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• George William Block, Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky († 1978)
• Gaylen Duane Couperus, Parkersburg, Butler, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 2014)
• François Ost, Moerzeke-Kastel († 2007)
• Jan Buurke († 1981)
• Hendrik (Henk) Dekker, Wormerveer, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2013)
• Adrianus Hubertus Antonius Poppelier, Mülheim, Duitsland († 1938)
• Godelieve De Boeck, Aalst († 2018)
• Anne Luijendijk, Oud-Beijerland, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1997)
• Hans Sudmeijer, Amsterdam
• Henricus Jacobus Koopmans, Amsterdam († 2005)

• Albert Danckaert (44), Woubrechtegem
• Annette Keijser (78), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Andries Jans van Zomeren (75), Apeldoorn, Nederland
• Aleida Gerritdina van de Scheur (9), Velsen
• Anna Ernesta Hermine Wüppermann (54), Haarlem
• Albertus Heij (74), Kesteren (Gelderland) Nederland
• Adrianus van Galder (81), Princenhage (Noord-Brabant, NLD)
• Adriana Laurijssen (73), Roosendaal
• Alijda Dina Staal (85), Amersfoort
• Adrianus Hendrikus Beckers (61), Rijsbergen

• 1935 » Ethel Johnson, American professional wrestler († 2018)
• 1935 » Rudi Šeligo, Slovenian playwright and politician († 2004)
• 1936 » Bobby Darin, American singer-songwriter and actor († 1973)
• 1936 » Dick Howser, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1987)
• 1938 » Robert Boyd, English pediatrician and academic
• 1939 » Rupert Neudeck, German journalist and humanitarian († 2016)
• 1939 » Troy Shondell, American singer-songwriter († 2016)
• 1940 » Chay Blyth, Scottish sailor and rower
• 1940 » George Mathewson, Scottish banker and businessman
• 1940 » H. Jones, English colonel, Victoria Cross recipient († 1982)

• 1931 » David Belasco, American director, producer, and playwright (b. 1853)
• 1934 » Lou Criger, American baseball player and manager (b. 1872)
• 1935 » Magnus Hirschfeld, German physician and sexologist (b. 1868)
• 1936 » Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, English field marshal and diplomat, British High Commissioner in Egypt (b. 1861)
• 1940 » Emma Goldman, Lithuanian author and activist (b. 1869)
• 1940 » Menno ter Braak, Dutch author (b. 1902)
• 1943 » Henri La Fontaine, Belgian lawyer and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854)
• 1945 » Heber J. Grant, American religious leader, 7th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1856)
• 1945 » Isis Pogson, English astronomer and meteorologist (b. 1852)
• 1945 » Wolfgang Lüth, Latvian-German captain (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.
• April 26 » Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
• July 6 » Spanish Civil War: Battle of Brunete: The battle begins with Spanish Republican troops going on the offensive against the Nationalists to relieve pressure on Madrid.
• July 7 » The Marco Polo Bridge Incident provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War.
• July 29 » Tōngzhōu Incident: In Tōngzhōu, China, the East Hopei Army attacks Japanese troops and civilians.
• December 12 » Second Sino-Japanese War: USS Panay incident: Japanese aircraft bomb and sink U.S. gunboat USSPanay on the Yangtze river in China.
• December 29 » The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution.

The temperature on May 14, 1937 was between 7.9 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.