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• Annie van Poppel († 2005)
• Ad van Kruysdijk, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1994)
• Clara Adriana Maria Stokman, Zandvoort († 2012)
• Diane Burnetta FRECKMANN, Milwaukee Milwaukee County Wisconsin U.S.A († 2015)
• Eduard Ferdinand de Nijs, Soerabaja, Java (Ned. Indië) († 1961)
• Christina van der Leek, Leiden († 1938)
• August Jan Peeters, Dessel (België) († 2000)
• Derktje Boekholt, Nederland († 2015)
• Gerardus Engelmundus de Haas, Lisse († 1993)
• Doodgeboren zoon Hufkens‏, Geel, België († 1938)

• Anna Maria MARTELMANS (69), Oud en Nieuw Gastel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria Langeveld (75), 's-Gravenhage
• Alberta Johanna Liskamp (65), Elst, Gelderland, Nederland
• Berend Wolters (36), Groningen
• Alphonse Joannes DAVUS (0), Lommel
• Aaltje Kamman (15), Enschede
• Andries Annes Groenewoud (57), Boornbergum
• Alberta Johanna Liskamp (65), Elst
• Andries Groenewoud (57), Drachten, gem. Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Antoon Maalderink (60), Dunsborg (Hengelo gld)

• 1936 » Hideki Shirakawa, Japanese chemist, engineer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1937 » Andrei Konchalovsky, Russian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1937 » Sky Saxon, American singer-songwriter and bassist († 2009)
• 1937 » Stelvio Cipriani, Italian composer
• 1938 » Alain Vivien, French politician
• 1938 » Peter Day, English chemist and academic
• 1939 » Fernando Poe Jr., Filipino actor and politician († 2004)
• 1939 » Mike Velarde, Filipino televangelist and religious leader
• 1940 » Gus Macdonald, Scottish academic and politician, Minister for the Cabinet Office
• 1940 » Rubén Hinojosa, American businessman and politician

• 1915 » Paul Ehrlich, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854)
• 1917 » Adolf von Baeyer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835)
• 1919 » Greg MacGregor, Scottish cricketer and rugby player (b. 1869)
• 1930 » Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer and umpire (b. 1851)
• 1936 » Edward Weston, English-American chemist (b. 1850)
• 1939 » Agnes Giberne, Indian-English astronomer and author (b. 1845)
• 1942 » István Horthy, Hungarian admiral and pilot (b. 1904)
• 1943 » William Irvine, Irish-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Victoria (b. 1858)
• 1951 » İzzettin Çalışlar, Turkish general (b. 1882)
• 1961 » Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)

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.
• May 26 » In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
• July 31 » Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia).
• September 12 » Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
• September 30 » Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, whereby Germany annexes the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
• September 30 » The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
• 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 August 20, 1938 was between 12.1 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.