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• Hendrik Marinus van GENDEREN, Ammerzoden, Gelderland, Nederland († 1937)
• H W (Rick) Ruppert, Zaandam († 2012)
• Hermine Vandersmissen, Alken, België († 2004)
• Ebrecht, Holten († 1937)
• Hendrik Sluijter, Gouda († 1937)
• Gretha Heijne, Ter-Apelkanaal, Vlagtwedde, Groningen, Nederland († 2022)
• Eduard van der Vliet, Beverwijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1978)
• Anna Maria Zofia Konarska, Kraków, Pologne († 2021)
• Geert van Antwerpen († 2015)
• Christina Pool, Sleen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1971)

• Ebrecht (0), Holten
• Aafke Veen (0), Eppenhuizen, Groningen, Nederland
• Alida Leenderts Keus (67), 's-Gravenhage
• Adriana Johanna Hoek (75), Rozenburg, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Keus (67), Den Haag
• (Anna) Maria GIELEN (62)
• Anna Maria Geerdink (14), Groningen
• Alida Catharina Wilhelmina van Rhijn (75), Zutphen
• Amélie Susanne Jaqueline Scholte (59), Heemstede, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Maria de Jongh (75), Haarlem

• 1936 » Duane Jones, American actor († 1988)
• 1936 » Metin Oktay, Turkish footballer and manager († 1991)
• 1937 » Alexandra Strelchenko, Russian Singer († 2019)
• 1937 » Anthony Haden-Guest, British journalist, poet, and critic
• 1937 » Don Buford, American baseball player and coach
• 1937 » Eric Arturo Delvalle, Panamanian lawyer and politician, President of Panama († 2015)
• 1937 » Remak Ramsay, American actor
• 1937 » Tom Smothers, American comedian, actor, and activist
• 1938 » Gene MacLellan, Canadian singer-songwriter († 1995)
• 1938 » Norman Fowler, English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Transport

• 1926 » Vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general and politician (b. 1848)
• 1932 » Agha Petros, Assyrian general and politician (b. 1880)
• 1939 » Bernhard Gregory, Estonian-German chess player (b. 1879)
• 1942 » Ado Birk, Estonian lawyer and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Estonia (b. 1883)
• 1942 » Daniil Kharms, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1905)
• 1942 » Hugh D. McIntosh, Australian businessman (b. 1876)
• 1945 » Alfred Delp, German priest and philosopher (b. 1907)
• 1945 » Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, German economist and politician (b. 1884)
• 1945 » Johannes Popitz, German lawyer and politician (b. 1884)
• 1948 » Thomas W. Lamont, American banker and philanthropist (b. 1870)

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 23 » The trial of the anti-Soviet Trotskyist center sees seventeen mid-level Communists accused of sympathizing with Leon Trotsky and plotting to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime.
• May 7 » Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco's forces.
• May 12 » The Duke and Duchess of York are crowned as King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Westminster Abbey.
• July 24 » Alabama drops rape charges against the "Scottsboro Boys".
• August 14 » The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when six Japanese bombers are shot down by Chinese fighters while raiding Chinese air bases.
• December 13 » Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking: The city of Nanjing, defended by the National Revolutionary Army under the command of General Tang Shengzhi, falls to the Japanese. This is followed by the Nanking Massacre, in which Japanese troops rape and slaughter hundreds of thousands of civilians.

The temperature on February 2, 1937 was between 2.8 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 5.1 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.