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• Dina Kortman, Gramsbergen († 2019)
• Barbera Cornelia (Bep) de koning, steenbergen († 1978)
• Charles Edward Skees († 1945)
• Albertha Wilmans, Sint Eustatius († 1933)
• Adriaan Nicolaas Kikkert, Wieringen († 2009)
• Annechien Aagje Pinkster, Groningen († 2022)
• Dina Kortman, Gramsbergen († 2019)
• Catharina Vermaat, 's-Gravenhage († 2015)
• Aartje Jacoba den Besten, Leerbroek, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands († 1997)
• , Son en Breugel († 1932)

• Cornelia Otsen (47), Willemstad
• Cornelia Timmermans, Huijbergen
• Clara Schimmel (45), Chicago, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Ale Cornelis Smitz (22), Amsterdam
• Antje van Wouden (87), Schoterland
• Arie de ZEEUW (79), Dordrecht
• cornelis haan (71), Warder
• Aaltje Hop (50)
• Ada Storey (37)
• Anthonia Pietronella Bourdrez (75), Veere, Zeeland, NL

• 1931 » Charles E. Rice, American scholar and author († 2015)
• 1931 » Jack Good, British television producer († 2017)
• 1932 » Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian runner († 1973)
• 1932 » Edward Hardwicke, English actor († 2011)
• 1932 » Maurice Rabb, Jr., American ophthalmologist and academic († 2005)
• 1932 » Rien Poortvliet, Dutch painter and illustrator († 1995)
• 1933 » Alberto Romulo, Filipino politician and diplomat
• 1933 » Eddie Firmani, South African footballer and manager
• 1933 » Elinor Ostrom, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2012)
• 1933 » Jerry Pournelle, American journalist and author († 2017)

• 1912 » François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss limnologist and academic (b. 1841)
• 1917 » Edwin Harris Dunning, South African-English commander and pilot (b. 1891)
• 1938 » Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian actor and director (b. 1863)
• 1941 » Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1948 » Charles Bryant, English-American actor and director (b. 1879)
• 1953 » Abner Powell, American baseball player and manager (b. 1860)
• 1957 » Oliver Hardy, American actor, singer, and director (b. 1892)
• 1958 » Elizabeth Foreman Lewis, American author and educator (b. 1892)
• 1960 » Luis Ángel Firpo, Argentine boxer (b. 1894)
• 1963 » Ramon Vila Capdevila, last of the Spanish Maquis, holding out after the end of the Spanish Civil War (b.1908)

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• September 5 » The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger.
• September 17 » A speech by Laureano Gómez leads to the escalation of the Leticia Incident.
• October 15 » Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
• December 25 » A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China kills 275 people.

The temperature on August 7, 1932 was between 14.3 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.