About the day » Monday October 18, 1937Calender converter

• Jan Wolff, Wezep (Old) († 1937)
• Harriet Joan Achterhof, Grand Haven (Ottawa County) (Michigan) († 1937)
• Barend Jakobus Engelbregt, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1938)
• Henkie Zijlstra, Amsterdam, Netherlands († 1945)
• Hazina (Hannie) de Kok, Amsterdam († 2013)
• Jaap Knigge, Groningen († 2004)
• Cornelis Keetman, Winkel († 2016)
• Tomei, Waroengdono († 1937)
• Cary van Waas, Rotterdam, Nederland († 2024)
• Jan de Winter († 1978)

• Albert Temmerman (61), Temse
• Antje Zonneveld (64), Castricum
• Catharina van Os de Man (66), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Tomei (0), Waroengdono
• Anna Zonneveld (64), Castricum
• Baukje Boonstra (68), Drachtstercompagnie, gem. Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Antonie Johannes Gooijen (57), Vlissingen, Zeeland, Nl
• Adrianus van Och (79), Waalre
• Adelinde Louise Frederike van Minnigerode (77), Hannover, Nedersaksen
• Anna Koppenhol (48), IJsselmonde

• 1934 » Inger Stevens, Swedish-American actress († 1970)
• 1935 » Peter Boyle, American actor († 2006)
• 1936 » Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Cuban cardinal
• 1938 » Dawn Wells, American model and actress, Miss Nevada 1959
• 1938 » Robert Dove, American lawyer and politician
• 1939 » Flavio Cotti, Swiss lawyer and politician, 82nd President of the Swiss Confederation
• 1939 » Jan Erik Vold, Norwegian poet, author, and translator
• 1939 » Lee Harvey Oswald, American assassin of John F. Kennedy († 1963)
• 1939 » Mike Ditka, American football player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1940 » Cynthia Weil, American songwriter

• 1921 » Ludwig III of Bavaria (b. 1845)
• 1931 » Thomas Edison, American engineer and businessman, invented the light bulb and phonograph (b. 1847)
• 1934 » Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish pathologist, histologist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1935 » Gaston Lachaise, French-American sculptor (b. 1882)
• 1941 » Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Portuguese lawyer and politician, 7th President of Portugal (b. 1860)
• 1942 » Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter (b. 1862)
• 1947 » Michiaki Kamada, Japanese admiral (b. 1890)
• 1948 » Walther von Brauchitsch, German field marshal (b. 1881)
• 1956 » Yoshio Markino, Japanese painter and author (b. 1869)
• 1959 » Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian-French runner (b. 1898)

• 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.
• July 6 » Spanish Civil War: Battle of Brunete: The battle begins with Spanish Republican troops going on the offensive against the Nationalists to relieve pressure on Madrid.
• July 7 » The Peel Commission Report recommends the partition of Palestine, which was the first formal recommendation for partition in the history of Palestine.
• September 22 » Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken, ending the Battle of El Mazuco.
• October 2 » Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of Haitians living in the northwestern region of the Dominican Republic.
• November 8 » The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich.
• December 29 » The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution.

The temperature on October 18, 1937 was between 3.4 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (12%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.