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• Albertje Pol, Dalen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1995)
• FRANCIENTJE VAN BROEKHUIZEN, Voorthuizen († 2010)
• Antonia Catharina Zaaijer, Lienden, Gelderland, Nederland († 1997)
• Gabriella Suzanne Leonia Maes, Temse, Oost-Vlaanderen, België († 1932)
• Cornelis Johannes van Opstal, Ginneken en Bavel († 1945)
• Anton Kap, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2011)
• Alida Johanna Maria Koopmanschap, Zaandam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2017)
• Cornelis Adrianus de Kan, Noordwijkerhout († 2023)
• Dirk van Iwaarden, Valburg, Zeeland, Nederland († 2021)
• Bastiaantje Twigt, Rotterdam († 2010)

• Carolina Susanna van der Meer (30), Zuidlaren
• Carl Gustav Bremer (60), Rotterdam
• Arie van der Plas (55)
• Edna Rickard (64), Schoharie, New York
• Cornelis HELDEROP (63), Alblasserdam
• Cornelia Cristina Boerema (86), s'Gravenhage, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Helderop (63), Alblasserdam
• Cornelia Madderom (87), Chicago Cook Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Chaya Yeshka Kramer
• Ann Lucy Dobson (82), Prospect, South Australia, Australia

• 1930 » Chuck Daly, American basketball player and coach († 2009)
• 1930 » Giannis Agouris, Greek journalist and author († 2006)
• 1930 » Sally Ann Howes, English-American singer and actress
• 1930 » William H. Goetzmann, American historian and author († 2010)
• 1931 » Tony Marsh, English race car driver († 2009)
• 1932 » Nam June Paik, American artist († 2006)
• 1932 » Otto Schily, German lawyer and politician, German Minister of the Interior
• 1933 » Buddy Knox, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1999)
• 1933 » Cormac McCarthy, American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter
• 1933 » Rex Williams, English snooker player

• 1922 » Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1856)
• 1923 » Pancho Villa, Mexican general and politician, Governor of Chihuahua (b. 1878)
• 1926 » Felix Dzerzhinsky, Russian educator and politician (b. 1877)
• 1927 » Ferdinand I, king of Romania (b. 1865)
• 1928 » Kostas Karyotakis, Greek poet and author (b. 1896)
• 1932 » René Bazin, French author and academic (b. 1853)
• 1937 » Guglielmo Marconi, Italian physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
• 1937 » Olga Hahn-Neurath, Austrian mathematician and philosopher from the Vienna Circle (b. 1882)
• 1941 » Lew Fields, American actor and producer (b. 1867)
• 1944 » Ludwig Beck, German general (b. 1880)

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.
• April 24 » Benny Rothman leads the mass trespass of Kinder Scout, leading to substantial legal reforms in the United Kingdom.
• June 4 » Marmaduke Grove and other Chilean military officers lead a coup d'état establishing the short-lived Socialist Republic of Chile.
• November 8 » Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected as the 32nd President of the United States, defeating incumbent president Herbert Hoover.
• December 10 » Thailand becomes a constitutional monarchy.
• December 19 » BBC World Service begins broadcasting as the BBC Empire Service.

The temperature on July 20, 1932 was between 13.3 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 5.5 mm of rain during 2.8 hours. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.