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• Cornelis Lendrtsz Plug, Noordwijk († 2007)
• Durk Hogeveen, Oostermeer († 2009)
• Vink, Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bastiaan Verdoorn, 's Gravenhage († 1972)
• Betsy Koghee, Amsterdam († 1996)
• Georg Wensel Arends, Groningen († 2014)
• Alberdina Jonker, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2001)
• Arnoldus Johannes Gerardus Visser, Bladel († 1931)
• Andries Hubertus Wilhelmus, Maastricht († 2002)
• Albert Wiebes Kamminga, Stroobos († 1979)

• Arie van Benne (65), Rotterdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Berend Jan van Werven (79), Kampen
• Barber Cornelis Kooijman (49), Terschelling
• Arnoldus Johannes Everhard (71), Nijmegen
• Antonius van den Berkmortel (69), Deurne
• Adriana Veen (72), Lexmond, Nederland
• Anthony Cankrien (86), Soest
• Antonia Verhagen (73), Schijndel
• Bonne Huisman (33), Groningen
• Antonius Josephus Vreuls (72), Kerkrade

• 1929 » Maurice Strong, Canadian businessman and diplomat († 2015)
• 1929 » Mickey McDermott, American baseball player and coach († 2003)
• 1929 » Peter Sculthorpe, Australian composer and conductor († 2014)
• 1929 » Walter Kempowski, German author and academic († 2007)
• 1930 » Jean Rochefort, French actor and director († 2017)
• 1931 » Chris Pearson, Canadian politician, 1st Premier of Yukon († 2014)
• 1931 » Frank Auerbach, British-German painter
• 1931 » Lonnie Donegan, Scottish-English singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2002)
• 1932 » David Tindle, English painter and educator
• 1932 » Joy Clements, American soprano and actress († 2005)

• 1916 » Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician and academic (b. 1850)
• 1920 » William H. Seward Jr., American general and banker (b. 1839)
• 1921 » Arthur Mold, English cricketer (b. 1863)
• 1933 » Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet and journalist (b. 1863)
• 1937 » William Gillette, American actor and playwright (b. 1853)
• 1944 » Bernardino Machado, Portuguese academic and politician, 3rd President of Portugal (b. 1851)
• 1945 » Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, German SS officer (b. 1893)
• 1947 » Irving Fisher, American economist and statistician (b. 1867)
• 1951 » Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-English philosopher and academic (b. 1889)
• 1954 » Kathleen Clarice Groom, Australian-English author and screenwriter (b. 1872)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Gerrit
7. Petrus
8. Pieter
9. Adrianus
10. Jacobus
11. Jacob
12. Wilhelmus
13. Gerardus
14. Antonius
15. Arie
16. Hendrikus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Catharina
8. Adriana
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Aaltje
13. Helena
14. Geertruida
15. Margaretha
16. Grietje

• 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 7.9 million citizens.
• March 15 » SSViking explodes off Newfoundland, killing 27 of the 147 on board.
• May 7 » The stand-off between criminal Francis Crowley and 300 members of the New York Police Department takes place in his fifth-floor apartment on West 91st Street, New York City.
• June 23 » Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane.
• July 1 » Wiley Post and Harold Gatty become the first people to circumnavigate the globe in a single-engined monoplane aircraft.
• August 24 » France and the Soviet Union sign a neutrality pact.
• December 11 » Statute of Westminster 1931: The British Parliament establishes legislative equality between the UK and the Dominions of the Commonwealth—Australia, Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Ireland.

The temperature on April 29, 1931 was between 1.9 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 4.2 mm of rain during 3.0 hours. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (31%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.