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• Anna Helena Driessen, Nederweert († 1932)
• Aafje Elisabeth Cornelisd Wijker, EaZ († 2013)
• Antonia Justina Vos, Genderen/Eethen
• Martinus Waltherus(Tinie) Oerlemans, Steenbergen († 1999)
• Betty Marie Todd ****, Guilford, North Carolina, Verenigde Staten († 2010)
• Ad van den Elshout, Loosduinen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1987)
• Ada Of Daatje Reynders, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alvin Albert Peterson, Lyon County, Iowa († 2005)
• Emelia Maria Hubertina Boes, Wellen, België († 2008)
• Bonnie Barbara Bryant, Montgomery, Tennessee, Verenigde Staten († 1935)

• Antoni Albertus Enneman (59), Doesburg
• Antje Rommerts van Rijs (31), Sint Nicolaasga, Doniawerstal,, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna LUNTER (78), Leeuwarden(Friesland)
• Aaltje Bloemendaal (68), Apeldoorn
• Aagje Kool (80), Wormerveer, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia Kanters (0), Ginneken en Bavel
• Albert Alexander Joseph Greer (65), Buena Park, Orange Co., CA
• Antje Rommerts van Rijs (31), Sint Nicolaasga, Doniawerstal, Friesland, Nederland
• Bendina Johanna Antonia Gries (0), Silvolde, Nederland
• Anthonij Doornbos (75), Haren

• 1931 » Alan Heyman, American-South Korean musicologist and composer († 2014)
• 1931 » Anthony Kenny, English philosopher and academic
• 1931 » Augusto Boal, Brazilian theatre director, writer and politician († 2009)
• 1931 » John Munro, Canadian lawyer and politician, 22nd Canadian Minister of Labour († 2003)
• 1932 » Don Blasingame, American baseball player and manager († 2005)
• 1932 » Herbert Marx, Canadian politician († 2020)
• 1932 » Kurt Diemberger, Austrian mountaineer and author
• 1932 » Walter Cunningham, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
• 1933 » Keith Critchlow, English architect and academic, co-founded Temenos Academy
• 1933 » Sanford I. Weill, American banker, financier, and philanthropist

• 1914 » Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss lawyer and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
• 1914 » Gaston Calmette, French journalist (b. 1858)
• 1925 » August von Wassermann, German bacteriologist and hygienist (b. 1866)
• 1930 » Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish general and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1870)
• 1935 » Aron Nimzowitsch, Latvian-Danish chess player (b. 1886)
• 1935 » John James Rickard Macleod, Scottish physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
• 1936 » Marguerite Durand, French actress, journalist, and activist (b. 1864)
• 1937 » Alexander von Staël-Holstein, Estonian orientalist and sinologist (b. 1877)
• 1940 » Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
• 1945 » Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (b. 1874)

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.
• January 12 » Hattie Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
• February 4 » Second Sino-Japanese War: Harbin, Manchuria, falls to Japan.
• March 19 » The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened.
• 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 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 25 » A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China kills 275 people.

The temperature on March 16, 1932 was between -2.2 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was 10.3 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.