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• Carel Reinhard Kors Reimers († 1982)
• Ang√®le Roggen, Alken, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgi√´
• Gijsbert Pansier, Putten († 2011)
• Elisabeth Hamstra, Surhuisterveen, Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland († 1938)
• Jan van Etten *, Zunderdorp († 2005)
• Gerda Elzina Monné († 2002)
• Janice Lee Stevens, Pike County, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten († 2006)
• Bauke Joukes de Vries, Berlikum, Menaldumadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 2012)
• Itaé Brazil Esteves, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil († 1966)
• Egbert Eisses, Schoonloo († 2014)

• Anna Van der Laan (63), Groningen (Gron.)
• Coenraad Beimers (54), Apeldoorn
• Aukje VAN BALEN (90), Haskerland(Friesland)
• Anna Catharina Heemskerk (96), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aukje Botes van Balen (90), Joure
• Albertje de Ruijter, Wormerveer, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Clayton Ellison (29)
• Abraham Jacobus van der Kemp (72), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• (l.l.) van Oost (0), Hillegersberg
• Arie de Groot (69), Vuren

• 1936 » Shaul Ladany, Serbian-Israeli race walker and engineer
• 1937 » Dick Radatz, American baseball player († 2005)
• 1938 » Al Weis, American baseball player
• 1938 » Booker Little, American trumpet player and composer († 1961)
• 1938 » John Larsson, Swedish 17th General of The Salvation Army
• 1939 » Anthony Lake, American academic and diplomat, 18th United States National Security Advisor
• 1939 » Lise Thibault, Canadian journalist and politician, 27th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec
• 1939 » Marvin Gaye, American singer-songwriter († 1984)
• 1940 » Donald Jackson, Canadian figure skater and coach
• 1940 » Mike Hailwood, English motorcycle racer († 1981)

• 1914 » Paul Heyse, German author, poet, and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1830)
• 1917 » Bryn Lewis, Welsh international rugby player (b.1891)
• 1923 » Topal Osman, Turkish colonel (b. 1883)
• 1928 » Theodore William Richards, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
• 1930 » Zewditu I of Ethiopia (b. 1876)
• 1933 » Ranjitsinhji, Indian cricketer (b. 1872)
• 1936 » Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general (b. 1860)
• 1942 » Édouard Estaunié, French novelist (b. 1862)
• 1948 » Sabahattin Ali, Turkish journalist, author, and poet (b. 1907)
• 1953 » Hugo Sperrle, German field marshal (b. 1885)

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.
• May 25 » Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante kills 313 people.
• July 20 » The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in regards to the studio system. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948.
• July 28 » Hawaii Clipper disappears between Guam and Manila as the first loss of an airliner in trans-Pacific China Clipper service.
• July 31 » Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia).
• September 27 » The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth is launched in Glasgow.
• November 16 » LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.

The temperature on April 2, 1938 was between 6.4 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.