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• Albert Cesar Cools, Driegoten († 1929)
• Elisabeth ( Bets ) Dekker, Serooskerke (W), Zeeland, Nederland († 2025)
• Cornelis Michael van den Aardweg, den Haag († 2005)
• Dorothea Johanna Theresia (Doortje) Hermans, Helden,, Limburg, Nederland († 2014)
• Alberdina Koolman, Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2006)
• Aalwina Webeling, Den Helder († 2011)
• Elizabeth Pieternella (Elizabeth) Boone, Noordgouwe († 2020)
• Eva Maria Johanna Jansen, Tiel, Gelderland, Nederland († 2017)
• Dillie M. NICKLAS, Wheeling, West Virginia († 1975)
• Aimée Rose Guedon, Bordeaux, Dép. Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine († 1996)

• Arij Eijgenraam (80), Vlaardingen
• Colin Harrower (72), 25 Ochil Street, Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire, Scotland
• Anna Maria Janssen (63), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus ROMMELSE (85), Oude-Tonge
• Berend de Raaf (67), Emmen, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Anneke Janssen (58), Zelhem
• Alois Camille Maurice Janssens (34), Aalst
• Charles Levet (81), 231 Great South Road, Greenlane, Auckland, New Zealand
• Alida van Mourik (75), Maurik
• Arnolda Verbruggen (68), Rossum, Maasdriel, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1928 » Jean Cione, American baseball player († 2010)
• 1928 » Klaus von Dohnányi, German politician
• 1928 » Michael Shaara, American author and academic († 1988)
• 1929 » June Carter Cash, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress († 2003)
• 1929 » Mario Ghella, Italian racing cyclist
• 1930 » Anthony Thwaite, English poet, critic, and academic
• 1930 » Donn F. Eisele, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut († 1987)
• 1930 » Francis Newall, 2nd Baron Newall, English businessman and politician
• 1930 » John Elliott, English historian and academic
• 1930 » Marie-Thérèse Houphouët-Boigny, former First Lady of Ivory Coast

• 1891 » Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist and academic (b. 1804)
• 1893 » Theophilus Shepstone, English-South African politician (b. 1817)
• 1893 » William Fox, English-New Zealand lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1812)
• 1914 » Bhaktivinoda Thakur, Indian guru and philosopher (b. 1838)
• 1945 » Giuseppina Tuissi, Italian journalist and activist (b. 1923)
• 1953 » Albert Gleizes, French painter (b. 1881)
• 1954 » Salih Omurtak, Turkish general (b. 1889)
• 1956 » Reinhold Glière, Russian composer and educator (b. 1875)
• 1959 » Boris Vian, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1920)
• 1959 » Hidir Lutfi, Iraqi poet. (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.
• July 24 » The Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it is first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928, by most leading world powers).
• August 8 » The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
• September 7 » Steamer Kuru capsizes and sinks on Lake Näsijärvi near Tampere in Finland. One hundred thirty-six lives are lost.
• 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 3 » President Herbert Hoover delivers his first State of the Union message to Congress. It was presented in the form of a written message rather than a speech.

The temperature on June 23, 1929 was between 8.2 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.