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• Cornelia Smit, Rotterdam († 2001)
• Glenn Allen Hoover, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania († 1995)
• Jean Bollenbacher, Cecil, Paulding County, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 2013)
• Gerardus (2) Hom, Hilversum († 2000)
• Aleida Petronella Maria Fokker, Bussum, Gooise Meren, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2020)
• Erhard Friedrich Gunther OBERHOFF, Nurnberg (D) († 2022)
• Johanna Maria Braakhuis, Tubbergen († 1940)
• Alie Postma († 1997)
• Geertruida Wilhelmina Maria van den Akker, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2011)
• Ann Taylor, Ogden (Weber County) (Utah) († 1938)

• Jansje Mark (20), Leiden
• Anthonij van den Berge (49), Kerkwerve
• Charles Christian Waterstreet (50), Albury NSW Australia
• Cornelia van der Kolk (80), Heemskerk
• Ann Taylor (0), Ogden (Weber County) (Utah)
• Arina van Gemerden (37), Krimpen aan de IJssel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Clyde Alonza Jones [K 03] (54), East Prairie, Mississippi County, Missouri
• Alphonsus Josephus Mertens (58), Alkmaar
• Dirk Herman Zeevat (82), Bussum
• Antonia Hendrika Petimesas (0), Rotterdam, ZH, Nederland

• 1935 » Billy Boy Arnold, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1935 » Bob Kiley, American-English businessman († 2016)
• 1935 » Carl Andre, American sculptor
• 1935 » Jules Bass, American director, producer, composer, and author
• 1937 » Aleksandr Medved, Russian wrestler
• 1937 » Vince Naimoli, American businessman and philanthropist
• 1939 » Bill McGill, American basketball player († 2014)
• 1939 » Breyten Breytenbach, South African-French poet and painter
• 1940 » Butch Buchholz, American tennis player
• 1940 » Hamiet Bluiett, American jazz saxophonist and composer († 2018)

• 1931 » Omar Mukhtar, Libyan theorist and educator (b. 1862)
• 1932 » Millicent Lilian "Peg" Entwistle, British stage and screen actress (b. 1908)
• 1932 » Ronald Ross, Indian-English physician and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
• 1933 » George Gore, American baseball player and manager (b. 1857)
• 1936 » Jean-Baptiste Charcot, French physician and explorer (b. 1867)
• 1940 » Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington, English-Scottish politician, 8th Governor of Queensland (b. 1860)
• 1944 » Gustav Bauer, German journalist and politician, 11th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1870)
• 1945 » John McCormack, Irish tenor and actor (b. 1884)
• 1946 » James Hopwood Jeans, English physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1877)
• 1950 » Pedro de Cordoba, American actor (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.
• March 27 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang begins, resulting several weeks later in the war's first major Chinese victory over Japan.
• July 3 » World speed record for a steam locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 125.88 miles per hour (202.58km/h).
• July 31 » Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius the Great in Persepolis.
• July 31 » Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia).
• 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.
• December 13 » The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany.

The temperature on September 16, 1938 was between 3.5 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.