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• Earl Cornelius Cevering, Ogden, Weber, Utah (USA) († 2016)
• Adrianus Gerardus Henricus Vrinten, Loon op Zand, North Brabant, Netherlands († 1984)
• Adrianus Gerardus Henricus Vrinten, Waalwijk († 1984)
• Anna Augusta Maria Rongen, Tienray, Limburg, Nederland († 1930)
• David Nusselder, Dinxperlo († 1992)
• Alscinous Vernon Lang, Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, Verenigde Staten († 1930)
• Arie Bot, Vlaardingen († 2012)
• Cornelia Wols († 2019)
• Andre Vrinten, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1984)
• van Gastel († 1997)

• Adriana Magdalena Akkermans (77), Wagenberg
• Aafke Poll (85), Wierum (Gem. Winsum), Groningen, Nederland
• Aaltje van Slooten (36)
• Amelia Maria Theresia Baelde (79), Poelkapelle West-Vlaanderen België
• Adriaan de Vroomen (37), Sliedrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Rovers (52), Heesch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriaan Houmes (82), Westkapelle
• Aalbert den Boer (0), Rotterdam
• Adriaan DE VROOMEN (37), Sliedrecht (NL/ZH)
• Adriana Maria PRONK (83), Scheveningen, gemeente 's-Gravenhage (Z-H)

• 1924 » Allan McLeod Cormack, South-African-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1998)
• 1925 » Louis Stokes, American lawyer and politician († 2015)
• 1927 » Régine Crespin, French soprano and actress († 2007)
• 1928 » Hans Herrmann, German race car driver
• 1928 » Vasily Lazarev, Russian colonel, physician, and astronaut († 1990)
• 1929 » Elston Howard, American baseball player and coach († 1980)
• 1929 » Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow († 2008)
• 1930 » Paul West, English-American author, poet, and academic († 2015)
• 1931 » Tom Wesselmann, American painter and sculptor († 2004)
• 1932 » Majel Barrett, American actress and producer († 2008)

• 1900 » Ernest Dowson, English poet, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1867)
• 1908 » Friedrich von Esmarch, German surgeon and academic (b. 1823)
• 1918 » Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1882)
• 1930 » Horst Wessel, German SA officer (b. 1907)
• 1931 » Nellie Melba, Australian soprano and actress (b. 1861)
• 1934 » Edward Elgar, English composer and academic (b. 1857)
• 1944 » Leo Baekeland, Belgian-American chemist and engineer (b. 1863)
• 1946 » Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (b. 1885)
• 1948 » John Robert Gregg, Irish-American publisher and educator (b. 1866)
• 1955 » Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (b. 1868)

• 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.
• May 16 » In Hollywood, the first Academy Awards ceremony takes place.
• June 8 » Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
• September 7 » Steamer Kuru capsizes and sinks on Lake Näsijärvi near Tampere in Finland. One hundred thirty-six lives are lost.
• October 29 » The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or "Black Tuesday", ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.
• November 29 » U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd leads the first expedition to fly over the South Pole.
• December 19 » The Indian National Congress promulgates the Purna Swaraj (the Declaration of the Independence of India).

The temperature on February 23, 1929 was between -2.7 °C and 6.9 °C and averaged 1.8 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.