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• Aaltje Koorevaar, Giessen-Oudekerk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1983)
• Aaltje van Gelderen, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 2005)
• Antonius van Wissen, Den Haag († 1929)
• Cornelis Theresia Veldhuizen, Ijsselstein, Utrecht, Nederland († 1936)
• Cornelis Adrianus Maria (Kees) Hendriks, Breda († 2000)
• Albert Wolter Schokker, Borger, Drenthe, Nederland († 1994)
• * Aaltje Koorevaar, Giessen-Oudkerk († 1983)
• Anna Francina Bradt, Ruisbroek († 2006)
• Derk Winkel, Nieuw-Amsterdam, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1987)
• Adrianus Antonius Beerens, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1997)

• Adrianus Palsrok (66), Zuidland
• Anna Margaretha Daams (81), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Palsrok (66), Zuidland
• Alfred Hillert (71), Enns,Politischer Bezirk Linz Land,Upper Austria,Austria
• Antonia Clara Broos (0), Rucphen, Noord-Brabant (Nederland)
• Aloisius DECLERCQ (73)
• Ardina Bressers (55), Udenhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Krämer (57), Gennep, Limburg, Netherlands
• Antonette Frederike Börger (62), Amsterdam
• Adrana Catharina van der Willigen (77), 's-Gravenhage

• 1927 » Joe Perry, American footballer († 2011)
• 1927 » Lou Creekmur, American football player and sportscaster († 2009)
• 1928 » Yoshihiko Amino, Japanese historian, author, and academic († 2004)
• 1929 » Petr Eben, Czech composer, organist and choirmaster († 2007)
• 1930 » Éamon de Buitléar, Irish accordion player and director († 2013)
• 1930 » Mariví Bilbao, Spanish actress († 2013)
• 1931 » Galina Zybina, Russian shot putter and javelin thrower
• 1931 » Sam Cooke, American singer-songwriter († 1964)
• 1932 » Berthold Grünfeld, Norwegian psychiatrist and academic († 2007)
• 1932 » Piper Laurie, American actress

• 1921 » George Streeter, American captain and businessman (b. 1837)
• 1922 » Camille Jordan, French mathematician and academic (b. 1838)
• 1922 » Fredrik Bajer, Danish educator and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)
• 1922 » Pope Benedict XV (b. 1854)
• 1925 » Fanny Bullock Workman, American geographer and mountain climber (b. 1859)
• 1927 » James Ford Rhodes, American historian and author (b. 1848)
• 1929 » R. C. Lehmann, English journalist, author, and politician (b. 1856)
• 1930 » Stephen Mather, American businessman and conservationist, co-founded the Thorkildsen-Mather Borax Company (b. 1867)
• 1931 » László Batthyány-Strattmann, Hungarian physician and ophthalmologist (b. 1870)
• 1945 » Else Lasker-Schüler, German poet and playwright (b. 1869)

• 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 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.
• June 21 » An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico.
• 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.
• October 29 » The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or "Black Tuesday", ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.

The temperature on January 22, 1929 was between 0.4 °C and 3.6 °C and averaged 1.7 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.