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• Faye Irene HARVEY († 2007)
• Agnes van Sikkelerus († 2018)
• Carolyn Marie Potratz, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 2006)
• Alberta Immigje Bongaards († 1993)
• Bernardus Wilhelmus van Koert, Nieuwkoop († 1996)
• Aalf Beer, Oude Pekela († 1983)
• Child of Willem & Grietje Groen, Bellingwolde, provincie Groningen († 1929)
• André Vanhoren, Leuven, België († 2010)
• Fokeltje de Boer, Sanfirden († 2014)
• Bernardus Joannes Meijer, Raalte († 2011)

• Adolf Ambrosius van der Hoek (72), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Agnes Maria Josephine Francisca Bahlmann (45), Oosterbeek
• Ngamah (39), Solo-Surakarta, Jawa Tengah (Djawa Tengah), Indonesië
• (0), Son en Breugel
• Alpha Genetta Jones (90), Lamkin, Comanche County, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Aagte Klaasen Bauer (72)
• Antje Jonk (67), Volendam, Nederland
• Antonius van Kuringe (80), Boxtel
• Antje GROOT, de (33), Giessendam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Constanh Joseph-Maria Anna Mertens (5), Borgerhout

• 1924 » Nestor Basterretxea, Spanish painter and sculptor († 2014)
• 1924 » Patricia Helen Kennedy, American socialite, activist, and author († 2006)
• 1926 » Gilles Grégoire, Canadian politician, co-founded the Parti Québécois († 2006)
• 1929 » John Taylor, English bishop and theologian († 2016)
• 1929 » Paul Lauterbur, American chemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2007)
• 1929 » Rosemary Cramp, English archaeologist and academic
• 1931 » Louis Gambaccini, American government official († 2018)
• 1931 » Willie Mays, American baseball player and coach
• 1932 » Ahmet Haxhiu, Kosovan activist († 1994)
• 1932 » Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath, English lieutenant and politician († 2020)

• 1902 » Bret Harte, American author and poet (b. 1836)
• 1905 » Robert Herbert, English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of Queensland (b. 1831)
• 1907 » Emanuele Luigi Galizia, Maltese architect and civil engineer (b. 1830)
• 1910 » Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1841)
• 1919 » L. Frank Baum, American novelist (b. 1856)
• 1939 » Konstantin Somov, Russian-French painter and illustrator (b. 1869)
• 1949 » Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian-French poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1951 » Élie Cartan, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1869)
• 1952 » Maria Montessori, Italian-Dutch physician and educator (b. 1870)
• 1959 » Maria Dulęba, Polish actress (b. 1881)

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. Adriana
9. Catharina
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.
• May 15 » A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123.
• July 27 » The Geneva Convention of 1929, dealing with treatment of prisoners-of-war, is signed by 53 nations.
• October 7 » Photius II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
• 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 27 » Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin orders the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class".

The temperature on May 6, 1929 was between 9.9 °C and 21.1 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.