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• Gordon Terence Todd ?**** († 2018)
• Cornelia Helena Maria van Loon, Roosendaal,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2013)
• Harlan Ray Terpstra, Lynnville, Jasper County, Iowa († 1985)
• Henry "Grady" Simmons, Columbus County, North Carolina († 2004)
• Indji Elisabeth Vlieghuis, Assen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2012)
• Alexander Potjewijd, Leiden († 2004)
• Barend Willem Brus, Geldermalsen († 2016)
• Albert Drenth, Vlagtwedde, Nederland († 1992)
• Edmundus Adrianus Peters, Dordrecht († 2015)
• Hendricus Godefridus Antonius van Duijnhoven, Mierlo († 1998)

• Antje de Wit (87), Leeuwarden
• Ann McDougall McINTOSH (81), Melbourne, Australia
• Georges Domien Maria Baert (6), De Klinge
• Anna Maria Johanna Blaauwgeers (15), Coevorden, Drenthe, Nederland
• Cornelis van Schie (69), Naaldwijk, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Braks (59), Rips
• Christina Maria Anna Jurgens (35), Amsterdam,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Lamberta Kuipers (83), Amsterdam
• Cornelis van Voorst (43), Renswoude, Utrecht, Nederland
• Charles Richard Williams (59), West Hollywood, LA, California, Verenigde Staten

• 1933 » Dumaagiin Sodnom, Mongolian politician; 13th Prime Minister of Mongolia
• 1933 » Robert Bourassa, Canadian lawyer and politician, 22nd Premier of Quebec († 1996)
• 1936 » Robert F. Overmyer, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut († 1996)
• 1937 » Yoshiro Mori, Japanese journalist and politician, 55th Prime Minister of Japan
• 1938 » Jerry Rubin, American activist, author, and businessman († 1994)
• 1938 » Tommy Vig, Hungarian vibraphone player, drummer, and composer
• 1939 » George Edgar Slusser, American scholar and author († 2014)
• 1939 » Karel Gott, Czech singer-songwriter and actor († 2019)
• 1940 » Susan Howatch, English author and academic
• 1941 » Maulana Karenga, American philosopher, author, and activist, created Kwanzaa

• 1907 » William Henry Perkin, English chemist and academic (b. 1838)
• 1910 » Marius Petipa, French dancer and choreographer (b. 1818)
• 1917 » Octave Lapize, French cyclist (b. 1887)
• 1918 » Quentin Roosevelt, American lieutenant and pilot (b. 1897)
• 1936 » Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Indian-American author and scholar (b. 1890)
• 1937 » Julius Meier, American businessman and politician, 20th Governor of Oregon (b. 1874)
• 1939 » Alphonse Mucha, Czech painter and illustrator (b. 1860)
• 1954 » Jacinto Benavente, Spanish author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
• 1965 » Adlai Stevenson II, American soldier and politician, 5th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (b. 1900)
• 1966 » Julie Manet, French painter and art collector (b. 1878)

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.
• March 18 » The New London School explosion in New London, Texas, kills 300 people, mostly children.
• April 30 » The Commonwealth of the Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage; over 90% would vote in the affirmative.
• May 21 » A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
• May 26 » Walter Reuther and members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) clashed with Ford Motor Company security guards at the River Rouge Complex complex in Dearborn, Michigan, during the Battle of the Overpass.
• October 2 » Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of Haitians living in the northwestern region of the Dominican Republic.
• December 16 » Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen again.

The temperature on July 14, 1937 was between 13.6 °C and 23.3 °C and averaged 18.6 °C. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.