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• Elizabeth Frances Viet, Stout, Grundy County, Iowa († 2019)
• Bep Admiraal, Castricum († 2018)
• Arie Bot, Vlaardingen († 2012)
• Adrianus Gerardus Henricus Vrinten, Loon op Zand, North Brabant, Netherlands († 1984)
• Dorothy Lee Cooper, Pineville, Wyoming Co. West Virginia († 1930)
• Earl Cornelius Cevering, Ogden, Weber, Utah (USA) († 2016)
• Adrianus Jozef Brouwer, Alkmaar
• Aldert KAMAN, Scheemda, Groningen, Nederland († 1963)
• Edmond Constantinus Van Nimmen, Buggenhout († 2012)
• Doris Elaine Abbas, Osceola Township, Franklin, Iowa († 2018)

• Adriana Magdalena AKKERMANS (77), Wagenberg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Maria Pronk, Scheveningen
• Adrianus Rovers (52), Heesch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• André Eugène DE LA RAMBELJE (41), Surabaya, Indonesia
• Alphonse Baute (66), Sint-Margriete
• Andries Christoffer Wolthekker (76), Assen
• Adriaan Houmes (82), Westkapelle
• Andries Wink (60), Tienhoven, zh.nld
• Anna Catharina Goud (84), Rotterdam
• Agnes Elizabeth Steenhoek (0), Mahaska County, Iowa

• 1924 » Allan McLeod Cormack, South-African-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1998)
• 1925 » Louis Stokes, American lawyer and politician († 2015)
• 1927 » Régine Crespin, French soprano and actress († 2007)
• 1928 » Hans Herrmann, German race car driver
• 1928 » Vasily Lazarev, Russian colonel, physician, and astronaut († 1990)
• 1929 » Elston Howard, American baseball player and coach († 1980)
• 1929 » Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow († 2008)
• 1930 » Paul West, English-American author, poet, and academic († 2015)
• 1931 » Tom Wesselmann, American painter and sculptor († 2004)
• 1932 » Majel Barrett, American actress and producer († 2008)

• 1900 » Ernest Dowson, English poet, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1867)
• 1908 » Friedrich von Esmarch, German surgeon and academic (b. 1823)
• 1918 » Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1882)
• 1930 » Horst Wessel, German SA officer (b. 1907)
• 1931 » Nellie Melba, Australian soprano and actress (b. 1861)
• 1934 » Edward Elgar, English composer and academic (b. 1857)
• 1944 » Leo Baekeland, Belgian-American chemist and engineer (b. 1863)
• 1946 » Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (b. 1885)
• 1948 » John Robert Gregg, Irish-American publisher and educator (b. 1866)
• 1955 » Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (b. 1868)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Adrianus
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Wilhelmus
12. Jacob
13. Gerardus
14. Antonius
15. Hendrikus
16. Dirk

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Hendrika
8. Catharina
9. Adriana
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Grietje
13. Geertruida
14. Margaretha
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.
• 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.
• May 16 » In Hollywood, the first Academy Awards ceremony takes place.
• June 17 » The town of Murchison, New Zealand Is rocked by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake killing 17. At the time it was New Zealand's worst natural disaster.
• July 24 » The Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it is first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928, by most leading world powers).
• October 7 » Photius II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
• November 18 » Grand Banks earthquake: Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on the Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula.
• December 24 » Assassination attempt on Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen.

The temperature on February 23, 1929 was between -2.7 °C and 6.9 °C and averaged 1.8 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.