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• Albertus Jacobus Maria van Corler, Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg († 2020)
• August SEGERS, Deurne (Antwerpen),2100,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE († 1974)
• Ann Marie Shields, Barnstable, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten († 1962)
• Ernst Gang, fortasse, Deutschland († 1996)
• Hendrika Vermeulen, Den Helder († 2004)
• Cornelis Antonia Maria Berendsen, ,,, Huissen, Gelderland, Netherlands († 2019)
• Egbertus Johannes Hoofd, Eemnes († 1940)
• Jan Dunnewind († 2008)
• Evelyn Joyce Graves, Dike, Grundy County, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 2011)
• Judina van Tilburg, Carmel, Sioux County, Iowa († 2016)

• Agnes Adriana van Beurden (64), Tilburg, Nederland
• Adrianus van Dijk (83), Veghel
• Anke FOKKINGA (62), Leeuwarden
• Anna Harkema (78), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adeler Frederich II WEHLBURG (68)
• Anna Harkema (78), Arnhem
• August Ferdinand Leeuwen van (70), Rotterdam
• Aukje Libbes Jansma (78), Opende
• Adeler Frederich WEHLBURG (68)
• Anna Maria Verhees (86), ·Äòs Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1935 » Al MacNeil, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1936 » Don Cornelius, American television host and producer (Soul Train) († 2012)
• 1936 » Gordon Honeycombe, English actor, playwright, and author († 2015)
• 1937 » Vasyl Durdynets, Ukrainian politician and diplomat, 8th Prime Minister of Ukraine
• 1938 » Jean-Loup Dabadie, French journalist, songwriter, and screenwriter
• 1939 » Carol Lynn Pearson, American author, poet, and playwright
• 1939 » Kathy Whitworth, American golfer
• 1939 » Nicholas Haslam, English interior designer and author
• 1940 » Benoni Beheyt, Belgian cyclist
• 1940 » Josephine Barstow, English soprano and actress

• 1919 » Adelina Patti, Italian-French opera singer (b. 1843)
• 1921 » Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer and educator (b. 1854)
• 1934 » Ellen Willmott, English horticulturalist (b. 1858)
• 1935 » Alan Gray, English composer and organist (b. 1855)
• 1940 » Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian physician and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
• 1940 » Walter Benjamin, German philosopher and critic (b. 1892)
• 1942 » Douglas Albert Munro, United States Coast Guard signalman, posthumously awarded Medal of Honor, (b. 1919)
• 1944 » Aimee Semple McPherson, Canadian-American evangelist, founded the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel (b. 1890)
• 1956 » Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American basketball player and golfer (b. 1911)
• 1956 » Gerald Finzi, English composer and educator (b. 1901)

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 25 » U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
• June 25 » Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland.
• July 31 » Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius the Great in Persepolis.
• September 30 » The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
• October 14 » The first flight of the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter plane.
• November 14 » The Lions Gate Bridge, connecting Vancouver to the North Shore region, opens to traffic.

The temperature on September 27, 1938 was between 14.8 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.