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• Adriana Maria Johanna van Veen († 2020)
• Clara Annie (Clary) Meynen, Zalk en Veecaten, Ijsselmuiden, Overijssel, Netherlands († 2010)
• Florence Ida Diewold, St Josephs Colony, Saskatchewan († 2001)
• Antonius Adrianus Watzeels, Princenhage († 2009)
• - Crijns, Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland († 1929)
• Anna Everdina Wolfswinkel, Hengelo,, Gelderland, Nederland († 2008)
• Albert Reint Kraai († 1993)
• Antonius Jacobus REK, 's-Gravenhage
• Everdina Wilhelmina Goedhart, Amsterdam († 1994)
• Abraham van Hanegem, Den Helder († 1938)

• Antje Theunis \ Theunes Sloot (76), Oldeberkoop, Ooststellingwerf, Friesland, Netherlands
• Alida Johanna Nieuwmeijer (80), Den Haag,Gemeente ’s-Gravenhage,Zuid-Holland,Nederland
• Antonius Johannes van Uden (9), Geffen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Francina Klein (71), Valburg
• Adriana Tensen (58), Haarlemmermeer, Nederland
• Alida Rotgans (69), Amsterdam
• Bartje Romeijn (62), Wageningen
• Albert Holtjer (61), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Adrianus Ligtenberg (70), Rotterdam
• Anna Mathea Jordans, Grave, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1926 » Douglas Croft, American child actor († 1963)
• 1927 » Porter Wagoner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2007)
• 1928 » Bob Buhl, American baseball player († 2001)
• 1928 » Charles Blackman, Australian painter and illustrator († 2018)
• 1928 » Dan Curtis, American director and producer († 2006)
• 1929 » Buck Owens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2006)
• 1930 » George Soros, Hungarian-American businessman and investor, founded the Soros Fund Management
• 1930 » Jacques Tits, Belgian-French mathematician and academic
• 1930 » Kanagaratnam Sriskandan, Sri Lankan engineer and civil servant († 2010)
• 1931 » William Goldman, American author, playwright, and screenwriter († 2018)

• 1918 » William Thompson, American archer (b. 1848)
• 1921 » Pyotr Boborykin, Russian playwright and journalist (b. 1836)
• 1922 » Arthur Griffith, Irish journalist and politician, 3rd President of Dáil Éireann (b. 1871)
• 1924 » Sándor Bródy, Hungarian journalist and author (b. 1863)
• 1928 » Leoš Janáček, Czech composer and educator (b. 1854)
• 1934 » Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Dutch architect, designed the Beurs van Berlage (b. 1856)
• 1935 » Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician and academic (b. 1851)
• 1940 » Nikolai Triik, Estonian painter, illustrator, and academic (b. 1884)
• 1941 » Bobby Peel, English cricketer and umpire (b. 1857)
• 1941 » Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, English soldier and politician, 56th Governor General of Canada (b. 1866)

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. Adriana
9. Catharina
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Grietje
13. Margaretha
14. Geertruida
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.
• 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.
• April 6 » Huey P. Long, Governor of Louisiana, is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.
• May 15 » A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123.
• August 8 » The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
• December 27 » Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin orders the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class".

The temperature on August 12, 1929 was between 9.1 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (72%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.