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• Geert Hendrik Eggens, Anloo, Drenthe, Nederland († 2022)
• Albertina Josephina De Sager, Weert († 1939)
• Jan Schuit, Putten, Gelderland, Nederland († 1987)
• Bim Warne, Stockholm (Zweden) († 2020)
• Jan Willem Hoep, Den Helder, Nederland († 2022)
• Doetje van der Ploeg, Groningen, NL-GR († 1938)
• Cornelia Teunissen, Ermelo († 2002)
• Albert Klazinus IJdens, Wachtum, Dalen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2023)
• Alie van Dijk, Westerhaar († 1982)
• Albert Weehuizen, 's Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1986)

• * Catharina de Graaf (77)
• Aloysius van Asten (58), Tilburg
• Adriana (2) Rovers (69), Ginneken, Breda, Nederland
• Albertus Goudkuil (66), Ambt Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Albertus Goudkuil (66), Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Blom (0), Opsterland,Friesland,Nederland
• Adriana van Zijp (89), Hillegersberg, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Cornelis Leliveld (70), Bodegraven
• Albertus Aloisius Wessels (34), Terborg, Nederland
• Aarnoud Wielemaker (84), Koudekerke

• 1934 » Richard Shelby, American lawyer and politician
• 1937 » Rubin Carter, American-Canadian boxer († 2014)
• 1938 » Jean Garon, Canadian economist, lawyer, and politician († 2014)
• 1939 » Chet Allen, American child actor († 1984)
• 1939 » Eddie C. Campbell, American singer and guitarist († 2018)
• 1942 » Ariel Dorfman, Argentinian author, playwright, and academic
• 1943 » Andreas Baader, German terrorist, co-founded the Red Army Faction († 1977)
• 1943 » James Turrell, American sculptor and illustrator
• 1943 » Milton William Cooper, American theorist and author († 2001)
• 1943 » Wolfgang Reinhardt, German pole vaulter († 2011)

• 1919 » L. Frank Baum, American novelist (b. 1856)
• 1939 » Konstantin Somov, Russian-French painter and illustrator (b. 1869)
• 1949 » Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian-French poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1951 » Élie Cartan, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1869)
• 1952 » Maria Montessori, Italian-Dutch physician and educator (b. 1870)
• 1959 » Maria Dulęba, Polish actress (b. 1881)
• 1959 » Ragnar Nurkse, Estonian-American economist and academic (b. 1907)
• 1961 » Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (b. 1895)
• 1963 » Ted Weems, American violinist, trombonist, and bandleader (b. 1901)
• 1963 » Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and engineer (b. 1881)

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 4 » Adolf Hitler appoints himself as head of the Armed Forces High Command.
• June 7 » The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
• July 31 » Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia).
• 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 1 » Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century" in horse racing.
• 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 May 6, 1938 was between 4.8 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.