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• Charles Henry Juel, Cedar Falls (Black Hawk County) (Iowa) († 2016)
• Adélcida Mejía Alvarez, Popayán, Cauca, Colombia († 2018)
• Arthur Charles Armirotto, Antwerpen, België († 2000)
• Geneva Elizabeth van Surksum, Doon, Lyon County, Iowa († 2009)
• Billy B. Merrill († 1983)
• Geertruida Bernardina Maria RAVESLOOT, Lichtenvoorde († 1983)
• Bertha Maria Blomsteel, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1932)
• Antoon Vermeulen, Culemborg (GL) († 2009)
• Cornelis Vrieswijk, Coevorden († 2008)
• Dottie M. Lee († 1994)

• Ardina Kocken, Herpen
• Cornelis Hoogland, Castricum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonie Hendrikse (71), Driebergen-Rijsenburg, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aasje de Niet (66), Scheveningen
• Catherine Wilson (79), Ulverstone, Tasmania, Australia
• Cornelia Elizabeth Sandee (78), Holland Township, Sheboygan Co., Wisconsin
• Arie Raaphorst (62), Oegstgeest, South Holland, Netherlands
• Christina Petronella Wuijster (77), Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Adrianus Daems (72), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Maria Catharina Ploem(Plum) (76), Ubach over Worms

• 1930 » Frank Gifford, American football player, sportscaster, and actor († 2015)
• 1930 » Leslie Manigat, Haitian educator and politician, 43rd President of Haiti († 2014)
• 1930 » Robert Culp, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 2010)
• 1933 » Julie Newmar, American actress
• 1933 » Reiner Kunze, German poet and translator
• 1933 » Stuart Roosa, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut († 1994)
• 1933 » Tom Maschler, English author and publisher
• 1934 » Diana Wynne Jones, English author († 2011)
• 1934 » Donnie Dunagan, American actor and soldier
• 1934 » Ketty Lester, American singer and actress

• 1914 » Carl Theodor Schulz, German-Norwegian gardener (b. 1835)
• 1916 » George Scott, English footballer (b. 1885)
• 1920 » Henry Daglish, Australian politician, 6th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1866)
• 1921 » Peter I of Serbia (b. 1844)
• 1938 » Andrej Hlinka, Slovak priest, journalist, and politician (b. 1864)
• 1938 » Robert Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1911)
• 1945 » Takijirō Ōnishi, Japanese admiral (b. 1891)
• 1948 » Babe Ruth, American baseball player and coach (b. 1895)
• 1949 » Margaret Mitchell, American journalist and author (b. 1900)
• 1952 » Lydia Field Emmet, American painter and academic (b. 1866)

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 23 » In Brazil, four students are shot and killed during a manifestation against the Brazilian dictator Getúlio Vargas, which resulted in the outbreak of the Constitutionalist Revolution several weeks later.
• July 1 » Australia's national broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, was formed.
• July 29 » Great Depression: In Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans.
• July 30 » Premiere of Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short.
• December 7 » German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.

The temperature on August 16, 1932 was between 19.0 °C and 25.2 °C and averaged 21.1 °C. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.