About the day » Thursday December 5, 1929Calender converter

• Dirk Pieter Cerneus, Amsterdam († 1983)
• Anna Josepha Louise Lahaye, Lahaije, Meerssen, Limburg, Netherlands († 1930)
• Billie Edward Richardson, Tennessee, Verenigde Staten († 1997)
• Annigje Marie Booij, Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland († 2014)
• Donald Thomas Akins *, Great Bend, Barton, Kansas, United States († 2002)
• Chester Alonzo FARNSWORTH, Garcia, Galena, Chihuahua, Mexico († 2007)
• KROON, Kortenhoef († 1929)
• Dirk Jilles Koster († 2013)
• Christof Rustebiel, Veendam, Groningen, Netherlands († 2001)
• Carol L Harding, Noxon, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, United States († 2002)

• Anna Gerdina Maria Boer (75), Deventer {OV}
• Aartje de Grijp (56), Sliedrecht
• Antonetta Smulders (92), Berlicum, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aafje van der Velden
• Annie Marsden (33), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• KROON (0), Kortenhoef
• Aartje de Grijp (56), Sliedrecht(ZH)
• Aloysia van Teuber (64), Moravec (Morawetz), Hoogland, Tsjechië
• Adrianus Pieter Klingeman (41), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Aaltje Luchies (66), Hoogeveen, 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)

• 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 26 » President Calvin Coolidge signs an executive order establishing the 96,000 acre Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
• June 1 » The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.
• June 17 » The town of Murchison, New Zealand Is rocked by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake killing 17. At the time it was New Zealand's worst natural disaster.
• 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).
• October 3 » The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Yugoslavia by King Alexander I.
• October 7 » Photius II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.

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.