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• Alberdina Geertruida (Dineke) MOLENAAR, Bellingwolde Groningen Netherlands († 2004)
• Doodgeboren kind Verhaaf, Arnhem († 1933)
• Audrey D. Domdey, Morrison, Whiteside County, Illinois, V († 2020)
• Bernard Geervliet, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2008)
• Wouter Langeveld, Leiden († 1994)
• (W) Henricus Gerardus (Hendrik) Welten, Liessel († 1944)
• Donald Leo Teahon, fortasse, somewhere in NE († 1935)
• Antje Reitsema, Niekerk, Groningen, Nederland († 2002)
• Alois Terpetschnig († 2000)
• Anthony VAN ROSSUM, Herpen, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 2009)

• Aubrey George Brown (0), Germiston, Gauteng, South Africa
• Azarie Dorion (71), Gros-Pin Charlesbourg
• Artheretta Huldah Abbott (81), Wray, Yuma County, Colorado, United States of America
• Alexander Willem George MINNIGH (75)
• Ada Agatha Creary (36), Saint Faith’s, Saint Catherine, Jamaica
• Anna Frederica Veth (50), Haarlem
• Arie Post (62), Overschie
• Antje Dirksd Prins (85), Velsen
• Antje Prins (85), Velsen
• Arend Brummel (62), Zwolle, Nederland

• 1929 » Dollard St. Laurent, Canadian ice hockey player († 2015)
• 1929 » Sam Nujoma, Namibian politician, 1st President of Namibia
• 1930 » Jesús Franco, Spanish director and screenwriter († 2013)
• 1932 » Joel Joffe, Baron Joffe, South African-English lawyer and politician († 2017)
• 1933 » Andrei Voznesensky, Russian poet († 2010)
• 1935 » Felipe Alou, Dominican-American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1935 » Johnny Bucyk, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1936 » Frank Stella, American painter and sculptor
• 1936 » Guillermo Endara, Panamanian lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Panama († 2009)
• 1936 » Tom Snyder, American journalist and talk show host († 2007)

• 1907 » Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author and critic (b. 1848)
• 1916 » James Connolly, Scottish-born Irish socialist and rebel leader (b. 1868)
• 1925 » Amy Lowell, American poet and critic (b. 1874)
• 1931 » Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1858)
• 1935 » Józef Piłsudski, Polish field marshal and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1867)
• 1944 » Arthur Quiller-Couch, English author, poet, and critic (b. 1863)
• 1944 » Max Brand, American journalist and author (b. 1892)
• 1956 » Louis Calhern, American actor and singer (b. 1895)
• 1957 » Alfonso de Portago, Spanish bobsledder and race car driver (b. 1928)
• 1957 » Erich von Stroheim, Austrian-American actor, director, and producer (b. 1885)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Petrus
9. Adrianus
10. Jacobus
11. Jacob
12. Wilhelmus
13. Antonius
14. Gerardus
15. Hendrikus
16. Johan

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Adriana
9. Petronella
10. Hendrika
11. Geertruida
12. Aaltje
13. Jacoba
14. Grietje
15. Margaretha
16. Helena

• 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 8.2 million citizens.
• January 3 » Minnie D. Craig becomes the first woman elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first woman to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States.
• March 20 » Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler ordered the creation of Dachau concentration camp as Chief of Police of Munich and appointed Theodor Eicke as the camp commandant.
• May 8 » Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast of self-purification and launched a one-year campaign to help the Harijan movement.
• September 3 » Yevgeniy Abalakov is the first man to reach the highest point in the Soviet Union, Communism Peak (now called Ismoil Somoni Peak and situated in Tajikistan) (7495 m).
• September 21 » Salvador Lutteroth establishes Mexican professional wrestling.
• October 14 » Germany withdraws from the League of Nations and World Disarmament Conference.

The temperature on May 12, 1933 was between 3.7 °C and 14.3 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.