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• Catharina Wilhelmina (Willy) van Tinteren, amsterdam, Nederland († 1964)
• Atte Deinum, Lemmer († 2021)
• Doodgeboren kind Vilder de, Beverwijk, NH, Nederland († 1938)
• Emile Knapen, Sint-Truiden, België († 2024)
• Helena Elisabeth Schildmeijer, VOORSCHOTEN, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1999)
• Frans August Markus Oswald Spiessens, Soerabaja († 1995)
• Dick Valkenier († 1996)
• Hubert Tilli, Borgharen, Limburg, Nederland († 2012)
• Akke van der Woude, Groningen († 1939)
• Anna Klasina Jacoba Krook, Amsterdam, Nederland († 2024)

• Elisabeth Maria Sabee (van der Horst) (41), Zeist
• Elisabeth Engelina de Mare (74), Amsterdam-Watergraafsmeer
• Egbert Post (45)
• Amos Nelson Cook (81), Kings River, Madison, Arkansas, Verenigde Staten
• Aleida Wanschers (76), Almelo, Nederland
• * Elisabeth Maria Sabee (41), Zeist
• Cornelia Hendrika van Uijthoven (81), Sprang Capelle, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Oosterveen (0), Deurne
• dirk van den Akker (50), breda
• Afke Visser (66), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1936 » Pope Francis
• 1936 » Tommy Steele, English singer, guitarist, and actor
• 1937 » Art Neville, American singer and keyboard player († 2019)
• 1937 » Brian Hayes, Australian-English radio host
• 1937 » Calvin Waller, American general († 1996)
• 1937 » John Kennedy Toole, American novelist († 1969)
• 1937 » Kerry Packer, Australian businessman, founded World Series Cricket († 2005)
• 1938 » Peter Snell, New Zealand runner († 2019)
• 1939 » Eddie Kendricks, American R&B singer-songwriter († 1992)
• 1939 » James Booker, American pianist († 1983)

• 1927 » Rajendra Lahiri, Indian activist (b. 1892)
• 1928 » Frank Rinehart, American photographer (b. 1861)
• 1929 » Manuel de Oliveira Gomes da Costa, Portuguese general and politician, 10th President of Portugal (b. 1863)
• 1930 » Peter Warlock, Welsh composer and critic (b. 1894)
• 1932 » Charles Winckler, Danish discus thrower, shot putter, and tug of war competitor (b. 1867)
• 1933 » 13th Dalai Lama (b. 1876)
• 1935 » Lizette Woodworth Reese, American poet (b. 1856)
• 1940 » Alicia Boole Stott, Anglo-Irish mathematician and academic (b. 1860)
• 1942 » Allen Bathurst, Lord Apsley, English lieutenant and politician (b. 1895)
• 1947 » Christos Tsigiridis, Greek engineer (b. 1877)

• 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.
• May 25 » Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante kills 313 people.
• 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.
• September 30 » Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, whereby Germany annexes the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
• October 31 » Great Depression: In an effort to restore investor confidence, the New York Stock Exchange unveils a fifteen-point program aimed to upgrade protection for the investing public.
• December 16 » Adolf Hitler institutes the Cross of Honour of the German Mother.

The temperature on December 17, 1938 was between -8.8 °C and -2.4 °C and averaged -5.4 °C. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.