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• Adolf (Dolf) Ufkes, Den Helder, Nederland († 2006)
• Elbertha van de Kolk, Elspeet († 1990)
• Antonia Wilhelmina Claassen, Deurne († 2014)
• Arie KABBEDIJK († 1990)
• Alexander Jacobus Esterhuizen, Potchefstroom, North West South Africa, South Africa († 1986)
• Abraham de Rooij, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• André Averbeke, Vladslo,8600,West-Vlaanderen,België († 1982)
• Anna Maria Theresia van der Knaap, Overschie,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Aleida Grada Johanna ENGELEN, Gendringen, Gelderland, Nederland († 2015)
• Berendina Gezina Maria (Dinie) Oude Wesselink, Almelo, Nederland († 2011)

• Bauke Alberts (Albertus) Brugman (83), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Schoeneberger (39), Cook, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• "René" Joseph Maur Marie Anne de Geloes (74), château d'Eijsden, Laag-Caestert, Eijsden-Margraten, Pays-Bas
• Bartha Ertman, Veenendaal, Utrecht, Nederland
• Andrew Jackson Holmes (95)
• Catharina Anna Brak (34), Zijpe, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Berend Jan Meijer (70), Winterswijk
• Aalt Pul (80), Maartensdijk (De Bilt)
• Aagje Dekker (71), Egmond aan Zee, prov. Noord Holland
• Anna Margareta Huberta Sprangers (83), Dussen

• 1927 » Anjali Devi, Indian actress and producer († 2014)
• 1927 » David Ireland, Australian author and playwright
• 1927 » Harry Markowitz, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1929 » Betty Dodson, American author and educator
• 1929 » Yasser Arafat, Egyptian-Palestinian engineer and politician, 1st President of the Palestinian National Authority († 2004)
• 1930 » Jackie Brenston, American singer-songwriter and saxophonist († 1979)
• 1930 » Roger McCluskey, American race car driver († 1993)
• 1932 » Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, English cardinal († 2017)
• 1932 » Richard Meale, Australian pianist and composer († 2009)
• 1932 » Robert D. Hales, American captain and religious leader († 2017)

• 1923 » Kate Douglas Wiggin, American author and educator (b. 1856)
• 1930 » Tom Norman, English businessman and showman (b. 1860)
• 1932 » Kate M. Gordon, American activist (b. 1861)
• 1939 » Frederick Carl Frieseke, American painter and educator (b. 1874)
• 1940 » Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Polish-German technician and inventor, invented the Nipkow disk (b. 1860)
• 1943 » Antonio Alice, Argentinian painter and educator (b. 1886)
• 1943 » Simone Weil, French philosopher and activist (b. 1909)
• 1946 » James Clark McReynolds, American lawyer and judge, 48th United States Attorney General (b. 1862)
• 1954 » Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 14th President of Brazil (b. 1882)
• 1956 » Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese director and screenwriter (b. 1898)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Adrianus
9. Petrus
10. Jacob
11. Jacobus
12. Wilhelmus
13. Antonius
14. Gerardus
15. Hendrikus
16. Dirk

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Wilhelmina
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Aaltje
14. Margaretha
15. Grietje
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 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 7.8 million citizens.
• March 12 » Mahatma Gandhi begins the Salt March, a 200-mile march to the sea to protest the British monopoly on salt in India.
• June 17 » U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act into law.
• July 7 » Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
• August 16 » The first color sound cartoon, Fiddlesticks, is released by Ub Iwerks.
• September 6 » Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup.
• October 27 » Ratifications exchanged in London for the first London Naval Treaty go into effect immediately, further limiting the expensive naval arms race among its five signatories.

The temperature on August 24, 1930 was between 10.9 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.