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• Augustina Hendrika Schuurmans, Mojokerto, Jawa Timur, Indonesia († 2012)
• Elvin Elee Keeler, Ponca City, Kay Co., OK († 1999)
• Elizabeth Ayling, Thakeham, Sussex, England († 2013)
• Antoine GASTEL, Antwerpen, Provincie Antwerpen, Flanders, Belgie († 2010)
• Geesje Guichelaar, Nieuwlande († 2007)
• Charles Claeys, Brugge († 2000)
• Elisabeth Lüpke († 2009)
• Ben ten Siethof, Ambt Delden († 1998)
• Brigitta Cornelia Gitta Alders († 2010)
• Francisca Johanna Lambregts, Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1943)

• Alexis Marie Gaston VREEDE (75), Surabaya
• Antonius Bernardus Zennipman (1), Raalte
• EDMOND MARIA JOZEF MARCKX (78), TERHAGEN
• Antonius Smolders (55), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• DAATJE KOOLHOVEN (81), DELFT
• Antonia Kleinheerenbrink (60), Dalfsen
• Daatje KOOLHOVEN (81), Delft (Z-H)
• Cornelie Wilhelmina Brewer (56), Den Haag, Zuid Holland, Netherlands
• Alfred James Harber (74), Beccaria, Clearfield, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Antje Arjaans Westerdijk (81)

• 1931 » Barbara Eden, American actress and singer
• 1931 » Hamilton O. Smith, American microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1932 » Enos Nkala, Zimbabwean soldier and politician, Zimbabwean Minister of Defence († 2013)
• 1932 » Houari Boumediene, Algerian colonel and politician, 2nd President of Algeria († 1978)
• 1932 » Mark Russell, American comedian and pianist
• 1933 » Don Talbot, Australian swim coach and administrator
• 1933 » Pete Wilson, American commander and politician, 36th Governor of California
• 1933 » Robert Curl, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1934 » Sonny Jurgensen, American football player and sportscaster
• 1935 » Roy Strong, English historian, curator, and author

• 1924 » Heinrich Berté, Slovak-Austrian composer (b. 1856)
• 1926 » Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (b. 1895)
• 1927 » Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist convicted of murder (b. 1888)
• 1927 » Nicola Sacco, Italian anarchist convicted of murder (b. 1891)
• 1933 » Adolf Loos, Austrian architect and theoretician, designed Villa Müller (b. 1870)
• 1937 » Albert Roussel, French composer and educator (b. 1869)
• 1944 » Abdülmecid II, Ottoman sultan (b. 1868)
• 1944 » Stefan Filipkiewicz, Polish painter and illustrator (b. 1879)
• 1949 » Helen Churchill Candee, American geographer, journalist, and author (b. 1858)
• 1954 » Jaan Sarv, Estonian mathematician and scholar (b. 1877)

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.
• March 10 » The Long Beach earthquake affects the Greater Los Angeles Area leaving around 108 people dead.
• May 17 » Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling — the national-socialist party of Norway.
• May 18 » New Deal: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.
• May 27 » The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
• August 24 » The Crescent Limited train derails in Washington, D.C., after the bridge it is crossing is washed out by the 1933 Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane.
• November 17 » The United States recognizes the Soviet Union.

The temperature on August 23, 1933 was between 10.0 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.