About the day » Monday March 21, 1938Calender converter

• Allen Ray McClure, Paulding, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 2001)
• Everhardus Jozef (Eef) Mensink, Zwollerkerspel († 2013)
• Johannes Antonius Joseph Jansen († 1938)
• Albertus (Appie) Vis, Enschede († 2017)
• gilbert dehouck († 2017)
• Hendrikus Johannes Ipskamp, Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland († 2009)
• Jean Suzanne Bernard Smekens, Antwerpen,Belgium († 1998)
• GUY FOUBERT, SINT-NIKLAAS,OOST-VLAANDEREN,BELGIE († 1986)
• Johanna van Kampen, Hilversum († 2008)
• Jacomina M.W. Versteegh, Eindhoven († 1938)

• Adriana Wilhelmina Landeweerd (67), Zutphen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antonia van Bergen (81), Vught
• Annechien Hazenberg (55), Groningen
• Anna Maria Cornelia Want (55), Tilburg
• Alvarez Theodorus Manusama (60), Batavia, Nederlandsch Indie
• Aaltje Blom (72), Eemnes, Utrecht, Nederland
• Albert Siebers (81), Wissel, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland
• ANNA CATHARINA REUVERS ROOVERS (52), Molenschot, Nederland
• Aart van Maaren (63), Gouda
• Aagje van der Meer (42), Kloosterburen, Iowa, Verenigde Staten

• 1936 » Ed Broadbent, Canadian pilot and politician
• 1936 » Mike Westbrook, English pianist and composer
• 1937 » Ann Clwyd, Welsh journalist and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Wales
• 1937 » Pierre-Jean Rémy, French diplomat and author († 2010)
• 1937 » Tom Flores, American football player and coach
• 1938 » Grahame Thomas, Australian cricketer
• 1938 » Michael Foreman, English author and illustrator
• 1939 » Kathleen Widdoes, American actress
• 1940 » Andrea Elle, German bicyclist
• 1940 » Solomon Burke, American singer-songwriter († 2010)

• 1932 » Frantz Reichel, French rugby player and hurdler (b. 1871)
• 1934 » Franz Schreker, Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1878)
• 1934 » Lilyan Tashman, American actress (b. 1896)
• 1936 » Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer and conductor (b. 1865)
• 1939 » Ali Hikmet Ayerdem, Turkish general and politician (b. 1877)
• 1939 » Evald Aav, Estonian composer and conductor (b. 1900)
• 1943 » Cornelia Fort, American soldier and pilot (b. 1919)
• 1945 » Arthur Nebe, German SS officer (b. 1894)
• 1951 » Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor and composer (b. 1871)
• 1953 » Ed Voss, American basketball player (b. 1922)

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.
• 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".
• July 10 » Howard Hughes begins a 91-hour airplane flight around the world that will set a new record.
• July 17 » Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan.
• July 20 » The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in regards to the studio system. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948.
• July 31 » Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia).
• November 16 » LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.

The temperature on March 21, 1938 was between 4.4 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.