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• Bernardus Johannes Grotenhuis, Lichtenvoorde († 1987)
• Agnes Hattie Buseman, Butler County, Iowa († 2017)
• Anna Gerarda "Ankie" Crone, Java, Ned. indië († 2017)
• Ali Stoevelaar († 2002)
• Agnes Helene Adrienne van PARIJS, Waregem, West-Vlaanderen, België († 1930)
• Antonius Adrianus (Toon) van Rooij, Empel († 2006)
• Antonius Martinus Lonnee, Bandung, Java, Indonesia († 2007)
• Antonia Petronella Verschuren, Princenhage, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 2012)
• Beert van den Brink, Harderwijk, Gelderland, Nederland († 1987)
• Carl H Nederhoff, Wellsburg, Grundy Center, Grundy County, Iowa († 2016)

• Anna Cornelia Oerlemans (66), Gemeente Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Attje Lageveen (75), Tijnje, Nederland
• Arie Krijn van Zanen (80)
• Bernard Joseph Loughlin (53), Kings, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Bernardus de Braber (15), Haarlem
• Anna Cornelia Oerlemans (66), Bergen op Zoom, N-Br, NL
• Christina Heesters (85), Oisterwijk
• Abraham Barend de Villiers (73)
• Anthonie (3) de Vlaming (83), Nieuw-Beijerland, Zuid-Holland, NL
• Arend Kleijn (5), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1924 » Connie Converse, American musician and singer-songwriter
• 1925 » Lewis Rowland, American neurologist († 2017)
• 1925 » Marv Levy, American-Canadian football player, coach, and manager
• 1926 » Anthony Sampson, English journalist and author († 2004)
• 1926 » Gordon Scott, American actor († 2007)
• 1926 » Rona Anderson, Scottish-English actress († 2013)
• 1926 » Tony Bennett, American singer and actor
• 1928 » Cécile Aubry, French actress, director, and screenwriter († 2010)
• 1928 » Henning Moritzen, Danish actor († 2012)
• 1930 » James Komack, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1997)

• 1916 » Roger Casement, Irish poet and activist (b. 1864)
• 1917 » Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician and academic (b. 1849)
• 1920 » Peeter Süda, Estonian organist and composer (b. 1883)
• 1922 » Ture Malmgren, Swedish journalist and politician (b. 1851)
• 1924 » Joseph Conrad, Polish-born British novelist (b. 1857)
• 1925 » William Bruce, Australian cricketer (b. 1864)
• 1929 » Emile Berliner, German-American inventor and businessman, invented the phonograph (b. 1851)
• 1929 » Thorstein Veblen, American economist and sociologist (b. 1857)
• 1936 » Konstantin Konik, Estonian surgeon and politician, 19th Estonian Minister of Education (b. 1873)
• 1942 » Richard Willstätter, German-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1872)

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.
• March 12 » In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill 431 people.
• May 15 » Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, "Plane Crazy".
• June 8 » Second Northern Expedition: The National Revolutionary Army captures Peking, whose name is changed to Beijing ("Northern Capital").
• September 1 » Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
• November 22 » The premier performance of Ravel's Boléro takes place in Paris.

The temperature on August 3, 1928 was between 6.3 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (51%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.