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• Dirk Marinus Dekker, Rotterdam († 1943)
• Aaltje Visscher, Ambt Vollenhove, Nederland († 2019)
• Cor van Emmerloot († 2016)
• Anthonie van Bruchem, Zaltbommel (GL) († 2020)
• Albertus(albert) Tol, Edam Volendam († 2005)
• Dirk Marinus Dekker, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1943)
• David Almond Pemberton APEM02.DAV01RD, Devon, England († 2016)
• Elisabeth Catharina Munsters, Deurne, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1944)
• Daniël Peter Cornelissen († 2000)
• Adolf Croes, Koog aan de Zaan (NL) († 1976)

• Aagje de Haas (30), Gennep
• Albartus Philippus van Ingen (84), Ede zie Gelderland-Ede
• Albartus Phillippus van Ingen (84), Ede
• Adriaan van Niele (90), Schijndel, NL
• Adrianus van NIELEN (90), St-Michielsgestel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anneken Kip (90), Brummen
• Aart Pater (45), Zeist
• Albartus Philippus van Ingen (83), Ede
• Aaltje Negenman (39), Heeg (WYM), Wymbritseradiel, Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltje Coelingh (82), Hoogeveen 84

• 1934 » Bill Birch, New Zealand surveyor and politician, 38th New Zealand Minister of Finance
• 1935 » Aulis Sallinen, Finnish composer and academic
• 1935 » Avery Schreiber, American actor and comedian († 2002)
• 1936 » Jerzy Maksymiuk, Polish pianist, composer, and conductor
• 1936 » Valerie Solanas, American radical feminist author, attempted murderer († 1988)
• 1937 » Marty Krofft, Canadian screenwriter and producer
• 1937 » Simon Brown, Baron Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood, English lieutenant, lawyer, and judge
• 1937 » Valerie Singleton, English television and radio host
• 1938 » Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russian businessman and politician, 30th Prime Minister of Russia († 2010)
• 1939 » Michael Learned, American actress

• 1926 » Zip the Pinhead, American freak show performer (b. 1857)
• 1936 » Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1855)
• 1940 » Mrs Patrick Campbell, English actress (b. 1865)
• 1944 » Yevgeniya Rudneva, Ukrainian lieutenant and pilot (b. 1920)
• 1945 » Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German pastor and theologian (b. 1906)
• 1945 » Hans Oster, German general (b. 1887)
• 1945 » Hans von Dohnányi, Austrian-German lawyer and jurist (b. 1902)
• 1945 » Johann Georg Elser, German carpenter (b. 1903)
• 1945 » Karl Sack, German lawyer and jurist (b. 1896)
• 1945 » Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral (b. 1887)

• 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 21 » The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
• June 14 » U.S. House of Representatives passes the Marihuana Tax Act.
• June 15 » A German expedition led by Karl Wien loses sixteen members in an avalanche on Nanga Parbat. It is the worst single disaster to occur on an 8000m peak.
• September 21 » J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.
• December 21 » Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre.

The temperature on April 9, 1937 was between 7.0 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.