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• James Hinders, Clarksville, Butler County, Iowa († 2016)
• Brandina Ottina Fluit, Ede († 1943)
• ETIENNECAROLUS EMMA STRYBOL, SINT-NIKLAAS,OOST-VLAANDEREN,BELGIE († 2004)
• Henricus Plevoets, Brustem, België († 1937)
• Frenk Šolinc († 2021)
• Doodgeboren kind van Loon, Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland († 1937)
• Brandina Ottina Fluit, Ede († 1943)
• Buddy Howard, Verda, Harlan County, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten († 2008)
• Frans Baars, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2019)
• Patricia († 1995)

• ADAM KNUBBEN (72), Schimmert
• Aalberdina Willemina Boesveld (79), Doetinchem
• Arval Winn Naylor (48), Scammon, Cherokee, Kansas, Verenigde Staten
• Alberdina Brummelman (75), Laren( Gld.)
• Anna Maria Margaretha Schimmel (70), Maastricht
• Anne Marie Crochet (29)
• Adolph Inhoffen (75), Düsseldorf, Unterrath, Rheinland, Deutschland
• Bartje (Barta) Brink (78), Genemuiden
• Anna Marie Smulders (63), Berlicum
• Antonius HOUBEN (90), Meijel, Limburg, Netherlands

• 1935 » Albert Bustamante, American soldier, educator, and politician
• 1935 » Oscar Zeta Acosta, American lawyer and politician († 1974)
• 1937 » Momo Kapor, Serbian author and painter († 2010)
• 1937 » Seymour Hersh, American journalist and author
• 1937 » Tony Barton, English footballer, outside right and manager († 1993)
• 1938 » John Hamm, Canadian physician and politician, 25th Premier of Nova Scotia
• 1938 » Kofi Annan, Ghanaian economist and diplomat, 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations († 2018)
• 1938 » Mary W. Gray, American mathematician, statistician, and lawyer
• 1939 » John Arbuthnott, Scottish microbiologist and academic
• 1939 » Trina Schart Hyman, American author and illustrator († 2004)

• 1919 » Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist, academic, and politician, Hungarian Minister of Education (b. 1848)
• 1920 » Charles Griffes, American pianist and composer (b. 1884)
• 1931 » Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish poet Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1936 » Božena Benešová, Czech poet and novelist (b. 1873)
• 1936 » Róbert Bárány, Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
• 1941 » Marcel Prévost, French novelist and playwright (b. 1862)
• 1942 » Kostas Skarvelis, Greek guitarist and composer (b. 1880)
• 1947 » Olaf Frydenlund, Norwegian target shooter (b. 1862)
• 1950 » Vaslav Nijinsky, Polish dancer and choreographer (b. 1890)
• 1959 » Marios Makrionitis, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Athens (b. 1913)

• 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 20 » Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner are sworn in for their second terms as U.S. President and U.S. Vice President; it is the first time a Presidential Inauguration takes place on January 20 since the 20th Amendment changed the dates of presidential terms.
• February 21 » The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
• July 7 » The Marco Polo Bridge Incident provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War.
• July 8 » Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad.
• September 22 » Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken, ending the Battle of El Mazuco.
• November 8 » The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich.

The temperature on April 8, 1937 was between 8.7 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.