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• Betti Paula Emilie Bernhard, Hanau Dl († 2003)
• Bernardus Navarro, Velp († 2012)
• Jan Willem - Willem Wehkamp, Barger-Compascuum, Gemeente Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1998)
• Bernardus Hermannus Nijhof, Hengelo († 2012)
• Dirkje Veldman, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2022)
• Helena Hermine Maria (Leny) Nijhuis, Enschede, 7500, Nederland († 2010)
• Ian Richard Gillam († 1952)
• Arij Roos, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2012)
• Geertje Dijkstra, Heerenveen, Gem. Heerenveen, Friesland, Nederland († 1997)
• Janna Sophia Profijt († 2024)

• Anton Leonardus Schalkx (76), Rotterdam
• Aafje Genet (60), Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antje BEZEMER Pdr (65), Dirksland, Goeree-Overflakkee, NL-ZH
• Adrianus Theodorus de Rooij (46), Bloemendaal
• Abraham Wallenburg (68), Bussum, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia Catharina Bom, van der (82), Apeldoorn Gld. NL
• Areke Berg van den (72), Gorinchem
• Adrianus van der Bijl (72), Waddinxveen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Oudekerk (81), USA Kalamazoo Kalamazoo County Michigan
• Anna Cornelia Catharina van der Bom (81), Apeldoorn

• 1936 » Jimmy Ruffin, American soul singer († 2014)
• 1936 » Robin Hanbury-Tenison, English explorer and author
• 1936 » Tony O'Reilly, Irish rugby player and businessman
• 1937 » Claude Raymond, Canadian baseball player and coach
• 1937 » Eddie Clayton, English footballer
• 1939 » Clive Soley, Baron Soley, English politician
• 1939 » Johnny Maestro, American pop/doo-wop singer († 2010)
• 1939 » Ruggero Deodato, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1939 » Ruud Lubbers, Dutch economist and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands († 2018)
• 1939 » Sidney Altman, Canadian-American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

• 1924 » Alluri Sitarama Raju, Indian activist (b. 1897/1898)
• 1925 » William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, English businessman and politician (b. 1851)
• 1937 » Ernst A. Lehmann, German captain and author (b. 1886)
• 1938 » Octavian Goga, Romanian politician, former Prime Minister (b. 1881)
• 1940 » George Lansbury, English journalist and politician (b. 1859)
• 1941 » James George Frazer, Scottish-English anthropologist and academic (b. 1854)
• 1942 » Felix Weingartner, Croatian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1863)
• 1943 » Fethi Okyar, Turkish colonel and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1880)
• 1946 » Herbert Macaulay, Nigerian journalist and politician (b. 1864)
• 1951 » Warner Baxter, American actor (b. 1889)

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.
• 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.
• 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).
• September 23 » The Czechoslovak army is mobilized in response to the Munich Agreement.
• October 14 » The first flight of the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter plane.
• 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.
• December 17 » Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.

The temperature on May 7, 1938 was between -0.2 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (14%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.