About the day » Monday April 5, 1937Calender converter

• Dolores I Polcha, Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 2015)
• Andreas VAN BEMMELEN († 2010)
• Hendrik Jan Huismans, Wetering († 2003)
• Gerarda Verkleij, Rotterdam († 1990)
• Anneke van der Meer, Groningen († 2013)
• Alletta Johana Louise DE BRUIJN, Amsterdam († 2008)
• Adrianus van Uden, Rotterdam
• Giuseppe Frigau, Italie, Cagliari († 1997)
• Antje Klasina Schaap, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2010)
• Barbara BOSWIJK, Groningen Groningen Netherlands († 2008)

• Angenietje Jacobs den Ouden (64), Nieuw Helvoet
• Aaltje Vink (73), Haarlem
• Adriana de Laat (76), Lith
• Anthonie Beltman (78), Den Haag
• Aagje Piekstra (75), Achtkarspelen
• Anna Frances Maxwell (77), Ireland, United Kingdom
• Adriana Groenewoud (53), Mijdrecht
• Anna Maria (57), Amsterdam
• Antje Mulder (67), Anloo
• Aafje Kranenburg (66), Wormer, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1936 » Dragoljub Minić, Yugoslavian chess Grandmaster († 2005)
• 1936 » Glenn Jordan, American director and producer
• 1936 » Ronnie Bucknum, American race car driver († 1992)
• 1937 » Andrzej Schinzel, Polish mathematician
• 1937 » Arie Selinger, Israeli volleyball player and manager
• 1937 » Colin Powell, American general and politician, 65th United States Secretary of State
• 1937 » Jean-Pierre Petit, French scientist
• 1937 » Joseph Lelyveld, American journalist and author
• 1937 » Juan Vicente Lezcano, Paraguayan footballer († 2012)
• 1938 » Colin Bland, Zimbabwean-South African cricketer († 2018)

• 1934 » Jiro Sato, Japanese tennis player (b. 1908)
• 1934 » Salvatore Di Giacomo, Italian poet, playwright, songwriter and fascist intellectual (b. 1860)
• 1935 » Achille Locatelli, Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1856)
• 1935 » Emil Młynarski, Polish conductor, violinist, composer, and pedagogue (b. 1870)
• 1935 » Franz von Vecsey, Hungarian violinist and composer (b. 1893)
• 1936 » Chandler Egan, American golfer and architect (b. 1884)
• 1937 » Gustav Adolf Deissmann, (b. 1866)
• 1937 » José Benlliure y Gil, Spanish painter (b. 1858)
• 1938 » Helena Westermarck, Finnish artist and writer (b. 1857)
• 1938 » Verner Lehtimäki, Finnish revolutionary (b. 1890)

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 25 » The Guiding Light debuts on NBC radio from Chicago. In 1952 it moves to CBS television, where it remains until September 18, 2009.
• March 21 » Ponce massacre: Nineteen people in Ponce, Puerto Rico are gunned down by police acting on orders of the US-appointed Governor, Blanton C. Winship.
• July 9 » The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire.
• July 22 » New Deal: The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
• August 24 » Spanish Civil War: the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement.
• December 11 » Second Italo-Ethiopian War: Italy leaves the League of Nations.

The temperature on April 5, 1937 was between 3.9 °C and 13.5 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.