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• Andre Xaveer Charles Vancoillie, Hooglede († 2021)
• Doodgeboren Valkenburg, Leerdam,4143,Vijfheerenlanden,Zuid-Holland,Nederland († 1938)
• Ingetje Beatrix Sonneveldt, Hillegersberg, Nederland († 2019)
• Karel ROELVINK, Deventer, Gemeente Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland († 2020)
• Frans van Reeden, Dodewaard, Nederland († 1996)
• Annie van der Elst († 1990)
• Gerardus Frederikus Peters, Schoonebeek († 2016)
• Betty Joy MARSHALL, Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia († 1999)
• Jan Lamberts, Dalerveen, Dalen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2021)
• Kenneth Eugene Todd, Lytle, Warren County, Ohio, United States of America († 2016)

• Augustinus SCHRAM (65), Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland
• ADRIANUS GROOTENDORST (70), ROTTERDAM
• Anna Mulder (79), Spijk (gem. Eemsdelta)
• Anthonie Adrianus Jonkers (64), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Catharina Margaretha (van) Veenendaal (60), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Arie Dirk van Eck (79), Buurmalsen (West Betuwe) (GL)
• Catharina Margaretha Veenendaal (60), Amersfoort, Nederland
• Adriana Maria Aloisa Alphonsina Akkermans (7), Bergen op Zoom
• Aagje Smits (1), Culemborg
• Alida Johanna Diederik (67), Rotterdam-Overschie

• 1935 » Charles Duke, American general, pilot, and astronaut
• 1936 » Steve Reich, American composer
• 1938 » Dave Obey, American lawyer and politician
• 1938 » David Hart Dyke, English captain
• 1938 » Eddie Cochran, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor († 1960)
• 1938 » Jack Hodgins, Canadian author and academic
• 1939 » Bob Armstrong, American wrestler and trainer
• 1940 » Alan O'Day, American singer-songwriter († 2013)
• 1940 » Jean Ratelle, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1940 » Mike Troy, American swimmer († 2019)

• 1911 » Rosetta Jane Birks, Australian suffragist (b. 1856)
• 1917 » Eduardo Di Capua, Neapolitan composer, singer and songwriter (b. 1865)
• 1929 » Gustav Stresemann, German politician, Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1878)
• 1929 » Jeanne Eagels, American actress (b. 1894)
• 1931 » Carl Nielsen, Danish violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1865)
• 1936 » John Heisman, American football player and coach (b. 1869)
• 1953 » Arnold Bax, English composer and poet (b. 1883)
• 1959 » Tochigiyama Moriya, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 27th Yokozuna (b. 1892)
• 1963 » Refet Bele, Turkish general (b. 1877)
• 1965 » Zachary Scott, American actor (b. 1914)

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. Grietje
16. Mary

• 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.
• May 26 » In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
• June 23 » The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
• July 28 » Hawaii Clipper disappears between Guam and Manila as the first loss of an airliner in trans-Pacific China Clipper service.
• November 1 » Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century" in horse racing.
• 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 October 3, 1938 was between 7.4 °C and 14.2 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (65%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.