About the day » Friday February 11, 1938Calender converter

• Anna Barbara (Babs) Wilbrink, Slochteren († 2007)
• Frederik Lauwrens Arijjansen, Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands († 1938)
• Bastiaan Penning, Rotterdam
• Cathariena Jantiena Kassies († 1989)
• Hermann Hackling, Aschendorf († 2015)
• Emma Hoffman, Amsterdam († 2017)
• Anna Catharina Boot, Nieuwer-Amstel († 1985)
• Bernard Nieuwenhuizen, Bergen († 2017)
• Gerard Eiland, ....... († 1947)
• Gijsberta Mur, Woerden, Utrecht, Nederland († 1938)

• Arie Rehling (49), 's Gravenhage
• Clarence Henry Wohlgamuth (65), Toledo, Lucas, Ohio, USA St Vincent's Hosp., Lima Memorial Park, Lima, Ohio
• Gerardus van Dieden (Dieten) (80), Ravenstein
• Anna Klasina Schutte (23), Den Helder
• Antje Pieters Wind (81), Haskerdijken
• Anne Maria HANSCOMBE (85), Pirton, Hitchin, Hertfordshire
• Anna Klasina Christina Schutte (23), Den Helder
• Berentje AARDEMA (58), Tolbert Groningen Netherlands
• Catharina Mammes (90), Papenburg
• Arendje Buitenhuis (12), Zwolle

• 1935 » Gene Vincent, American singer and guitarist († 1971)
• 1936 » Burt Reynolds, American actor and director († 2018)
• 1937 » Bill Lawry, Australian cricketer and sportscaster
• 1937 » Eddie Shack, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1937 » Ian Gow, British Member of Parliament who was assassinated by the IRA († 1990)
• 1937 » Phillip Walker, American singer and guitarist († 2010)
• 1938 » Bevan Congdon, New Zealand cricketer († 2018)
• 1939 » Gerry Goffin, American songwriter († 2014)
• 1940 » Mick Staton, American soldier and politician († 2014)
• 1941 » Sérgio Mendes, Brazilian pianist and composer

• 1917 » Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician and epidemiologist (b. 1872)
• 1918 » Alexey Kaledin, Russian general (b. 1861)
• 1931 » Charles Algernon Parsons, English-Irish engineer, invented the steam turbine (b. 1854)
• 1940 » Ellen Day Hale, American painter and author (b. 1855)
• 1940 » John Buchan, Scottish-Canadian historian and politician, Governor General of Canada (b. 1875)
• 1942 » Jamnalal Bajaj, Indian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1884)
• 1947 » Martin Klein, Estonian wrestler and coach (b. 1884)
• 1948 » Sergei Eisenstein, Russian director and screenwriter (b. 1898)
• 1949 » Axel Munthe, Swedish doctor (b. 1857)
• 1958 » Ernest Jones, Welsh neurologist and psychoanalyst (b. 1879)

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.
• April 10 » The 1938 German parliamentary election and referendum seeks approval for a single list of Nazi candidates and the recent annexation of Austria.
• April 25 » U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
• July 10 » Howard Hughes begins a 91-hour airplane flight around the world that will set a new record.
• July 17 » Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan.
• October 1 » Germany annexes the Sudetenland.
• October 30 » Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.

The temperature on February 11, 1938 was between 1.6 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.