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• Antonie Bijmolt, Tjamsweer († 1994)
• Burl Ingram McGowan, Trussville J, Alabama († 1981)
• Arnold Pouwels, Kerkrade († 1997)
• Arie Dijkshoorn, Maasland († 2013)
• Berend Hoving, Zwinderen, Oosterhesselen († 2025)
• August Rudolf Talens, Paramaribo, Paramaribo, Suriname († 2005)
• Adrião Alves Fagundes, Campos Novos, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1989)
• Krijnen, Standdaarbuiten, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2018)
• Arie Gedaljo Bluhm, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1942)
• Apolonia Adriana Catharina Immaculata Zuidam, Den Haag,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1939)

• Adriana Groeneweg (57), Rock Valley, Sioux, Iowa, United States
• Aaltje Boerhof (65), Smilde
• Adrianus Anonius Remigius Van Bouwel (54), Ekeren
• Angenees Schoondermark (80), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Anonius Remigius Van Bouwel (54), Ekeren, BE, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Alexander Bosarge Sr (58), Bayou La Batre, Mobile, Alabama
• Adrianus Antonius Remigius Van Bouwel (54), Ekeren, Antwerpen, België
• Albertus Kuiper (5), Alkmaar,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adam Heus (72), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Aaltje Bos (17), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland

• 1926 » Allan Stanley, Canadian ice hockey player and coach († 2013)
• 1926 » Cesare Danova, Italian-American actor († 1992)
• 1926 » Pete Rozelle, American businessman and commissioner of the National Football League († 1996)
• 1926 » Robert Clary, French-American actor and author
• 1927 » George O. Abell, American astronomer, professor at UCLA, science popularizer, and skeptic († 1983)
• 1927 » Harry Belafonte, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1927 » Robert Bork, American lawyer and scholar, United States Attorney General († 2012)
• 1928 » Jacques Rivette, French director, screenwriter, and critic († 2016)
• 1929 » Georgi Markov, Bulgarian journalist and author († 1978)
• 1930 » Gastone Nencini, Italian cyclist († 1980)

• 1911 » Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1914 » Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, English soldier and politician, 8th Governor General of Canada (b. 1845)
• 1920 » John H. Bankhead, American lawyer and politician (b. 1842)
• 1922 » Pichichi, Spanish footballer (b. 1892)
• 1932 » Frank Teschemacher, American Jazz musician (b. 1906)
• 1936 » Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian author and poet (b. 1871)
• 1938 » Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian journalist and politician (b. 1863)
• 1940 » Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (b. 1878)
• 1942 » George S. Rentz, American commander (b. 1882)
• 1943 » Alexandre Yersin, Swiss-French physician and bacteriologist (b. 1863)

• 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 21 » In the first battle of the Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong against the Nationalist government of China, a 24,000-strong rebel force led by Zhang Zongchang was defeated at Zhifu by 7,000 NRA troops.
• June 8 » Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
• August 16 » The 1929 Palestine riots break out in Mandatory Palestine between Palestinian Arabs and Jews and continue until the end of the month. In total, 133 Jews and 116 Arabs are killed.
• October 3 » The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Yugoslavia by King Alexander I.
• 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.
• December 24 » Assassination attempt on Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen.

The temperature on March 1, 1929 was between -10.8 °C and 3.8 °C and averaged -3.4 °C. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (92%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.