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• Albertha Kloppenburg († 2003)
• Gerardus Herubertus Maria (Gerrit) Emons, Oploo, Sint Anthonis en Ledeacker, Noord Brabant († 1946)
• Anna Leslie Ginn, Warkworth, New Zealand († 1998)
• Cornelis Griffioen, Westbroek, Utrecht, Nederland († 1989)
• Dirk van Leeuwen, Oosterhesselen,Drenthe,Niederlande († 1970)
• Doetje Visser, Wetsens, Noardeast-Fryslân, Friesland, Nederland († 2012)
• Cornelis Heemskerk, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2004)
• Hendrik Kremer, Ambt Hardenberg († 2005)
• Cornelis Cornelsz Heemskerk, Leiden († 2004)
• van Diejen, Rotterdam († 1938)

• Catharina Cornelia Theresia Huijbregts (70), Udenhout, Nederland
• Arendje van Halteren (70), Rotterdam
• Andries Blankert (77), Amsterdam
• Cornelia Dobbelaar (91), Ovezande
• Anna van Stralen (70), Rotterdam
• Catharina HOFLAND (73), Scheveningen, gemeente 's-Gravenhage (Z-H)
• Albertje Postma (71), Leeuwarden
• Augusta Louise Bloom (62), Chicago, IL
• Catharina Hofland (73), Scheveningen
• van Diejen (0), Rotterdam

• 1937 » Billie Jo Spears, American country singer († 2011)
• 1937 » J. Bernlef, Dutch author and poet († 2012)
• 1937 » Ken Higgs, English cricketer and coach († 2016)
• 1937 » Leo Kadanoff, American physicist and academic († 2015)
• 1937 » Rao Gopal Rao, Indian actor, producer, and politician († 1994)
• 1937 » Sonny Siebert, American baseball player
• 1938 » Allen Toussaint, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer († 2015)
• 1938 » Jack Jones, American singer and actor
• 1938 » Morihiro Hosokawa, Japanese journalist and politician, 79th Prime Minister of Japan
• 1939 » Kurt Moylan, Guamanian businessman and politician, 1st Lieutenant Governor of Guam

• 1920 » John Francis Dodge, American businessman, co-founded the Dodge Automobile Company (b. 1864)
• 1926 » August Sedláček, Czech historian and author (b. 1843)
• 1934 » Ioan Cantacuzino, Romanian physician and bacteriologist (b. 1863)
• 1937 » Jaishankar Prasad, Indian poet, author, and playwright (b. 1889)
• 1942 » Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian poet and author (b. 1883)
• 1943 » Laura E. Richards, American author and poet (b. 1850)
• 1944 » Mehmet Emin Yurdakul, Turkish author and politician (b. 1869)
• 1949 » Harry Stack Sullivan, American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (b. 1892)
• 1951 » Gregorios Xenopoulos, Greek author, journalist, and playwright (b. 1867)
• 1952 » Artur Kapp, Estonian composer and conductor (b. 1878)

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.
• 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".
• 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 28 » Hawaii Clipper disappears between Guam and Manila as the first loss of an airliner in trans-Pacific China Clipper service.
• September 12 » Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
• November 16 » LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.
• December 17 » Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.

The temperature on January 14, 1938 was between 4.5 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.