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• Tengnagel, Duisburg († 1995)
• Carolus Henricus Maria (Karel) van den Brekel, Brunssum, Limburg, Netherlands († 2007)
• Amel Messchendorp, Amsterdam, Nederland († 1992)
• Berendina Kosters, Hengelo († 2015)
• Hoorn, Bandung (Bandoeng Indonesië) († 2009)
• Adriana Hendrika van Zuijlen, Utrecht († 2000)
• Antonie Frederik Huisman, Papenkop († 1988)
• A.N(Andreas) Evers, Enschede († 1985)
• Alida Kortekaas, Rotterdam († 1993)
• Carolus Henricus Maria van den Brekel, Brunssum, LI Netherlands († 2007)

• Christiaan Tuijtelaars (63), Vught
• Cornelis van Nistelrooij (36), Nuland
• Cornelis van Egmond (62), Haarlemmermeer, Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, netherlands
• Albert Torenbosch (81), Odoorn, Nederland
• Carl Joseph Johann Kropman (68), Wyler, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland
• Augusta Hermine Petronella STOFFERS (74), Bandoeng, Ned.Indië
• Augusta Hermina Petronella STOFFERS (74), Bandoengan, Ambrawa, Semarang, Jawa Tengah, Indonesia
• Aleida Engelina TE BRAKE (63), Dinxperlo, Gelderland, NEDERLAND
• Barbara Ann Hise (Raulston) (77), Brown County, Texas
• van de Wouw (0), Tilburg

• 1924 » Alyn Ainsworth, English singer and conductor († 1990)
• 1924 » Louis Teicher, American pianist (Ferrante & Teicher) († 2008)
• 1926 » Nancy Spero, American painter and academic († 2009)
• 1927 » Anjali Devi, Indian actress and producer († 2014)
• 1927 » David Ireland, Australian author and playwright
• 1927 » Harry Markowitz, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1929 » Betty Dodson, American author and educator
• 1929 » Yasser Arafat, Egyptian-Palestinian engineer and politician, 1st President of the Palestinian National Authority († 2004)
• 1930 » Jackie Brenston, American singer-songwriter and saxophonist († 1979)
• 1930 » Roger McCluskey, American race car driver († 1993)

• 1923 » Kate Douglas Wiggin, American author and educator (b. 1856)
• 1930 » Tom Norman, English businessman and showman (b. 1860)
• 1932 » Kate M. Gordon, American activist (b. 1861)
• 1939 » Frederick Carl Frieseke, American painter and educator (b. 1874)
• 1940 » Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Polish-German technician and inventor, invented the Nipkow disk (b. 1860)
• 1943 » Antonio Alice, Argentinian painter and educator (b. 1886)
• 1943 » Simone Weil, French philosopher and activist (b. 1909)
• 1946 » James Clark McReynolds, American lawyer and judge, 48th United States Attorney General (b. 1862)
• 1954 » Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 14th President of Brazil (b. 1882)
• 1956 » Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese director and screenwriter (b. 1898)

• 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.
• July 7 » Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
• September 1 » Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
• October 2 » The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded.
• December 6 » The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.
• 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 August 24, 1928 was between 13.7 °C and 25.4 °C and averaged 19.7 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (67%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.