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• Elsie Fay Sink († 1980)
• David Geert Tibma, La Porte, La Porte County, Indiana, United States († 2009)
• Desmond Edward SHEA * († 2014)
• Catharina Johanna Heijnen, Waalre († 1975)
• Donald Peter Jeffer, Midland Park, Bergen County, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten († 2013)
• Cornelia Antonia Anna Geertruida Timmers, 's-Gravenhage († 1997)
• Cornelia Maria Chatelain, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland Nederland († 2015)
• Adrianus (Janus) Timmers, Princenhage-Beek († 2008)
• Douwe Altena, Merkstein, Duitsland († 1979)
• Eelke Jan Oosterbaan, Drachten († 2006)

• Adriana Jumelet (76), Oosterland gem. Schouwen Duiveland Zld. NL
• Conrad Johann Anton Piskenbrock (77), Essen, Oldenburg, Deutschland
• Cornelis Annard (64), Haarlem
• Amédé TRÉPANT (61), Condren,02300,Aisne,Picardie,FRANCE,Aisne
• Cornelis Versluijs (1928), Oegstgeest
• Adriana Johanna Wilhelmina Bruins (0), Utrecht
• Cornelis Annard (64), Haarlem
• Berend Voorst (78), Doesburg (GL)
• Clara Wobus (79)
• Aaltje Gerrits Bouma (74), Ooststellingwerf

• 1926 » Jan Morris, English-Welsh historian and author
• 1928 » George McFarland, American actor († 1993)
• 1928 » Wolfhart Pannenberg, Polish-German theologian and academic († 2014)
• 1929 » Moses Gunn, American actor († 1993)
• 1929 » Peter Bronfman, Canadian businessman († 1996)
• 1930 » Dave Barrett, Canadian social worker and politician, 26th Premier of British Columbia († 2018)
• 1932 » Maury Wills, American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster
• 1933 » Dave Somerville, Canadian singer (The Diamonds) († 2015)
• 1933 » John Gurdon, English biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1933 » Phill Niblock, American composer and director

• 1920 » Max Bruch, German composer and conductor (b. 1838)
• 1927 » Svante Arrhenius, Swedish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
• 1938 » Alexandru Averescu, Romanian field marshal and politician, 24th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1859)
• 1938 » André Lagache, French race car driver and engineer (b. 1885)
• 1943 » John Evans, English-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Tasmania (b. 1855)
• 1947 » P. D. Ouspensky, Russian-English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1878)
• 1953 » John Marin, American painter (b. 1870)
• 1955 » Humphrey Barclay, English priest (b. 1882)
• 1955 » William Orthwein, American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1881)
• 1962 » Boris Yakovlevich Bukreev, Russian mathematician and author (b. 1859)

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.
• January 30 » The Politburo of the Soviet Union orders the extermination of the Kulaks.
• March 12 » Mahatma Gandhi begins the Salt March, a 200-mile march to the sea to protest the British monopoly on salt in India.
• April 28 » The Independence Producers hosted the first night game in the history of Organized Baseball in Independence, Kansas.
• June 9 » A Chicago Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 gambling debt owed to Al Capone.
• June 17 » U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act into law.
• September 17 » The Kurdish Ararat rebellion is suppressed by the Turks.

The temperature on October 2, 1930 was between 5.1 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 10.2 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.