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• Forrest R. Mellott, Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania († 2000)
• Broer Douwes DIJKMAN, Hallum (Ferwerderadiel) Friesland Netherlands († 1996)
• Françoise Cachin, Paris († 2011)
• Gerrit (Gert) Gunther, Wageningen, Nederland († 1987)
• Bertus Hoogers, Hattem, Gelderland, Nederland († 1996)
• Carolyn Faye Todd († 2020)
• Herman Schweigman, Maartensdijk († 1998)
• Emile Van Tilborgh, Vilvoorde († 1999)
• Broer Dijkman, Hallum († 1996)
• Herman Schweigman ir, De Bilt, Utr, Nederland († 1998)

• Aafje Hoogendijk (79), Schiedam
• Anna Maria Blokland (22), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Alida van Daale (64), Hilversum
• Adriana Cornelia van den Heuvel (0), Best
• Augusta Sophia STEINBERG (42), Berlin, Coos, New Hampshire
• Antoinette Wilhelmina van EIJMEREN (72), Utrecht
• Brouwers (69), Bergen op Zoom, NL
• Aaltje Haveman (79), Schoonoord, Sleen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Barteld Assies (48)
• Adrianus Vromans (44), Roosendaal en Nispen

• 1934 » Leonard Hoffmann, Baron Hoffmann, South African-English lawyer and judge
• 1935 » Jack Charlton, English footballer and manager
• 1935 » Lucius Cary, 15th Viscount Falkland, Scottish politician
• 1935 » Princess Elisabeth of Denmark († 2018)
• 1936 » Haljand Udam, Estonian orientalist and academic († 2005)
• 1936 » Kazuo Koike, Japanese author
• 1937 » Bernard Cleary, Canadian journalist, academic, and politician
• 1937 » Carlos Gaviria Díaz, Colombian lawyer and politician († 2015)
• 1937 » Mike Cuellar, Cuban-American baseball player († 2010)
• 1937 » Thomas Pynchon, American novelist

• 1936 » Oswald Spengler, German historian and philosopher (b. 1880)
• 1941 » Natalie, queen consort of Serbia (b. 1859)
• 1941 » Tore Svennberg, Swedish actor and director (b. 1858)
• 1942 » Nikolai Reek, Estonian general and politician, 11th Estonian Minister of War (b. 1890)
• 1943 » Mordechai Anielewicz, Polish commander (b. 1919)
• 1944 » Themistoklis Diakidis, Greek high jumper (b. 1882)
• 1945 » Bernhard Rust, German lieutenant and politician (b. 1883)
• 1945 » Frank Bourne, British soldier, last survivor of the Battle of Rorke's Drift (b. 1854)
• 1945 » Josef Terboven, German lieutenant and politician (b. 1898)
• 1945 » Wilhelm Rediess, German SS officer (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.
• February 10 » Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launched the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders.
• February 29 » February 26 Incident in Tokyo ends.
• May 21 » Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her handbag. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
• June 15 » First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.
• July 17 » Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the civil war.
• July 19 » Spanish Civil War: The CNT and UGT call a general strike in Spain - mobilizing workers' militias against the Nationalist forces.

The temperature on May 8, 1936 was between 9.7 °C and 22.9 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (71%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.