About the day » Monday August 16, 1937Calender converter

• Daniel Frans Myngheer, Staden († 1995)
• Donald Huizinga, Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States († 2012)
• Henrica Wijk van, Vlijmen († 1985)
• Berendina Johanna Vosman, Olst, Overijssel, Nederland († 1937)
• Beverly Ann Reska, Burlington, Chittenden County, Vermont, United States of America († 2016)
• Darlene Elizabeth FRAISE, St.Paul,Iowa,America († 1981)
• Doodgeboren kind Schouten, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1937)
• Hiltje Martens Welbedacht († 1943)
• Gerrigje Pietertje Maria van der Voorden, Krimpen aan den IJssel, Provincie Zuid-Holland († 1995)
• Grete Gazan, 's-Gravenhage († 1943)

• Aartje van de Trappe (85), Apeldoorn, Nederland
• Antje de Vogel (77), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Agatha Maria Korver (38), Oudorp
• Bernhard Heller (59), Lathen, Niedersachsen, Duitsland
• Adrianus Hendrik Zahn (78)
• Bernhard - Heller-Bernd Heller (59), Lathen, Landkreis Emsland, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Albertus Aloijsius van Stokkum (57), Tilburg Nederland
• Andries Andries Turksema (66), Nieuw-Roden
• Albertus Gerrits (61), Heerlen
• Albertus Huiskes (72), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1935 » Andreas Stamatiadis, Greek footballer and coach
• 1935 » Cliff Fletcher, Canadian businessman
• 1936 » Alan Hodgkinson, English footballer and coach († 2015)
• 1936 » Anita Gillette, American actress and singer
• 1937 » Boris Rõtov, Estonian chess player († 1987)
• 1937 » David Anderson, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician
• 1937 » David Behrman, American composer and producer
• 1937 » Ian Deans, Canadian politician († 2016)
• 1939 » Seán Brady, Irish cardinal
• 1939 » Trevor McDonald, Trinidadian-English journalist and academic

• 1920 » Henry Daglish, Australian politician, 6th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1866)
• 1921 » Peter I of Serbia (b. 1844)
• 1938 » Andrej Hlinka, Slovak priest, journalist, and politician (b. 1864)
• 1938 » Robert Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1911)
• 1945 » Takijirō Ōnishi, Japanese admiral (b. 1891)
• 1948 » Babe Ruth, American baseball player and coach (b. 1895)
• 1949 » Margaret Mitchell, American journalist and author (b. 1900)
• 1952 » Lydia Field Emmet, American painter and academic (b. 1866)
• 1956 » Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor (b. 1882)
• 1957 » Irving Langmuir, American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)

• 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 1 » The Royal New Zealand Air Force is formed as an independent service.
• May 21 » A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
• July 9 » The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire.
• July 24 » Alabama drops rape charges against the "Scottsboro Boys".
• November 9 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Army withdraws from the Battle of Shanghai.
• 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 August 16, 1937 was between 10.5 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.