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• Eliane DE MEULENAERE, Staden, 36019, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique († 1981)
• Alie Arendina Guijt, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2006)
• Grietje Maria Oliviera Metz, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2017)
• Dirk Eikelenboom, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1999)
• Donna Lea Kempkers († 2009)
• Harmke Geesje (Annie) Bos, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1988)
• Anna Otten, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1981)
• Hendrikus P. Monden († 1960)
• Hans Santcroos, Rotterdam (Prov. Zuid Holland) († 2002)
• Carla Gerardina Adriana Adank, 's-Gravenhage († 2009)

• Adriana (Jaantje) van der Plas (69), Leiden
• Catharina Jacoba Romeijn (46), Wassenaar
• ? Beumer (0), Amsterdam
• Adrianus de Mooij (0), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Gijsberta KOENTZ (76), Renkum, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Johanna Schriek (85), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albert ZELDENRUST (45), Grootegast Groningen Netherlands
• Albertus Timmerman (81), Vlagtwedde
• Aaltje Van Doorn (77), Woerden, Zuid-Holland (na 1989 Utrecht), Nederland
• Auke Cornelis Wierda (36), Franeker, Friesland, Nederland

• 1935 » Bibi Andersson, Swedish actress († 2019)
• 1936 » Jack Keller, American songwriter and producer († 2005)
• 1937 » Alicia Ostriker, American poet and scholar
• 1937 » Stephen Lewis, Canadian politician and diplomat, 14th Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations
• 1937 » Vittorio Brambilla, Italian race car driver († 2001)
• 1939 » Denise Alexander, American actress
• 1940 » Barbara Boxer, American journalist and politician
• 1940 » Dennis Coffey, American guitarist
• 1942 » Jonathan Fenby, English journalist and businessman
• 1942 » Roy Fredericks, Guyanese-American cricketer and politician († 2000)

• 1919 » Pavel Chistyakov, Russian painter and educator (b. 1832)
• 1921 » Léon Moreaux, French target shooter (b. 1852)
• 1931 » Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese businessman (b. 1840)
• 1939 » Bob Marshall, American author and activist (b. 1901)
• 1940 » Muhittin Akyüz, Turkish general and diplomat (b. 1870)
• 1944 » Munir Ertegun, Turkish diplomat (b. 1883)
• 1945 » Jerome Kern, American composer (b. 1885)
• 1949 » Loukas Kanakaris-Roufos, Greek lawyer and politician, Greek Minister of Foreign Minister (b. 1878)
• 1950 » Alexandros Diomidis, Greek banker and politician, 145th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1875)
• 1953 » Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1866)

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.
• 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.
• July 10 » Howard Hughes begins a 91-hour airplane flight around the world that will set a new record.
• 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 28 » Hawaii Clipper disappears between Guam and Manila as the first loss of an airliner in trans-Pacific China Clipper service.
• August 20 » Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam, a record that stood for 75 years until it was broken by Alex Rodriguez.
• 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.

The temperature on November 11, 1938 was between 4.4 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.