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• hendrina van oijen, helden-grashoek
• Aartje de Ruiter, Elspeet (Ermelo) († 1940)
• Albertje Geitz, Wildervank, Groningen, Nederland († 1991)
• Gerda Goudswaard, zuid-beijerland (zuid holland) († 1988)
• Charlotte J van Gorp, Jasper County, Iowa († 2020)
• Gezina Maria Scholte, Groningen, Groningen, Netherland († 1939)
• Brinksma, Sneek († 1938)
• Huberta Wijnanda Maria KUIJKEN, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2013)
• Barbara Jean Luckett, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky († 2000)
• Helena Wilhelmina Disco, Bergen op Zoom († 1942)

• Carolina Johanna van der Heiden (59), Amersfoort
• Baukje Ysbrands Hesselius (73), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands
• Adelheid Charlotte Bosch (81), Batavia, Java
• Vreeman (0), Aalten, NL
• Adèle Charlotte Bosch (81), ‘s-Gravenhage,Gemeente ’s-Gravenhage,South Holland,Netherlands
• Anna Maria Louisa Elisabeth de Roever (82), Amsterdam (N-H)
• Bernardus Wilhelmus Kloppenburg (77), Huissen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Carolina Johanna van der Heiden (59), Amersfoort, Nederland
• Anthonius Zonneveld (0), Velsen
• Carolina Johanna van der Heiden (59), Amersfoort

• 1935 » Joe Christopher, Virgin Islander baseball player
• 1935 » Kenneth Hall, American football player
• 1935 » Lindy McDaniel, American baseball player
• 1936 » Prince Karim al-Husayn Shāh, Aga Khan IV, Swiss-English businessman
• 1936 » J. C. Martin, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1937 » Rob Houwer, Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1937 » Ulf G. Lindén, Swedish businessman († 2009)
• 1938 » Gus Johnson, American basketball player († 1987)
• 1938 » Tom Shaw, American golfer
• 1940 » Sanjaya Lall, Indian economist and academic († 2005)

• 1930 » Fritz Pregl, Slovenian-Austrian chemist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
• 1931 » Gustave Le Bon, French psychologist, sociologist, and anthropologist (b. 1840)
• 1932 » Georgios Jakobides, Greek painter and sculptor (b. 1853)
• 1935 » Victor Grignard, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)
• 1942 » Robert Robinson Taylor, American architect (b. 1868)
• 1942 » Wlodimir Ledóchowski, Austrian-Polish religious leader, 26th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1866)
• 1944 » Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-French painter and theorist (b. 1866)
• 1945 » Elisabeth Volkenrath, Polish-German concentration camp supervisor (b. 1919)
• 1945 » Irma Grese, German concentration camp guard (b. 1923)
• 1945 » Josef Kramer, German concentration camp commandant (b. 1906)

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.
• January 28 » The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195 at a speed of 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9mph).
• February 18 » Second Sino-Japanese War: During the Nanking Massacre, the Nanking Safety Zone International Committee is renamed "Nanking International Rescue Committee", and the safety zone in place for refugees falls apart.
• May 26 » In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
• June 7 » The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
• June 23 » The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
• October 1 » Germany annexes the Sudetenland.

The temperature on December 13, 1938 was between 5.5 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.