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• Anna Wilhelmina Huisman, Enschede († 1937)
• Bradley Clinton Kneeland, Baileyville, Washington, Maine, Verenigde Staten († 1983)
• Barry Francois Menco van Schuylenburch, Leiden († 2005)
• Egberdina van Van Oene, Oldebroek († 1990)
• Aaltje Johanna Kramer, Krommenie, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1937)
• Albert Valere Thio, Staden († 2005)
• Arend ten Cate, Hollandscheveld, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2012)
• Ank Spaas, Gouda († 2018)
• Andries Jacobus Maria Mars, Enschede († 2008)
• Catharina Dina Margaretha Kaptein, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2019)

• Akke Miedema (83), Sneek
• Anna Elizabeth Aretz (59), Otter Tail, Minnesota, United States
• Andries Adrianus van den Broek (53), Baarle-Nassau
• Anna HUIPE (79), Assendelft, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alexandrine CREPAIN (79), Channay-sur-Lathan, 37330, France
• Aagje Toolenaars (85), Fijnaart en Heijningen
• Arnoldus Antonius van Swaaij, Zevenaar, Gelderland, Nederland
• Barones Sophia Johanna Justina Taets Van Amerongen (76)
• Arie Schellingerhout (77), Leiden, Nederland
• Aart Vlijm (73), Telgt (Ermelo, Gelderland)

• 1934 » Helen Hanft, American actress († 2013)
• 1934 » Kronid Lyubarsky, Russian journalist and activist († 1996)
• 1935 » Geoff Braybrooke, English-New Zealand soldier and politician († 2013)
• 1935 » Kenneth Mars, American actor and comedian († 2011)
• 1935 » Trevor Griffiths, English playwright and educator
• 1938 » A. Bartlett Giamatti, American businessman and academic († 1989)
• 1939 » Darlene Hooley, American educator and politician
• 1939 » Hugh Masekela, South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer, and singer († 2018)
• 1939 » JoAnne Carner, American golfer
• 1940 » Richard Attwood, English race car driver

• 1919 » William Crookes, English chemist and physicist (b. 1832)
• 1923 » John Venn, English mathematician and philosopher, created the Venn diagram (b. 1834)
• 1929 » Karl Benz, German engineer and businessman, founded Mercedes-Benz (b. 1844)
• 1931 » André Michelin, French businessman, co-founded the Michelin Tyre Company (b. 1853)
• 1932 » Wilhelm Ostwald, Latvian-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
• 1933 » Elizabeth Bacon Custer, American author and educator (b. 1842)
• 1941 » Emine Nazikedâ Kadınefendi, the first wife and chief consort of Sultan Mehmed VI (b. 1866)
• 1944 » Morris H. Whitehouse, American architect (b. 1878)
• 1951 » George Albert Smith, American religious leader, 8th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1870)
• 1953 » Carol II of Romania (b. 1893)

• 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.
• April 1 » Aden becomes a British crown colony.
• April 12 » Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.
• August 2 » The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
• September 5 » Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls to the Nationalists following a one-day siege.
• September 21 » J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.

The temperature on April 4, 1937 was between 8.0 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 2.8 hours. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.