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• Ferdinand Veenings, Haarlem († 2011)
• Cornelia Antonetta (Cor) Klerks, Haarsteeg († 1995)
• Antonius Petrus Maria van der SANDE, Monster († 2016)
• Anna Catharina Maria Marquering, Veendam († 2022)
• Bruno Martinus Westphal, Rotterdam († 2006)
• Adriana Joanna Maria van de Ven, Tilburg († 2012)
• Gregory Lidden († 1987)
• Adolf Steen, Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands († 2017)
• Anna Esther Regina Willaert, Elverdinge
• Cornelis Gerrit Warmenhoven, Den Haag († 1989)

• Alida Avis (69), Haarlem
• Catharina Antonia van den Eijnden (72), Roosendaal, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Theodora Verleun (65), Hazerswoude-Dorp, ZH, Nederland
• Caroline Augustine Wesely (31), Sarreguemines, Moselle, France
• Antje Leguit (85), Beemster
• Anders Andreassen Fjær (85), Klinga, Namsos, Nord-Trondelag, Norway
• Catharina van Nispen (57), Sprundel
• Bernardus Waltherus van Laarhoven (37), Gemeente Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Albertje Hensema (23), Oude Pekela
• Carolina Bertina Verscheuren (36), Antwerpen

• 1934 » Bobby Byrd, American singer-songwriter and producer († 2007)
• 1934 » Reginald Scarlett, Jamaican cricketer and coach
• 1935 » Jim Dale, English actor, narrator, singer, director, and composer
• 1935 » Régine Deforges, French author, playwright, and director († 2014)
• 1936 » Rita Shane, American soprano and educator († 2014)
• 1938 » Janusz Zajdel, Polish engineer and author († 1985)
• 1938 » Maxine Waters, American educator and politician
• 1938 » Pran Kumar Sharma, Indian cartoonist († 2014)
• 1938 » Stephen Breyer, American lawyer and judge
• 1938 » Stix Hooper, American jazz drummer (The Crusaders)

• 1925 » Konrad Mägi, Estonian painter and educator (b. 1878)
• 1928 » Anatole von Hügel, Italian ethnologist and academic, co-founded St Edmund's College, Cambridge (b. 1854)
• 1935 » Paul Signac, French painter and author (b. 1863)
• 1935 » Wiley Post, American pilot (b. 1898)
• 1935 » Will Rogers, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter (b. 1879)
• 1936 » Grazia Deledda, Italian novelist and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)
• 1942 » Mahadev Desai, Indian activist and author (b. 1892)
• 1945 » Fred Hockley, English lieutenant and pilot (b. 1923)
• 1945 » Korechika Anami, Japanese general and politician, 54th Japanese Minister of the Army (b. 1887)
• 1951 » Artur Schnabel, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1882)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Gerrit
7. Petrus
8. Pieter
9. Adrianus
10. Jacobus
11. Antonius
12. Jacob
13. Wilhelmus
14. Gerardus
15. Hendrikus
16. Arie

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

• 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 July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 8.5 million citizens.
• January 15 » The first building to be completely covered in glass, built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, is completed in Toledo, Ohio.
• April 3 » Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.
• June 26 » Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
• July 19 » Spanish Civil War: The CNT and UGT call a general strike in Spain - mobilizing workers' militias against the Nationalist forces.
• October 1 » Spanish Civil War: The Central Committee of Antifascist Militias of Catalonia dissolves itself, handing control of Catalan defence militias over to the Generalitat.
• December 23 » Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

The temperature on August 15, 1936 was between 10.5 °C and 23.5 °C and averaged 17.6 °C. There was 11.4 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.