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• Albert William "Abe" Ward, Hix, Summers County, West Virginia, United States († 2015)
• Anna Elisabeth Kolsters, Vessem († 1929)
• Antje de Roo, Emmer-Compascuum, Emmen († 2010)
• Adriana Maria Huijps, Roosendaal, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1979)
• Cornelia (Corrie) Gerarda Maria OLSTHOORN, Rotterdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1978)
• Clio Levi Hancock, Randolph County, North Carolina, Verenigde Staten († 2008)
• Anna Maria Emilie Desideria van Spreti, Ast, Landshut, Niederbayern, Beieren († 1966)
• "Anna Maria" Emilie Desideria von Spreti († 1966)
• Cornelis Eijgelsheim, (NL) († 2005)
• Anna Elisabeth Kolsters († 1929)

• Dirk Nuis (86), Enschede
• Derk Nuis (87), Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• aldegonda salemans (81), neer
• Andrew Jackson Blank (74), South Jackson St., Lima, Perry Twn., Allen Co., Ohio
• Andreas Schoo (69), Musselkanaal, Onstwedde
• Adrien Andre Müller (63), Amsterdam
• Edith Mary BELBIN (45), New Norfolk, Tasmania, Australia
• Dela Pennings (51), Aalten
• Bernardus Antonius Diepenmaat (53), Haaksbergen
• Anna Maria van Erp (44), Berghem

• 1926 » Boris Chetkov, Russian painter († 2010)
• 1927 » Dominick Argento, American composer and educator († 2019)
• 1928 » Gilles Vigneault, Canadian singer-songwriter and poet
• 1929 » Bill George, American football player († 1982)
• 1929 » Maurice Robert Johnston, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire
• 1929 » Myra Carter, American actress († 2016)
• 1930 » Barry Supple, English historian and academic
• 1930 » Leo Baxendale, English cartoonist († 2017)
• 1931 » Anatoliy Zayaev, Ukrainian footballer and manager († 2012)
• 1931 » Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian physician, psychiatrist, and author

• 1917 » Arthur Rhys-Davids, English lieutenant and pilot (b. 1897)
• 1926 » Warren Wood, American golfer and soldier (b. 1887)
• 1927 » Squizzy Taylor, Australian gangster (b. 1888)
• 1929 » Théodore Tuffier, French surgeon (b. 1857)
• 1930 » Ellen Hayes, American mathematician and astronomer (b. 1851)
• 1935 » Ernest Eldridge, English race car driver (b. 1897)
• 1942 » Helmuth Hübener, German activist (b. 1925)
• 1944 » Judith Auer, German World War II resistance fighter (b. 1905)
• 1947 » William Fay, Irish actor and producer, co-founded the Abbey Theatre (b. 1872)
• 1949 » Marcel Cerdan, Algerian-French boxer (b. 1916)

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. Catharina
9. Adriana
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.
• February 9 » Members of the Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang assassinated the labor recruiter Bazin, prompting a crackdown by French colonial authorities.
• February 26 » President Calvin Coolidge signs an executive order establishing the 96,000 acre Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
• 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.
• 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 27, 1929 was between 1.5 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 5.2 mm of rain. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.