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• Elisabeth (Elly) Rietdijk, De Lier, Nederland († 2021)
• Albertus Koek, Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland († 1937)
• (Stillborn) Smit, Midwolda, Nederland († 1937)
• Elisabeth Rietdijk, De Lier († 2021)
• Barbara Jean Fritzel, Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa († 1987)
• Hendrika Van der Most, Schiedam, Nederland († 2005)
• Eugene Edward Tutor, Washburn, Bayfield, Wisconsin, United States († 2001)
• August Heutz, Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland († 2016)
• Elisabeth Rietdijk, de Lier († 2021)
• Anton (Tony) Bruijn Plomp, Amsterdam († 1938)

• Catharina Aleida Bosman (84), Utrecht
• Arthur Bernardus Dellaert (64), Gent (B)
• Aaltje Modderkolk (66)
• Albertus Breun Burggraaf (0), Utrecht (UT NL)
• Catharina Johanna ten Hagen (84), Gorinchem
• Ate Wieberdink (79), Hengelo
• Carolina van Driel (17), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana van Eijk (75), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Ate Tobias Wieberdink (71), Enschede, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna, Maria Boberg (78), Gellenbeck, Hagen a.T.W., Niedersachsen, Duitsland

• 1935 » Don Bragg, American pole vaulter
• 1936 » Anna Maria Alberghetti, Italian-American actress and singer
• 1936 » Mart Laga, Estonian basketball player († 1977)
• 1936 » Paul Zindel, American playwright and novelist († 2003)
• 1936 » Ralph Steadman, English painter and illustrator
• 1937 » Karin Krog, Norwegian singer
• 1937 » Madeleine Albright, Czech-American politician and diplomat, 64th United States Secretary of State
• 1937 » Trini Lopez, American singer, guitarist, and actor
• 1938 » Mireille Darc, French actress, director, and screenwriter († 2017)
• 1938 » Nancy Garden, American author († 2014)

• 1919 » Hasan Tahsin, Turkish journalist (b. 1888)
• 1924 » Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1926 » Joseph James Fletcher, Australian biologist (b. 1850)
• 1928 » Umegatani Tōtarō I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 15th Yokozuna (b. 1845)
• 1935 » Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian-Russian painter and theoretician (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1864)
• 1945 » Charles Williams, English author, poet, and critic (b. 1886)
• 1945 » Kenneth J. Alford, English soldier, bandmaster, and composer (b. 1881)
• 1948 » Edward J. Flanagan, Irish-American priest, founded Boys Town (b. 1886)
• 1954 » William March, American soldier and author (b. 1893)

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

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

• 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
• January 23 » The trial of the anti-Soviet Trotskyist center sees seventeen mid-level Communists accused of sympathizing with Leon Trotsky and plotting to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime.
• January 25 » The Guiding Light debuts on NBC radio from Chicago. In 1952 it moves to CBS television, where it remains until September 18, 2009.
• February 21 » The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
• March 21 » Ponce massacre: Nineteen people in Ponce, Puerto Rico are gunned down by police acting on orders of the US-appointed Governor, Blanton C. Winship.
• July 7 » The Marco Polo Bridge Incident provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War.
• November 8 » The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich.

The temperature on May 15, 1937 was between 10.2 °C and 16.3 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 12.5 mm of rain during 9.2 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.