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• Adriana Maria Koeleman, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2011)
• Franklin Dee Price († 1995)
• Aleida Catharina KNOOP, Nijmegen († 2008)
• Alta May Orfield, Mahaska County, Iowa († 2023)
• Johanna Cornelia Petronella Remmerswaal, Leidschendam, Netherlands († 2019)
• Annigje de ROODE, Vlaardingen (Z-H) († 1945)
• Hendrikus Franciscus Marinus Liebrand, Silvolde (Wisch) († 1998)
• Hendrikus Gerardus Johannes Grote_Ganseij, Lemelerveld, Overijssel, Nederland († 2000)
• Cornelis Koelewijn, Katwijk aan Zee († 2011)
• Hendrika Maria Heisteeg († 2000)

• Charles Vander Zwaag (69), Grand Rapids, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Elisabeth Bloem (95), Meppel
• Antje Boer (80), Mijdrecht
• Arie van de Laar (79), Poederoijen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna van Rijsewijk (23), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Clazina Boolink (84), harfsen, Gorssel, Lochem, Nederland
• Dina Helena Bosch (67), Bergen
• Bertha Elna Powell ** (57), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Bartha Schurink (85), Oene, Epe, Nederland
• Anna Petronella van Rijsewijk (23), Bergen op Zoom, Noord Brabant, Nederland

• 1935 » Elizabeth Drew, American journalist and author
• 1936 » John Moore, Australian businessman and politician
• 1937 » Alan Budd, English economist and academic
• 1938 » Ahmed Bouanani, Moroccan filmmaker († 2011)
• 1938 » Kang Ning-hsiang, Taiwanese politician
• 1938 » Robert Nozick, American philosopher, author, and academic († 2002)
• 1938 » Troy Seals, American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
• 1938 » Walter Learning, Canadian actor († 2020)
• 1939 » Michael Billington, English author and critic
• 1940 » Donna McKechnie, American actress, singer, and dancer

• 1913 » George Barham, English businessman, founded Express County Milk Supply Company (b. 1836)
• 1922 » Max Abraham, Polish-German physicist and academic (b. 1875)
• 1939 » Pierce Butler, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1866)
• 1941 » Eduard Eelma, Estonian footballer (b. 1902)
• 1941 » Miina Härma, Estonian organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1864)
• 1947 » Giuseppe Volpi, Italian businessman and politician, founded the Venice Film Festival (b. 1877)
• 1950 » Bob Smith, American physician and surgeon, co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1879)
• 1956 » Ōtori Tanigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 24th Yokozuna (b. 1887)
• 1960 » Clark Gable, American actor and singer (b. 1901)
• 1961 » Sam Rayburn, American lawyer and politician, 48th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1882)

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.
• July 17 » Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan.
• July 31 » Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia).
• 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.
• November 16 » LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.
• December 13 » The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany.

The temperature on November 16, 1938 was between 5.3 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.