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• Bruce Jarvis Ming, Holland Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 2018)
• Elisabeth Christina ARINK, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1933)
• Abraham de Smit, Monster († 2016)
• August Van Bulck, Boom, 2850, Antwerpen, Belgium († 2007)
• Alvin Peter VAN DER SLOOT, Grand Rapids Kent County Michigan U.S.A († 2004)
• Ausema, Oudeschip, Groningen, Nederland († 1929)
• Elaine Anita VAN DER TOOK, Lincoln Lancaster County Nebraska U.S.A († 2011)
• Cornelis Johannes van Os, Amsterdam († 1990)
• Edwin Norman Reiter, Wheatland. Carroll County, Iowa († 2013)
• Albert de Vries, Gramsbergen († 2007)

• Adrianus LANSBERGEN (85), Kethel,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Ferman (85), Amsterdam, NH, Nederland
• Arie Koster (27), Blackie, Division No. 6, AB, Canada
• Aaldert Greven (71), s' Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Niederlande
• Alida Hittinger (57), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth van Boven (43), Amsterdam
• Anna Geesina Margaretha Korte (72), Veendam
• Arendsje VAN ARKEL (66), Breukelen St Pieter
• ASNATH (49), Pekalongan
• Agnes van der Linden (0)

• 1928 » Aleksey Batalov, Russian actor, director, and screenwriter († 2017)
• 1928 » Franklin Cover, American actor († 2006)
• 1928 » Genrikh Sapgir, Russian writer († 1999)
• 1928 » John Disley, Welsh athlete († 2016)
• 1928 » Pedro Ferrándiz, Spanish basketball coach
• 1928 » Pete Rademacher, American boxer
• 1929 » Gabriel Ochoa Uribe, Colombian footballer
• 1929 » Jerry Hardin, American actor
• 1929 » Raymond Lefèvre, French composer († 2008)
• 1929 » Ron Willey, Australian rugby league player and coach († 2004)

• 1923 » Allen Holubar, American actor and director
• 1924 » Ebenezer Cobb Morley, English sportsman and the father of the Football Association and modern football (b. 1831)
• 1925 » Alexandra of Denmark, queen of England (b. 1844)
• 1930 » Bill Holland, American track and field athlete (b. 1874)
• 1933 » Augustine Birrell, British politician (b. 1815)
• 1934 » Willem de Sitter, Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1872)
• 1935 » John Jellicoe, Royal Navy officer (b. 1859)
• 1936 » Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish mechanic and activist (b. 1896)
• 1936 » José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Spanish lawyer and politician (b. 1903)
• 1938 » Maud of Wales, queen of Norway (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.
• January 6 » King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution (the January 6th Dictatorship).
• February 9 » Members of the Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang assassinated the labor recruiter Bazin, prompting a crackdown by French colonial authorities.
• 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).
• August 8 » The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
• December 19 » The Indian National Congress promulgates the Purna Swaraj (the Declaration of the Independence of India).
• December 27 » Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin orders the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class".

The temperature on November 20, 1929 was between 2.5 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (62%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.