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• Cornelis van Delft, Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2019)
• Betje Hendriks van Swieten, Ambt Vollenhove († 2022)
• Ad Hendrix, Helden († 1993)
• Betje van Swieten, Ambt Vollenhove, Nederland († 2022)
• Dick A.A. van den Ende, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Darlo Jean Bosen, Battle Lake, Otter Tail, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten († 2010)
• Dirk Johan (Dick) Hasperhoven, Hengelo, 7550, Nederland († 2002)
• Alie de Hoop († 2023)
• Anton J.M. LAMPE, Amsterdam († 2011)
• Cornelia Hilhorst, Baarn († 2012)

• Bonne van der Bij (55), Oudehorne (Aldhoarne), Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltje Oeges van der Wal (74), Sint Jacobiparochie, gem. Het Bildt, Friesland, Nederland
• Andreas Steinebach (77), Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• adrianus johannes MULLER (74), puttershoek
• Andries Jan van der Hage (13), Goes, Zeeland, NL
• Aaltjen Luijmes (83), Harfsen
• Arthur Lloyd Hughes (60), Hardley School Cottage, Hardley, Fawley
• Christina Maria Huberdina Crooijmans (1), Oisterwijk
• Alida Altink (0), Krommenie, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alfred Whitman (85), Dartmouth, NS

• 1930 » Jasper Johns, American painter and sculptor
• 1931 » Ken Venturi, American golfer and sportscaster († 2013)
• 1935 » Akihiro Miwa, Japanese singer, actor, director, composer, author and drag queen
• 1935 » Don Bragg, American pole vaulter
• 1935 » Ted Dexter, Italian-English cricketer
• 1935 » Utah Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2008)
• 1936 » Anna Maria Alberghetti, Italian-American actress and singer
• 1936 » Mart Laga, Estonian basketball player († 1977)
• 1936 » Paul Zindel, American playwright and novelist († 2003)
• 1936 » Ralph Steadman, English painter and illustrator

• 1914 » Ida Freund, Austrian-born chemist and educator (b. 1863)
• 1919 » Hasan Tahsin, Turkish journalist (b. 1888)
• 1924 » Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1926 » Joseph James Fletcher, Australian biologist (b. 1850)
• 1928 » Umegatani Tōtarō I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 15th Yokozuna (b. 1845)
• 1935 » Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian-Russian painter and theoretician (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1864)
• 1945 » Charles Williams, English author, poet, and critic (b. 1886)
• 1945 » Kenneth J. Alford, English soldier, bandmaster, and composer (b. 1881)
• 1948 » Edward J. Flanagan, Irish-American priest, founded Boys Town (b. 1886)

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 28 » Japanese forces attack Shanghai.
• May 20 » Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day.
• July 28 » U.S. President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D.C.
• 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.
• September 5 » The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger.
• November 3 » Panagis Tsaldaris becomes the 142nd Prime Minister of Greece.

The temperature on May 15, 1932 was between 14.0 °C and 27.6 °C and averaged 20.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (51%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.