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• Adriana Huberdina Francisca Akkermans, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1931)
• Annie Wijckmans, Maastricht († 2002)
• Aaltje Oost, Emmer-Erfscheidenveen, Emmen († 2022)
• Averil Adria Erskine († 2021)
• Bastiaan van de(r) Kamp, Soerabaja, Indonesie (Indonesia) († 2014)
• Geerse, Vrouwenpolder († 1929)
• Arie Claessens, Utrecht († 2007)
• Anna Cornelia van Kol, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2003)
• Anna Maria Catharina BERGMANS, Gerdingen Belgie († 2014)
• Anna Verlinde († 2015)

• Aart Prijn (51), Tiel, Nederland
• Anna Maria Hengst (49), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• * Helena Theodora Middegaal (43), Rotterdam
• Anna Maria Jacobs (78)
• Adriana Jacoba Metzger (70), Leiden
• Geerse (0), Vrouwenpolder
• Anne Alice PATERNOTTE (66), Parijs (18e), Frankrijk
• Anne Fokkes Noppert (65), Broek, Doniawerstal, Friesland, Nederland
• Vlekke (87), Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aletta Margaretha van Sandwijk (86), Utrecht

• 1921 » Barney Danson, Canadian colonel and politician, 21st Canadian Minister of National Defence († 2011)
• 1922 » Audrey Meadows, American actress and banker († 1996)
• 1925 » Jack Lemmon, American actor († 2001)
• 1926 » Birgitte Reimer, Danish film actress
• 1926 » Neal Cassady, American author and poet († 1968)
• 1930 » Alejandro Rey, Argentinian-American actor and director († 1987)
• 1931 » James Dean, American actor († 1955)
• 1932 » Cliff Allison, English racing driver and businessman († 2005)
• 1932 » John Williams, American pianist, composer, and conductor
• 1933 » Elly Ameling, Dutch soprano

• 1910 » Hans Jæger, Norwegian philosopher and activist (b. 1854)
• 1914 » Dayrolles Eveleigh-de-Moleyns, 4th Baron Ventry, Irish hereditary peer (b. 1828)
• 1915 » François Langelier, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 10th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1838)
• 1921 » George Formby Sr, English actor and singer (b. 1876)
• 1921 » Peter Kropotkin, Russian zoologist, geographer, and philologist (b. 1842)
• 1928 » Theodor Curtius, German chemist (b. 1857)
• 1932 » Yordan Milanov, Bulgarian architect, designed the Sveti Sedmochislenitsi Church (b. 1867)
• 1935 » Eemil Nestor Setälä, Finnish linguist and politician, Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs (b. 1864)
• 1936 » Charles Curtis, American lawyer and politician, 31st Vice President of the United States (b. 1860)
• 1945 » Italo Santelli, Italian fencer and coach (b. 1866)

• 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
• January 6 » King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution (the January 6th Dictatorship).
• February 21 » In the first battle of the Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong against the Nationalist government of China, a 24,000-strong rebel force led by Zhang Zongchang was defeated at Zhifu by 7,000 NRA troops.
• February 26 » President Calvin Coolidge signs an executive order establishing the 96,000 acre Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
• April 6 » Huey P. Long, Governor of Louisiana, is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.
• August 11 » Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
• October 3 » The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Yugoslavia by King Alexander I.

The temperature on February 8, 1929 was between -9.2 °C and -4.0 °C and averaged -6.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.