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• Govert Pol, Eindhoven,Noord-Brabant,Niederlande († 1982)
• Jeane van der Pol, Hilversum († 2014)
• Joost Penning, Hendrik Ido Ambacht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2007)
• Francois Guillaume Swanenburg de Veye, Almelo († 1943)
• Dini de Vreede, ,, Delft, Nederland († 2016)
• Hendrik Adrianus Dol, Nieuw Vennep († 2021)
• Harvey Arvin van Wyhe († 2005)
• Larry Dwight MYERS, Centralia, Marion, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 2011)
• Franklin Benjamin Ruitenschild († 2020)
• Harvey van Wijhe, Rock, Minnesota, V.S († 2005)

• anna gertruda poels (66), horst (meterik)
• Arnoldus Adrianus van der Heiden (85), Schiedam
• Baukje Doekes van der Weide (93)
• van Spanje Agnes Catharina Maria (91), Zwolle
• Aaltje Kleinhuis (86), Eelde, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Maria Agatha Levels (57), Hunsel
• Baaye Doekes van der Weide (89), Weststellingwerf
• Barbara Schiffler (66), Heerlen
• Aleida Maria Bruggink (46), Borne
• Agnes Catharina Maria van Spanje (91), Zwolle

• 1935 » Bob Gibson, American baseball player and manager
• 1936 » Bob Graham, American lawyer and politician, 38th Governor of Florida
• 1936 » Mary Travers, American singer-songwriter († 2009)
• 1936 » Mikhail Tal, Latvian-Russian chess player and author († 1992)
• 1937 » Clyde Wells, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Premier of Newfoundland
• 1937 » Donald Trelford, English journalist and academic
• 1937 » Roger McGough, English author, poet, and playwright
• 1938 » Ti-Grace Atkinson, American author and critic
• 1939 » Bryan Davies, Baron Davies of Oldham, English academic and politician
• 1939 » Paul Cameron, American psychologist and academic

• 1924 » Henry Cabot Lodge, American historian and politician (b. 1850)
• 1932 » Nadezhda Alliluyeva, second wife of Joseph Stalin (b. 1901)
• 1937 » Ramsay MacDonald, Scottish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1866)
• 1938 » Vasily Blyukher, Russian marshal (b. 1889)
• 1940 » Neville Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1869)
• 1940 » Stephen Alencastre, Portuguese-American bishop (b. 1876)
• 1942 » Charles Courtney Curran, American painter (b. 1861)
• 1942 » Edna May Oliver, American actress (b. 1883)
• 1944 » Frank Marshall, American chess player and theoretician (b. 1877)
• 1951 » Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-American pianist and composer (b. 1887)

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.
• 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.
• June 11 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.
• June 24 » Pieces of a meteorite land near Chicora, Pennsylvania. The meteorite is estimated to have weighed 450metric tons when it hit the Earth's atmosphere and exploded.
• October 10 » Abiding by the Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakia completes its withdrawal from the Sudetenland.
• 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 9, 1938 was between 7.6 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.