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• Alida Martina Boersen, Hippolytushoef († 2004)
• Bernadette Ackermans, Hedel († 1934)
• Gerardus Adrianus Lensvelt, Dussen († 1988)
• Anthonius Albertus Kuijer, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1964)
• Aaro Perttuli Kokkala, Finland († 1981)
• Abraham Paulus Voets, Hazerswoude, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 2021)
• Adrianus Driebergen, Rijnsburg († 2001)
• Antonia Jacoba Lensvelt, Dussen († 1964)
• Freddy (Fred) Emmer, amsterdam, Nederland († 2019)
• Gezina de Graaf, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland († 2013)

• Anthonia Adriana Koogje (69), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Gerardus Vermeulen (65), Enschede, Nederland
• Antonius Franciscus Willekens (81), Baarle-Nassau
• Augustus Josephus Cornelius Peeters (51), Meerhout, België
• Anthonius Luehoff (66), Driebergen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Benjamin Simon de Winter (77), Rotterdam
• Andries Jagt (64), Groningen
• Antonius Fransiscus Willekens (81), Baarle Nassau
• Afina Wielinga (48), Rotterdam
• Carolus Ludovicus Pintens (77), Hingene

• 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
• 1936 » Henry Lee Lucas, American murderer († 2001)
• 1936 » Rudy Lewis, American R&B singer († 1964)

• 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. Wilhelmus
12. Gerardus
13. Antonius
14. Jacob
15. Johan
16. Albert

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

• 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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 8.3 million citizens.
• January 26 » German–Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed.
• February 16 » The Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republikanischer Schutzbund.
• February 21 » Augusto Sandino is executed.
• July 20 » West Coast waterfront strike: In Seattle, police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking longshoremen. The governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland docks.
• August 22 » Bill Woodfull of Australia becomes the only cricket captain to twice regain The Ashes.
• December 5 » Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, taking four days to capture the city.

The temperature on August 23, 1934 was between 9.1 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.