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• Ans Sebregts, Tilburg (Tilburg) (Noord-Brabant) († 2010)
• Betty Marie Vos, Richland, Keokuk, Ipowa († 1985)
• Donovan Lee Richards, Reedsburg, Sauk († 2009)
• Anna Ketelaars-Kremers, St-Oedenrode († 1989)
• Cornelia Johanna Wolbers, Utrecht († 1981)
• Denise Marie Ghislaine Asta, Archennes († 2015)
• Berendina Catharina Groenestein († 2000)
• Diana Margaretha Mettepeningen, Hamme († 1989)
• Arie van Die, Ridderkerk († 2008)
• Aristeu Corrêa Gonçalves, Quarai, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil († 2000)

• Andries Kraaijenbrink (85), Brielle, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria van de Graaf (24), Vlijmen
• Abner B. Chastain (84)
• Andreas Stephanus Laurentius Kemper (72), den Haag
• Anna Catharina Laven (62), Kerkrade
• Adriana Schilder (88), Volendam, Nederland
• Bernardus Jochum Spoelstra (80), Blerick, Venlo, Limburg, Netherlands
• Apolonia "Pleuntje" Dijkshoorn (72), Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Charles Louis Van den Broeck (64), Lebbeke
• Adriana Johanna Maria Hollem (32), Rotterdam, NL

• 1927 » Dezső Gyarmati, Hungarian water polo player and coach († 2013)
• 1927 » Leszek Kołakowski, Polish-English historian and philosopher († 2009)
• 1927 » Sonny Criss, American saxophonist and composer († 1977)
• 1929 » Shamsur Rahman, Bangladeshi poet and journalist († 2006)
• 1930 » Luis Alarcón, Chilean actor
• 1930 » Unto Mononen, Finnish musician († 1968)
• 1931 » Diana Dors, English actress († 1984)
• 1931 » Jim Bunning, American baseball player and politician († 2017)
• 1931 » William P. Clark, Jr., American judge and politician, 12th United States National Security Advisor († 2013)
• 1932 » Vasily Belov, Russian novelist, poet and playwright († 2012)

• 1915 » W. G. Grace, English cricketer and physician (b. 1848)
• 1916 » Richard McFadden, Scottish footballer and soldier (b. 1889)
• 1917 » Eugène Grasset, Swiss illustrator (b. 1845)
• 1921 » John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish businessman, founded Dunlop Rubber (b. 1840)
• 1935 » Charles Demuth, American painter and educator (b. 1883)
• 1939 » Zane Grey, American dentist and author (b. 1872)
• 1942 » Ralph Rainger, American pianist and composer (b. 1901)
• 1943 » Wakashima Gonshirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 21st Yokozuna (b. 1876)
• 1944 » Charles Glover Barkla, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)
• 1944 » Hana Brady, Czech holocaust victim (b. 1931)

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.
• January 6 » King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution (the January 6th Dictatorship).
• 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).
• July 27 » The Geneva Convention of 1929, dealing with treatment of prisoners-of-war, is signed by 53 nations.
• August 24 » Second day of two-day Hebron massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attacks on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, result in the death of 65–68 Jews; the remaining Jews are forced to flee the city.
• November 7 » In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
• December 24 » A four alarm fire breaks out in the West Wing of the White House in Washington, D.C.

The temperature on October 23, 1929 was between 6.5 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.