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• Alle Jans Jager, Groningen († 2013)
• Bernardus Johannes Grotenhuis, Lichtenvoorde, Gelderland, Nederland († 1987)
• NN, Vinkeveen en Waverveen († 1928)
• Beb Elizabeth Meurs, Amsterdam Noord holland († 2020)
• Albert Kolk, Ambt Hardenbergh († 1932)
• Anna Gerarda Crone, Batavia, Java, Ned. Indië († 2017)
• Andries van der Grijn, Tienhoven († 2022)
• Antonius Adrianus (Toon) van Rooij, Empel († 2006)
• Antonius Adrianus van Rooij, Empel († 2006)
• Anna Gerarda "Ankie" Crone, Java, Ned. indië († 2017)

• antoon van heugten (51), meijel
• Alberdina Jonker (68), Hasselt gem. Zwartewaterland Ov. NL
• Arien Hartland (85), Alkmaar
• Arie Hartland (85), Alkmaar, Nederland
• Anthonie (3) de Vlaming (83), Nieuw-Beijerland, Zuid-Holland, NL
• Aaltje van Tongeren (44), Wijhe
• Anna Marta Hansdotter (60), Lermon, Frostviken, Jämtland (Z)
• Anna-Marta Hansdotter (60)
• Bernardus de Braber (15), Haarlem
• Christopher S Kramer (31), Waverly, Bremer County, Iowa

• 1924 » Connie Converse, American musician and singer-songwriter
• 1925 » Lewis Rowland, American neurologist († 2017)
• 1925 » Marv Levy, American-Canadian football player, coach, and manager
• 1926 » Anthony Sampson, English journalist and author († 2004)
• 1926 » Gordon Scott, American actor († 2007)
• 1926 » Rona Anderson, Scottish-English actress († 2013)
• 1926 » Tony Bennett, American singer and actor
• 1928 » Cécile Aubry, French actress, director, and screenwriter († 2010)
• 1928 » Henning Moritzen, Danish actor († 2012)
• 1930 » James Komack, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1997)

• 1916 » Roger Casement, Irish poet and activist (b. 1864)
• 1917 » Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician and academic (b. 1849)
• 1920 » Peeter Süda, Estonian organist and composer (b. 1883)
• 1922 » Ture Malmgren, Swedish journalist and politician (b. 1851)
• 1924 » Joseph Conrad, Polish-born British novelist (b. 1857)
• 1925 » William Bruce, Australian cricketer (b. 1864)
• 1929 » Emile Berliner, German-American inventor and businessman, invented the phonograph (b. 1851)
• 1929 » Thorstein Veblen, American economist and sociologist (b. 1857)
• 1936 » Konstantin Konik, Estonian surgeon and politician, 19th Estonian Minister of Education (b. 1873)
• 1942 » Richard Willstätter, German-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1872)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Adriana
8. Hendrika
9. Catharina
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Margaretha
14. Grietje
15. Aaltje
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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
• June 9 » Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
• July 7 » Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
• August 27 » The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by fifteen nations. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
• October 22 » Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico.
• November 15 » The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17-man crew.
• December 17 » Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.

The temperature on August 3, 1928 was between 6.3 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (51%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.