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• * Jacoba (Co) Zonneveld, Overschie († 2013)
• Lyle Ross Siebert, Columbus, Columbia, Wisconsin, United States († 2005)
• Andries de Jager († 2006)
• Carrie VAN MAANEN, Luverne, Rock County, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten († 2015)
• de Laat, Boxtel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arnoldus (Nol) Koning, Volendam († 1996)
• van Zuijlen, Leeuwarden († 1938)
• Johannes Adriaan Cornelius Maria van Brunschot, Eindhoven († 2005)
• Harm Dijkhof, Heerde, Gelderland, Nederland († 2015)
• Isabelle M. (Issy) BOVEN († 2009)

• de Laat, Boxtel
• Alidor Emile Debaere (66), Staden,8840,West-Vlaanderen,België
• van Zuijlen (0), Leeuwarden
• Antonie Meun (92), Urk
• Adrianus de Wit (68), Voorburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Catrina Hendrika 't Hoenderdaal (55), Rotterdam
• Anna Catharina Engels (82), Mönchengladbach, Städt. Pflegehaus
• Aafke (Effie) Hendriks van der Weide (61), Georgetown, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• anthonie meun (92), urk
• Alidor Emile DEBAERE (66), Staden

• 1935 » Dudley Moore, English actor, comedian, and pianist († 2002)
• 1935 » Justin Francis Rigali, American cardinal
• 1936 » Jack Pardee, American football player and coach († 2013)
• 1936 » Wilfried Martens, Belgian politician, 60th Prime Minister of Belgium († 2013)
• 1937 » Antonio Carluccio, Italian-English chef and author († 2017)
• 1937 » Elinor Donahue, American actress
• 1937 » Joseph Estrada, Filipino politician, 13th President of the Philippines
• 1938 » Stanley Fish, American theorist, author, and scholar
• 1939 » E. Clay Shaw, Jr., American accountant, judge, and politician († 2013)
• 1941 » Roberto Carlos, Brazilian singer-songwriter

• 1916 » Ephraim Shay, American engineer, designed the Shay locomotive (b. 1839)
• 1926 » Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian-Swiss statistician and theorist (b. 1874)
• 1930 » Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1827)
• 1937 » Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington, English cartographer and politician (b. 1856)
• 1937 » William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist and zoologist (b. 1865)
• 1941 » Johanna Müller-Hermann, Austrian composer (b. 1878)
• 1949 » Ulrich Salchow, Danish-Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)
• 1950 » Ernst Robert Curtius, French-German philologist and scholar (b. 1886)
• 1955 » Jim Corbett, British-Indian colonel, hunter, and author (b. 1875)
• 1960 » Beardsley Ruml, American economist and statistician (b. 1894)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Adrianus
8. Petrus
9. Gerrit
10. Wilhelmus
11. Gerardus
12. Jacobus
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.
• February 11 » BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television programme, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".
• March 3 » Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
• May 26 » In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
• 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.
• August 20 » Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam, a record that stood for 75 years until it was broken by Alex Rodriguez.
• 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.

The temperature on April 19, 1938 was between -0.4 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 6.1 mm of rain during 3.2 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.