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• Adriana Francisca Maria Rooijackers, Bladel († 2009)
• C M PRUIJN († 2006)
• Adriana Clazina Wesselman, Roelofarendsveen († 2009)
• Ad Suos, Berkel-Enschot, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2000)
• Adrianus van Heijningen, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1998)
• Cornelis van Norel 9, Epe, Gelderland, Nederland († 2007)
• Arie Visser, Nijmegen,, Gelderland, Nederland († 1990)
• aldegonda leonarda heijnen, helden († 1943)
• Abraham Leendert Hoffmann († 1983)
• Anne Taekema, Ureterp († 2017)

• Anna Koopman (39), Castricum
• Anna Catharina Bossaerts (65), Schilde
• Antje Johannes Poelstra (45), Leeuwarden
• Berendje Sok (70), Bergentheim
• Aagje Verhagen (73), Amsterdam, Nederland
• Hooiveld (0), Wieringen
• Berendje Sok (70), Bergentheim, Hardenberg
• Anna Geesje Grooters (2), Ambt Delden
• Anthony Koote (70), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anthonij Koote (70), rotterdam

• 1927 » Sam Butera, American saxophonist and bandleader († 2009)
• 1928 » T. J. Anderson, American composer, conductor, and educator
• 1928 » Willem Duys, Dutch tennis player, sportscaster, and producer († 2011)
• 1929 » Francis Gary Powers, American captain and pilot († 1977)
• 1930 » Harve Bennett, American screenwriter and producer († 2015)
• 1930 » Ted Hughes, English poet and playwright († 1998)
• 1931 » Tony Wrigley, English historian, demographer, and academic
• 1932 » Duke Pearson, American pianist and composer († 1980)
• 1932 » Jean-Jacques Sempé, French cartoonist
• 1932 » V. S. Naipaul, Trinidadian-English novelist and essayist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2018)

• 1918 » Moisei Uritsky, Russian activist and politician (b. 1873)
• 1920 » Ray Chapman, American baseball player (b. 1891)
• 1924 » Tom Kendall, English-Australian cricketer and journalist (b. 1851)
• 1925 » Ioan Slavici, Romanian journalist and author (b. 1848)
• 1935 » Adam Gunn, American decathlete (b. 1872)
• 1935 » Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American sociologist and author (b. 1860)
• 1936 » José María of Manila, Spanish-Filipino priest and martyr (b. 1880)
• 1940 » Billy Fiske, American soldier and pilot (b. 1911)
• 1945 » Reidar Haaland, Norwegian police officer and soldier (b. 1919)
• 1949 » Gregorio Perfecto, Filipino journalist, jurist, and politician (b. 1891)

• 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.
• February 3 » Communist Party of Vietnam is founded at a "Unification Conference" held in Kowloon, British Hong Kong.
• April 2 » After the mysterious death of Empress Zewditu, Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia.
• May 1 » "Pluto" is officially proposed for the name of the newly-discovered dwarf planet Pluto by Vesto Slipher in the Lowell Observatory Observation Circular. The name quickly catches on.
• May 7 » The 7.1 M_w  Salmas earthquake shakes northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Up to three-thousand people were killed.
• September 17 » The Kurdish Ararat rebellion is suppressed by the Turks.

The temperature on August 17, 1930 was between 9.0 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 12.1 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.