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• Ambrose L Rysewyk, Coleman, Marinette, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten († 2003)
• Alphonsus Jaspers Jaspers, Oorderen († 1929)
• Agnes Alliet, Lichtervelde, West-Vlaanderen, Belgie († 2008)
• Alida Johanna Maria Vermeulen, Helmond, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1999)
• Aldert Dam, Schildwolde († 1928)
• Anna Maria Mandonx, Balen († 2018)
• Barbara Ann Coyle ACOY02.BAR01XS, Boston, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten († 1990)
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• Agatha "Aggie" Lowen, Beaverlodge, Alberta, Canada († 2012)
• Aalt de Graaf, Nijkerk († 1984)

• Adrianus Stam (38), Mijdrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Berendina Johanna Minke (64), Avereest
• Albert Johan van WALSEM (85), Arnhem
• Alida Johanna Jerphanion (51), Rotterdam
• Augustinus Cornelius Petrus Maria van Brederode (72), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arendje, Klaasd Vuil (71), EaZ
• Bastiaan Blok (73), Rotterdam
• Aalbert Buunk (63), Langerak (Doetinchem)
• Angelica Louisa Barneveld Binkhuijsen (35)
• Arie de Melker Worms (79), Rotterdam

• 1925 » Hal Holbrook, American actor and director
• 1925 » Ron Goodwin, English composer and conductor († 2003)
• 1928 » Marta Romero, Puerto Rican actress and singer († 2013)
• 1929 » Alejandro Jodorowsky, Chilean-French director and screenwriter
• 1929 » Chaim Potok, American rabbi and author († 2002)
• 1929 » Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale, English lieutenant and politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills († 1993)
• 1929 » Patricia Routledge, English actress and singer
• 1930 » Benjamin Fain, Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and academic († 2013)
• 1930 » Roger Craig, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1930 » Ruth Rendell, English author († 2015)

• 1905 » William Bickerton, English-American religious leader, leader in the Latter Day Saint movement (b. 1815)
• 1909 » Geronimo, American tribal leader (b. 1829)
• 1912 » Edgar Evans, Welsh sailor and explorer (b. 1876)
• 1919 » Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1841)
• 1934 » Albert I of Belgium (b. 1875)
• 1934 » Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player and theoretician (b. 1862)
• 1939 » Willy Hess, German violinist and educator (b. 1859)
• 1946 » Dorothy Gibson, American actress and singer (b. 1889)
• 1961 » Lütfi Kırdar, Turkish physician and politician, Turkish Minister of Health (b. 1887)
• 1961 » Nita Naldi, American actress (b. 1894)

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.
• April 14 » The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, reaches Greenly Island, Canada - the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
• May 15 » Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, "Plane Crazy".
• 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 15 » The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.

The temperature on February 17, 1928 was between 5.2 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the west.