About the day » Thursday October 6, 1938Calender converter

• Douglas Kent De Boer, Conrad, Pondera County, Montana, United States († 1997)
• Henricus Wilhelmus Munsters, Deurne († 1997)
• Adrianus Johannes (Jaan) Verkerk († 2005)
• Archie LeRoy Hosner, Verndale, Minnesota, VS († 2021)
• Cornelia Petronella van den Berg, Noordwijkerhout († 2006)
• Dieka van der Kamp († 2017)
• Cornelis Philips, Zaltbommel († 1993)
• Aagje Thiel, Zwartewaal, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2006)
• Carlos Romo († 2019)
• Cornelia Tamboer, Elspeet († 2015)

• Carmela Pellegrino (20), Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brasil
• Koning Maria Christina (93), Baarle Hertog, Antwerpen, België
• Charles Louis Deman (82), France
• Albertje Cornelisen Rozeboom (70), Zwolle
• Adrianus Potters (93), Roosendaal en Nispen, NL
• Antoon Kusters (64), Herpen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Charles Eduard VANSTECHELMAN (66), Oostende,8400,Flandre Occidentale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Bernardus Cordes (80), Sappemeer, Nederland
• Andries Helfferich (83), Heereveen
• Belle Hulett-Darrow (56), Salinas, Monterey, California, Verenigde Staten

• 1935 » Bruno Sammartino, Italian-American wrestler and trainer († 2018)
• 1936 » Julius L. Chambers, American lawyer, educator, and activist († 2013)
• 1938 » Serge Nubret, Caribbean-French bodybuilder and actor († 2011)
• 1939 » Jack Cullen, American baseball player
• 1939 » John J. LaFalce, American captain, lawyer, and politician
• 1939 » Melvyn Bragg, English journalist, author, and academic
• 1939 » Richard Delgado, American lawyer and academic
• 1939 » Sheila Greibach, American computer scientist and academic
• 1940 » Ellen Travolta, American actress
• 1940 » Jan Keizer, Dutch footballer and referee

• 1912 » Auguste Beernaert, Belgian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Belgium, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1829)
• 1923 » Damat Ferid Pasha, Ottoman politician, 285th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1853)
• 1942 » Siegmund Glücksmann, German politician (b. 1884)
• 1945 » Leonardo Conti, German SS officer (b. 1900)
• 1947 » Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer and critic (b. 1887)
• 1951 » Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
• 1951 » Will Keith Kellogg, American businessman, founded the Kellogg Company (b. 1860)
• 1959 » Bernard Berenson, American historian and author (b. 1865)
• 1962 » Tod Browning, American actor, director, screenwriter (b. 1880)
• 1968 » Phyllis Nicolson, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1917)

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.
• 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.
• February 11 » BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television programme, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".
• March 18 » Mexico creates Pemex by expropriating all foreign-owned oil reserves and facilities.
• July 20 » The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in regards to the studio system. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948.
• July 31 » Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius the Great in Persepolis.

The temperature on October 6, 1938 was between 6.8 °C and 13.5 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 12.8 mm of rain during 4.1 hours. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.