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• Bernard Abraham Mannie Vorst, Amsterdam, Nederland († 2007)
• Dirk van Es, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes Marie Helmonds, Ginneken en Bavel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2004)
• Grietko Slager, Usquert, Groningen, Nederland († 2013)
• Christina Elisabeth (Stien) Scherstra († 1996)
• Berith Bergner, Östersund († 2012)
• Dolores A Norman, fortasse, quodam loco, Verenigde Staten († 2007)
• Diane Roberta HULST, Los Angeles, California, Verenigde Staten († 2002)
• Anna Catharina Wijnands, Odoorn († 1997)
• Gijpje Koek, Maassluis († 2021)

• Albert Andries Vestering (83), Benneveld, Nederland
• Blima Folman (80), Warszawa, Mazowieckie, Poland
• Adriana Onderwater (64), Noordwijk
• Anne Jans Beetstra (75), Oudehaske, Haskerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Béatrice comtesse d'Oultremont de Wégimont et de Warfusée (63), Bruges
• Adriana Onderwater (64), Noordwijk
• Adriana Maria Fens (64), Ginneken en Bavel,Noord-Brabant,Nederland
• Beatrix van Oultremont-Warfusée-Wégimont (63), Brugge, Vlaanderen
• Anna Rietveld (85), krimpen aan den ijssel (zuid holland)
• Catharina de Lijser (53), Terenuzen

• 1933 » Jean Yanne, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 2003)
• 1934 » Darlene Conley, American actress († 2007)
• 1934 » Edward Bond, English director, playwright, and screenwriter
• 1935 » Jayendra Saraswathi, Indian guru, 69th Shankaracharya
• 1935 » Tenley Albright, American figure skater and physician
• 1937 » Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author († 2005)
• 1937 » Roald Hoffmann, Polish chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1938 » Ian Stewart, Scottish keyboard player and manager († 1985)
• 1938 » John Connelly, English footballer († 2012)
• 1938 » Paul Verhoeven, Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1925 » Louis-Nazaire Bégin, Canadian cardinal (b. 1840)
• 1932 » Jean Jules Jusserand, French author and diplomat, French Ambassador to the United States (b. 1855)
• 1937 » Julian Bell, English poet and academic (b. 1908)
• 1938 » Marie of Romania (b. 1875)
• 1944 » Thomas Sturge Moore, English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1870)
• 1947 » Evald Tipner, Estonian footballer and ice hockey player (b. 1906)
• 1948 » Herman Gummerus, Finnish historian, academic, and politician (b. 1877)
• 1949 » Francisco Javier Arana, Guatemalan Army colonel and briefly Guatemalan head of state (b.1905)
• 1949 » Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer and educator (b. 1870)
• 1950 » Carl Clinton Van Doren, American critic and biographer (b. 1885)

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 16 » The Popular Front wins the 1936 Spanish general election.
• July 26 » King Edward VIII, in one of his few official duties before he abdicates the throne, officially unveils the Canadian National Vimy Memorial.
• August 3 » Jesse Owens wins the 100 metre dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.
• September 7 » The last thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial named Benjamin, dies alone in its cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
• November 12 » In California, the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
• December 5 » The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution and the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic is established as a full Union Republic of the USSR.

The temperature on July 18, 1936 was between 15.1 °C and 22.2 °C and averaged 18.8 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.