About the day » Monday December 30, 1929Calender converter

• Cornelis (Cees) Bont, Volendam († 2017)
• Clara van Houtum, Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2020)
• Augustina (Gusta) Spaink, Amsterdam, Nederland († 2000)
• Augustina Spaink, Amsterdam († 2000)
• Arend Jan Kompagne, Den Haag, ZH, The Netherlands († 1994)
• Arie den Oudsten († 1981)
• Catharine "Kay" Orr († 1992)
• Anne Margaret VROOM († 1929)
• Anny van den Berg († 2018)
• Albert Benjamin Brown, Warrenton, Warren County, Georgia († 1994)

• Aalt van den Hoorn (55), Putten
• Adriana Slats (80), Scheveningen
• Berendje Hendriks Kooistra (44), Harkema, Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Bijlsma (0), Het Bildt, Friesland, Nederland
• Aalt van den Hoorn (55), Putten
• Berend Ebbink (75), Harfsen
• Berend DuBois (6), Groningen
• Anna Francisca Helena Maes (40), Temse
• Adriana Kruisinga (62), Groningen (Groningen)
• Aert van der Goes van Naters (66), Baarn, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1927 » Jan Kubíček, Czech painter and sculptor († 2013)
• 1928 » Bo Diddley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2008)
• 1929 » Rosalinde Hurley, English physician, microbiologist, and academic († 2004)
• 1930 » Mary Rose Tuitt, Montserrat politician († 2005)
• 1930 » Red Rhodes, American guitarist († 1995)
• 1930 » Roy Yorke Calne, English surgeon and academic
• 1930 » Tu Youyou, Chinese chemist and pharmacist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1931 » Frank Torre, American baseball player and manager († 2014)
• 1931 » John T. Houghton, Welsh physicist and author
• 1931 » Skeeter Davis, American singer-songwriter († 2004)

• 1908 » Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1844)
• 1916 » Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic (b. 1869)
• 1928 » Jean Collas, French rugby player and tug of war competitor (b. 1874)
• 1937 » Hans Niels Andersen, Danish businessman, founded the East Asiatic Company (b. 1852)
• 1940 » Childe Wills, American engineer (b. 1878)
• 1941 » El Lissitzky, Russian photographer and architect (b. 1890)
• 1944 » Romain Rolland, French author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
• 1945 » Song Jin-woo, South Korean journalist and politician (b. 1889)
• 1947 » Alfred North Whitehead, English-American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1861)
• 1947 » Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter (b. 1889)

• 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 17 » Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by E. C. Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.
• April 8 » Indian independence movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest.
• August 8 » The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
• October 7 » Photius II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
• November 3 » The Gwangju Student Independence Movement occurred.
• December 19 » The Indian National Congress promulgates the Purna Swaraj (the Declaration of the Independence of India).

The temperature on December 30, 1929 was between 4.6 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 3.6 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.