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• Garret John Hoitink, Lima Township, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin († 2013)
• Adriaan Jacob van 't Leven, Krabbendijke, Zeeland, Nederland († 2017)
• Evert Schuurman († 1979)
• Danilo Angel de la Caridad Saroza DNA999i *Haplo ?? --, Havana, Cuba († 1986)
• Celestine Carmen Nunes, Parbo († 2005)
• Albert Harkema, Aduard, Groningen, Nederland († 2011)
• Barry Humphries AO CBE, Kew, Victoria, Australia († 2023)
• Adriana Christina Maria Loonen, Solo, Nederland († 2011)
• Catharina Maartje Smit, Curaçao († 2009)
• * Wim Maas, Geleen († 1987)

• Albert 1er de BELGIQUE (58), Marche-Les-Dames, 92083, Namur, Belgique
• Aaltje Mulder (73), Finsterwolde (gem. Oldambt)
• Adrianus Cornelis Peeters (55), Baarle-Nassau
• Vader (0), Oost-en West Souburg
• Albert I Leopold Clement van België (58), Marche les Dames, Namen
• ALBERT I Leopold Klemens Maria Meinrad von Belgien (58), Marche-les-Dames, Namur, Belgien
• Albert I Léopold Clément Marie Meinrad van Belgie (58)
• Albert België (58), Marche-les-Dames, B
• Albert I Leopold Clement van Saksen-Coburg-Gotha (58), Namen, Namur, Belgium
• Albert I Leopold Clement van Saksen-Coburg-Gotha (58), Namen,BE, België

• 1930 » Benjamin Fain, Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and academic († 2013)
• 1930 » Roger Craig, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1931 » Buddy Ryan, American football coach († 2016)
• 1931 » Jiřina Jirásková, Czech actress and singer († 2013)
• 1933 » Craig L. Thomas, American captain and politician († 2007)
• 1934 » Alan Bates, English actor († 2003)
• 1934 » Barry Humphries (Dame Edna Everage), Australian comedian, actor, and author
• 1935 » Christina Pickles, English-American actress
• 1936 » Jim Brown, American football player and actor
• 1937 » Mary Ann Mobley, American model and actress, Miss America 1959 († 2014)

• 1909 » Geronimo, American tribal leader (b. 1829)
• 1912 » Edgar Evans, Welsh sailor and explorer (b. 1876)
• 1919 » Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1841)
• 1934 » Albert I of Belgium (b. 1875)
• 1934 » Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player and theoretician (b. 1862)
• 1939 » Willy Hess, German violinist and educator (b. 1859)
• 1946 » Dorothy Gibson, American actress and singer (b. 1889)
• 1961 » Lütfi Kırdar, Turkish physician and politician, Turkish Minister of Health (b. 1887)
• 1961 » Nita Naldi, American actress (b. 1894)
• 1962 » Joseph Kearns, American actor (b. 1907)

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.
• January 26 » The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.
• February 21 » Augusto Sandino is executed.
• May 21 » Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
• May 23 » The Auto-Lite strike culminates in the "Battle of Toledo", a five-day melée between 1,300 troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6,000 picketers.
• November 23 » An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis.

The temperature on February 17, 1934 was between 2.7 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.