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• NN Van der Ploeg, Groningen Groningen Nederland († 1938)
• N.N. HARTGERINK, Gorssel (Gld) Harfsen († 1938)
• Daniel Tuin, Gramsbergen, Overijssel, Nederland († 1939)
• Antonia Wilhelmina Maria de Haas, Eersel († 1941)
• Bert Luttmer, Groningen († 2005)
• André Lisart, Halle († 2009)
• Johannes Anthonie van Ast, Rotterdam († 1991)
• Adriaan Verhage, Biggekerke († 2011)
• Jos Lentz, Roermond, Limburg, Nederland († 2011)
• Johannes Gerardus Bernardus Maria Nijenhuis, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1992)

• Arie Smits (57), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje Wagenaar (66)
• Arie Snel (78), Rotterdam
• Arnaldo Alves da Motta (42), Laranjal Paulista, São Paulo, Brasil
• Anna Elise Diederike Bürmann of Bührmann (70), Hilversum
• Albertus Jan den Drijver (83), Haaften
• Bernardus Johannes Weenink (79), Zevenaar
• Albert Wilhelm Ludwig Troyke (49), Lombard
• Arend Jan Ooijman (93), Winterswijk, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Aaltje Vijge (59), Epe (Gld) Nederland

• 1936 » Duncan Edwards, English footballer († 1958)
• 1937 » Saeed Ahmed, Pakistani cricketer
• 1938 » Mary McFadden, American fashion designer
• 1938 » Stella Stevens, American actress and director
• 1938 » Tunç Başaran, Turkish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 2019)
• 1939 » Geoffrey Whitehead, English actor
• 1939 » George Archer, American golfer († 2005)
• 1940 » Marc Savoy, American accordion player, created the Cajun accordion
• 1940 » Phyllis Chesler, American feminist psychologist, and author of the best-seller, Women and Madness (1972)
• 1940 » Steve O'Rourke, English race car driver and manager († 2003)

• 1929 » Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor and painter (b. 1861)
• 1940 » Chiungtze C. Tsen, Chinese mathematician (b. 1898)
• 1942 » Ants Piip, Estonian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Estonia (b. 1884)
• 1950 » Faik Ali Ozansoy, Turkish poet, educator, and politician (b. 1876)
• 1951 » Peter McWilliam, Scottish-English footballer and manager (b. 1878)
• 1953 » John Marin, American painter (b. 1870)
• 1955 » Charles Christie, American film producer, founded Christie Film Company (b. 1880)
• 1957 » Abdülhalik Renda, Turkish civil servant and politician, 6th Turkish Minister of National Defence (b. 1881)
• 1958 » Robert Falk, Russian painter and educator (b. 1886)
• 1959 » Enrico De Nicola, Italian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 1st President of Italy (b. 1877)

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.
• January 28 » The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195 at a speed of 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9mph).
• February 4 » Adolf Hitler appoints himself as head of the Armed Forces High Command.
• March 27 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang begins, resulting several weeks later in the war's first major Chinese victory over Japan.
• May 25 » Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante kills 313 people.
• June 23 » The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
• September 30 » Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, whereby Germany annexes the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.

The temperature on October 1, 1938 was between 8.7 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.