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• Christina Janneke de Waal, Eindhoven († 1999)
• Arendje Janna Beverloo († 2013)
• Geert Jacob Ottens, Gieten († 2019)
• Cor van den Broek, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2015)
• Aartje Gerdina Rietveld, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2022)
• Feto Pellegrino, Araraquara, São Paulo, Brasil († 1940)
• Celine Poons, 'sGravenhage († 1942)
• Heidrun Elisabeth Goebbels (Göbbels), Rijnland-Pfalz (D) († 1945)
• Jan Bossenbroek, Elburg († 2021)
• dirk adrianus de VROET, oud-beijerland († 2018)

• Anna Aldegonda Meekers (96), Neerpelt, België
• Aaltje de Vries (83), Hilversum
• Anna Josina Wilhelmina du Chatenier (77), Oegstgeest
• Annechien Hendriks Mensinga (56), Groningen, Nederland
• Alle Hendriks Wedman (79), Akkrum (Utingeradeel), Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Klerx (3), Vlijmen
• Adriana den Houting (74), Rotterdam
• Adriana Ingetje Rijsdijk (23), Zwijndrecht
• Adonia Alexandria Maria Gerarda Pappelendam (63), Broek en Thuil (Gouda), Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje, Fulps Groen (25), Alkmaar

• 1938 » Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian politician, 24th President of Liberia, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1938 » Peter Stampfel, American fiddle player, violinist, and singer-songwriter
• 1938 » Ralph Bakshi, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1940 » Connie Mack III, American lawyer and politician
• 1940 » Galen Weston, English-Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded George Weston Limited
• 1940 » Jack Shepherd, English actor, director, and playwright
• 1941 » George Davies, English fashion designer
• 1941 » Paul Tyler, Baron Tyler, English politician
• 1942 » Bob Ross, American painter and television host († 1995)
• 1942 » Lee Clayton, American rock/country musician and songwriter

• 1932 » Joseph Babinski, French neurologist and academic (b. 1857)
• 1933 » Albert Calmette, French physician, bacteriologist, and immunologist (b. 1863)
• 1933 » George Luks, American painter and illustrator (b. 1867)
• 1933 » Paul Painlevé, French mathematician and politician, 84th Prime Minister of France (b. 1853)
• 1936 » Ramiro de Maeztu, Spanish journalist and theorist (b. 1874)
• 1939 » Dwight B. Waldo, American historian and academic (b. 1864)
• 1941 » Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (b. 1897)
• 1949 » George Gurdjieff, Armenian-French monk, psychologist, and philosopher (b. 1872)
• 1950 » Gustaf V of Sweden (b. 1858)
• 1953 » William Kapell, American pianist (b. 1922)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Hendrika
8. Adriana
9. Catharina
10. Petronella
11. Geertruida
12. Jacoba
13. Margaretha
14. Annie
15. Marie
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 August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 8.8 million citizens.
• February 29 » In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, physicist Ernest Lawrence receives the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden's Consul General in San Francisco.
• March 5 » Six high-ranking members of Soviet politburo, including Joseph Stalin, sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, in what will become known as the Katyn massacre.
• May 20 » The Holocaust: The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz.
• June 8 » World War II: The completion of Operation Alphabet, the evacuation of Allied forces from Narvik at the end of the Norwegian Campaign.
• September 19 » World War II: Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz to smuggle out information and start a resistance movement.
• October 17 » The body of Communist propagandist Willi Münzenberg found in South France, starting a never-resolved mystery.

The temperature on October 29, 1940 was between -3.7 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 1.4 °C. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (74%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.