About the day » Friday May 13, 1938Calender converter

• Gilbert Beirens († 2008)
• Jeanette Bruce, Kilgore, Texas († 2009)
• Arlene Joan Kitchel, Colfax, Whitman Cnty, Washington († 1987)
• Johann Gerhard Wilhelmus FISCHER, Vlagtwedde († 1992)
• Anna Maria Kool, Dordrecht († 2023)
• Antonia Johanna de Haas, Nuland, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 2008)
• Janet Elaine CLEAVER, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia († 1989)
• George Lloyd Soderborg, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States of America († 1980)
• Johanna Maria Gerarda Pancratia van den Broek, Hoogeloon († 2006)
• Annie Koop, De Lutte († 1991)

• Leonardus (82), Voorburg
• Andries Bos (88), Zwollrkerspel
• Allegonda Johanna Maria van Puijenbroek (63), Mierlo-Hout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aron Lopez Dias (58), Apeldoorn
• Alexandre,Isidore COLLET (71), DREUX(Eure &, loir=
• Aaltje den Hollander (65), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alfred Verkaik (1), Amsterdam
• Aaltje Scholten (59)
• Allegonda Johanna Maria van Puijenbroek (63), Mierlo-Hout
• Adrianus Donatus van Esch (79), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg

• 1937 » Beverley Owen, American actress († 2019)
• 1937 » Roch Carrier, Canadian librarian and author
• 1937 » Roger Zelazny, American author and poet († 1995)
• 1937 » Trevor Baylis, English inventor, invented the wind-up radio († 2018)
• 1937 » Zohra Lampert, American actress
• 1938 » Anna Cropper, British actress († 2007)
• 1938 » Buck Taylor, American actor
• 1938 » Francine Pascal, American author and playwright
• 1938 » Giuliano Amato, Italian academic and politician, 48th Prime Minister of Italy
• 1938 » Laurent Beaudoin, Canadian businessman

• 1926 » Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian-American bishop (b. 1857)
• 1929 » Arthur Scherbius, German electrical engineer, invented the Enigma machine (b. 1878)
• 1930 » Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian scientist, explorer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1938 » Charles Édouard Guillaume, Swiss-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1941 » Ōnishiki Uichirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 26th Yokozuna (b. 1891)
• 1941 » Frederick Christian, English cricketer (b. 1877)
• 1945 » Tubby Hall, American drummer (b. 1895)
• 1946 » Zara DuPont, American suffragist (b. 1869)
• 1947 » Sukanta Bhattacharya, Indian poet and playwright (b. 1926)
• 1948 » Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington (b. 1920)

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.
• March 18 » Mexico creates Pemex by expropriating all foreign-owned oil reserves and facilities.
• April 10 » The 1938 German parliamentary election and referendum seeks approval for a single list of Nazi candidates and the recent annexation of Austria.
• April 30 » The animated cartoon short Porky's Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit, an early version of Bugs Bunny.
• June 23 » The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
• June 24 » Pieces of a meteorite land near Chicora, Pennsylvania. The meteorite is estimated to have weighed 450metric tons when it hit the Earth's atmosphere and exploded.
• 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.

The temperature on May 13, 1938 was between 5.9 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.