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• Evert van de Bunt, Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands († 2006)
• Fred C. THEEDE († 1986)
• Cornelia Gerritje Streefkerk, Rotterdam († 1937)
• Alven Veral Don Wing, Indian Valley, Adams, Idaho, Verenigde Staten († 1992)
• Albertus Teunissen, Groningen, Nederland († 2015)
• Dietje Sikkema, Molenweg 6, Godlinze, Groningen, Netherlands († 1940)
• Cornelis Theodorus Rosa van der Salm, Lisse († 2021)
• Eva Vischschraper, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Helena Apolonia Maria Knijnenburg, Vlaardingen, Nederland († 2019)
• Eileen Ursula Buckley, San Francisco, CA († 2011)

• Abraham VAN GEUNS (55), Groningen, Netherlands
• Catharina Tegelaar (88), Leiden
• Arnoldus COOMANS (46), Gouda
• Abraham van Geuns (55), Groningen
• Adrianus Leonardus Smeltink (7), Noordwijk
• Aafke Thomas Houtsma (62), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Aafke Thomas Houtsma (62), Hilversum
• Cornelis Johanna Brienesse (73), Lienden
• Antje Hoekstra (17), Oostrum
• Adrianus Wissing (71), Weesp,, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1934 » Elgin Baylor, American basketball player and coach
• 1935 » Billy Boy Arnold, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1935 » Bob Kiley, American-English businessman († 2016)
• 1935 » Carl Andre, American sculptor
• 1935 » Esther Vilar, Argentinian-German author and playwright
• 1935 » Jules Bass, American director, producer, composer, and author
• 1937 » Aleksandr Medved, Russian wrestler
• 1937 » Vince Naimoli, American businessman and philanthropist
• 1939 » Bill McGill, American basketball player († 2014)
• 1939 » Breyten Breytenbach, South African-French poet and painter

• 1925 » Leo Fall, Czech-Austrian composer (b. 1873)
• 1931 » Omar Mukhtar, Libyan theorist and educator (b. 1862)
• 1932 » Millicent Lilian "Peg" Entwistle, British stage and screen actress (b. 1908)
• 1932 » Ronald Ross, Indian-English physician and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
• 1933 » George Gore, American baseball player and manager (b. 1857)
• 1936 » Jean-Baptiste Charcot, French physician and explorer (b. 1867)
• 1940 » Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington, English-Scottish politician, 8th Governor of Queensland (b. 1860)
• 1944 » Gustav Bauer, German journalist and politician, 11th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1870)
• 1945 » John McCormack, Irish tenor and actor (b. 1884)
• 1946 » James Hopwood Jeans, English physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1877)

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 19 » Yekatit 12: During a public ceremony at the Viceregal Palace (the former Imperial residence) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, two Ethiopian nationalists of Eritrean origin attempt to kill viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with a number of grenades.
• April 1 » Aden becomes a British crown colony.
• July 7 » The Peel Commission Report recommends the partition of Palestine, which was the first formal recommendation for partition in the history of Palestine.
• July 8 » Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad.
• July 22 » New Deal: The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
• November 9 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Army withdraws from the Battle of Shanghai.

The temperature on September 16, 1937 was between 10.6 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.