About the day » Monday December 23, 1929Calender converter

• Eva Maria Adamitza, Sobotka (pow. wroclawski), Zobten (Kr. Breslau), Dolnoslaskie, Poland († 1929)
• Clara Dekkers († 2019)
• Cornelia Pietje van Loon († 2020)
• Dorase Edward Mccarty, Fairland, Burnet, Texas, Verenigde Staten († 1984)
• Alide Barkelau, Makassar (Indonesië) († 1944)
• Gilbert Théophiel Vermassen, Vinderhoute († 2012)
• Elisabeth Strootman († 1944)
• Cornelia Theodora Mekenkamp, Utrecht († 2002)
• Anna Wilhelmina (Mien) Krops, Odoorn, Gemeente Borger-Odoorn, Drenthe, Niederlande († 2012)
• Cornelia van Kuilenburg († 1999)

• Barend Jozef Park (48), Rotterdam
• Antonia Henrica Damen (0), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltjen Massen (62), Zelhem
• Aaltje den Boer (46), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Berber Postma (86), Irnsum, Friesland, Nederland
• Cornelia Aulman (68), Rotterdam
• Aaltjen Massen (62), Zelhem (Bronckhorst), Gelderland, Nederland
• Antonette Svensdatter (73)
• Ch. A van Rijck, Medan, Sumatra, Dutch East Indies
• Anna Elisabeth Stals (80)

• 1924 » Bob Kurland, American basketball player and politician († 2013)
• 1925 » Duncan Hallas, English author and politician († 2002)
• 1925 » Rayner Unwin, English publisher († 2000)
• 1926 » Harold Dorman, American rock & roll singer-songwriter († 1988)
• 1926 » Robert Bly, American poet and essayist
• 1929 » Chet Baker, American jazz trumpet player, flugelhorn player, and singer († 1988)
• 1929 » Dick Weber, American professional bowler († 2005)
• 1932 » Richard Clark Barkley, American soldier, academic, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to East Germany († 2015)
• 1933 » Akihito, Japanese emperor
• 1933 » Noella Leduc, American baseball player († 2014)

• 1912 » Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist and academic (b. 1850)
• 1926 » Swami Shraddhanand, Indian monk, missionary, and educator (b. 1856)
• 1930 » Mustafa Fehmi Kubilay, Turkish lieutenant and educator (b. 1906)
• 1931 » Wilson Bentley, American meteorologist and photographer (b. 1865)
• 1939 » Anthony Fokker, Indonesia-born Dutch pilot and engineer, designed the Fokker Dr.I and Fokker D.VII (b. 1890)
• 1946 » John A. Sampson, American gynecologist and academic (b. 1873)
• 1948 » Akira Mutō, Japanese general (b. 1883)
• 1948 » Heitarō Kimura, Japanese general (b. 1888)
• 1948 » Hideki Tojo, Japanese general and politician, 40th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1884)
• 1948 » Seishirō Itagaki, Japanese general (b. 1885)

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 1 » The former municipalities of Point Grey, British Columbia and South Vancouver, British Columbia are amalgamated into Vancouver.
• April 6 » Huey P. Long, Governor of Louisiana, is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.
• September 24 » Jimmy Doolittle performs the first flight without a window, proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
• October 7 » Photius II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
• November 3 » The Gwangju Student Independence Movement occurred.
• November 29 » U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd leads the first expedition to fly over the South Pole.

The average temperature on December 23, 1929 was 2.4 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south east.