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• Hendrik van den Ende, 's-Gravenzande († 1977)
• Gorrit Pieter Blom, Steenwijk († 2010)
• Josephus A.A.B. van Kuijk, Tilburg († 2008)
• Anje Elisabeth Désirée Paap, Zutphen, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1939)
• Eibertje de Zwaan, Westeinde (Nunspeet) († 2018)
• Graham Lancelot George Anderson, Loxton SA († 1996)
• Barbara Verdoorn, Papendrecht
• John Thomas Pinckley, Oakdale, LA († 2010)
• Barbara Verdoorn, Papendrecht
• Henrica Johanna Maria Overbeek, Gendringen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1938)

• Francisco de Souza Machado (55), Iacanga, São Paulo, Brasil
• Abraham Crom (65), Kampen, prov. Overijssel
• Francis van Lith (59), Lith, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Christina Anna Crull (75), Nijmegen
• Allegonda van Wanrooij (71), Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelis Jacobus Mom (63), Rheden
• Dietrich Schulte (92), Sittard
• Cornelis Jan Nievendijk (57), Rotterdam
• Albertus Franciscus Johannes van der Weerd (0), Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland Nederland
• Aaltje Doornbos (88), Winsum (gem. Het Hogeland)

• 1935 » Omar Sívori, Italian-Argentine footballer and manager († 2005)
• 1936 » Connie Dierking, American basketball player († 2013)
• 1936 » Dick Barnett, American basketball player and educator
• 1936 » Feliciano Belmonte Jr., Filipino lawyer and politician, 20th Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines
• 1937 » Johnnie Cochran, American lawyer († 2005)
• 1938 » Nick Gravenites, American singer–songwriter and guitarist
• 1938 » Rex Reed, American film critic
• 1938 » Waheed Murad, Pakistani actor, producer, and screenwriter († 1983)
• 1939 » Budhi Kunderan, Indian cricketer († 2006)
• 1941 » Diana Hendry, English poet and author

• 1920 » Max Bruch, German composer and conductor (b. 1838)
• 1927 » Svante Arrhenius, Swedish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
• 1938 » Alexandru Averescu, Romanian field marshal and politician, 24th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1859)
• 1938 » André Lagache, French race car driver and engineer (b. 1885)
• 1943 » John Evans, English-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Tasmania (b. 1855)
• 1947 » P. D. Ouspensky, Russian-English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1878)
• 1953 » John Marin, American painter (b. 1870)
• 1955 » Humphrey Barclay, English priest (b. 1882)
• 1955 » William Orthwein, American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1881)
• 1962 » Boris Yakovlevich Bukreev, Russian mathematician and author (b. 1859)

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.
• 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 28 » Hawaii Clipper disappears between Guam and Manila as the first loss of an airliner in trans-Pacific China Clipper service.
• July 31 » Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius the Great in Persepolis.
• September 30 » Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, whereby Germany annexes the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
• November 16 » LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.
• 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 2, 1938 was between 9.5 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (25%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.