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• Cornelus Pieters Cupido, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1983)
• Gesina Maria (Gé) (Beekman) Kip, Musselkanaal († 2011)
• Esther (ZusterTrees ) VERVAEKE, Kuurne,WEST VLAANDEREN,Vlaams Gewest,Belgie,Belgie,Belgie († 2008)
• Elisabeth Marritje van de Beek, Westbroek († 2000)
• Gerrit van Ommen, Gemeente Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland († 1967)
• Elisabeth van Schaik, Hilversum († 1936)
• Anna Vonhoff, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2009)
• Hendrik Jan Berghuis († 2016)
• Dolores Hollister, Maple Grove Ctr., Barry Co., MI († 2013)
• Aafje VISSER, Urk, Flevoland, Nederland († 2021)

• Anna Elizabeth BRUINS (51), Winschoten Groningen Netherlands
• Antje Didemas (81)
• Aalzen Roels Huisman (68), Smallingerland, Nederland
• Albertus Hubertus Hoefnagels (71), Schaijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
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• Abraham Wissink (68), Enschede
• Aalbert Kramp (91), Doesburg, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antje Ros (81), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Arend Bouwman (71), Nieuwleusen, Dalfsen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Vroone (90), Amsterdam

• 1934 » Alexandra Ripley, American author († 2004)
• 1934 » Gene Freese, American baseball player and manager († 2013)
• 1934 » Jacques Anquetil, French cyclist († 1987)
• 1934 » Roy Kinnear, British actor († 1988)
• 1935 » Elvis Presley, American singer, guitarist, and actor († 1977)
• 1935 » Lewis H. Lapham, American publisher, founded Lapham's Quarterly
• 1936 » Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Australian-English zoologist, ecologist, and academic († 2020)
• 1936 » Zdeněk Mácal, Czech-American conductor
• 1937 » Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer
• 1938 » Bob Eubanks, American game show host and producer

• 1934 » Alexandre Stavisky, Ukrainian-French financier (b. 1886)
• 1934 » Andrei Bely, Russian novelist, poet, and critic (b. 1880)
• 1935 » Rauf Yekta, Turkish musicologist and author (b. 1871)
• 1938 » Johnny Gruelle, American author and illustrator (b. 1880)
• 1941 » Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, English general (b. 1857)
• 1942 » Joseph Franklin Rutherford, American lawyer and religious leader (b. 1869)
• 1943 » Andres Larka, Estonian general and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of War (b. 1879)
• 1943 » Richard Hillary, Australian pilot and author (b. 1919)
• 1944 » William Kissam Vanderbilt II, American lieutenant and sailor (b. 1878)
• 1945 » Karl Ernst Krafft, Swiss astrologer and author (b. 1900)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Cornelia
4. Anna
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Adriana
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Helena
14. Margaretha
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 July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 8.5 million citizens.
• May 28 » Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
• July 19 » Spanish Civil War: The CNT and UGT call a general strike in Spain - mobilizing workers' militias against the Nationalist forces.
• August 1 » The Olympics opened in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler.
• September 7 » The last thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial named Benjamin, dies alone in its cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
• November 30 » In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.
• December 30 » The United Auto Workers union stages its first sitdown strike.

The temperature on January 8, 1936 was between 6.5 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 4.9 mm of rain during 7.5 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.