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• Frieda Lydia Groenendaal, Schiedam († 1993)
• Cornelia Jeanne Elise Willemsen, Havelte († 2013)
• doodgeboren kind van den Dungen Dungen van den, Gilze en Rijen († 1938)
• IJsbrand Teunis van den Oever, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2017)
• Adrianus de SWART, Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2010)
• Cornelis Jan van Wilgen, Leiden († 2001)
• Gerhard PRENGER († 1979)
• Anna Jacoba van Duijvenbode, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2020)
• Donald Edward Fenstermaker, Pennsylvania († 2011)
• Gerardus Petrus Maria Kuis, Vlijmen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2007)

• Bernard Anton Behrens (79), Losser, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adrianus Joostszn Roelofs (Rollof) (80), Delft
• Beatrix Duckers (75), Urmond (Stein), Limburg, Nederland
• Catharina Taks (81), Rijsbergen, Gemeente Zundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Camiel Edmond TRAEN (59), Knokke-Heist, 31043, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique
• Antonius Christianus Kraus, Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adrianus Hendrikus van Straten (58), Wassenaar (Wassenaar) (Zuid Holland)
• Adriana van den Ham (70), Culemborg
• Alida Petronella Johanna Cornelia Sindram (64), Amsterdam-N., Nederland
• Agnes Janssen (50), Heteren

• 1936 » Vadim Kuzmin, Russian physicist and academic († 2015)
• 1937 » Gert Potgieter, South African hurdler and coach
• 1938 » Gordon Wilson, Scottish lawyer and politician († 2017)
• 1938 » Rich Rollins, American baseball player
• 1939 » Dusty Springfield, English singer and record producer († 1999)
• 1939 » John Amabile, American football player and coach († 2012)
• 1940 » Benoît Bouchard, Canadian academic and politician, 18th Canadian Minister of Transport
• 1940 » David Holford, Barbadian cricketer
• 1940 » Joan Snyder, American painter
• 1940 » Queen Margrethe II of Denmark

• 1928 » Henry Birks, Canadian businessman, founded Henry Birks and Sons (b. 1840)
• 1930 » José Carlos Mariátegui, Peruvian journalist, philosopher, and activist (b. 1894)
• 1935 » Panait Istrati, Romanian journalist and author (b. 1884)
• 1937 » Jay Johnson Morrow, American military engineer and politician, 3rd Governor of the Panama Canal Zone (b. 1870)
• 1938 » Steve Bloomer, English footballer and manager (b. 1874)
• 1941 » Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, English economist and civil servant (b. 1880)
• 1942 » Denis St. George Daly, Irish polo player (b. 1862)
• 1942 » Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1878)
• 1946 » Arthur Chevrolet, Swiss-American race car driver and engineer (b. 1884)
• 1947 » Rudolf Höss, German SS officer (b. 1900)

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.
• 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 24 » Pieces of a meteorite land near Chicora, Pennsylvania. The meteorite is estimated to have weighed 450metric tons when it hit the Earth's atmosphere and exploded.
• July 3 » World speed record for a steam locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 125.88 miles per hour (202.58km/h).
• July 28 » Hawaii Clipper disappears between Guam and Manila as the first loss of an airliner in trans-Pacific China Clipper service.
• October 10 » Abiding by the Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakia completes its withdrawal from the Sudetenland.
• November 1 » Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century" in horse racing.

The temperature on April 16, 1938 was between 3.0 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.