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• Engelina IJda van den Heuvel, Tiel († 2021)
• Arie van der Krans, Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2017)
• Alma Ruth van der Lugt, Edgerton, Pipestone, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten († 2015)
• Carol Jeanne Brandes, Burlington (Racine, Wisconsin, USA) († 2013)
• Filippus Weisenbach († 2015)
• Clementia Maria Margaretha Heeze, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1993)
• Alfred Uringa, Eindhoven († 2022)
• anna gertruda (an) vorstermans, helden
• Albert Dejonghe, Ledegem († 2000)
• Angela van de Vijver, Graauw en Langendam, Nederland († 2017)

• Aaltje Eigenhuis (81), Haarlemmermeer
• Gatske Leemburg (84), Heerenveen
• Gerrit Hendrik van Hummel (50), Zuidwolde
• Anna Mechtilda Custers (74), Venray
• adriana maria heijnen (78), roosendaal
• Adriana Petronella van de Kerkhof (0), Helmond, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Alouisius van Puijfelik (76), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna van Uijtert (50), Esch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anne Jans Boersma (85), Grootegast
• Aaltje de Vries (94), Anna Paulowna, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

• 1936 » Clarence Carter, American blues and soul singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer
• 1937 » Billie Jo Spears, American country singer († 2011)
• 1937 » J. Bernlef, Dutch author and poet († 2012)
• 1937 » Ken Higgs, English cricketer and coach († 2016)
• 1937 » Leo Kadanoff, American physicist and academic († 2015)
• 1937 » Rao Gopal Rao, Indian actor, producer, and politician († 1994)
• 1937 » Sonny Siebert, American baseball player
• 1938 » Allen Toussaint, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer († 2015)
• 1938 » Jack Jones, American singer and actor
• 1938 » Morihiro Hosokawa, Japanese journalist and politician, 79th Prime Minister of Japan

• 1920 » John Francis Dodge, American businessman, co-founded the Dodge Automobile Company (b. 1864)
• 1926 » August Sedláček, Czech historian and author (b. 1843)
• 1934 » Ioan Cantacuzino, Romanian physician and bacteriologist (b. 1863)
• 1937 » Jaishankar Prasad, Indian poet, author, and playwright (b. 1889)
• 1942 » Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian poet and author (b. 1883)
• 1943 » Laura E. Richards, American author and poet (b. 1850)
• 1944 » Mehmet Emin Yurdakul, Turkish author and politician (b. 1869)
• 1949 » Harry Stack Sullivan, American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (b. 1892)
• 1951 » Gregorios Xenopoulos, Greek author, journalist, and playwright (b. 1867)
• 1952 » Artur Kapp, Estonian composer and conductor (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 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.
• May 27 » In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
• July 7 » The Marco Polo Bridge Incident provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War.
• July 22 » New Deal: The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
• November 9 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Army withdraws from the Battle of Shanghai.

The temperature on January 14, 1937 was between 1.8 °C and 3.9 °C and averaged 2.8 °C. There was 6.5 mm of rain during 14.8 hours. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.