About the day » Monday June 17, 1929Calender converter

• Cloris de Campos Pacheco, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brasil († 2012)
• Dina Maria Keijmel, Sluis († 2008)
• Eddy Frans Clement Cuyt, Bornem († 2013)
• Adriana Aagje van der Windt, Vlaardingen († 2023)
• Gerbrandus Maria Wever, Hoorn
• Christianus Martinus Antonius Smit, Loon op Zand († 1996)
• Albert de Zwaan, Hulshorst († 2018)
• Catharina Van de Luijtgaarde († 2021)
• Elisa Bancken, Genk, Limburg, België († 2019)
• Aaltje Schiffel, Muiden († 2018)

• Aartje Stam (73), Sliedrecht
• Andries Francke (69), Grijpskerke
• Antonius Fiers (34), Reusel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arie Teunis Guijt (17), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• adriaantje VOGELAAR (86), numansdorp
• Arie Rook (64), Delft, Nederland
• Antje Van Der Veen (64), Wonseradeel, Friesland, Netherlands
• Alberdina Doornbos (53), Toornwerd
• Anna Aaltina Engberts (0), Groningen
• Adriana Wilhelmina Aletta Kot, Woerden, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1927 » Martin Böttcher, German composer and conductor († 2019)
• 1927 » Wally Wood, American author, illustrator, and publisher († 1981)
• 1928 » Juan María Bordaberry, President of Uruguay († 2011)
• 1929 » Bud Collins, American journalist and sportscaster († 2016)
• 1929 » Tigran Petrosian, Armenian chess player († 1984)
• 1930 » Brian Statham, English cricketer († 2000)
• 1930 » Cliff Gallup, American rock & roll guitarist († 1988)
• 1931 » John Baldessari, American painter and illustrator († 2020)
• 1932 » Derek Ibbotson, English runner († 2017)
• 1932 » John Murtha, American colonel and politician († 2010)

• 1904 » Nikolay Bobrikov, Russian soldier and politician, Governor-General of Finland (b. 1839)
• 1936 » Julius Seljamaa, Estonian journalist, politician, and diplomat, Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1883)
• 1939 » Allen Sothoron, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1893)
• 1939 » Eugen Weidmann, German criminal (b. 1908)
• 1940 » Arthur Harden, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• 1941 » Johan Wagenaar, Dutch organist and composer (b. 1862)
• 1942 » Charles Fitzpatrick, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1853)
• 1952 » Jack Parsons, American chemist and engineer (b. 1914)
• 1954 » Danny Cedrone, American guitarist and bandleader (b. 1920)
• 1956 » Percival Perry, 1st Baron Perry, English businessman (b. 1878)

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.
• February 14 » Saint Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago.
• February 26 » President Calvin Coolidge signs an executive order establishing the 96,000 acre Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
• April 6 » Huey P. Long, Governor of Louisiana, is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.
• 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 3 » The Gwangju Student Independence Movement occurred.
• December 27 » Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin orders the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class".

The temperature on June 17, 1929 was between 9.4 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (50%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.