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• Adrianus Albertus Gerardus Versteegh, Buurmalsen († 2004)
• Arend Jurgens, Kloosterhaar († 1971)
• Edmund Johannes Alphonsus (Ed) van Huijstee, Amsterdam, Nederland († 2010)
• Arlie Cleon BOST, Jay County († 1981)
• Dymphna Johanna Mertens, Ginneken en Bavel († 1984)
• Bernie Deen Liebst, Emporia (Lyon Co., Kansas) († 2004)
• Betty Marie Terpstra, Pella, Iowa, VS († 2011)
• Dymphina Johanna Mertens, Ginneken, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1984)
• Albertus Christiaan Carli, Semarang, Java, Ned. Indie († 1928)
• Bernard Joannes Henrricus van der Peet, Beverwijk († 1996)

• Arie Jan van Zelm (78), Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cara Alma Weishaar (25), Chicago, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Arie de Koning (20), Bergen op Zoom
• Cornelis Fraanje (82), Kapelle
• Derk Alberts Zandbergen (76), Den Ham
• August William Huseman (77), Pittsfield, Pike, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Adrianus Johannes Bakker (32), Noordwijkerhout
• Anna Bain (82), Davison, Genesee, Michigan, United States
• Adriana Dekker (54), Zaamslag Nederland
• Berendina Jansen (73), Amsterdam

• 1926 » Driss Chraïbi, Moroccan-French journalist and author († 2007)
• 1926 » Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentinian general and politician, 44th President of Argentina († 2003)
• 1927 » Carmen Zapata, American actress († 2014)
• 1927 » Håkon Brusveen, Norwegian cross-country skier
• 1927 » Nan Martin, American actress († 2010)
• 1928 » Carl Woese, American microbiologist and biophysicist († 2012)
• 1928 » Viramachaneni Vimla Devi, Indian parliamentarian († 1967)
• 1929 » Charles Anthony, American tenor and actor († 2012)
• 1929 » Francis Bebey, Cameroonian-French guitarist († 2001)
• 1929 » Ian Stewart, Scottish race car driver († 2017)

• 1919 » Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1929 » Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1874)
• 1930 » Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1845)
• 1931 » Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian-German economist and mathematician (b. 1868)
• 1932 » Bahíyyih Khánum, Iranian writer and leader in the Baha'i faith (b. 1846)
• 1932 » Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven, South African poet and politician (b. 1873)
• 1933 » Freddie Keppard, American cornet player (b. 1890)
• 1933 » Irving Babbitt, American scholar, critic, and academic (b. 1865)
• 1940 » Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist and physician (b. 1857)
• 1940 » Robert Wadlow, American giant, 8"11' 271 cm (b.1918)

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.
• April 12 » The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, takes off for the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
• 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 1 » The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replaces the Arabic alphabet with the Latin alphabet.
• December 13 » George Gershwin's An American in Paris is first performed.

The temperature on July 15, 1928 was between 11.6 °C and 30.7 °C and averaged 23.0 °C. There was 12.2 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.