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• Jacobus Hubertus Helwegen, Herten († 1956)
• Kenneth Lee Furlong, New Carlisle, Clark, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 2009)
• Andreas Josephus Theresia van de Vorst, 's-Hertogenbosch († 1995)
• Anna Rudolfina Hölscher, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2019)
• Arlene Mae Binde, Waubay, South Dakota († 2012)
• Laurentius Josephus Reith, Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland († 2021)
• van Beelen, Velsen († 1937)
• Maria Lans, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1938)
• Helen Joanne Schooley († 1941)
• Hermanus Theodorus Timmers, Haarlem († 2000)

• Alice Rose Statser (0), Ruth, Stone, Missouri, Verenigde Staten
• Aagje Vreugdenhil (46), Den Haag
• Bartha Duker (74), Smilde, Drenthe, Nederland
• van Beelen (0), Velsen
• Arie van Barneveld (37)
• Antje Ter Veen, (GR) Hoogkerk
• Catharina Johanna Hollebrands (76), Vlissingen
• Antje Hendriks ter Veen (73), Hoogkerk, Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
• Archibald Rice CRAM (50), Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten
• Catharina Johanna Terwee (81), Arnhem

• 1934 » Benjamin Boretz, American composer and theorist
• 1934 » Harold Henning, South African golfer († 2004)
• 1934 » Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas, Colombian-Dutch painter and illustrator († 2015)
• 1935 » Charles Duke, American general, pilot, and astronaut
• 1936 » Steve Reich, American composer
• 1938 » Dave Obey, American lawyer and politician
• 1938 » David Hart Dyke, English captain
• 1938 » Eddie Cochran, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor († 1960)
• 1938 » Jack Hodgins, Canadian author and academic
• 1939 » Bob Armstrong, American wrestler and trainer

• 1911 » Rosetta Jane Birks, Australian suffragist (b. 1856)
• 1917 » Eduardo Di Capua, Neapolitan composer, singer and songwriter (b. 1865)
• 1929 » Gustav Stresemann, German politician, Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1878)
• 1929 » Jeanne Eagels, American actress (b. 1894)
• 1931 » Carl Nielsen, Danish violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1865)
• 1936 » John Heisman, American football player and coach (b. 1869)
• 1953 » Arnold Bax, English composer and poet (b. 1883)
• 1959 » Tochigiyama Moriya, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 27th Yokozuna (b. 1892)
• 1963 » Refet Bele, Turkish general (b. 1877)
• 1965 » Zachary Scott, American actor (b. 1914)

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 20 » Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner are sworn in for their second terms as U.S. President and U.S. Vice President; it is the first time a Presidential Inauguration takes place on January 20 since the 20th Amendment changed the dates of presidential terms.
• 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.
• 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.
• July 7 » The Marco Polo Bridge Incident provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War.
• August 24 » Spanish Civil War: the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement.
• September 21 » J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.

The temperature on October 3, 1937 was between 5.1 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.