About the day » Monday February 15, 1937Calender converter

• Mijnsbergen, Goes († 1937)
• Coenraad Moulijn, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2011)
• Catharina Anna van Heck, Rosmalen († 2007)
• Cornelis Frans van Drimmelen, Klundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2010)
• Jacobus Engelbertus Columbus van Haastregt, Oude Ade († 1937)
• Hendrik Gerrit Vonkeman, Gorssel, Gelderland, Nederland († 2001)
• Dewey VANDERSTOEP Jr, Sedro Woolley, Skagit County, Washington, Verenigde Staten († 1957)
• Geert Hoegen, Beilen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2008)
• Curtis Delbert Kraut, Calhoun County, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 1963)
• Friedrich Albert Franz Plewa, Dinklage, Niedersachsen, Deutschland († 1978)

• Adrianus Barendregt (78), Rhoon
• Antonia Slagers (43), Utrecht
• Arnoldus Fintelman (52), Echteld
• Arie den Heijer (66), Loosduinen
• Arien Hartog (70), Beverwijk
• Anna Gertrudis Hubertina VAN TEGELEN (75), Baarlo, Limburg, Netherlands
• Aaltje Mulder (78), Grijpskerk
• Antoinetta Antonia Maria Janssens (0), Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Alida Wegbrans (64), Noordwijk
• Adolph Julius Walter (64), 's Gravenhage

• 1934 » Abe Woodson, American football player and minister († 2014)
• 1934 » Graham Kennedy, Australian television host and actor († 2005)
• 1934 » Jimmy Bloomfield, English footballer and manager († 1983)
• 1934 » Niklaus Wirth, Swiss computer scientist, created the Pascal programming language
• 1935 » Gene Hickerson, American football player († 2008)
• 1935 » Roger B. Chaffee, American lieutenant, engineer, and astronaut († 1967)
• 1935 » Susan Brownmiller, American journalist and author
• 1937 » Coen Moulijn, Dutch footballer († 2011)
• 1937 » Gregory Mcdonald, American author († 2008)
• 1940 » İsmail Cem İpekçi, Turkish journalist and politician, 45th Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs († 2007)

• 1911 » Theodor Escherich, German-Austrian pediatrician and academic (b. 1859)
• 1924 » Lionel Monckton, English composer (b. 1861)
• 1928 » H. H. Asquith, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1852)
• 1932 » Minnie Maddern Fiske, American actress and playwright (b. 1865)
• 1933 » Pat Sullivan, Australian animator and producer, co-created Felix the Cat (b. 1887)
• 1935 » Basil Hall Chamberlain, English-Swiss historian, author, and academic (b. 1850)
• 1939 » Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Russian painter and author (b. 1878)
• 1956 » Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, French lawyer and politician (b. 1878)
• 1959 » Owen Willans Richardson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
• 1961 » Laurence Owen, American figure skater (b. 1944)

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

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

• 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.
• 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.
• The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
• February 11 » The Flint sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Auto Workers trade union.
• March 2 » The Steel Workers Organizing Committee signs a collective bargaining agreement with U.S. Steel, leading to unionization of the United States steel industry.
• May 27 » In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
• July 9 » The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire.
• August 2 » The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
• August 24 » Spanish Civil War: Sovereign Council of Asturias and León is proclaimed in Gijón.

The temperature on February 15, 1937 was between 5.8 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 4.6 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.