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• Antoinetta Johanna Netty van Heertum, Sint-Oedenrode,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2015)
• Alphonsus Johannes van Bastelaar († 2014)
• Andreas Cornelius Johannes Antonius van der Horst, Teteringen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Christina Johanna FIRING, Aalten, Gelderland, Nederland († 1932)
• Bernice Phyllis Huisman, Lyon County, Iowa († 2015)
• Antonie WIllem Den Drijver († 1930)
• Cecilia Petronella Catharina Meijnders, Amsterdam († 1996)
• Adriana Johanna Helena Brands, Tilburg († 1994)
• Arie Johannes "Arie" van Vliet, Gouda († 2010)
• Ate Kuiken

• Adrianus Henricus Jacobs (77), Merksplas, Antwerpen, België
• Annigje van de Wetering (36), Oldebroek, Nederland
• Anna Maria Verdijseldonck (78), Someren, Noord-Brabant, Nederland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Catharina Gozevoort (74), gem. Emmen
• Aart Frederik Housheer (61), Utrecht, U, The Netherlands
• Amke Steenema (45), Zuidlaren, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anthonij Cornelis Hordijk (61), Brouwershaven, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Augustus DE WITTE (75), Sint-Niklaas
• Anna Maria Catharina Gosevoort (74), Zwartemeer, Gemeente Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adriana Duvaloois (29), Rotterdam

• 1927 » Phyllis Coates, American actress
• 1928 » W. R. Mitchell, English journalist and author († 2015)
• 1929 » Earl Hooker, American guitarist († 1970)
• 1929 » Martin Luther King, Jr., American minister and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (assassinated in 1968)
• 1930 » Eddie Graham, American wrestler and promoter († 1985)
• 1931 » Lee Bontecou, American painter and sculptor
• 1932 » Lou Jones, American sprinter († 2006)
• 1933 » Ernest J. Gaines, American author and academic († 2019)
• 1933 » Frank Bough, English journalist and radio host
• 1933 » Peter Maitlis, English chemist and academic

• 1916 » Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian playwright and translator (b. 1850)
• 1919 » Karl Liebknecht, German politician (b. 1871)
• 1919 » Rosa Luxemburg, German economist, theorist, and philosopher (b. 1871)
• 1926 » Enrico Toselli, Italian pianist and composer (b. 1883)
• 1929 » George Cope, American painter (b. 1855)
• 1936 » Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster, English cricketer and politician, 7th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1866)
• 1937 » Anton Holban, Romanian author, theoretician, and educator (b. 1902)
• 1945 » Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian-German mathematician and theorist (b. 1865)
• 1948 » Josephus Daniels, American publisher and diplomat, 41st United States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1862)
• 1950 » Henry H. Arnold, American general (b. 1886)

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.
• February 10 » The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng launches the failed Yên Bái mutiny in hope to overthrow French protectorate over Vietnam.
• March 12 » Mahatma Gandhi begins the Salt March, a 200-mile march to the sea to protest the British monopoly on salt in India.
• March 31 » The Motion Picture Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty-eight years.
• April 6 » At the end of the Salt March, Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire."
• May 24 » Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).
• October 3 » The German Socialist Labour Party in Poland – Left is founded.

The temperature on January 15, 1930 was between 4.1 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.