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• Bertha Maria Johanna van Dijk, Gouda, Nederland († 1959)
• , Groningen († 2016)
• Cornelis van Tol, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1991)
• Hillegonda,Maria de Ruijter, Heemskerk, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2002)
• Charles James van Gestel, Soerabia, Indonesia († 1992)
• Dieter Konrad SCHOLZ, Breslau, Germany († 2001)
• - Regts, Terband (Heerenveen) († 1938)
• Hendrika Adriana KOOTE Bdr, Rotterdam, NL-ZH († 1971)
• Gezina van der Riet, Wierden, Overijssel, Nederland († 1993)
• Alexander Adrianus Fiévez, Arnhem († 2005)

• Arie NEDERLOF (88), Sliedrecht
• Cornelis Franciscus Scherrenberg (67)
• Aaltje Jansen (54), Onna (Steenwijkerwold)
• ADRIANA CORNELIA SNOEK (55), MIDDELBURG
• Abraham Janse (55), Haarlem
• Antonie Cornelis den Dunnen (59), Arnhem (Gelderland)
• Anna Gerrits (74), Venlo, Limburg, Netherlands
• Arie van de Weg (52)
• Alida Geefhuijsen (86), Utrecht (UTR) The Netherlands
• Anne Liemborg (69), Leeuwarden, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland

• 1935 » Charles Grodin, American actor and talk show host
• 1936 » James Dobson, American evangelist, psychologist, and author, founded Focus on the Family
• 1936 » Reg Fleming, Canadian-American ice hockey player († 2009)
• 1937 » Ben Zinn, Israeli-born American academic and former international soccer player
• 1937 » Gary Peters, American baseball player
• 1939 » John McCabe, English pianist and composer († 2015)
• 1939 » Reni Santoni, American actor
• 1939 » Sister Helen Prejean, American nun, activist, and author
• 1940 » Jacques Caron, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1940 » Souleymane Cissé, Malian director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1924 » Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (b. 1858)
• 1930 » Robert Bridges, English poet and author (b. 1844)
• 1932 » Friedrich Gustav Piffl, Bohemian cardinal (b. 1864)
• 1938 » Muhammad Iqbal, Indian-Pakistani philosopher and poet (b. 1877)
• 1941 » Fritz Manteuffel, German gymnast (b. 1875)
• 1945 » Walter Model, German field marshal (b. 1891)
• 1946 » John Maynard Keynes, English economist and philosopher (b. 1883)
• 1948 » Aldo Leopold, American ecologist and author (b. 1887)
• 1952 » Leslie Banks, American actor, director and producer (b. 1890)
• 1954 » Emil Leon Post, Polish-American mathematician and logician (b. 1897)

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).
• March 3 » Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
• 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.
• July 3 » United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.
• July 17 » Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan.
• December 16 » Adolf Hitler institutes the Cross of Honour of the German Mother.

The temperature on April 21, 1938 was between -2.5 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 10.4 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.