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• Alonzo Dean LISTER, Duchesne, Duchesne County, Utah, United States of America († 2005)
• Geraldina Celia van de Kamp, Ireton, Sioux County, Iowa († 2023)
• Frederika Koning († 1997)
• Hendrik Johannes Hartendorp, Schiedam († 2008)
• Audrey J Heckman († 2019)
• Berendina Oonk, Winterswijk, Gelderland, Nederland († 2021)
• Antonius Theodorus Kol, Haarlem († 2001)
• Ge Proper († 2015)
• Cornelis Adamse (Cor) Wijde, Amsterdam († 2012)
• Catharina Rinie de Olde, Emmen,Drenthe,Niederlande,Amsterdamscheveld († 2011)

• Albert Heetebrij (61), Losser
• Apolonia Mel (83), Boschkapelle, Zeeland, The Netherlands
• Adriana Matheijsen (59), Princenbeek, Gemeente Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Jacobus van Splunter (82), Haarlemmermeer
• Andreas Bolkensteijn (Bolkenstein) (51)
• Albert Marinus Borren (76), Breda
• Albert Mannak (77), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Andries Galiart (79), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriaan Carel Cambier (68), Nijmegen,Gemeente Nijmegen,Gelderland,Netherlands
• Anna van Zutphen (52), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1927 » Roger Walkowiak, French cyclist and economist († 2017)
• 1930 » Emma Penella, Spanish actress († 2007)
• 1930 » John Cullum, American actor and singer
• 1930 » Tom Wolfe, American journalist and author († 2018)
• 1931 » Mikhail Gorbachev, Russian lawyer and politician, President of the Soviet Union, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1932 » Gun Hägglund, Swedish journalist and translator († 2011)
• 1934 » Dottie Rambo, American singer-songwriter († 2008)
• 1935 » Gene Stallings, American football player and coach
• 1936 » Haroon Ahmed, Pakistani-English engineer and academic
• 1936 » John Tusa, Czech-English journalist and academic

• 1921 » Champ Clark, American lawyer and politician, 41st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1850)
• 1930 » D. H. Lawrence, English novelist, poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1885)
• 1938 » Ben Harney, American pianist and composer (b. 1871)
• 1939 » Howard Carter, English archaeologist and historian (b. 1874)
• 1943 » Gisela Januszewska, Jewish-Austrian physician (b.1867)
• 1944 » Ida Maclean, British biochemist, the first woman admitted to the London Chemical Society (b. 1877)
• 1945 » Emily Carr, Canadian painter and author (b. 1871)
• 1946 » Fidél Pálffy, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of Agriculture (b. 1895)
• 1946 » George E. Stewart, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1872)
• 1947 » Frans Johan Louwrens Ghijsels, Dutch architect and urban planner (b. 1882)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Adriana
8. Catharina
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Aaltje
13. Geertruida
14. Helena
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 8.1 million citizens.
• February 25 » Hitler, having been stateless for seven years, obtains German citizenship when he is appointed a Brunswick state official by Dietrich Klagges, a fellow Nazi. As a result, Hitler is able to run for Reichspräsident in the 1932 election.
• May 15 » In an attempted coup d'état, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is assassinated.
• May 21 » Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
• May 29 » World War I veterans begin to assemble in Washington, D.C., in the Bonus Army to request cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945.
• July 8 » The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, closing at 41.22.
• September 7 » The Battle of Boquerón, the first major battle of the Chaco War, commences.

The temperature on March 2, 1932 was between -3.2 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 1.3 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.