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• Maria Pieterke Reker, Garrelsweer († 1945)
• Bastiaan Gijsbert de Mol, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2016)
• Leopold Wilhelm Hermann Leffers, Aschendorf († 2016)
• Hendrikus Petrus Geijsels, Sluis, Zeeland, Nederland († 2021)
• Evert Servatius Yntema, Huizum († 2003)
• Jan Adrianus Maria van Breukelen, Woerden († 2000)
• Levenloos Kind Koek, Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland († 1938)
• Inez Erdine Trigg, Kansas († 2010)
• Hugo Alfons Delaey, Roeselare,8800,West-Vlaanderen,België († 2004)
• Mary Elizabeth "Molly" Dunne, Mountmellick, Laois, Ireland († 2005)

• Caetano Correa de Queiroz Monteiro, Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil
• Casparus Johannes Wegman (86)
• Camilla Crombez (21), Le Touquet, Friesland, Nederland
• Caetano Correa de Queiroz Monteiro Junior (71), Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil
• Cornelis Franciscus Martinus Versteeg (77), Amsterdam
• Betje Eljon Pool (63), Amsterdam, 1000, Nederland
• Cornelia Jansens (71), Riel (NL)
• Betje Pool (63), Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• Antonia Wilhelmina Rettig (60), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Cornelis Verweij (28), Hoek van Holland

• 1936 » Michael Hurll, English director, producer, and screenwriter († 2012)
• 1937 » Chet Powers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1994)
• 1937 » Christopher Booker, English journalist and author
• 1937 » Maria Szyszkowska, Polish academic and politician
• 1938 » Ann Jones, English tennis player and sportscaster
• 1939 » Bill Snyder, American football player and coach
• 1939 » Clive James, Australian television host, author, and critic († 2019)
• 1939 » Harry Kroto, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2016)
• 1939 » John Hopcroft, American computer scientist and author
• 1939 » Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Congolese cardinal

• 1919 » Alfred Deakin, Australian lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1856)
• 1925 » Christy Mathewson, American baseball player and manager (b. 1880)
• 1926 » Emil Kraepelin, German psychologist and academic (b. 1856)
• 1933 » Alexander Peacock, Australian politician, 20th Premier of Victoria (b. 1861)
• 1939 » Harvey Williams Cushing, American neurosurgeon and academic (b. 1869)
• 1943 » Radclyffe Hall, English author and poet (b. 1880)
• 1944 » Helmut Lent, German colonel and pilot (b. 1918)
• 1950 » Willis Haviland Carrier, American engineer (b. 1876)
• 1951 » Anton Philips, Dutch businessman, co-founded Philips (b. 1874)
• 1956 » Clarence Birdseye, American businessman, founded Birds Eye (b. 1886)

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.
• 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.
• April 10 » The 1938 German parliamentary election and referendum seeks approval for a single list of Nazi candidates and the recent annexation of Austria.
• September 21 » The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500–700 people.
• October 10 » Abiding by the Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakia completes its withdrawal from the Sudetenland.
• December 13 » The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany.
• December 17 » Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.

The temperature on October 7, 1938 was between 6.8 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 18.7 mm of rain during 4.6 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.