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• Annigje Marie Booij, Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland († 2014)
• Anna Josepha Louise Lahaye, Lahaije, Meerssen, Limburg, Netherlands († 1930)
• Dirk Foppen, Harderwijk († 2004)
• Cornelis Jacobus van Beuningen, Valkenswaard, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1966)
• Geertruid Agnes van Dedem, Driebergen, Utrecht, Nederland († 2001)
• Beverly Voight, Moline, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 2013)
• Allardus Albertus Lende, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2024)
• Earl Raymond Torney, Osage, Mitchell Co., IA († 2017)
• Donald Thomas Akins *, Great Bend, Barton, Kansas, United States († 2002)
• Bartus Mosterd, Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Netherland († 1993)

• Anne Geerts van der Leest (73), Nijega, gem. Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Anne van der Leest (73)
• Aaltje Valé (61), Ter Aar (Papenveer)
• Antonetta Smulders (92), Berlicum, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Annie Cremer (52), Santpoort,Gemeente Velsen,North Holland,Netherlands,huis Duin en Kruidberg
• Anne Geerts van der Leest (73), Nijega
• Anna Gerdina Boer (75), Deventer
• Armand Coppee Mosmans (72), Rotterdam,Zuid-Holland,Netherlands
• Abraham Félix BENSOUSSAN (Soussan) (48), Alger, Algérie
• Antje Kort (81), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1926 » Adetowun Ogunsheye, first female Nigerian professor and university dean
• 1927 » Bhumibol Adulyadej, Thai king († 2016)
• 1927 » W.D. Amaradeva, Sri Lankan musician and composer († 2016)
• 1929 » Madis Kõiv, Estonian physicist, philosopher, and author († 2014)
• 1930 » Yi-Fu Tuan, Chinese-American geographer
• 1931 » Ladislav Novák, Czech footballer and manager († 2011)
• 1932 » Alf Dubs, Baron Dubs, British politician
• 1932 » Jim Hurtubise, American race car driver († 1989)
• 1932 » Little Richard, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor († 2020)
• 1932 » Sheldon Lee Glashow, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

• 1917 » Jean Sandberg(b.1952)
• 1918 » Schalk Willem Burger, South African commander, lawyer, and politician, 6th President of the South African Republic (b. 1852)
• 1925 » Władysław Reymont, Polish novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1926 » Claude Monet, French painter (b. 1840)
• 1931 » Vachel Lindsay, American poet (b. 1879)
• 1940 » Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist and composer (b. 1880)
• 1941 » Amrita Sher-Gil, Hungarian-Pakistani painter (b. 1913)
• 1942 » Jock Delves Broughton, English captain (b. 1883)
• 1946 » Louis Dewis, Belgian-French painter and educator (b. 1872)
• 1951 » Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player and manager (b. 1887)

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. Margaretha
15. Aaltje
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 11 » Kingdom of Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty.
• June 8 » Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
• 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.
• September 7 » Steamer Kuru capsizes and sinks on Lake Näsijärvi near Tampere in Finland. One hundred thirty-six lives are lost.
• December 24 » A four alarm fire breaks out in the West Wing of the White House in Washington, D.C.
• December 27 » Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin orders the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class".

The temperature on December 5, 1929 was between 6.7 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 4.4 mm of rain. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.