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• Hanny Jansen († 2016)
• David Sealtiel, 's Gravenhage († 1944)
• Clia PEREIRA FURQUIM WERNECK, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil († 1938)
• Gerritdina Tini Jonge Poerink, Hengelo († 2016)
• Jacob (Jaap) Knoop, Dordrecht († 2014)
• Edgard SEGERS († 2020)
• Jean Nuiten, Fijnaart,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2009)
• Hendrikus Maria van der HOEVEN, Zoeterwoude, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1994)
• Gustav Jan Rudolf Gootjes, Batavia, Java, Ned. Indië († 2018)
• Dirkje Veldman, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2022)

• Albert de Jong (77), Nieuwehorne
• Adriaan Daniel Jumelet (0), Bruinisse
• Adrianus DE BRESSER (66), Tilburg,North-Brabant,Netherlands
• Arendina Ros (72), Delden-Stad, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aaltje van Gorkum (79), Reduzum, Idaarderadiel, Friesland, Nederland
• Aafje Genet (60), Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antje BEZEMER Pdr (65), Dirksland, Goeree-Overflakkee, NL-ZH
• Adrianus de Bresser (66), Tilburg
• Anna Overbeeke (78), Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Theodorus de Rooij (45), Bloemendaal, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

• 1936 » Jimmy Ruffin, American soul singer († 2014)
• 1936 » Robin Hanbury-Tenison, English explorer and author
• 1936 » Tony O'Reilly, Irish rugby player and businessman
• 1937 » Claude Raymond, Canadian baseball player and coach
• 1937 » Eddie Clayton, English footballer
• 1939 » Clive Soley, Baron Soley, English politician
• 1939 » Johnny Maestro, American pop/doo-wop singer († 2010)
• 1939 » Ruggero Deodato, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1939 » Ruud Lubbers, Dutch economist and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands († 2018)
• 1939 » Sidney Altman, Canadian-American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

• 1924 » Alluri Sitarama Raju, Indian activist (b. 1897/1898)
• 1925 » William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, English businessman and politician (b. 1851)
• 1937 » Ernst A. Lehmann, German captain and author (b. 1886)
• 1938 » Octavian Goga, Romanian politician, former Prime Minister (b. 1881)
• 1940 » George Lansbury, English journalist and politician (b. 1859)
• 1941 » James George Frazer, Scottish-English anthropologist and academic (b. 1854)
• 1942 » Felix Weingartner, Croatian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1863)
• 1943 » Fethi Okyar, Turkish colonel and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1880)
• 1946 » Herbert Macaulay, Nigerian journalist and politician (b. 1864)
• 1951 » Warner Baxter, American actor (b. 1889)

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

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

• 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 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.
• April 10 » The 1938 German parliamentary election and referendum seeks approval for a single list of Nazi candidates and the recent annexation of Austria.
• June 7 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. Five hundred to nine hundred thousand civilians are killed.
• July 20 » The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in regards to the studio system. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948.
• September 21 » The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500–700 people.
• November 9 » The Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from gunshot wounds by Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht.
• December 17 » Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.

The temperature on May 7, 1938 was between -0.2 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (14%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.