About the day » Saturday August 3, 1929Calender converter

• Anna Cornelia Doll, Coevorden, Nederland († 1997)
• Baukje Buist, Appelscha (Friesland) († 2015)
• Cor de Wert, Best († 2020)
• Bouke Tjalling Algra, Magelang, Nederlands Indië († 2002)
• Adriana Lamberta Maria Wirken, Tilburg († 2001)
• Christina Koster, Den Haag (s-Gravenhage), Gemeente s-Gravenhage, Zuid Holland, Nederland († 1976)
• Bouke Tjalling Rinderts Algra, Magelang, India († 2002)
• Abraham Garcia Barron, Villa Frontera, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Mexico († 1988)
• Dijk, Meeden, Groningen, Nederland († 1929)
• Akke Tietje (Atty) Jaarsma, Leeuwarden, Fr, Nederland († 2021)

• Annigje Tukker (87), Arnhem
• Cornelia van GEEL (72)
• Anastacio Aguirre (48), San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, United States
• Annigje Tukker (87), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Gijsbertsen (0), Ermelo (Gelderland, Nederland)
• Annechien Tukker (87), Arnhem, Gld, The Netherlands
• Aldert Jacobsz Kuiper (70), Winkel, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Annetje Tukker (87), Arnhem
• Aldert Kuiper (70), Winkel, Nederland
• Carolina Lemmers (61), Zandvliet

• 1925 » Lewis Rowland, American neurologist († 2017)
• 1925 » Marv Levy, American-Canadian football player, coach, and manager
• 1926 » Anthony Sampson, English journalist and author († 2004)
• 1926 » Gordon Scott, American actor († 2007)
• 1926 » Rona Anderson, Scottish-English actress († 2013)
• 1926 » Tony Bennett, American singer and actor
• 1928 » Cécile Aubry, French actress, director, and screenwriter († 2010)
• 1928 » Henning Moritzen, Danish actor († 2012)
• 1930 » James Komack, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1997)
• 1933 » Pat Crawford, Australian cricketer († 2009)

• 1916 » Roger Casement, Irish poet and activist (b. 1864)
• 1917 » Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician and academic (b. 1849)
• 1920 » Peeter Süda, Estonian organist and composer (b. 1883)
• 1922 » Ture Malmgren, Swedish journalist and politician (b. 1851)
• 1924 » Joseph Conrad, Polish-born British novelist (b. 1857)
• 1925 » William Bruce, Australian cricketer (b. 1864)
• 1929 » Emile Berliner, German-American inventor and businessman, invented the phonograph (b. 1851)
• 1929 » Thorstein Veblen, American economist and sociologist (b. 1857)
• 1936 » Konstantin Konik, Estonian surgeon and politician, 19th Estonian Minister of Education (b. 1873)
• 1942 » Richard Willstätter, German-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1872)

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).
• January 17 » Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by E. C. Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.
• June 8 » Margaret Bondfield is appointed Minister of Labour. She is the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.
• October 3 » The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Yugoslavia by King Alexander I.
• October 18 » The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council overrules the Supreme Court of Canada in Edwards v. Canada when it declares that women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law.
• December 27 » Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin orders the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class".

The temperature on August 3, 1929 was between 4.1 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.