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• Bregtje de Waal († 2007)
• Agatha Maria van den Berg, Apeldoorn († 2022)
• Augustinus Johannes Jozephus van Hurck, Enkhuizen († 1980)
• Adriana Staal, Amsterdam
• Arie Huis, Maasdijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2010)
• Andries Pieter Jagtman, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1994)
• Aafje Visscher, Rotterdam († 2017)
• Christina Johanna Besseler, Glanerbrug († 2016)
• van der Giessen, hendrik-ido-ambacht (zuid holland)
• Christina Maria Uijtdehaag, Roosendaal en Nispen (NL) († 2017)

• Adrianus Verweel (0), Spijkenisse
• Adriana Visser (78), Hellevoetsluis
• Caroline Elizabeth McDONNELL (76), Nottingham Nottinghamshire England U.K
• Cornelia Maria Baltus (53), Limmen, Castricum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alphonse Camiel Vangroenweghe (59), Heule
• Anna van Ballegooijen (84), Gameren
• Carel Louis Burgemeestre (70), Bandoeng, Java NOI (nu Indonesie)
• Catharina Charlotte van Arenthals (59), Rotterdam (Rotterdam), Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Wilhelmina Struijs (72), Den-Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Carrie Nora Fenstermacher (47), 1131 Fern St.N. W., Washington

• 1924 » Allan McLeod Cormack, South-African-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1998)
• 1925 » Louis Stokes, American lawyer and politician († 2015)
• 1927 » Régine Crespin, French soprano and actress († 2007)
• 1928 » Hans Herrmann, German race car driver
• 1928 » Vasily Lazarev, Russian colonel, physician, and astronaut († 1990)
• 1929 » Elston Howard, American baseball player and coach († 1980)
• 1929 » Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow († 2008)
• 1930 » Paul West, English-American author, poet, and academic († 2015)
• 1931 » Tom Wesselmann, American painter and sculptor († 2004)
• 1932 » Majel Barrett, American actress and producer († 2008)

• 1900 » Ernest Dowson, English poet, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1867)
• 1908 » Friedrich von Esmarch, German surgeon and academic (b. 1823)
• 1918 » Adolphus Frederick VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1882)
• 1930 » Horst Wessel, German SA officer (b. 1907)
• 1931 » Nellie Melba, Australian soprano and actress (b. 1861)
• 1934 » Edward Elgar, English composer and academic (b. 1857)
• 1944 » Leo Baekeland, Belgian-American chemist and engineer (b. 1863)
• 1946 » Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (b. 1885)
• 1948 » John Robert Gregg, Irish-American publisher and educator (b. 1866)
• 1955 » Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (b. 1868)

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 31 » 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.
• March 29 » Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.
• 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 21 » One-year conscription comes into force in France.
• August 7 » The last confirmed lynching of blacks in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana; two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are killed.

The temperature on February 23, 1930 was between -3.1 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 0.4 °C. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.