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• Abraham (Bram) Kolk, Steenwijk († 2003)
• Berthe Spiele, Hengelo († 2014)
• Baer Hubertus Martinus van Dijck, Helden († 1967)
• Cornelia Maria Nijenhof, Nijmegen († 1987)
• van Holstein, Naaldwijk, Nederland († 1934)
• Femia Maria Staal, Brummen († 2004)
• Bertha (Baps) SPIELE, Hengelo (NL/OV) († 2014)
• Adrianus Martinus (Adri) Kogels, Drunen, Nederland († 1998)
• Agnes Alice Nathalie Degraeve, Brugge († 1983)
• Doodgeboren zoon Wintjens, Rotterdam († 1934)

• Catherine Mary Gibbons #8044**03x2 (78)
• Carolina Maria Lamberta Basson (70)
• Adrianus Jacobus Thijssen (64), Princenhage
• Carrie N Wedge (52), Bronx, Bronx, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Adrianus Schellekens (58), Tilburg
• Bernardus Johannes Marinus Game (6), Hengelo
• Arjen Boerstra (78), Amsterdam
• Aaltje De JONGSTE (71), Strijen
• Arnold Johan Chrisstoffels (28), Eindhoven
• Anna Maria Wilhelmina Conijn (15), Haarlem

• 1931 » Bill Miles, American director and producer († 2013)
• 1934 » George Shirley, African-American tenor and educator
• 1934 » James Drury, American actor († 2020)
• 1935 » Brian Clay, Australian rugby league player († 1987)
• 1935 » Costas Ferris, Egyptian-Greek actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1936 » Roger Graef, American-English criminologist, director, and producer
• 1936 » "TV" Tommy Ivo, American actor and drag racer
• 1936 » Vladimir Hütt, Estonian physicist and philosopher († 1997)
• 1937 » Jan Kaplický, Czech architect, designed the Selfridges Building († 2009)
• 1937 » Tatyana Shchelkanova, Russian long jumper and heptathlete († 2011)

• 1923 » Savina Petrilli, Italian religious leader (b. 1851)
• 1936 » Milton Brown, American singer and bandleader (b. 1903)
• 1936 » Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer and conductor (b. 1879)
• 1938 » George Bryant, American archer (b. 1878)
• 1942 » Aleksander Mitt, Estonian speed skater (b. 1903)
• 1942 » Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American heiress, sculptor and art collector, founded the Whitney Museum of American Art (b. 1875)
• 1943 » Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral (b. 1884)
• 1945 » Ernie Pyle, American journalist and soldier (b. 1900)
• 1945 » John Ambrose Fleming, English physicist and engineer, invented the vacuum tube (b. 1849)
• 1947 » Jozef Tiso, Slovak priest and politician, President of Slovakia (b. 1887)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Petrus
9. Adrianus
10. Jacobus
11. Wilhelmus
12. Gerardus
13. Antonius
14. Jacob
15. Johan
16. Albert

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Catharina
8. Adriana
9. Hendrika
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Margaretha
13. Grietje
14. Helena
15. Geertruida
16. Aaltje

• 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 May 26, 1933 to July 31, 1935 the cabinet Colijn II, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 8.3 million citizens.
• February 2 » The Export-Import Bank of the United States is incorporated.
• May 19 » Zveno and the Bulgarian Army engineer a coup d'état and install Kimon Georgiev as the new Prime Minister of Bulgaria.
• May 21 » Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
• June 30 » The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.
• September 26 » The ocean liner RMSQueen Mary is launched.
• December 29 » Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.

The temperature on April 18, 1934 was between 7.8 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 9.8 mm of rain during 4.3 hours. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.