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• Gijsbertus van der Horst, Hoogland († 1940)
• Cornelis Marcelinus Admiraal, Alkmaar
• Adrianus Johannes van den Oetelaar, Den Dungen († 1979)
• (Stillborn) CRANS, Den Haag Zuid-Holland Netherlands († 1938)
• Henny Keijzer, Haarlem († 2006)
• Hendrika Keijzer, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2006)
• Jacob Haasnoot, Katwijk († 2021)
• Gesinus Veneman, Ambt Hardenberg († 1963)
• Durk Tuinstra, Tzum, gem. Franekeradeel († 2001)
• - Weertjes, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 1938)

• (Stillborn) CRANS (0), Den Haag Zuid-Holland Netherlands
• Aafje Mantje (71), Oosterend
• Anke Langedijk (0), Een, Norg, Drenthe, Nederland
• Carl Georg Otto Maria Huyn (80)
• Aaltje Duinkerk (90), Kollum
• - Weertjes (0), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Willem Ybeles van der Veer (67), Leeuwarden
• Berend Arends (74), Zuidwolde
• Adrien Cornelis Broekmeulen, Ridderkerk
• Adriana Martina Noordam (92), Rotterdam, Nederland

• 1934 » Rue McClanahan, American actress († 2010)
• 1935 » Richard A. Lupoff, American author
• 1936 » Barbara Jordan, American lawyer and politician († 1996)
• 1937 » Harald V of Norway
• 1937 » Ron Clarke, Australian runner and politician, Mayor of the Gold Coast († 2015)
• 1938 » Bobby Charles, American singer-songwriter († 2020)
• 1938 » Kel Tremain, New Zealand rugby player († 1992)
• 1940 » John Lewis, American activist and politician († 2020)
• 1940 » Peter Gethin, English race car driver († 2011)
• 1942 » Tony Martin, Trinidadian-American historian and academic († 2013)

• 1919 » Kurt Eisner, German journalist and politician, Minister-President of Bavaria (b. 1867)
• 1926 » Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
• 1934 » Augusto César Sandino, Nicaraguan rebel leader (b. 1895)
• 1938 » George Ellery Hale, American astronomer and academic (b. 1868)
• 1941 » Frederick Banting, Canadian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
• 1944 » Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian-French race car driver (b. 1873)
• 1945 » Eric Liddell, Scottish rugby player and runner (b. 1902)
• 1946 » José Streel, Belgian journalist (b. 1911)
• 1958 » Duncan Edwards, English footballer (b. 1936)
• 1965 » Malcolm X, American minister and activist (b. 1925; assassinated)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Adrianus
8. Petrus
9. Gerrit
10. Wilhelmus
11. Jacobus
12. Gerardus
13. Jacob
14. Robert
15. Antonius
16. Arie

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Adriana
8. Petronella
9. Catharina
10. Hendrika
11. Geertruida
12. Margaretha
13. Jacoba
14. Helena
15. Grietje
16. Mary

• 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 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.
• February 11 » BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television programme, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".
• April 30 » The animated cartoon short Porky's Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit, an early version of Bugs Bunny.
• June 7 » The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
• July 3 » United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.
• July 28 » Hawaii Clipper disappears between Guam and Manila as the first loss of an airliner in trans-Pacific China Clipper service.
• October 5 » In Nazi Germany, Jews' passports are invalidated.

The temperature on February 21, 1938 was between -3.0 °C and 4.8 °C and averaged 1.4 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.