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• Frank Allen Strom, Portland, Multnomah Co., OR († 1942)
• Eda Valerie Archbold McLaughlin, San Andres, Columbia († 2017)
• Dick F. Kuiken († 2009)
• Geesje Gritter, Mepperveld, Zweeloo († 2020)
• Francina Dirkje Wesselo, Krimpen aan de Ijssel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1980)
• Guido Emile Albertine Florimond Aerts, Brugge († 1994)
• Gerardus Anthonius Johannes Schenkeveld, Den Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2015)
• Geilina Berendina Plagge, Winsum († 1996)
• Bertus Lammers, Ambt Hardenberg († 1997)
• Asa Monroe Middleton, New Mexico, Verenigde Staten († 1998)

• Afke Wijbes Lojenga (60), Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Afke Lojenga (60), Zwolle
• Adriana Pijnenburg (73), Tilburg (Tilburg) (Noord-Brabant)
• Anna Krzeska (34)
• Abraham Labordus (66), Leiden
• Adrianus Kleijweg (70), Schipluiden, Nederland
• Anna Maria van Wijk (58), Oudenrijn
• Aaltien Hendriks (88), groningen
• Adriana Meuldijk (90), vlissingen
• Aimé Louis Marie VAN WAESBERGHE (62), Ruiselede

• 1935 » Rip Taylor, American actor and comedian († 2019)
• 1936 » Renato Bruson, Italian opera singer
• 1937 » Guy Dodson, New Zealand-English biochemist and academic († 2012)
• 1938 » Anna Home, English screenwriter and producer
• 1938 » Cabu, French cartoonist († 2015)
• 1938 » Daevid Allen, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2015)
• 1938 » Dave Edwards, American captain and politician († 2013)
• 1938 » Richard Anthony, Egyptian-French singer-songwriter († 2015)
• 1938 » Tord Grip, Swedish footballer and manager
• 1939 » Edgardo Cozarinsky, Argentinian author, screenwriter, and director

• 1916 » Victoriano Huerta, Mexican military officer and president, 1913–1914 (b. 1850)
• 1923 » Alexandre Ribot, French academic and politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1842)
• 1924 » Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist and academic (b. 1834)
• 1929 » H. B. Higgins, Irish-Australian judge and politician, 3rd Attorney-General for Australia (b. 1851)
• 1929 » Wyatt Earp, American police officer (b. 1848)
• 1934 » Paul Ulrich Villard, French physicist and chemist (b. 1860)
• 1941 » James Joyce, Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet (b. 1882)
• 1943 » Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1889)
• 1956 » Lyonel Feininger, German-American painter and illustrator (b. 1871)
• 1957 » A. E. Coppard English poet and short story writer (b. 1878)

• 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 21 » The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
• April 1 » Aden becomes a British crown colony.
• May 30 » Memorial Day massacre: Chicago police shoot and kill ten labor demonstrators.
• July 26 » Spanish Civil War: End of the Battle of Brunete with the Nationalist victory.
• August 24 » Spanish Civil War: the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement.
• October 9 » Murder of 9 Catholic priests in Zhengding, China, who protected the local population from the advancing Japanese army.

The temperature on January 13, 1937 was between 0.3 °C and 2.8 °C and averaged 2.0 °C. There was 8.4 mm of rain during 12.0 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.