About the day » Thursday May 9, 1929Calender converter

• Albertus Pleizier († 2006)
• Betty Navis († 1997)
• Dorothy Lucille Mattingly, Marion County, Kentucky († 1971)
• Bauke Hendriks Lyklema, Woudsend, Wymbritseradeel, Friesland, Nederland († 2016)
• Cornelis (Kees) van Dijk, Oud-Beijerland († 2012)
• Albertje Bruggen *, Steenwijkerwold († 2000)
• Adena Katherine Duggan, Macon, GA (US) († 1999)
• Douglas Frederick Geerdes, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin († 2008)
• Elisabeth Bernadina Hock, Groesbeek, Gemeente Groesbeek, Gelderland, Niederlande († 2016)
• Dina Hermina Antvelink († 2008)

• Archie Lee Bickle (22), San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Abraham Kurvink (94), Sint Maartensdijk, Zeeland, Nederland
• Aart Vos (66), Oosterbeek, Renkum, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antonetta Helena Theeuwes (0), Breda
• Berendina ten Thije (62), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Catharina de Kort (49), Voorburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje van Dragt (71), Heerde
• Catharina Langerak (43), Rotterdam
• Aaltje van Dragt (71), Heerde, Gelderland, Nederland
• van Wijk (0), Rotterdam

• 1924 » Bulat Okudzhava, Russian singer, poet, and author († 1997)
• 1926 » John Middleton Murry, Jr., English soldier, pilot, and author († 2002)
• 1927 » Manfred Eigen, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2019)
• 1928 » Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater († 2012)
• 1928 » Pancho Gonzales, American tennis player († 1995)
• 1928 » Ralph Goings, American painter († 2016)
• 1930 » Joan Sims, English actress († 2001)
• 1930 » Kalifa Tillisi, Libyan historian and linguist († 2010)
• 1931 » Vance D. Brand, American pilot, engineer, and astronaut
• 1932 » Conrad Hunte, Barbadian cricketer († 1999)

• 1914 » C. W. Post, American businessman, founded Post Foods (b. 1854)
• 1915 » Anthony Wilding, New Zealand tennis player and cricketer (b. 1883)
• 1915 » François Faber, Luxembourgian-French cyclist and soldier (b. 1887)
• 1918 » George Coșbuc, Romanian journalist and poet (b. 1866)
• 1931 » Albert Abraham Michelson, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1933 » John Arthur Jarvis, English swimmer (b. 1872)
• 1935 » Ernst Bresslau, German zoologist (b. 1877)
• 1938 » Thomas B. Thrige, Danish businessman (b. 1866)
• 1942 » Józef Cebula, Polish priest and saint (b. 1902)
• 1944 » Han Yong-un, Korean poet and social reformer (b. 1879)

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.
• January 6 » King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution (the January 6th Dictatorship).
• June 1 » The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires.
• July 27 » The Geneva Convention of 1929, dealing with treatment of prisoners-of-war, is signed by 53 nations.
• 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 24 » A four alarm fire breaks out in the West Wing of the White House in Washington, D.C.

The temperature on May 9, 1929 was between 5.5 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.