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• Adriana Vermeulen, Heinkenszand († 1989)
• Adrianus Lambertus van Doornik, Lith, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1928)
• Annigje ten Haaf, Hoge en Lage Zwaluwe († 2017)
• Anna Andrea (Annie) de Vent, Vels (Steenwijkerwold) († 2012)
• Arie Marinus Francke, Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1928)
• Arie Peerdeman, Bovenkarspel († 2005)
• Annie van Lierop († 1996)
• Anna Clyde Stephens, Bryn Mawr Lo, Pennsylvania († 1993)
• Abram van Coevorden, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Arie Jacobus Willemsen de Bock, Den Haag († 2001)

• allegonda reijnders (49), beugen en rijkevoort
• Allegonda Reijnders (49), Rijkevoort
• Anna Louise Wolcott (70)
• Derk Eimerts Koster (41), Kampen
• Anna Matthea Jacobs (79), Horst,, Limburg, Nederland, Nederland
• Archibald Welsh Birrell (40), Adelaide Australia
• Cornelis Martinus van Gastel (64), Roosendaal en Nispen (NL)
• Aaron Paul Melton (1)
• Arij de Bruin (de Bruijn) (75), Dubbeldam, Nederland
• Cornelis Martinus van Gastel (64), Roosendaal en Nispen (NL)

• 1926 » Jiang Zemin, Chinese engineer and politician, former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and 5th President of China
• 1926 » Valerie Eliot, English businesswoman († 2012)
• 1927 » F. Ray Keyser Jr., American lawyer and politician, 72nd Governor of Vermont († 2015)
• 1927 » Sam Butera, American saxophonist and bandleader († 2009)
• 1928 » T. J. Anderson, American composer, conductor, and educator
• 1928 » Willem Duys, Dutch tennis player, sportscaster, and producer († 2011)
• 1929 » Francis Gary Powers, American captain and pilot († 1977)
• 1930 » Harve Bennett, American screenwriter and producer († 2015)
• 1930 » Ted Hughes, English poet and playwright († 1998)
• 1931 » Tony Wrigley, English historian, demographer, and academic

• 1909 » Madan Lal Dhingra, Indian activist (b. 1883)
• 1918 » Moisei Uritsky, Russian activist and politician (b. 1873)
• 1920 » Ray Chapman, American baseball player (b. 1891)
• 1924 » Tom Kendall, English-Australian cricketer and journalist (b. 1851)
• 1925 » Ioan Slavici, Romanian journalist and author (b. 1848)
• 1935 » Adam Gunn, American decathlete (b. 1872)
• 1935 » Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American sociologist and author (b. 1860)
• 1936 » José María of Manila, Spanish-Filipino priest and martyr (b. 1880)
• 1940 » Billy Fiske, American soldier and pilot (b. 1911)
• 1945 » Reidar Haaland, Norwegian police officer and soldier (b. 1919)

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.
• January 31 » Leon Trotsky is exiled to Alma-Ata.
• June 9 » Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
• June 18 » Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
• October 1 » The Soviet Union introduces its first five-year plan.
• November 22 » The premier performance of Ravel's Boléro takes place in Paris.
• 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 17, 1928 was between 8.9 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.