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• Adrienne Irene Matten, Oostnieuwkerke († 2010)
• Cornelis Koote, Sommelsdijk, Nederland († 2022)
• Anna Huigen, Barger-Compascuum, Emmen († 2021)
• Alida (aal) Veerman, Volendam, Nederland († 2018)
• Engbert Willem Pakvis, 's-Gravenhage († 2011)
• Aaldert Schonewille, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Netherlands († 1982)
• Edward George Goodhew († 2008)
• Aldegonda Cornelia Maria Jacobs, Maasbree († 1985)
• Anna Petronella van Roij, Asten (Noord-Brabant, NLD) († 2005)
• Cornelis Hessel Haringa, Terschelling († 2018)

• Alida Anna Maria Harmsen (42), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Barnhoorn (80), Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Hubertina Maria Schaede (30), Maastricht
• Andreas Hubertus Antonius Gerardus Dolhaine (21), Maastricht
• Aaltje Rijkmans (82), Steenwijk
• Hesseltje Hoekstra (2), Rauwerderheim
• Catharina Hubertina Petronella Boermans (83), Venlo
• Carolus Ludovicus Dierickx (74), Temse
• Anna Dirks Barnhoorn (80), Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Mallens (66), Tilburg (Noord-Brabant)

• 1930 » Denis Brodeur, Canadian ice hockey player and photographer († 2013)
• 1930 » Milica Kacin Wohinz, Slovenian historian and author
• 1931 » Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist and academic, co-developed Simula († 2002)
• 1932 » Dick Gregory, American comedian, actor, and author († 2017)
• 1932 » John Moffat, Danish physicist and academic
• 1932 » Ned Jarrett, American race car driver and sportscaster
• 1933 » Guido Molinari, Canadian painter and art collector († 2004)
• 1934 » Albert Shiryaev, Russian mathematician and academic
• 1934 » James "Sugar Boy" Crawford, American singer-songwriter and pianist († 2012)
• 1934 » Richard Meier, American architect, designed the Getty Center and City Tower

• 1914 » Margaret E. Knight, American inventor (b. 1838)
• 1915 » Edith Cavell, English nurse (b. 1865)
• 1923 » Bunny Lucas, English cricketer (b. 1857)
• 1924 » Anatole France, French journalist, novelist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1844)
• 1926 » Edwin Abbott Abbott, English theologian and author (b. 1838)
• 1933 » John Lister, English philanthropist and politician (b. 1847)
• 1940 » Tom Mix, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1880)
• 1946 » Joseph Stilwell, American general (b. 1883)
• 1948 » Susan Sutherland Isaacs, English psychologist and psychoanalyst (b. 1885)
• 1954 » George Welch, American soldier and pilot (b. 1918)

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.
• March 1 » Charles Lindbergh's son is kidnapped.
• 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.
• 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 17 » Altona Bloody Sunday: A riot between the Nazi Party paramilitary forces, the SS and SA, and the German Communist Party ensues.
• December 7 » German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.
• December 25 » A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China kills 275 people.

The temperature on October 12, 1932 was between 7.1 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (52%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.