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• Anthony Ernest Michael PRESTON, Quebec, Quebec, Canada († 2006)
• Leendert X Anker, IJmuiden († 2023)
• Aron Max Fontijn, Amsterdam,Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1942)
• Barbara Jean Brethour, Victoria, BC, Canada
• Koenraad Zondag, Franeker, Friesland, Nederland († 2019)
• Janis Ellene Junghans, Milwaukee, Wisconsin († 2006)
• Carl Buncie Day, Nashville (Howard County), Arkansas († 1961)
• Aleida Maria Reinink, Dalen († 1939)
• Antoinette Verhoeven, Baardwijk († 2003)
• Arie Molenkamp, Loosduinen († 2013)

• Betty van den Dool (21), Scheveningen
• Anna Charlotte Augustina van Oosten (50), Schaesberg
• Afra Oudenjans (69), Beemster, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrien WAVREIL (85), VILLERS-sur-SEMOIS, Luxembourg, Belgique
• Antoon BREUKERS (77), Molenbeersel,3640,Limbourg,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Auguste Collin (69), Spa, 4900, Liège, Belgique
• Arij Barendregt (86), Blokzijl
• Adriana Maria Struijs (39), Tilburg
• Baukje Posthumus (56), Amsterdam
• Aafje Oudejans (69), Beemster, North Holland, Netherlands

• 1934 » Al Kaline, American baseball player and sportscaster († 2020)
• 1934 » Casper R. Taylor, Jr., American lawyer and politician
• 1934 » Pratibha Patil, Indian lawyer and politician, 12th President of India
• 1935 » Bobby Timmons, American pianist and composer († 1974)
• 1935 » Joanne Weaver, American baseball player († 2000)
• 1935 » Tony Taylor, Cuban baseball player († 2020)
• 1940 » Phil Ochs, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1976)
• 1941 » Lee Myung-bak, South Korean businessman and politician, 10th President of South Korea
• 1941 » Maurice White, American singer-songwriter and producer († 2016)
• 1942 » Cornell Dupree, American guitarist († 2011)

• 1916 » Thibaw Min, Burmese king (b. 1859)
• 1927 » Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian activist (b. 1900)
• 1927 » Ram Prasad Bismil, Indian poet and activist (b. 1897)
• 1932 » Yun Bong-gil, South Korean activist (b. 1908)
• 1933 » George Jackson Churchward, English engineer and businessman (b. 1857)
• 1938 » Stephen Warfield Gambrill, American lawyer and politician (b. 1873)
• 1944 » Abbas II of Egypt (b. 1874)
• 1944 » Rudolph Karstadt, German businessman (b. 1856)
• 1946 » Paul Langevin, French physicist and academic (b. 1872)
• 1953 » Robert Andrews Millikan, American physicist and eugenicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)

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 3 » The March of Dimes is established as a foundation to combat infant polio by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
• June 23 » The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
• August 18 » The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York, United States with Ontario, Canada over the Saint Lawrence River, is dedicated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
• September 30 » The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
• October 14 » The first flight of the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter plane.
• October 30 » Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.

The temperature on December 19, 1938 was between -15.0 °C and -10.4 °C and averaged -13.4 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.