About the day » Friday April 23, 1937Calender converter

• Anna A.A. (Anneke) Steeman, Castricum († 1997)
• Gerardus Johannes van Blokland, Culemborg († 1991)
• Cornelis Krabbedijk, Den Haag († 1986)
• Arnoldos Henricus Maria Rijntjes, Eindhoven († 2005)
• Arthur Calsijn, Tilburg († 1945)
• Edwin Albert Boyd, Wheatland, Platte, Wyoming, Verenigde Staten († 1963)
• Hendrika Frederika Iedema, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland († 2022)
• Harlen Gene Dornbush, Westfield (Emmons, North Dakota, USA) († 1983)
• Geraldine Julia (Geri) Roghair, Orange City, Sioux County, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 2014)
• Anna A.A. Steeman, Castricum († 1997)

• Aaltje Zaatkamp (81), Utrecht
• Antonetta Maria Wilhelmina Laffree (63), Texel
• AUGUSTUS JOZEF (GUSJE ) KERCKHOFS (0), MOL
• Charles LINDERMAN (67), Oakes, Dickey, North Dakota
• Verdonck (0), Wetteren
• Aleida Euphemia van der Haar (72), Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Abraham van Eikenhorst (39), Ermelo Gld
• Arien de Bok (85), Hedel
• Anna Maria Josephine Bröcheler (85), Heerlen, Nederland
• Aleida Euphemia van der HAAR (72), Kampen (Overijssel)

• 1934 » George Canseco, Filipino composer and producer († 2004)
• 1936 » Roy Orbison, American singer-songwriter († 1988)
• 1937 » Barry Shepherd, Australian cricketer († 2001)
• 1937 » David Mills, English cricketer († 2013)
• 1937 » Victoria Glendinning, English author and critic
• 1939 » Bill Hagerty, English journalist
• 1939 » Jorge Fons, Mexican director and screenwriter
• 1939 » Lee Majors, American actor
• 1939 » Ray Peterson, American pop singer († 2005)
• 1940 » Michael Copps, American academic and politician

• 1895 » Carl Ludwig, German physician and physiologist (b. 1815)
• 1905 » Gédéon Ouimet, Canadian politician, 2nd Premier of Quebec (b. 1823)
• 1907 » Alferd Packer, American prospector (b. 1842)
• 1915 » Rupert Brooke, English poet (b. 1887)
• 1936 » Teresa de la Parra, French-Venezuelan author (b. 1889)
• 1951 » Charles G. Dawes, American banker and politician, 30th Vice President of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• 1951 » Jules Berry, French actor and director (b. 1883)
• 1959 » Bak Jungyang, Korean politician
• 1965 » George Adamski, Polish-American ufologist and author (b. 1891)
• 1966 » George Ohsawa, Japanese founder of the Macrobiotic diet (b. 1893)

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.
• February 19 » Yekatit 12: During a public ceremony at the Viceregal Palace (the former Imperial residence) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, two Ethiopian nationalists of Eritrean origin attempt to kill viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with a number of grenades.
• 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 8 » Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad.
• August 1 » Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
• September 21 » J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.

The temperature on April 23, 1937 was between 3.9 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (7%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.