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• Aloysius Gerardus Grooten, Kerkrade († 1998)
• Antonius Adrianus Jacobs, Gilze en Rijen († 1929)
• Cornelia Maria Catharina Agatha van Meurs, 's-Gravenhage († 2006)
• Clara Dotsch, Amsterdam, NH, Nederland († 1942)
• Anna Hilda Ruschen, Holland Township, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota († 2017)
• Camiel Joseph Geeraerts, Terhagen, Antwerpen, Belgie akte († 2007)
• Agatha Maria Glorie, Castricum († 1994)
• Barney John Buyert, Sioux, Iowa (USA) († 1996)
• Adrianus de Visser († 1997)
• Cornelia de Hoog, Amsterdam († 1996)

• Alfred TIDEY (80), Surrey, England
• Alberdina WIERING (22), Assen Drenthe Netherlands
• Andries de Boer (39), Beverwijk
• Alberta Tennekes (93), Gemeente Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Albert Stoeten (44), Arriërveld
• Adrianus Leenhouwers (78), Hilvarenbeek
• Aletta Theodora Palm (85), 's-Gravenhage
• Aaltje Alberts Zuiderhof (69), Grouw Friesland Nederland
• Aaltje Zuiderhof (69), Grouw, Friesland, Nederland
• Andries de Boer (39), Beverwijk

• 1927 » Thanin Kraivichien, Thai lawyer and politician
• 1928 » Enzo Cannavale, Italian actor († 2011)
• 1928 » Tony Williams, American singer († 1992)
• 1929 » Hugo Claus, Belgian author, poet, and painter († 2008)
• 1929 » Ivar Giaever, Norwegian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1929 » Joe Meek, English songwriter and producer († 1967)
• 1929 » Mahmoud Mollaghasemi, Iranian wrestler
• 1929 » Nigel Hawthorne, English actor and producer († 2001)
• 1930 » Mary Costa, American singer and actress
• 1930 » Pierre Lhomme, French director of photography († 2019)

• 1924 » Victor Hensen, German zoologist (b. 1835)
• 1928 » Roy Kilner, English cricketer and soldier (b. 1890)
• 1928 » Viktor Oliva, Czech painter and illustrator (b. 1861)
• 1929 » Francis Aidan Gasquet, English Benedictine monk (b. 1846)
• 1929 » Ludwig von Sybel, German archeologist (b. 1846)
• 1932 » María Blanchard, Spanish painter (b. 1881)
• 1933 » Earl Derr Biggers, American novelist and playwright (b. 1884)
• 1933 » Hjalmar Mellin, Finnish mathematician and functional theorist (b. 1854)
• 1934 » Jiro Sato, Japanese tennis player (b. 1908)
• 1934 » Salvatore Di Giacomo, Italian poet, playwright, songwriter and fascist intellectual (b. 1860)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Adrianus
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Wilhelmus
12. Jacob
13. Gerardus
14. Antonius
15. Hendrikus
16. Dirk

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Hendrika
8. Catharina
9. Adriana
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Grietje
13. Geertruida
14. Aaltje
15. Margaretha
16. Helena

• 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.
• September 7 » Steamer Kuru capsizes and sinks on Lake Näsijärvi near Tampere in Finland. One hundred thirty-six lives are lost.
• September 24 » Jimmy Doolittle performs the first flight without a window, proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
• November 3 » The Gwangju Student Independence Movement occurred.
• 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 April 5, 1929 was between -2.1 °C and 3.7 °C and averaged 1.7 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.