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• Andreas Gerardus Groen, Harenkarspel († 2003)
• Grada Harmina DALES, Doetinchem, Nederland, Gelderland, Nederland
• Gerharda Maria Josephine Sanders, Oldenzaal († 2006)
• Clova Dell Belvin († 1979)
• Darlene Janet Ocean, Defiance, Iowa († 2014)
• Arie Adrianus Kooijman († 1980)
• Cornelis Martinus van de Heuvel, Breda († 1998)
• Derk Brummel, Epe (Gld) Nederland († 2011)
• Arend Jan Booij, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2022)
• Claudius Aernout Joannes Maria Chorus, Nijmegen,6511,Gelderland,Nederland († 2001)

• Anna Maria Hermans (73), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Elizabeth Bosschaart (69), Terneuzen
• Grietje Van Der Weide (26), Coevorden
• Aartje de Bruin (66), Ermelo
• Hendrik Kamman (79), Rotterdam
• Anna Maria Verheyen (31)
• Catharina Elizabeth Vasseur (77), Heiloo
• Anne Douwes Groenveld (54), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Sibilla Sanders (70), Duiven
• Adriana Fukker (73), Roterdam

• 1936 » Eddie Sutton, American basketball player and coach
• 1936 » Michał Heller, Polish professor of philosophy
• 1936 » Virginia Hamilton, American children's books author († 2002)
• 1937 » Zoltán Horvath, Hungarian sabre fencer
• 1937 » Zurab Sotkilava, Georgian operatic tenor († 2017)
• 1938 » Johnny Rutherford, American race car driver and sportscaster
• 1938 » Juan Horacio Suárez, Argentine bishop
• 1938 » Ron Tutt, American drummer
• 1938 » Vladimir Msryan, Armenian actor, († 2010)
• 1940 » Al Jarreau, American singer († 2017)

• 1925 » Sun Yat-sen, Chinese physician and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (b. 1866)
• 1929 » Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician, 44th Mayor of Atlanta (b. 1851)
• 1935 » Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (b. 1858)
• 1942 » William Henry Bragg, English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1943 » Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
• 1946 » Ferenc Szálasi, Hungarian soldier and politician, Head of State of Hungary (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Wilhelm Steinkopf, German chemist (b. 1879)
• 1954 » Marianne Weber, German sociologist and suffragist (b. 1870)
• 1955 » Charlie Parker, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1920)
• 1955 » Theodor Plievier, German author best known for his anti-war novel (b. 1892)

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. Mary
16. Grietje

• 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.
• March 27 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang begins, resulting several weeks later in the war's first major Chinese victory over Japan.
• April 10 » The 1938 German parliamentary election and referendum seeks approval for a single list of Nazi candidates and the recent annexation of Austria.
• 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.
• September 12 » Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
• December 13 » The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany.

The temperature on March 12, 1938 was between -2.1 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.