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• Elisabeth (Bep) Rietveld, Oudewater († 2018)
• August Huybs, Arendonk († 2001)
• Augusta Regina Carolina Hannes, Kasterlee, Antwerpen, Belgium († 1990)
• Berendje Johanna Gerredina Diekema, Rheden († 2006)
• Cornelis Theodorus Johannes Nout († 2008)
• Donald J Jandl († 1981)
• Elisabetha CEUNEN († 2002)
• Geertje Anna Taetzedr Visser, Castricum, Noord Holland, Nederland († 2013)
• Berend Jacob van Bergen, Paterswolde ( Eelde) († 2016)
• Veenstra, Harkema, Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland († 1928)

• Arie het Lam (70), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Arien Oudhuis (83), Heerhugowaard, North Holland, Netherlands
• Antonie Adriaan Bastiaans (86), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland, Nederland
• Veenstra (0), Harkema, Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Alida Maria Francisca de Rijk (58), Rosmalen
• Catharina Bul (89), Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catharina Bremken (75), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• (Stillborn) POELSTRA (0), Achtkarspelen Friesland Netherlands
• Caroline Maria Walker (59), Londen, Engeland
• Antoine Vincenzo Blancheri (78), Los Angeles, California, United States

• 1922 » Cécile DeWitt-Morette, French mathematician and physicist († 2017)
• 1922 » Itubwa Amram, Nauruan pastor and politician († 1989)
• 1922 » Paul Winchell, American actor, voice artist, and ventriloquist († 2005)
• 1923 » Wataru Misaka, American basketball player († 2019)
• 1926 » Arnošt Lustig, Czech author and playwright († 2011)
• 1926 » Joe Paterno, American football player and coach († 2012)
• 1932 » Edward Hoagland, American author and critic
• 1932 » U. R. Ananthamurthy, Indian author, poet, and critic († 2014)
• 1933 » Jackie Hendriks, Jamaican cricketer
• 1933 » Robert Worcester, American businessman and academic, founded MORI

• 1920 » Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, Somalian general, founded the Dervish movement (b. 1856)
• 1929 » I. L. Patterson, American politician, 18th Governor of Oregon (b. 1859)
• 1933 » Knud Rasmussen, Greenlandic anthropologist and explorer (b. 1879)
• 1935 » Kurt Tucholsky, German-Swedish journalist and author (b. 1890)
• 1935 » Ted Birnie, English footballer and manager (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Frank B. Kellogg, American lawyer and politician, 45th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
• 1937 » Ted Healy, American comedian and actor (b. 1896)
• 1937 » Violette Neatley Anderson, American judge (b. 1882)
• 1940 » F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1896)
• 1945 » George S. Patton, American general (b. 1885)

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.
• March 21 » Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
• June 9 » Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
• August 27 » The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by fifteen nations. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
• October 1 » The Soviet Union introduces its first five-year plan.
• November 18 » Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey's birthday.
• 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 December 21, 1928 was between 0.3 °C and 2.3 °C and averaged 1.6 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.