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• Cornelis Johannes Tijm, Edam († 1932)
• Clyde Elkins, Raleigh County, West Virginia, Verenigde Staten († 1998)
• Catharina de Laat, Drunen († 1929)
• Elisabeth Petronella Anna Sterk, Goirle († 1934)
• Alfred Anna Jozef Mertens, Berchem († 2015)
• Dina van Eijk, Schiedam († 1975)
• Albert Jan Hofsink, Ambt Hardenberg († 1938)
• Emmy Blog, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1942)
• Cornelia Johanna Maria Beentjes, Wijk aan Zee en Duin
• Camiel Braet, Moerkerke († 1931)

• Apolonia Maria van der Meer (58), Rijswijk
• Archibald C "Dock" Wells (82), Chilton, Alabama
• Aaltje Jans Weening (20), Heerlen, Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Maria Dubois (48), 's Gravenhage, Zuid Holland
• Grietje de Boer (76), Rotterdam
• Angus John Montanye (26), Schroom Lake, New York
• Adrianus van Zundert (73), Ossendrecht, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Joanna Josepha Cornelia Cools (22), Tilburg
• Aurelia Feenstra (83), Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Abelina Bolt (0), Ter Apel

• 1928 » George Bullard, American baseball player († 2002)
• 1929 » George Crumb, American composer and educator
• 1929 » Hubert Aquin, Canadian activist, author, and director († 1977)
• 1929 » Rachel Douglas-Home, 27th Baroness Dacre, English wife of William Douglas-Home († 2012)
• 1929 » Sos Sargsyan, Armenian actor († 2013)
• 1929 » Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian author and playwright († 2004)
• 1930 » Elaine Feinstein, English poet, author, and playwright
• 1930 » Jack Angel, American voice actor
• 1930 » Johan Galtung, Norwegian sociologist and mathematician
• 1930 » The Big Bopper, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1959)

• 1915 » Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist and photographer (b. 1828)
• 1917 » James Carroll Beckwith, American painter and academic (b. 1852)
• 1922 » George Cadbury, English businessman (b. 1839)
• 1935 » Dutch Schultz, American mob boss (b. 1902)
• 1937 » Nils Wahlbom, Swedish actor (b. 1886)
• 1938 » Ernst Barlach, German sculptor and playwright (b. 1870)
• 1943 » Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau, Canadian poet and painter (b. 1912)
• 1944 » Louis Renault, French engineer and businessman, co-founded the Renault Company (b. 1877)
• 1945 » Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian soldier and politician, Minister President of Norway (b. 1887)
• 1948 » Franz Lehár, Austrian-Hungarian composer (b. 1870)

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 » Mother Teresa arrives by sea in Calcutta, India, to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people.
• February 11 » Kingdom of Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty.
• May 15 » A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123.
• July 27 » The Geneva Convention of 1929, dealing with treatment of prisoners-of-war, is signed by 53 nations.
• 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 October 24, 1929 was between 8.9 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south.