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• Dinand de Vries, Vlaardingen († 1999)
• Adrianus Antonius van Ham, Vessem († 2010)
• André Herman Gabriel van THIENEN, Saint-Josse-Ten-Noode, 21014, Région Bruxelles-Capitale, Belgique
• Bernardus Johannes Goris, Spijk († 1933)
• Andries Jans Tjassing, Oudeschoot, Schoterland, Friesland, Nederland († 2002)
• Fietje van deudekom, Amsterdam († 2012)
• Berendina van de Brink, Apeldoorn († 1932)
• Cornelia Alida van Waveren, Lisse, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1997)
• André Braet, Brugge († 2022)
• Anthony (Tony) Vonk, Magelang, Java, Dutch East Indies († 2005)

• Arend Hartlief (53), Uithuizen, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia Gielen (77), Roosendaal
• Arie Groenendijk (67), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alva Newton Cooper (46), Waterford, Washington, Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• Antonius van Eyck (54), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Augusta Maria Simonne Boiten (1), Sint-Lambrechts-Herk, België
• Adriana Andriesdr. van Drongelen (78), Delft
• Adriana Elizabeth Veldhoen (92), Vlaardingen
• Anton Ferdinand Amsen (12), Duisburg-Meiderich (D)
• Abraham Weinberg (62), Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

• 1928 » W. R. Mitchell, English journalist and author († 2015)
• 1929 » Earl Hooker, American guitarist († 1970)
• 1929 » Martin Luther King, Jr., American minister and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (assassinated in 1968)
• 1930 » Eddie Graham, American wrestler and promoter († 1985)
• 1931 » Lee Bontecou, American painter and sculptor
• 1932 » Lou Jones, American sprinter († 2006)
• 1933 » Ernest J. Gaines, American author and academic († 2019)
• 1933 » Frank Bough, English journalist and radio host
• 1933 » Peter Maitlis, English chemist and academic
• 1934 » V. S. Ramadevi, Indian civil servant and politician, 13th Governor of Karnataka († 2013)

• 1916 » Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian playwright and translator (b. 1850)
• 1919 » Karl Liebknecht, German politician (b. 1871)
• 1919 » Rosa Luxemburg, German economist, theorist, and philosopher (b. 1871)
• 1926 » Enrico Toselli, Italian pianist and composer (b. 1883)
• 1929 » George Cope, American painter (b. 1855)
• 1936 » Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster, English cricketer and politician, 7th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1866)
• 1937 » Anton Holban, Romanian author, theoretician, and educator (b. 1902)
• 1945 » Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian-German mathematician and theorist (b. 1865)
• 1948 » Josephus Daniels, American publisher and diplomat, 41st United States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1862)
• 1950 » Henry H. Arnold, American general (b. 1886)

• 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.
• January 12 » Hattie Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
• 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.
• 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.
• November 3 » Panagis Tsaldaris becomes the 142nd Prime Minister of Greece.
• November 24 » In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.

The temperature on January 15, 1932 was between 1.7 °C and 9.5 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.