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• Carolus Hendricus Korts, Apeldoorn († 2015)
• Belia van der Harst, Scheveningen († 2005)
• Celeste Leendert van Beek, Den Haag († 2006)
• Dinant Jan Bouman, Lonneker († 1945)
• Alida Maria ter Weijden, Blaricum († 1989)
• Annetta van Wijhe, Maastricht († 2004)
• Cornelis Hendrik Heijstek († 2017)
• Cornelis Gerardus Polman, Nijmegen, Nederland († 1996)
• Geertje (gaartje) Bootsman, Volendam († 2009)
• Geert Boertien, Westerbork, Drenthe, Nederland († 1955)

• Abraham Jacobs (70), Hackney, Hospital, London, London, England
• Arnoldus Oerlemans (76), Amersfoort
• Coenraad van Kasteel (66), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Beatrix Jacoba Jacoba De Goede (58)
• Anna Maria Moors (0), Steensel
• Aafje Koomen (81), Spanbroek
• Arnoldus Oerlemans (76), Amersfoort
• Aart van den Brink (15), Nijkerk
• Bernardus Veenneman (68)
• Arij van der Mark (84), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1927 » Art Houtteman, American baseball player and journalist († 2003)
• 1927 » Carl Switzer, American child actor and hunting guide († 1959)
• 1927 » Edwin Edwards, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 50th Governor of Louisiana
• 1927 » Rocky Bridges, American baseball player and coach († 2015)
• 1928 » Betsy Byars, American author and academic († 2020)
• 1928 » James Randi, Canadian-American magician and author
• 1928 » Owen Luder, English architect, designed Tricorn Centre and Trinity Square
• 1929 » Don Larsen, American baseball player († 2020)
• 1930 » Togrul Narimanbekov, Azerbaijani-French painter and academic († 2013)
• 1930 » Veljo Tormis, Estonian composer and educator († 2017)

• 1899 » Jacob Maris, Dutch painter and educator (b. 1837)
• 1900 » Wilhelm Liebknecht, German lawyer and politician (b. 1826)
• 1912 » François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss limnologist and academic (b. 1841)
• 1917 » Edwin Harris Dunning, South African-English commander and pilot (b. 1891)
• 1938 » Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian actor and director (b. 1863)
• 1941 » Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1948 » Charles Bryant, English-American actor and director (b. 1879)
• 1953 » Abner Powell, American baseball player and manager (b. 1860)
• 1957 » Oliver Hardy, American actor, singer, and director (b. 1892)
• 1958 » Elizabeth Foreman Lewis, American author and educator (b. 1892)

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 17 » Popeye the Sailor Man, a cartoon character created by E. C. Segar, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.
• February 9 » Members of the Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang assassinated the labor recruiter Bazin, prompting a crackdown by French colonial authorities.
• 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).
• October 3 » The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Yugoslavia by King Alexander I.
• November 29 » U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd leads the first expedition to fly over the South Pole.
• December 24 » Assassination attempt on Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen.

The temperature on August 7, 1929 was between 13.6 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 17.2 °C. There was 6.2 mm of rain. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.