About the day » Thursday December 13, 1928Calender converter

• Adriaen Josephus Martinus Michael Stalpers, Soesterberg, Utr, NL († 2011)
• Janssen, Maasbree († 1928)
• , Ambt, Vollenhove († 2012)
• Cornelia Tolsma, ,, Arum, Wonseradeel, Friesland, Netherlands († 2020)
• Veraart († 1990)
• Adriaan Cornelis (Andre) Keuris, Den Haag, Nederland († 1968)
• Allegonda Antonis, Hoogeloon, Hapert en Casteren († 2010)
• Cornelis Toet († 1980)
• Amke Frederika Hulst, Groningen, Nederland († 2000)
• Berendina Meerlo († 1988)

• Bernardus Jacobus Springveld (79), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonetta Storimans (81), Haaren
• Anna Simons (82), Schönberg, 4782, Belgien
• Adrianus van Nierop (18), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alexander Karel Horst (44), leiden (zuid holland)
• Albertus Tjisses (Albert) van der Hoek (72), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Carolina Groothuis (83), Apeldoorn
• Albertus Tjisses van der Hoek (72), Leeuwarden
• Bernardus Jacobus Springveld (78), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• ? Pol (0), Hoogeveen Nederland

• 1923 » Edward Bede Clancy, Australian cardinal († 2014)
• 1923 » Larry Doby, American baseball player and manager († 2003)
• 1923 » Philip Warren Anderson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2020)
• 1923 » Terence Beckett, English businessman († 2013)
• 1925 » Dick Van Dyke, American actor, singer, and dancer
• 1926 » Carl Erskine, American major-league baseball player
• 1926 » George Rhoden, Jamaican runner
• 1927 » James Wright, American poet and academic († 1980)
• 1929 » Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor and producer
• 1930 » Robert Prosky, American actor († 2008)

• 1919 » Woldemar Voigt, German physicist and academic (b. 1850)
• 1922 » Arthur Wesley Dow, American painter and photographer (b. 1857)
• 1922 » Hannes Hafstein, Icelandic poet and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1861)
• 1924 » Samuel Gompers, English-born American labor leader, founded the American Federation of Labor (b. 1850)
• 1927 » Mehmet Nadir, Turkish mathematician and academic (b. 1856)
• 1930 » Fritz Pregl, Slovenian-Austrian chemist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
• 1931 » Gustave Le Bon, French psychologist, sociologist, and anthropologist (b. 1840)
• 1932 » Georgios Jakobides, Greek painter and sculptor (b. 1853)
• 1935 » Victor Grignard, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)
• 1942 » Wlodimir Ledóchowski, Austrian-Polish religious leader, 26th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1866)

• 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.
• May 3 » The Jinan incident begins with the deaths of twelve Japanese civilians by Chinese forces in Jinan, China, which leads to Japanese retaliation and the deaths of over 2,000 Chinese civilians in the following days.
• 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).
• August 27 » The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by fifteen nations. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
• September 27 » The Republic of China is recognized by the United States.
• October 2 » The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded.

The temperature on December 13, 1928 was between -3.6 and 1.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.