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• Bernardus Petrus Verhoeven, Baarle-Nassau († 1930)
• Agatha Margaretha Jorna, Bolsward († 2006)
• Albertus Schut, Coevorden, Drenthe, Nederland († 1930)
• Bartus HOLTROP, Middleburg, Iowa, United States († 1985)
• Bertus Holtrop, Middleburg, Sioux County, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 1985)
• Clasina Cornelia Petronella Bressers, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2013)
• Alfred Bongers, Graz, Oostenrijk († 2021)
• Bernice Ruth Adams, Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, United States († 1932)
• Carolina Jenneke Mesman, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2011)
• Cecil A. Topp, Richland County, Montana, Verenigde Staten († 1999)

• Antoni Arfman (73), Ruurlo
• Anthonius Hoksbergen (84), Amersfoort
• Anna Maria Scheepens (76), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonius Hoksbergen (79), Amersfoort
• Antonius Hoksbergen (84), Amersfoort
• Albert de Vries (80), Roderesch (Roden)
• Albert Riemers de Vries (80), Roden
• Adriana Suzanna van der Hooft (69), Biervliet, Zeeland, NL
• Adrianus Stolk (76), Ridderkerk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaantje FIOLE (0), Alblasserdam

• 1927 » Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German-American author and screenwriter († 2013)
• 1929 » Dick Williams, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 2011)
• 1930 » Babe Parilli, American football player and coach († 2017)
• 1930 » John Smith, Baron Kirkhill, English politician
• 1930 » Totie Fields, American comedian and author († 1978)
• 1931 » Gene Wolfe, American author († 2019)
• 1931 » Teresa Brewer, American singer († 2007)
• 1932 » Alan Cuthbert, English pharmacologist and academic († 2016)
• 1932 » Jordi Bonet, Spanish-Canadian painter and sculptor († 1979)
• 1932 » Pete Domenici, American lawyer and politician, 37th Mayor of Albuquerque († 2017)

• 1917 » Albert Ball, English fighter pilot (b. 1896)
• 1922 » Max Wagenknecht, German pianist and composer (b. 1857)
• 1924 » Alluri Sitarama Raju, Indian activist (b. 1897/1898)
• 1925 » William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, English businessman and politician (b. 1851)
• 1937 » Ernst A. Lehmann, German captain and author (b. 1886)
• 1938 » Octavian Goga, Romanian politician, former Prime Minister (b. 1881)
• 1940 » George Lansbury, English journalist and politician (b. 1859)
• 1941 » James George Frazer, Scottish-English anthropologist and academic (b. 1854)
• 1942 » Felix Weingartner, Croatian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1863)
• 1943 » Fethi Okyar, Turkish colonel and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1880)

• 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 6 » King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution (the January 6th Dictatorship).
• January 6 » Mother Teresa arrives by sea in Calcutta, India, to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people.
• May 1 » The 7.2 M_w  Kopet Dag earthquake shakes the Iran–Turkmenistan border region with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing up to 3,800 and injuring 1,121.
• August 8 » The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
• August 24 » Second day of two-day Hebron massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attacks on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, result in the death of 65–68 Jews; the remaining Jews are forced to flee the city.
• September 24 » Jimmy Doolittle performs the first flight without a window, proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.

The temperature on May 7, 1929 was between 8.4 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.