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• Dingenis Jacob Dorrepaal, Schore († 1985)
• Jan van Houten, Wieringen († 2007)
• Gijsbertus Kalkman, Capelle aan den IJssel († 2013)
• Jan Lindeman, Hengelo († 2014)
• Henry Arthur Hinkle, St James, Stone, Arkansas, Verenigde Staten († 1941)
• Jan Vos, Steenwijkerwold, Overijssel, Nederland († 2013)
• Anton van der Hulst, Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2008)
• Hindrik Koster, Vlagtwedde († 2020)
• Gerardus 't Hoen († 2001)
• Levenloos van der Lans, Gemeente lisse, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1941)

• Adrianus (Arie) Kemp (76), Benschop
• Antoon Bakker (27), Hamburg
• Anthonie van der Kamp (65), Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aafke de Vries (57), Kollum, gem. Kollumerland c.a., Friesland, Nederland
• Adrianus van Huizen (85), Deventer
• Amy Aby Rottink (54), Greene Iowa
• Adriaensens, Turnhout,Antwerpen,Belgium
• Arie Berkheij (23)
• Agnes van Sambeek, Cuijk en Sint Agatha, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Berendje Mol * (57), Steenwijk

• 1939 » Joel Schumacher, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 2020)
• 1939 » Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek, Hungarian discus thrower and shot putter
• 1940 » Gary Gabelich, American race car driver († 1984)
• 1940 » James Brady, American politician and activist, 15th White House Press Secretary († 2014)
• 1941 » Robin Leach, English journalist and television host († 2018)
• 1942 » Gottfried John, German actor († 2014)
• 1942 » James Glennon, American cinematographer († 2006)
• 1943 » Arthur B. McDonald, Canadian astrophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1943 » Dick Halligan, American pianist and composer
• 1943 » Mohamed Amin, Kenyan photographer and journalist († 1996)

• 1917 » George Huntington Hartford, American businessman (b. 1833)
• 1930 » William Archibald Spooner, English priest and author (b. 1844)
• 1931 » David T. Abercrombie, American businessman, co-founded Abercrombie & Fitch (b. 1867)
• 1944 » Attik, Greek pianist and composer (b. 1885)
• 1946 » Adolphus Busch III, American businessman (b. 1891)
• 1946 » John Steuart Curry, American painter and academic (b. 1897)
• 1951 » Sydney Chapman, English economist and civil servant (b. 1871)
• 1952 » Anton Piëch, Austrian lawyer (b. 1894)
• 1958 » Marjorie Flack, American author and illustrator (b. 1897)
• 1966 » Sayyid Qutb, Egyptian theorist, author, and poet (b. 1906)

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

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

• 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 September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 8.9 million citizens.
• January 5 » 37-year-old pilot Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia, disappears after bailing out of her plane over the River Thames, and is presumed dead.
• April 16 » World War II: The Italian-German Tarigo convoy is attacked and destroyed by British ships.
• August 31 » World War II: Serbian paramilitary forces defeat Germans in the Battle of Loznica.
• October 20 » World War II: Thousands of civilians in German-occupied Serbia are murdered in the Kragujevac massacre.
• November 13 » World War II: The aircraft carrier HMSArk Royal is torpedoed by U-81, sinking the following day.
• November 19 » World War II: Battle between HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran. The two ships sink each other off the coast of Western Australia, with the loss of 645 Australians and about 77 German seamen.

The temperature on August 29, 1941 was between 11.2 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 10.7 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.