About the day » Thursday January 20, 1938Calender converter

• Anna Mancusi, Queens, Queens, New York, Verenigde Staten († 2009)
• Dorothy Mae Harken, Ackley, Hardin County, Iowa († 2020)
• Barbara Marlene Tushinski, Nanticoke, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 2013)
• Bernhard Johannes van den Berg, Den Dungen († 1938)
• Cyriel CASTELEYN, Emelgem († 1997)
• Catharina Elizabeth van Lingen, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Elisabeth Gerta Eijkenboom, Sittard, Sittard-Geleen († 1938)
• Geert Boelens, Anloo, Drenthe, Nederland († 1966)
• Albertus Mokken († 1962)
• Effie Alice Green, Colorado († 2015)

• Agnes Ida Adelheid Clothilde van Castell-Castell (79), Castell
• Anna Hermina Maria Nijhof (3), Hengelo
• André Korff (69), oegstgeest
• Tigchelaar, Groningen
• Clara Sas (81), Dreumel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Cornelia Josephina Maria van Puijenbroek (37), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, NL
• Aletta Pieteronella Sabilla van der Kaaij (72), Est en Opijnen (GL)
• Charles Alfred deweese (82)
• Adrianus Leendert Hubertus Walpot (81), Sint Philipsland, Zeeland, Nederland
• Albert Sloetjes (78)

• 1934 » Hennie Aucamp, South African poet, author, and academic († 2014)
• 1934 » Tom Baker, English actor
• 1935 » Dorothy Provine, American actress, singer, and dancer († 2010)
• 1937 » Bailey Howell, American basketball player
• 1938 » Derek Dougan, Irish-English footballer and journalist († 2007)
• 1939 » Chandra Wickramasinghe, Sri Lankan-English mathematician, astronomer, and biologist
• 1939 » Paul Coverdell, American captain and politician († 2000)
• 1940 » Carol Heiss, American figure skater and actress
• 1940 » Krishnam Raju, Indian actor and politician
• 1940 » Mandé Sidibé, Malian economist and politician, Prime Minister of Mali († 2009)

• 1921 » Mary Watson Whitney, American astronomer and academic (b. 1847)
• 1924 » Henry "Ivo" Crapp, Australian footballer and umpire (b. 1872)
• 1936 » George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1865)
• 1940 » Omar Bundy, American general (b. 1861)
• 1944 » James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist and academic (b. 1860)
• 1947 » Andrew Volstead, American member of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1860)
• 1947 » Josh Gibson, American baseball player (b. 1911)
• 1954 » Fred Root, English cricketer and umpire (b. 1890)
• 1954 » Warren Bardsley, Australian cricketer (b. 1882)
• 1955 » Robert P. T. Coffin, American author and poet (b. 1892)

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.
• 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 11 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.
• July 17 » Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan.
• September 30 » Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, whereby Germany annexes the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
• October 5 » In Nazi Germany, Jews' passports are invalidated.

The temperature on January 20, 1938 was between 2.8 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.