About the day » Wednesday May 29, 1929Calender converter

• Bouwiena Renkema
• Cornelis Wilhelmus Sep, Oudenbosch, Noord-Brabant (Nederland) († 1930)
• Cecil Calvin Cree, CLAYTON CO., IOWA
• Colin Rudolf Barry Auker, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, England († 2010)
• Elisabeth Maria (Els) Kolkhuis Tanke, Hengelo, 7550, Nederland († 2000)
• Cornelia Gerarda Hendriks, Roosendaal(NB) († 2016)
• Bouwiena Renkema, Aduard († 2014)
• doodgeboren kind Grootswagers, Dongen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1929)
• Caroline Whetstone Kittrell <K BdFgSCBu>1 fr 3, Orangeburg, Orangeburg County, South Carolina ql († 1994)
• Alton Emmet Blank, Baker Co. Oregon († 1929)

• Annigje Arends (39), Zuidwolde, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Aaltje Spijker (27), Heerenveen, FR, Nederland
• Antonie Brouwers (55), Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Steenbergen (0), Zwartsluis, Overijssel, Nederland
• Ponten, Zwolle
• Anna Maria Elisabeth Knols (64), Wijlre, Gulpen-Wittem
• Anna Gerdina Geerligs (71), Hummelo
• van Weert, Wierden, Notter
• Bernardina Arnoldina van Alphen (74), Oisterwijk, Nederland
• Angele Antoinette Marie GARAULT (18), Saint-M'Hervé, 35300, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, La maison Neuve

• 1926 » Abdoulaye Wade, Senegalese academic and politician, 3rd President of Senegal
• 1926 » Halaevalu Mataʻaho ʻAhomeʻe, Queen Consort of Tonga († 2017)
• 1926 » Katie Boyle, Italian-English actress and television host († 2018)
• 1927 » Jean Coutu, Canadian pharmacist and businessman, founded the Jean Coutu Group
• 1929 » Harry Frankfurt, American philosopher and academic
• 1929 » Peter Higgs, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1929 » Roberto Vargas, Puerto Rican-American baseball player, coach, and manager († 2014)
• 1932 » Paul R. Ehrlich, American biologist and author
• 1932 » Richie Guerin, American basketball player and coach
• 1933 » Helmuth Rilling, German conductor and educator

• 1914 » Henry Seton-Karr, English explorer, hunter, and author (b. 1853)
• 1914 » Laurence Sydney Brodribb Irving, English author and playwright (b. 1871)
• 1917 » Kate Harrington, American poet and educator (b. 1831)
• 1919 » Robert Bacon, American colonel and politician, 39th United States Secretary of State (b. 1860)
• 1920 » Carlos Deltour, French rower (b. 1864)
• 1921 » Abbott Handerson Thayer, American painter and educator (b. 1849)
• 1935 » Josef Suk, Czech violinist and composer (b. 1874)
• 1939 » Ursula Ledóchowska, Austrian-Polish nun and saint, founded the Congregation of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus (b. 1865)
• 1941 » Léo-Pol Morin, Canadian pianist, composer, and educator (b. 1892)
• 1942 » John Barrymore, American actor (b. 1882)

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. Aaltje
15. Margaretha
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.
• February 11 » Kingdom of Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty.
• June 8 » Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
• 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).
• September 24 » Jimmy Doolittle performs the first flight without a window, proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
• December 3 » President Herbert Hoover delivers his first State of the Union message to Congress. It was presented in the form of a written message rather than a speech.

The temperature on May 29, 1929 was between 9.7 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.