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• Alphonse Francis VRANCKEN, Rillaar Vlaams Brabant * († 1935)
• Jacqueline van Spaandonck, Tilburg,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2022)
• Anna Johanna de Bakker, Enschede († 2017)
• Jan Timmerman, Ambt Hardenberg († 2011)
• Annie de Boer, Schuinesloot († 2023)
• Eveline Jacoba Vilijn, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1947)
• Gwynn Dale Ratchford, Connerville, Johnston County, Oklahoma († 1994)
• Adrianus Marinus van Lingen, Houten, Utrecht, Nederland
• Hidde van der Bijl, Lemmer († 1997)
• Cornelia van der Poel, Veenendaal († 2015)

• Alexander Paulinus de Cock (62), Hulst
• Adrianus (Arie) den Blanken (81), Nieuwer-Amstel, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina VAN DEN EIJKHOFF (57), Haarlem, Noord Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria van der Horst (43), Harderwijk
• Dieuwke Robijn (5), Leeuwarden
• Edwin Frederick Stovell (69), Jersey
• Adriana de Graaf (79), Den Haag
• Betjen Buunk (43), Kruisberg (Doetinchem)
• Cristina Hendrika Schneiders (65), Rhenen
• Catharina Lammers (78), Deurne, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands

• 1932 » Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, English cardinal († 2017)
• 1932 » Richard Meale, Australian pianist and composer († 2009)
• 1932 » Robert D. Hales, American captain and religious leader († 2017)
• 1933 » Prince Rupert Loewenstein, Spanish-English banker and manager († 2014)
• 1934 » Kenny Baker, English actor († 2016)
• 1936 » A. S. Byatt, English novelist and poet
• 1936 » Arthur B. C. Walker, Jr., American physicist and academic († 2001)
• 1936 » Kenny Guinn, American banker and politician, 27th Governor of Nevada († 2010)
• 1937 » Moshood Abiola, Nigerian businessman and politician († 1998)
• 1937 » Susan Sheehan, Austrian-American journalist and author

• 1923 » Kate Douglas Wiggin, American author and educator (b. 1856)
• 1930 » Tom Norman, English businessman and showman (b. 1860)
• 1932 » Kate M. Gordon, American activist (b. 1861)
• 1939 » Frederick Carl Frieseke, American painter and educator (b. 1874)
• 1940 » Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Polish-German technician and inventor, invented the Nipkow disk (b. 1860)
• 1943 » Antonio Alice, Argentinian painter and educator (b. 1886)
• 1943 » Simone Weil, French philosopher and activist (b. 1909)
• 1946 » James Clark McReynolds, American lawyer and judge, 48th United States Attorney General (b. 1862)
• 1954 » Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 14th President of Brazil (b. 1882)
• 1956 » Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese director and screenwriter (b. 1898)

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 » The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.
• July 2 » The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Röhm.
• October 9 » An Ustashe assassin kills King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France, in Marseille.
• October 16 » Chinese Communists begin the Long March to escape Nationalist encirclement.
• October 22 » In East Liverpool, Ohio, FBI agents shoot and kill notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.
• December 29 » Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.

The temperature on August 24, 1934 was between 8.8 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.