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• Anna Hendrika Eliasberg, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 2015)
• Augustien Berselien (Oesie) Hehakaiya, Banda Neira (Nederlands-Indië) († 1981)
• Antonie van Assen, Maassluis († 2001)
• Derk (Dick) Nawijn, Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland († 2015)
• Adrianus Henricus Henrica Josephus Vermeer, Loon op Zand († 1929)
• Cornelia Jacoba Wilhelmina Maria Josephina van Gorp, Goirle († 1999)
• Doodgeboren Kind van den Heuvel, Werkendam († 1928)
• Bonte Jozef de Boer, Workum († 2009)
• Antonia Maria Zuidwijk, Den Haag († 1998)
• Anna Helena Fischer, Onstwedde († 2012)

• Bernardus Leenes (63), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Berendina Schulenberg (6), Coevorden
• (l.l.) Post (0), Heerde
• Bernardus Willems Leenes (63), Leeuwarden
• Anneke Postma (22), Zwaagwesteinde, gem. Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Anthoon Stuiver (66), Vledder, Westerveld, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Bernardus Leenes (63), Leeuwarden
• Antonie Hoffman (75), Sprang-Capelle
• Anthoon Stuijver (66), Vledder
• Adriana Jacoba Huibertsdr van Oostendorp (50), Rotterdam

• 1923 » James L. Buckley, American lawyer, judge, and politician
• 1926 » Joe Franklin, American radio and television host († 2015)
• 1928 » Gerald Bull, Canadian-American engineer and academic († 1990)
• 1928 » Keely Smith, American singer and actress († 2017)
• 1929 » Desmond Hoyte, Guyanese lawyer, politician and President of Guyana († 2002)
• 1929 » Zillur Rahman, Bangladeshi politician, 19th President of Bangladesh († 2013)
• 1930 » Ornette Coleman, American saxophonist, violinist, trumpet player, and composer († 2015)
• 1931 » Jackie Healy-Rae, Irish politician († 2014)
• 1932 » Qayyum Chowdhury, Bangladeshi painter and academic († 2014)
• 1932 » Walter Mercado, Puerto Rican-American astrologer and actor († 2019)

• 1895 » Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian journalist and author (b. 1836)
• 1897 » Sondre Norheim, Norwegian-American skier (b. 1825)
• 1918 » Frank Wedekind, German author and playwright (b. 1864)
• 1925 » Willard Metcalf, American painter and academic (b. 1858)
• 1926 » Mikao Usui, Japanese spiritual leader, founded Reiki (b. 1865)
• 1937 » Paul Elmer More, American journalist and critic (b. 1864)
• 1943 » Otto Freundlich, German painter and sculptor (b. 1878)
• 1954 » Vagn Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer and academic (b. 1874)
• 1955 » Miroslava, Czech-Mexican actress (b. 1925)
• 1964 » Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (b. 1870)

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 1 » Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc.
• August 27 » The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by fifteen nations. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
• October 15 » The airship, Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
• October 22 » Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico.
• December 13 » George Gershwin's An American in Paris is first performed.
• 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 March 9, 1928 was between -3.0 °C and 2.8 °C and averaged -0.5 °C. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.