About the day » Tuesday April 5, 1938Calender converter

• Annette Henriette Boutelje, Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 1994)
• Betty Jane BAKER († 1991)
• Cornelis Tijm, Warmenhuizen († 1938)
• Adrianus Jacobus Sijbom, Raalte († 2016)
• Arsène Raymond Jérôme Vandevoorde, Maldegem († 2021)
• Hendrikus Johannes Jannink, Almelo († 2010)
• Cornelis Willem Boersma, Zeist,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Jacobus Hoekstra, Lutjebroek († 2013)
• van der Schoot, Goirle, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1994)
• Jacobus van Wijk († 2011)

• Areke van den Berg (72), Gorinchem
• Albertus Frederikus Smit (42), Winschoten
• Arij de Graaf (46), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Augustinus (August) VERMAETE (76), Izegem
• Arnoldus, Gerardus van Thiel (71), Oss (noord-brabant)
• Antonia Rovers (47), Vught, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth Visser (84), Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Arnoldus Gerardus van Thiel (72), Oss
• Aaltje Rijkens (69), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Berend Klazes Mol (53), Hollandsche Veldt (Hoogeveen)

• 1937 » Andrzej Schinzel, Polish mathematician
• 1937 » Arie Selinger, Israeli volleyball player and manager
• 1937 » Colin Powell, American general and politician, 65th United States Secretary of State
• 1937 » Jean-Pierre Petit, French scientist
• 1937 » Joseph Lelyveld, American journalist and author
• 1937 » Juan Vicente Lezcano, Paraguayan footballer († 2012)
• 1938 » Colin Bland, Zimbabwean-South African cricketer († 2018)
• 1938 » Mal Colston, Australian educator and politician († 2003)
• 1938 » Nancy Holt, American sculptor and painter († 2014)
• 1938 » Natalya Kustinskaya, Soviet actress († 2012)

• 1935 » Achille Locatelli, Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1856)
• 1936 » Chandler Egan, American golfer and architect (b. 1884)
• 1937 » Gustav Adolf Deissmann, (b. 1866)
• 1937 » José Benlliure y Gil, Spanish painter (b. 1858)
• 1938 » Helena Westermarck, Finnish artist and writer (b. 1857)
• 1938 » Verner Lehtimäki, Finnish revolutionary (b. 1890)
• 1940 » Charles Freer Andrews, English-Indian priest, missionary, and educator (b. 1871)
• 1940 » Jay O'Brien, American bobsledder (b. 1883)
• 1940 » Robert Maillart, Swiss civil engineer (b. 1872)
• 1940 » Song Zheyuan, Chinese general (b. 1885)

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.
• January 3 » The March of Dimes is established as a foundation to combat infant polio by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
• March 3 » Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
• May 25 » Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante kills 313 people.
• July 31 » Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius the Great in Persepolis.
• September 30 » The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
• November 9 » The Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from gunshot wounds by Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht.

The temperature on April 5, 1938 was between 3.9 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.