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• Adrianus Hendrikus Kors, Noordwijkerhout († 2019)
• Earl G. O'Nan, Henry County, Kentucky († 2004)
• Anne Jannigje Francisca van Ginkel († 1996)
• Arie van Bruchem († 2015)
• Alberta Virginia Griffith, Louisiana, Verenigde Staten († 2014)
• Annie Dijks, Vierlingsbeek, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2014)
• Arend Stoffer, Elburg, Gelderland, Nederland († 1981)
• Geertruida Rijkeboer, Avereest († 2013)
• Anne-Louise Mary KEPPEL († 2017)
• Cornelis Gerardus Marie Bakx, Roosendaal († 2007)

• Annechien MULDER (54), Beilen Drenthe Netherlands
• Abraham van der Kamp (83), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• (56), Velsen
• Anna Hendrica Wassink (79), Ruurlo, Gelderland, Nederland
• * Cornelis Philippus van Asselt (49), Amsterdam
• Groenen (0), Tilburg
• Aaltje Hendriks (29), Groningen
• An~Petrus Schots (80), Rûgehuzen
• * Adriana Geertrui van der Louw (57), Rotterdam
• Anna Hendrica Wassink (80), Ruurlo

• 1928 » William John McKeag, Canadian businessman and politician, 17th Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba († 2007)
• 1930 » James Irwin, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut († 1991)
• 1930 » Paul Horn, American-Canadian flute player and saxophonist († 2014)
• 1931 » David Peakall, English-American chemist and toxicologist († 2001)
• 1931 » Patricia Breslin, American actress († 2011)
• 1933 » Myrlie Evers-Williams, American journalist and activist
• 1933 » Penelope Lively, English author
• 1935 » Adam Wade, American singer, drummer, and actor
• 1935 » Fred T. Mackenzie, American biologist and academic
• 1936 » Ida Kleijnen, Dutch chef († 2019)

• 1917 » Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (b. 1838)
• 1926 » Aleksei Brusilov, Georgian-Russian general (b. 1853)
• 1937 » Austen Chamberlain, English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1863)
• 1940 » Philomène Belliveau, Canadian artist (b. 1854)
• 1946 » Dai Li, Chinese general (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Aleksandra Ekster, Russian-French painter and set designer (b. 1882)
• 1956 » Fred Allen, American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and author (b. 1894)
• 1956 » Irène Joliot-Curie, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1957 » Ramon Magsaysay, Filipino captain and politician, 7th President of the Philippines (b. 1907)
• 1958 » John Pius Boland, Irish tennis player and politician (b. 1870)

• 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.
• August 10 » A 5.1 kilograms (11lb) chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
• September 10 » The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.
• September 17 » A speech by Laureano Gómez leads to the escalation of the Leticia Incident.
• 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 March 17, 1932 was between -1.9 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 3.2 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.