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• Berendina Bril, Ambt Hardenberg († 1989)
• Donald Lee Todd, Hocking County, Ohio († 2010)
• Délio Monteiro Quental, Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil († 1997)
• Christina Krop, amsterdam, Nederland († 1934)
• George C Roberts († 1977)
• Frits Maria (Frits) BEEKS, Valkenswaard (NL/NB) († 2016)
• Dorothy Louise Tinsley, Center, Shelby, Texas, Verenigde Staten († 2009)
• Elisabeth van Schie, Noordwijk († 1933)
• Aris van der Voorden, Krimpen aan de Lek, Provincie Zuid-Holland († 2003)
• Harrell Dean Hand, Dickson County, Tennessee, Verenigde Staten († 2008)

• Anna Cornelia Denijs (80), Amsterdam,Noord-Holland,Nederland
• Aleida Susanna Lohuis (62), Denekamp
• Clara Agnes Hollinger (32), Sioux City, Woodbury, Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Aaltje (Alice) GROENINK (62), Shelby, Oceana, MI. USA 49455
• Christina Johanna Maria Dielissen (66), Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• anna margaretha stork (67), Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Bijl (75), Ravenstein, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arnoldus Jacobus Cornelis Grenu (65), 's-Gravenhage ('s-Gravenhage), Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Affien Daanje (88), Haren, Groningen, Netherlands
• Donata Petronella Hombergen (0), Grave

• 1930 » Harve Bennett, American screenwriter and producer († 2015)
• 1930 » Ted Hughes, English poet and playwright († 1998)
• 1931 » Tony Wrigley, English historian, demographer, and academic
• 1932 » Duke Pearson, American pianist and composer († 1980)
• 1932 » Jean-Jacques Sempé, French cartoonist
• 1932 » V. S. Naipaul, Trinidadian-English novelist and essayist, Nobel Prize laureate († 2018)
• 1933 » Mark Dinning, American pop singer († 1986)
• 1934 » João Donato, Brazilian pianist and composer
• 1934 » Ron Henry, English footballer († 2014)
• 1936 » Seamus Mallon, Irish educator and politician, Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland

• 1918 » Moisei Uritsky, Russian activist and politician (b. 1873)
• 1920 » Ray Chapman, American baseball player (b. 1891)
• 1924 » Tom Kendall, English-Australian cricketer and journalist (b. 1851)
• 1925 » Ioan Slavici, Romanian journalist and author (b. 1848)
• 1935 » Adam Gunn, American decathlete (b. 1872)
• 1935 » Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American sociologist and author (b. 1860)
• 1936 » José María of Manila, Spanish-Filipino priest and martyr (b. 1880)
• 1940 » Billy Fiske, American soldier and pilot (b. 1911)
• 1945 » Reidar Haaland, Norwegian police officer and soldier (b. 1919)
• 1949 » Gregorio Perfecto, Filipino journalist, jurist, and politician (b. 1891)

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. Jacoba
13. Aaltje
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.
• April 4 » U.S. Navy airship USSAkron is wrecked off the New Jersey coast due to severe weather.
• April 26 » The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.
• 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).
• December 6 » U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene.
• December 15 » The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution officially becomes effective, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment that prohibited the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol.

The temperature on August 17, 1933 was between 8.9 °C and 21.1 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.