Smyrna. During the occupation, the Greek army kills or wounds 350 Turks; those responsible are punished by Greek commander Aristides Stergiades.
• May 15 » The Winnipeg general strike begins. By 11:00, almost the whole working population of Winnipeg had walked off the job.
• June 14 » John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart from St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
• July 11 » The eight-hour day and free Sunday become law for workers in the Netherlands.
• July 21 » The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express crashes into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, killing 12 people.
• September 10 » Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.

The temperature on May 29, 1919 was between 5.5 °C and 21.4 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 13.1 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.