About the day » Thursday March 17, 1938Calender converter

• Anthonius P. Vermeeren († 1977)
• Andrea Henriëtte Geerdink, Hengelo († 2000)
• Dirk Hendrik 't HART, Rijsoord († 2011)
• Elisabeth Hendrika Kool, Amsterdam († 2016)
• Beatrix VAN SLOOTEN, Jatinegara, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia († 1945)
• Geertje Haasnoot, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2018)
• Bruno Visser, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 2006)
• Atonia Aquilina Gertrudis Bouwmeester, Woubrugge († 2018)
• Dirk Hendrik 't Hart, Rijsoord († 2011)
• Euphrasie Vandermeer, Sint-Truiden, België († 2021)

• Arij van den Berg (72), Rotterdam
• Alphonsina Barbara Maria BRAUNS (66), Hasselt, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie
• Antje Dooren (72), Emmen
• Augustus Peabody Loring * (81), Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten
• Berendina Middelhuis (67), Haaksbergen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Bernard Hermann Brümmer (22), Ibbenbüren
• Arij van den Berg (72), Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Albertus Cordel (81), Groningen
• Adam N. Dick [Wk-Wks8023 DickBu] (72), Pulaski County, Kentucky ac
• Augustinus Franciscus Lauret (83), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1936 » Ida Kleijnen, Dutch chef († 2019)
• 1936 » Ladislav Kupkovič, Slovakian composer and conductor († 2016)
• 1937 » Galina Samsova, Russian ballerina
• 1938 » Keith O'Brien, Northern Ireland-born Scottish cleric, theologian, and cardinal († 2018)
• 1938 » Rudolf Nureyev, Russian-French dancer and choreographer († 1993)
• 1938 » Zola Taylor, American singer († 2007)
• 1939 » Bill Graham, Canadian academic and politician, 4th Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1939 » Giovanni Trapattoni, Italian footballer and manager
• 1939 » Jim Gary, American sculptor († 2006)
• 1939 » Robin Knox-Johnston, English sailor and first person to perform a single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the globe

• 1926 » Aleksei Brusilov, Georgian-Russian general (b. 1853)
• 1937 » Austen Chamberlain, English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1863)
• 1940 » Philomène Belliveau, Canadian artist (b. 1854)
• 1946 » Dai Li, Chinese general (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Aleksandra Ekster, Russian-French painter and set designer (b. 1882)
• 1956 » Fred Allen, American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and author (b. 1894)
• 1956 » Irène Joliot-Curie, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1957 » Ramon Magsaysay, Filipino captain and politician, 7th President of the Philippines (b. 1907)
• 1958 » Bertha De Vriese, Belgian physician (b. 1877)
• 1958 » John Pius Boland, Irish tennis player and politician (b. 1870)

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 3 » Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
• May 26 » In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
• June 7 » The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
• June 11 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.
• September 5 » Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are executed after surrendering during a failed coup.
• September 30 » Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, whereby Germany annexes the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.

The temperature on March 17, 1938 was between 6.6 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.