About the day » Monday May 24, 1937Calender converter

• Edy Hany Reinert, Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1987)
• Hendrik Wolters († 1987)
• Hubertus van den Heuvel († 2014)
• Harm Freese, Parkersburg, Butler County, Iowa († 2022)
• Cathryn Ann Rutledge, Sumter, Sumter, South Carolina († 1965)
• Helena Maria van der Helm († 1990)
• Hartog de Beer, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Gae Reid STUBBS, Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia († 1996)
• Georgette Emerence Marie Dorine Raemaekers, Hasselt, België († 1990)
• Jacomina Dingemanse († 2022)

• Arnold Albert ten Thij (70), Enschede
• Abraham Van Houweling (43)
• Albert Arnold ten Thij (70), Deventer
• Antje van der Pijl (0), Velsen
• Aafke van der Zee (63), Barradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Angenitha Catrina FRATERMAN (73), Delft
• Boukje van der Hoek (85), Tytsjerksteradiel, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriana Elisabeth Zuijdwijk (67), 's-Gravenhage, ZH, Nederland
• Adriana Elisabeth Zuidwijk (76), Den Haag
• Antje Wybes van der Meulen (61), Zwaagwesteinde, Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland

• 1933 » Aharon Lichtenstein, French-Israeli rabbi and author († 2015)
• 1933 » Jane Byrne, American lawyer and politician, 50th Mayor of Chicago († 2014)
• 1933 » Réal Giguère, Canadian television host and actor
• 1935 » Joan Micklin Silver, American director and screenwriter
• 1936 » Harold Budd, American composer and poet
• 1937 » Archie Shepp, American saxophonist and composer
• 1937 » Maryvonne Dupureur, French runner and educator († 2008)
• 1938 » Prince Buster, Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer († 2016)
• 1938 » Tommy Chong, Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1940 » Joseph Brodsky, Russian-American poet and essayist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1996)

• 1919 » Amado Nervo, Mexican poet, journalist, and educator (b. 1870)
• 1929 » Nikolai von Meck, Russian engineer (b. 1863)
• 1941 » Lancelot Holland, English admiral (b. 1887)
• 1945 » Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal and pilot (b. 1892)
• 1948 » Jacques Feyder, Belgian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1885)
• 1949 » Alexey Shchusev, Russian architect, designed Lenin's Mausoleum and Moscow Kazanskaya railway station (b. 1873)
• 1950 » Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, English field marshal and politician, 43rd Governor-General of India (b. 1883)
• 1951 » Thomas N. Heffron, American actor, director, screenwriter (b. 1872)
• 1956 » Martha Annie Whiteley, English chemist and mathematician (b. 1866)
• 1958 » Frank Rowe, Australian public servant (b. 1895)

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 15 » Spanish Civil War: Nationalists and Republican both withdraw after suffering heavy losses, ending the Second Battle of the Corunna Road.
• April 26 » Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
• April 30 » The Commonwealth of the Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage; over 90% would vote in the affirmative.
• May 6 » Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed.
• September 10 » Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.
• December 29 » The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution.

The temperature on May 24, 1937 was between 11.4 °C and 26.2 °C and averaged 18.5 °C. There was 13.7 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.