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Born on Monday January 10, 1938
Died on Monday January 10, 1938

Source: Delpher (KB | national library) Newspapers from January 10, 1938 at Delpher


Born on January 10

Died on January 10
  • 1926 » Eino Leino, Finnish poet and journalist (b. 1878)
  • 1935 » Charlie McGahey, English cricketer and footballer (b. 1871)
  • 1935 » Edwin Flack, Australian tennis player and runner (b. 1873)
  • 1941 » Frank Bridge, English viola player and composer (b. 1879)
  • 1941 » Issai Schur, Belarusian-German mathematician and academic (b. 1875)
  • 1941 » Joe Penner, Hungarian-American actor (b. 1904)
  • 1941 » John Lavery, Irish painter and academic (b. 1856)
  • 1949 » Erich von Drygalski, German geographer and geophysicist (b. 1865)
  • 1951 » Sinclair Lewis, American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
  • 1951 » Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist and academic (b. 1890)

Names that were popular for boys in 1938
  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
Names that were popular for girls in 1938
  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

Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1938
  • 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.
  • June 25 » Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland.
  • July 3 » United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.
  • July 17 » Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan.
  • September 5 » Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are executed after surrendering during a failed coup.
  • October 14 » The first flight of the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter plane.
  • November 16 » LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.
Weather January 10, 1938

The temperature on January 10, 1938 was between 1.7 °C and 4.6 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was 4.4 mm of rain during 2.8 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.

Source: KNMI