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• Edmond Ferdinand EVERAERTS, Sint Pieters Rode Vlaams Brabant († 2019)
• Jacob de Jong, Rotterdam,Gemeente Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Evert Hendrik Lammers, Sappemeer, Groningen, Nederland († 2018)
• Egidius Joannes Theodorus Theuwissen, Lommel († 2013)
• Christina Gerardina Wulffers, Den Haag († 2013)
• Ivonne Timmermans, Lier (B), België († 1990)
• Cornelia Wilhelmina Huismans, Bergen op Zoom († 2008)
• Donald Raymond Caverly, Seattle, King Cnty, Washington, Verenigde Staten († 1938)
• Geertruida Maria Buffing, Amsterdam († 2010)
• Arendje Guijt, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2018)

• Angenita Zuidgeest (59), Schiedam
• Christina Hoeksema (82), Ten Boer, Groningen, Nederland
• * Roelof de Vaal (52), Rotterdam
• Cornelius Johannes Mulder (62), Oude Pekela
• Angenita Zuidgeest (57)
• Anna Maria Rovers (71), Elsendorp, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Ariën Antonie Hoeflake (62), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bastiaan Egbertus van Beek (29), Rotterdam
• , Zwartsluis, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Bernardus Driessen (65), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands

• 1932 » Houari Boumediene, Algerian colonel and politician, 2nd President of Algeria († 1978)
• 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)
• 1938 » Giacomo Bini, Italian priest and missionary († 2014)
• 1938 » Roger Greenaway, English singer-songwriter and producer

• 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. 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 29 » The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.
• March 8 » Daytona Beach and Road Course holds its first oval stock car race.
• May 9 » Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5.
• September 14 » Raoul Villain, who assassinated the French Socialist Jean Jaures, is himself killed by Spanish Republicans in Ibiza
• October 1 » Spanish Civil War: Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.
• December 30 » The United Auto Workers union stages its first sitdown strike.

The temperature on August 23, 1936 was between 8.4 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 11.1 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.