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• Ankje Geertje Wolters, Opende († 2011)
• Derkina Geertje de Jong, Winschoten († 2010)
• Aaltje Franke, Emmen († 2009)
• Barbara Niderost Long Sheets Hathaway Palido, Los Angeles († 1996)
• Jan Johannes Meines Bleeker, Heerenveen, Gem. Heerenveen, Friesland, Nederland († 1993)
• Francis Xavier McCarney, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 1944)
• Esther Fern Knock, Lincoln County (South Dakota) († 2014)
• Franciscus Wouterus Adriaan van de Wiel, Arnhem († 1983)
• Albert J van Beek, Rock Valley, Sioux County, Iowa († 2023)
• Cornelis Quirinus Maria Verwer, Gemeente Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1940)

• Arend Jan Bron (8), Deil West Betuwe (GL)
• Aaltje UNEKEN (82), Dalen, Drenthe, Nederland
• arigje bree(d)tveld(t) (87), nieuw-lekkerland, molenlanden, zuid holland, nederland
• Amaury OBERT DE THIEUSIES (79)
• Adriana Geertruida Louise Langendam (57), Amsterdam,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arigje Breedveld (87), Nw-Lekkerland
• Anna Pieterdr Verburg (40), Schiedam
• Anna Sterenberg (75)
• Antje Heedzes Rinzema (61), Bergum
• Alice Viola Swartzendruber (56), Sharon, Johnson, Iowa

• 1935 » Aulis Sallinen, Finnish composer and academic
• 1936 » Jerzy Maksymiuk, Polish pianist, composer, and conductor
• 1936 » Valerie Solanas, American radical feminist author, attempted murderer († 1988)
• 1937 » Marty Krofft, Canadian screenwriter and producer
• 1937 » Simon Brown, Baron Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood, English lieutenant, lawyer, and judge
• 1937 » Valerie Singleton, English television and radio host
• 1938 » Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russian businessman and politician, 30th Prime Minister of Russia († 2010)
• 1939 » Michael Learned, American actress
• 1940 » Hans-Joachim Reske, German sprinter
• 1940 » Jim Roberts, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach († 2015)

• 1936 » Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1855)
• 1940 » Mrs Patrick Campbell, English actress (b. 1865)
• 1944 » Yevgeniya Rudneva, Ukrainian lieutenant and pilot (b. 1920)
• 1945 » Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German pastor and theologian (b. 1906)
• 1945 » Hans Oster, German general (b. 1887)
• 1945 » Hans von Dohnányi, Austrian-German lawyer and jurist (b. 1902)
• 1945 » Johann Georg Elser, German carpenter (b. 1903)
• 1945 » Karl Sack, German lawyer and jurist (b. 1896)
• 1945 » Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral (b. 1887)
• 1948 » George Carpenter, Australian 5th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1872)

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.
• April 30 » The animated cartoon short Porky's Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit, an early version of Bugs Bunny.
• June 23 » The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
• July 31 » Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia).
• September 5 » Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are executed after surrendering during a failed coup.
• 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.
• November 16 » LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.

The temperature on April 9, 1938 was between 1.5 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (46%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.