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• Hermanus Jozef Vloedgraven († 1991)
• Fanny Frank, Vlagtwedde,Gemeente Vlagtwedde, Groningen, Nederland († 1943)
• Antoinette Leonie maria Grada Thomas, Waalwijk († 2010)
• Elisabeth M. M. Olivier, Maastricht († 1999)
• Fokke Maakal, Beetsterzwaag, gem. Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland († 2018)
• Hendrika Velten, enter
• Aaltje ( Lya ) Kleiker, Rotterdam Zuid-Holland Nederland († 1981)
• Derk Reit, Bellingwolde, Groningen, Netherlands († 2018)
• Jan Haiko Bloemendal, Groningen († 2007)
• Hetty Peekel, Amsterdam († 1942)

• Aart Pieter van Gent (66), Breda
• Betje Nieborg (57), Hoogkerk (Groningen)
• Bastiaan Verhoef (76), Sliedrecht
• Anne Harmens (Onne) de Haas (77), Wolsum, Wymbritseradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Alice Mabel Smyth
• Anne de Haas (77), Wolsum
• Anne Wijtzes (55), Rotterdam
• Albert Gustaaf Camille Ghislain Baron van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (65), Brugge, Vlaanderen
• Alfred Todd Amidon **** (65), Glen Ellyn, DuPage, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Allegonda van Oosterhoud (76), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1934 » Marv Breeding, American baseball player and scout († 2006)
• 1935 » George Coleman, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader
• 1936 » Gábor Szabó, Hungarian guitarist and composer († 1982)
• 1936 » Sue Ane Langdon, American actress and singer
• 1937 » Juvénal Habyarimana, Rwandan politician, 2nd President of Rwanda († 1994)
• 1937 » Richard Fariña, American singer-songwriter and author († 1966)
• 1938 » Pete Dawkins, American football player, colonel, and politician
• 1939 » Jim Bouton, American baseball player and journalist († 2019)
• 1939 » Lidiya Skoblikova, Russian speed skater and coach
• 1939 » Lynn Seymour, Canadian ballerina and choreographer

• 1923 » Krišjānis Barons, Latvian linguist and author (b. 1835)
• 1930 » Edward Terry Sanford, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, United States Assistant Attorney General (b. 1865)
• 1930 » William Howard Taft, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 27th President of the United States (b. 1857)
• 1935 » Hachikō, Japanese dog (b. 1923)
• 1937 » Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1902)
• 1941 » Sherwood Anderson, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1876)
• 1942 » José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player and theoretician (b. 1888)
• 1944 » Fredy Hirsch, German Jewish athlete who helped thousands of Jewish children in the Holocaust (b. 1916)
• 1945 » Frederick Bligh Bond, English archaeologist and architect (b. 1864)
• 1948 » Hulusi Behçet, Turkish dermatologist and scientist (b. 1889)

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.
• April 27 » The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
• June 28 » The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.
• July 19 » Spanish Civil War: The CNT and UGT call a general strike in Spain - mobilizing workers' militias against the Nationalist forces.
• July 21 » Spanish Civil War: The Central Committee of Antifascist Militias of Catalonia is constituted, establishing an anarcho-syndicalist economy in Catalonia.
• August 14 » Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last known public execution in the United States.
• September 7 » The last thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial named Benjamin, dies alone in its cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.

The temperature on March 8, 1936 was between -0.3 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.