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• Kerenius Rupanga CHIHAMBAKWE, Gute, Zimbabwe († 2007)
• Hans Crüts, Eindhoven († 2009)
• Bertus Dirk Ellens, Haren, NL-GR († 2002)
• Carlos CASTELEYN, Roeselare († 2018)
• Erica Schijff, Amsterdam († 1998)
• Johanna Maria Windt, Grootebroek, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1969)
• Henk Koenen († 2014)
• Addy J Zegers († 2019)
• Judith"Judy" († 1998)
• Johannes Cornelis Petrus (Han) Twaalfhoven, Wilnis, Utrecht, Nederland († 2009)

• Aagje van der Blom (80), Leiden
• Aagje Van der Blom (80), Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Agnes Antonia Büning Buining (76), s' Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus VLOEIMANS (65), Dongen, Province of North Brabant, Netherlands
• Antonius Hendrikus de Bruijn (64), Haarlem
• Anneta Christina Alida Martinusd Morel (78), Amsterdam, nh.nld
• Baltus Goedhart (52), Vlissingen, Flushing, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Annigje Hugen (95), Oud-Lutten, Hardenberg, Overijssel, Nederland
• Arthur Adriaan Lodewijk Sassen (72), Gerolsheim, Bad Durkheim, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
• Adriana van de Luijster (74), Groede

• 1937 » Gordon Banks, English footballer and manager († 2019)
• 1937 » Jim Marshall, American football player
• 1937 » John Hartford, American singer-songwriter and fiddler († 2001)
• 1937 » Paul Stookey, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1938 » Ron Wolf, American Football Hall of Fame General Manager
• 1939 » Felix Pappalardi, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer († 1983)
• 1939 » Glenda Adams, Australian author and academic († 2007)
• 1940 » James Burrows, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1941 » Mel Renfro, American football player and coach
• 1942 » Vladimir Bukovsky, Russian author and activist († 2019)

• 1928 » Jean Collas, French rugby player and tug of war competitor (b. 1874)
• 1937 » Hans Niels Andersen, Danish businessman, founded the East Asiatic Company (b. 1852)
• 1940 » Childe Wills, American engineer (b. 1878)
• 1941 » El Lissitzky, Russian photographer and architect (b. 1890)
• 1944 » Romain Rolland, French author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
• 1945 » Song Jin-woo, South Korean journalist and politician (b. 1889)
• 1947 » Alfred North Whitehead, English-American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1861)
• 1947 » Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter (b. 1889)
• 1954 » Archduke Eugen of Austria (b. 1863)
• 1955 » Rex Ingamells, Australian poet and author (b. 1913)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Hendrika
8. Catharina
9. Adriana
10. Petronella
11. Geertruida
12. Jacoba
13. Margaretha
14. Trijntje
15. Aaltje
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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 25, 1939 to August 10, 1939 the cabinet Colijn V, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 8.7 million citizens.
• August 2 » Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.
• August 23 » World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact, the Baltic states, Finland, Romania, and Poland are divided between the two nations.
• September 1 » Switzerland mobilizes its forces and the Swiss Parliament elects Henri Guisan to head the Swiss Armed Forces (an event that can happen only during war or mobilization).
• September 10 » World War II: Canada declares war on Germany, joining the Allies: Poland, France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia.
• September 17 » World War II: German submarineU-29 sinks the British aircraft carrier HMSCourageous.
• September 30 » World War II: General Władysław Sikorski becomes prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile.

The temperature on December 30, 1939 was between -2.6 °C and 2.6 °C and averaged 0.7 °C. There was 6.4 mm of rain during 5.1 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.