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• Gerrit Dusomos, Vlijmen († 2016)
• Davina Ligabó, Araraquara, São Paulo, Brasil († 1995)
• Henricus Antonius Sijkens, Geldrop († 2004)
• Jos Valkenburg, Duizel († 2012)
• Koop Entjes († 1938)
• Henny Kool, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Adrianus KAPTEIJNS, Sint Michielsgestel († 2020)
• Harmen van der Meulen, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2003)
• Felipe Davila II, Raymondville, Willacy, Texas, Verenigde Staten († 1985)
• Koop Entjes, Dalen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1938)

• Atte Jansz de Groot (53), Schaesberg, lb.ned
• Aaltje Pieters (59), Apeldoorn
• Gutbier (85)
• Ate de Groot (53), Schaesberg, Limburg, Nederland
• Adrianus, Dominicus Anthonissen (28), Brecht
• Abraham Griffioen (29), Velsen
• Harm Benjamins (0), Hoogeveen
• Abraham Lenson (70), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Scheltens (67), Groningen
• Anthoni(e) Engelaan (76), Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1933 » Don Talbot, Australian swim coach and administrator
• 1933 » Robert Curl, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1934 » Sonny Jurgensen, American football player and sportscaster
• 1935 » Roy Strong, English historian, curator, and author
• 1936 » Henry Lee Lucas, American murderer († 2001)
• 1936 » Rudy Lewis, American R&B singer († 1964)
• 1938 » Giacomo Bini, Italian priest and missionary († 2014)
• 1938 » Roger Greenaway, English singer-songwriter and producer
• 1940 » Galen Rowell, American mountaineer and photographer († 2002)
• 1940 » Richard Sanders, American actor and screenwriter

• 1924 » Heinrich Berté, Slovak-Austrian composer (b. 1856)
• 1926 » Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor (b. 1895)
• 1927 » Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist convicted of murder (b. 1888)
• 1927 » Nicola Sacco, Italian anarchist convicted of murder (b. 1891)
• 1933 » Adolf Loos, Austrian architect and theoretician, designed Villa Müller (b. 1870)
• 1937 » Albert Roussel, French composer and educator (b. 1869)
• 1944 » Abdülmecid II, Ottoman sultan (b. 1868)
• 1944 » Stefan Filipkiewicz, Polish painter and illustrator (b. 1879)
• 1949 » Helen Churchill Candee, American geographer, journalist, and author (b. 1858)
• 1954 » Jaan Sarv, Estonian mathematician and scholar (b. 1877)

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.
• February 11 » The Flint sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Auto Workers trade union.
• February 21 » The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
• March 18 » The New London School explosion in New London, Texas, kills 300 people, mostly children.
• April 1 » Aden becomes a British crown colony.
• June 3 » The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson.
• December 16 » Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen again.

The temperature on August 23, 1937 was between 14.3 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.