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• Anna Hermina Agnes Luttikhuis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazilië († 2013)
• Alexander Turpijn, Tjimahi († 1952)
• Cornelia "Cor" Oldenburg, Almkerk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2010)
• Aris van Dijk, Sangalla (Ned. Ind.) († 2008)
• Dwight D Barbee ****, Kentucky, United States († 2008)
• Christiaan Keijzer, Zegwaart († 2017)
• Daniel Hamilton, Paterson, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten († 1986)
• Adrianus Wilhelmus Hoedemakers († 2003)
• Arnoldus Cornelis van Lier, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1929)
• Adrianus Linthorst, Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1973)

• Anna Cornelia van Gennep (59), Zeist
• Adriaantje Bos (62), South Holland, Cook County, Illinois
• van der Meulen (78), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriana van Beekveld (77), Berlicum
• Adriana Maria Augustina Leopoldina van Santen (70), Tilburg
• Anna Germana Janssens (31), Gent België
• van Oorschot (0), Rotterdam
• Anna Catharina van Bavel (1), Gilze en Rijen
• Aaltje Sipkes Postmus (47), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Anje Ritsema (67)

• 1926 » Chuck Willis, American singer-songwriter († 1958)
• 1926 » Tom Alston, American baseball player († 1993)
• 1927 » Norm Prescott, American animator, producer, and composer, co-founded Filmation Studios († 2005)
• 1928 » Irma Wyman, American computer scientist and engineer († 2015)
• 1929 » Jean Simmons, English-American actress († 2010)
• 1929 » Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2011)
• 1930 » Al De Lory, American composer, conductor, and producer († 2012)
• 1930 » Joakim Bonnier, Swedish race car driver († 1972)
• 1931 » Christopher Chataway, English runner, journalist, and politician († 2014)
• 1931 » Ernie Banks, American baseball player and coach († 2015)

• 1900 » John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, Scottish nobleman (b. 1844)
• 1907 » Timothy Eaton, Canadian businessman, founded Eaton's (b. 1834)
• 1923 » Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish painter and critic (b. 1869)
• 1933 » John Galsworthy, English novelist and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1942 » Henry Larkin, American baseball player and manager (b. 1860)
• 1944 » Jean Giraudoux, French author and playwright (b. 1882)
• 1954 » Edwin Howard Armstrong, American engineer, invented FM radio (b. 1890)
• 1954 » Vivian Woodward, English captain and footballer (b. 1879)
• 1955 » John Mott, American activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• 1956 » A. A. Milne, English author, poet, and playwright, created Winnie-the-Pooh (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. Adriana
9. Catharina
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.
• May 16 » In Hollywood, the first Academy Awards ceremony takes place.
• June 8 » Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
• July 27 » The Geneva Convention of 1929, dealing with treatment of prisoners-of-war, is signed by 53 nations.
• 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 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.
• November 29 » U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd leads the first expedition to fly over the South Pole.

The temperature on January 31, 1929 was between -1.1 °C and 4.4 °C and averaged 1.1 °C. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.