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• Antonia Wilhelmina Claassen, Deurne († 2014)
• Anna Maria Theresia van der Knaap, Overschie,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• de Wit, Opende, Groningen, Nederland († 1930)
• Adeline Loretta KUHNKE, Shawano Shaw, Wisconsin († 1997)
• Alexander Jacobus Esterhuizen, Potchefstroom, North West South Africa, South Africa († 1986)
• Arie KABBEDIJK († 1990)
• Albertina Majoor († 2016)
• Elizabeth Zomer, Corsica, Douglas County, South Dakota († 2023)
• Charles William Gochenour, Lantz, Frederick, Maryland, United States († 1930)
• Elisabeth van Delft, Rijnsburg († 2013)

• Andrew Jackson Holmes (95)
• Anna Schoeneberger (39), Cook, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• "René" Joseph Maur Marie Anne de Geloes (74), château d'Eijsden, Laag-Caestert, Eijsden-Margraten, Pays-Bas
• Aaltje Krijgsman (39), Epe
• Aaltje van der Ploeg (80), Lauderbeetse, Vlagtwedde
• Catharina Hogenbirk (85), Laren
• Anna Maria van BAVEL (67), Ede,, Gelderland, Nederland
• de Wit (0), Opende, Groningen, Nederland
• Berend Jan Meijer (70), Winterswijk
• Anna Maria Christina Clara "Mary" Niehaus (81), Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, Verenigde Staten

• 1927 » Anjali Devi, Indian actress and producer († 2014)
• 1927 » David Ireland, Australian author and playwright
• 1927 » Harry Markowitz, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1929 » Betty Dodson, American author and educator
• 1929 » Yasser Arafat, Egyptian-Palestinian engineer and politician, 1st President of the Palestinian National Authority († 2004)
• 1930 » Jackie Brenston, American singer-songwriter and saxophonist († 1979)
• 1930 » Roger McCluskey, American race car driver († 1993)
• 1932 » Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, English cardinal († 2017)
• 1932 » Richard Meale, Australian pianist and composer († 2009)
• 1932 » Robert D. Hales, American captain and religious leader († 2017)

• 1923 » Kate Douglas Wiggin, American author and educator (b. 1856)
• 1930 » Tom Norman, English businessman and showman (b. 1860)
• 1932 » Kate M. Gordon, American activist (b. 1861)
• 1939 » Frederick Carl Frieseke, American painter and educator (b. 1874)
• 1940 » Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Polish-German technician and inventor, invented the Nipkow disk (b. 1860)
• 1943 » Antonio Alice, Argentinian painter and educator (b. 1886)
• 1943 » Simone Weil, French philosopher and activist (b. 1909)
• 1946 » James Clark McReynolds, American lawyer and judge, 48th United States Attorney General (b. 1862)
• 1954 » Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 14th President of Brazil (b. 1882)
• 1956 » Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese director and screenwriter (b. 1898)

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 26 » The Indian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj ("Complete Independence") which occurred 17 years later.
• February 18 » Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft.
• 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.
• May 27 » The 1,046 feet (319m) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.
• 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.

The temperature on August 24, 1930 was between 10.9 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.