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• Dorothy Mary Robinson, Ulverstone, Tasmanië (Australië) († 1993)
• Dirk Borst, Utrecht († 1974)
• Dominique Raymond Joseph DAUDIER DE CASSINI, Saint-Omer(62)... Hauts de France († 2013)
• Arnoldus Gerhardus LIEFTINK († 2009)
• Antoinette Piens, Asper, 9890, Gavere, Oost-Vlaanderen, B († 1947)
• Agnes De Cramer, Aalter,9880,Oost Vlaanderen,Vlaanderen,België († 1950)
• Catharina Elisabeth Maria van der Kallen, Sint-Oedenrode, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2008)
• Claudio Letardi, Cerreti-Cicognaia (AR) († 2006)
• Adriaantje Plonia Bijl, Batavia († 2003)
• * Teunis Snoek, Ridderkerk († 2008)

• Annetta Rebecca Weider (76), Lynnville, Lehigh Co.Pennsylvania
• Arie van Koppen (69), Delft,Delft,Zuid-Holland,Nederland
• Annetje Berghorst (57), Oldebroek
• Anthonie Zegveld (70), Oosterbeek, Renkum, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aafje Elizabeth Wiemer (72), Rotterdam, the Netherlands
• Arendje Ros (60), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Wilhelmina van 't Hof (1), Rotterdam
• Annetje Berghorst (57), Oldebroek, Nederland
• Andres Longoria (12), La Grulla, Starr, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Andries Komrij (58), Leeuwarden

• 1926 » Hugo Banzer, Bolivian general and politician, President of Bolivia († 2002)
• 1927 » Nayantara Sahgal, Indian author
• 1928 » Arnold Rüütel, Estonian agronomist and politician, President of Estonia
• 1928 » Lothar Schmid, German chess player († 2013)
• 1929 » Antonine Maillet, Canadian author and playwright
• 1929 » Audun Boysen, Norwegian runner († 2000)
• 1929 » George Coe, American actor and producer († 2015)
• 1930 » George E. Smith, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1931 » Ettore Scola, Italian director and screenwriter († 2016)
• 1933 » Jean Becker, French actor, director, and screenwriter

• 1891 » Carl Nägeli, Swiss botanist and mycologist (b. 1817)
• 1897 » Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino soldier and politician, President of the Philippines (b. 1863)
• 1910 » Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist and academic (b. 1826)
• 1945 » Konrad Henlein, Czech soldier and politician (b. 1898)
• 1945 » Richard Glücks, German SS officer (b. 1889)
• 1950 » Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian and bibliographer (b. 1883)
• 1960 » Yury Olesha, Russian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1899)
• 1964 » Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter, illustrator, and set designer (b. 1881)
• 1965 » Hubertus van Mook, Dutch politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1894)
• 1968 » Scotty Beckett, American actor and singer (b. 1929)

• 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 6 » The first diesel-powered automobile trip is completed, from Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York, New York.
• June 16 » Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR.
• 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.
• August 29 » The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.
• October 5 » British airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage.
• December 7 » W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts telecasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. The telecast also includes the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for I.J. Fox Furriers, who sponsored the radio show.

The temperature on May 10, 1930 was between 3.6 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain during 4.5 hours. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.