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• Aleid Lamberts, Harfsen († 2016)
• Esther Mittelstadt, Semarang, Java, Ned. Indie († 1928)
• Bertrandus Wilhelmus Nolden, Delfzijl, Nederland († 1980)
• Anna Elisabeth Korteweg, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1982)
• Arnold Henri Driessen, Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands († 1949)
• Cornelia Johanna Damen, Kaatsheuvel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1996)
• Berend Jan Habing, Dalen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2024)
• Cornelius Alphonsus Van Genechten, Meerhout († 1961)
• Bertrandus Wilhelmus Nolden, Delfzijl († 1980)
• Catharina Maria de Leest, Bladel en Netersel († 2010)

• Adriaantje Schelling (76), IJsselmonde, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Zoutendijk (47), Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Adrianus Jacobus Franciscus Horsten (2), Tilburg
• Adrianus SCHELLEVIS Azn (61), Delft, NL-ZH
• Anna Louisa LAMAN TRIP (77), Den Haag Zuid-Holland Netherlands
• Adriaantje Klaasdr Schelling (76), Rotterdam (IJsselmonde),, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Louisa Laman Trip (77), 's-Gravenhage
• Schiks, Rotterdam
• 'Arthur' Joannes Paul CONVENT (65), Hamme (Oost-Vlaanderen), 42008, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgique
• Antonie Henri Gijsbertus Blokzeijl (92), Den Haag, Nederland

• 1924 » George Lowe, New Zealand-English mountaineer and explorer († 2013)
• 1925 » Ignacio López Tarso, Mexican actor
• 1925 » Ruth Slenczynska, American pianist and composer
• 1926 » Maria Schell, Austrian-Swiss actress († 2005)
• 1927 » Phyllis Coates, American actress
• 1928 » W. R. Mitchell, English journalist and author († 2015)
• 1929 » Earl Hooker, American guitarist († 1970)
• 1929 » Martin Luther King, Jr., American minister and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (assassinated in 1968)
• 1930 » Eddie Graham, American wrestler and promoter († 1985)
• 1931 » Lee Bontecou, American painter and sculptor

• 1909 » Arnold Janssen, German priest and missionary (b. 1837)
• 1916 » Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian playwright and translator (b. 1850)
• 1919 » Karl Liebknecht, German politician (b. 1871)
• 1919 » Rosa Luxemburg, German economist, theorist, and philosopher (b. 1871)
• 1926 » Enrico Toselli, Italian pianist and composer (b. 1883)
• 1929 » George Cope, American painter (b. 1855)
• 1936 » Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster, English cricketer and politician, 7th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1866)
• 1937 » Anton Holban, Romanian author, theoretician, and educator (b. 1902)
• 1945 » Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian-German mathematician and theorist (b. 1865)
• 1948 » Josephus Daniels, American publisher and diplomat, 41st United States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1862)

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 7 » A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.
• March 21 » Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
• June 4 » The President of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin, is assassinated by Japanese agents.
• 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).
• July 7 » Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
• November 22 » The premier performance of Ravel's Boléro takes place in Paris.

The temperature on January 15, 1928 was between 2.9 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.