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• Elisabeth Petronella van Run, Zevenbergschen Hoek († 1965)
• "Hubertus" Alexander Wolfgang Rüdiger Emanuel Wilhelm von Faber-Castell, München, Bayern, Allemagne († 2007)
• F.A.H. Nusselein, Amsterdam († 1998)
• Gaspard Xaveer Elodia SEGERS, Grembergen,9200,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 1934)
• Elizabeth Ann Campbell, Kentucky (State) († 2003)
• Annetje van der Valk, Middelharnis († 2020)
• Cornelis Marinus van Doesburg, Buren († 1948)
• Cornelia Catharina Welling, Amersfoort († 2013)
• Catho Verheyen, Gruitrode († 2020)
• Antonius Johannes Jansen, Raalte († 2008)

• Augustinus Carolus Johannes van Dijk (69), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert I van BELGIË (59)
• ? ? (68)
• Aaltje Netjes (38), IJsselmuiden, Overijssel, Nederland
• Annigje Klootwijk (65), Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Aaltje Bisschop (70), Bloemendaal
• * Gerardina Maria van Poppel (35), Tilburg
• Albert Floyd Dahlmeijer (29), Ridott Township, Stephenson County, Illinois
• Alida Cornelia Uithoven (87), Appeltern, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltje van Heerde (72)

• 1930 » Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma († 2010)
• 1931 » John Gavin, American actor and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Mexico († 2018)
• 1932 » Iskandar of Johor († 2010)
• 1933 » James Lockhart, American scholar of colonial Latin America, especially Nahua peoples († 2014)
• 1934 » Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect, designed the Nakagin Capsule Tower and Singapore Flyer († 2007)
• 1935 » Albert Bustamante, American soldier, educator, and politician
• 1935 » Oscar Zeta Acosta, American lawyer and politician († 1974)
• 1937 » Momo Kapor, Serbian author and painter († 2010)
• 1937 » Seymour Hersh, American journalist and author
• 1937 » Tony Barton, English footballer, outside right and manager († 1993)

• 1919 » Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist, academic, and politician, Hungarian Minister of Education (b. 1848)
• 1920 » Charles Griffes, American pianist and composer (b. 1884)
• 1931 » Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish poet Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1936 » Božena Benešová, Czech poet and novelist (b. 1873)
• 1936 » Róbert Bárány, Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
• 1941 » Marcel Prévost, French novelist and playwright (b. 1862)
• 1942 » Kostas Skarvelis, Greek guitarist and composer (b. 1880)
• 1947 » Olaf Frydenlund, Norwegian target shooter (b. 1862)
• 1950 » Vaslav Nijinsky, Polish dancer and choreographer (b. 1890)
• 1959 » Marios Makrionitis, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Athens (b. 1913)

• 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.
• February 23 » Leopold III becomes King of Belgium.
• April 12 » The U.S. Auto-Lite strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers.
• June 15 » The United States Great Smoky Mountains National Park is founded.
• July 20 » Labor unrest in the U.S.: Police in Minneapolis fire upon striking truck drivers, during the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, killing two and wounding sixty-seven.
• September 8 » Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SSMorro Castle kills 137 people.
• September 26 » The ocean liner RMSQueen Mary is launched.

The temperature on April 8, 1934 was between 6.0 °C and 13.4 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.