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• Albertus Herman Haverkort, Enschede († 2015)
• Bloeme Pampel, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1942)
• Albertus Gerardus van der Kroft, Sassenheim († 2022)
• André Polydore Declerck, Menen,8930,West-Vlaanderen,België († 2007)
• Doodgeboren Barendregt, Oudenbosch, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands († 1929)
• Boris Zagar, Heerlen, Netherlands († 1972)
• Cornelis Johannes Nepomucenus van den Oord, Almkerk, Altena, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1994)
• Cornelis Wilhelmus Stadegaard († 2008)
• Catharina Johanna Verduijn, Leende, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cássio Salerno, Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brasil († 1995)

• Alida Rekke (81), Amsterdam
• Catharina Grootswagers (69), Veghel, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Adriana Theodora van de Vossenberg (0), Mierlo, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alida Steenhuis (37), Groningen, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Antonius van Calis (76), Deurne Liessel
• Arend Jan Franken (13), Zutphen
• Cornelia Jacoba van LUIJK (65), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Jacoba Hendriks (81), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Barend Klok (4), Nijkerk
• Berend Santing (15), Emmen

• 1924 » Nam Duck-woo, South Korean politician, 12th Prime Minister of South Korea († 2013)
• 1926 » Charlotte Rae, American actress and singer († 2018)
• 1926 » James Stirling, Scottish architect, designed the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and Seeley Historical Library († 1992)
• 1927 » Laurel Aitken, Cuban-Jamaican singer († 2005)
• 1929 » Michael Atiyah, English-Lebanese mathematician and academic († 2019)
• 1929 » Robert Wade-Gery, English diplomat, British High Commissioner to India († 2015)
• 1930 » Enno Penno, Estonian politician, Prime Minister of Estonia in exile († 2016)
• 1931 » John Buchanan, Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Premier of Nova Scotia († 2019)
• 1931 » Ronald Hynd, English dancer and choreographer
• 1933 » Anthony Llewellyn, Welsh-American chemist and astronaut († 2013)

• 1925 » André Caplet, French composer and conductor (b. 1878)
• 1929 » Henry Lerolle, French painter and art collector (b. 1848)
• 1932 » Ferenc Oslay, Hungarian-Slovene historian and author (b. 1883)
• 1933 » Henry Royce, English engineer and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited (b. 1863)
• 1944 » Nikolaos Roussen, Greek captain (b. 1913)
• 1945 » Käthe Kollwitz, German painter and sculptor (b. 1867)
• 1945 » Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician and academic (b. 1900)
• 1946 » Harlan F. Stone, American lawyer and jurist, 12th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1872)
• 1946 » Lionel Atwill, English-American actor (b. 1885)
• 1949 » Charles Middleton, American actor (b. 1874)

• 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.
• July 27 » The Geneva Convention of 1929, dealing with treatment of prisoners-of-war, is signed by 53 nations.
• September 24 » Jimmy Doolittle performs the first flight without a window, proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
• November 18 » Grand Banks earthquake: Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on the Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula.
• 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).
• December 27 » Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin orders the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class".

The temperature on April 22, 1929 was between -3.8 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. There was 12.9 hours of sunshine (90%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.