About the day » Friday October 21, 1938Calender converter

• Iser (Izio) Golenzer, Będzin County, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland († 1943)
• Dieuwke van der Weide († 2022)
• Harmen Teunissen, Putten († 2010)
• Earl Lee Lynch, Sun Valley, Los Angeles, California, Verenigde Staten († 1988)
• Gordon Peter Siebers, Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten († 1938)
• Elisabeth Leonarda Negrijn, Amsterdam († 1994)
• Beverley Jean VINEY († 2017)
• Brian J Horner, Salisbury, Wiltshire († 2003)
• Frederick Lone Fight († 1992)
• Emile William Canter-Visscher, Semarang († 2020)

• Antonia Maria Willemsen (64), Huissen, Gelderland, Nederland
• ANNE DE WEGER (81), SMILDE
• Bernardus Martinus ten Pas (62), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Carolina Snijders (72), Alkmaar
• Beens (0), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arie Smits (58), Loon op Zand
• Adrianus Leijten (63), Ginneken en Bavel
• Carl Müthing (48), Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adriana Huisman (91), Lienden, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antje Minnes Hofstra (85), Idaarderadeel, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands

• 1935 » Derek Bell, Irish harp player, pianist, and songwriter († 2002)
• 1935 » Mel Street, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1978)
• 1937 » Hank Nelson, Australian historian and academic († 2012)
• 1937 » Said Afandi al-Chirkawi, Russian spiritual leader and scholar († 2012)
• 1938 » Carl Brewer, Canadian ice hockey player († 2001)
• 1940 » Frances FitzGerald, American journalist and author
• 1940 » Geoffrey Boycott, English cricketer and sportscaster
• 1940 » Manfred Mann, South African-English keyboard player and producer
• 1940 » Marita Petersen, Faroese educator and politician, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands († 2001)
• 1940 » Rhoda Gemignani, American actress

• 1907 » Jules Chevalier, French priest, founded the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (b. 1824)
• 1931 » Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian author and playwright (b. 1862)
• 1938 » Dorothy Hale, American actress (b. 1905)
• 1940 » William G. Conley, American journalist, lawyer, and politician, 18th Governor of West Virginia (b. 1866)
• 1941 » Alexander Greenlaw Hamilton, Australian biologist (b. 1852)
• 1944 » Alois Kayser, German-French missionary (b. 1877)
• 1952 » Hans Merensky, South African geologist and philanthropist (b. 1871)
• 1963 » Józef Franczak, Polish sergeant (b. 1918)
• 1965 » Bill Black, American bass player and bandleader (b. 1926)
• 1969 » Jack Kerouac, American novelist and poet (b. 1922)

• 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.
• June 7 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. Five hundred to nine hundred thousand civilians are killed.
• June 11 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.
• 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 17 » Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan.
• October 1 » Germany annexes the Sudetenland.
• 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 October 21, 1938 was between 2.7 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.