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• Geiske de Vries, Menaldum, Friesland, Nederland († 2011)
• Benjamin Claude Brown, Hancock, Waushara, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten († 1937)
• Anna Catharina Ida Kwinten, Bergeijk († 2004)
• Cornelia Hendrieka van de Pijl, Hilversum († 1993)
• Adriaan DIJKSTRA, Amsterdam,Noord Holland,Nederland († 2005)
• Helena Johanna Freke, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2006)
• Herm Rietberg, Zwolle († 1970)
• Diny Jansen, Groesbeek,, Gelderland, Nederland († 2004)
• Hendrik Piet Bijlsma, Leeuwarden, 8941, Nederland († 1937)
• DOODGEBOREN ZOON VELLEKOOP, LOOSDUINEN (GEMEENTE 'S-GRAVENHAGE) († 1937)

• Alte Willems Kuperus (68), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Arie van Leerdam (82), Rotterdam
• Antje van der Ploeg (43), Ooststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
• Aalbert van den BERG (74), Apeldoorn (Gelderland, The Netherlands)
• Anna van der Ent (85), Rotterdam,Zuid-Holland,Nederland
• Alida Maria Koster (83), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje van der Ploeg (43), Ooststellingwerf, Friesland, Netherlands
• Aart Onderdelinde (79), Heinenoord
• Anna Maria Verschueren (90), Rijkevorsel
• Albertus Reinholt (74), Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland

• 1934 » August Coppola, American author and academic († 2009)
• 1935 » Bradford Parkinson, American colonel and engineer
• 1935 » Brian Bedford, English-American actor and director († 2016)
• 1935 » Kenneth Price, American painter and sculptor († 2012)
• 1935 » Sonny Bono, American actor, singer, and politician († 1998)
• 1935 » Stephen Gaskin, American activist, co-founded The Farm († 2014)
• 1937 » Paul Bailey, British novelist, critic, and biographer
• 1937 » Yuri Manin, Russian-German mathematician and academic
• 1938 » John Corigliano, American composer and academic
• 1939 » Adolfo Azcuna, Filipino lawyer and judge

• 1907 » Giosuè Carducci, Italian poet and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835)
• 1912 » Nicholas of Japan, Russian-Japanese monk and saint (b. 1836)
• 1917 » Octave Mirbeau, French journalist, novelist, and playwright ( (b. 1848)
• 1919 » Vera Kholodnaya, Ukrainian actress (b. 1893)
• 1928 » Eddie Foy Sr., American actor and dancer (b. 1856)
• 1932 » Edgar Speyer, American-English financier and philanthropist (b. 1862)
• 1932 » Ferdinand Buisson, French academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1841)
• 1944 » Dadasaheb Phalke, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1870)
• 1957 » Josef Hofmann, Polish-American pianist and composer (b. 1876)
• 1961 » Dazzy Vance, American baseball player (b. 1891)

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.
• January 15 » Spanish Civil War: Nationalists and Republican both withdraw after suffering heavy losses, ending the Second Battle of the Corunna Road.
• March 18 » The New London School explosion in New London, Texas, kills 300 people, mostly children.
• June 14 » Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.
• July 9 » The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire.
• August 28 » Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
• December 16 » Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen again.

The temperature on February 16, 1937 was between 4.6 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 11.0 mm of rain during 6.8 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.