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• Annie Verregghen, Echteld († 1997)
• Billy Hale, Magoffin County, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten († 2010)
• Johannes Petrus Norbertus Prinsen, Vlijmen († 2008)
• Jim E. Druffel, Colton, Whitman County, Washington, United States of America († 2010)
• Curtis Jay Waasdorp (Waasdorf), Rochester, Monroe, New York, Verenigde Staten († 2014)
• Gerritje Grietje Budding, Renkum (gd) († 1991)
• Bernard Anton Everhard Peek, Eindhoven († 2009)
• Enny IJsselmuiden, Tilburg († 2015)
• Gerard Koppe, Voorburg († 2002)
• Alfons Cornelius Franciscus Dingenen, Schilde († 1939)

• Antonius Christiaan van den Brandt (60)
• Aaltje Eisen (88), Schoonebeek, province of Drenthe
• Adriana Johanna Ridderhof (73), Gemeente Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Boss, Groningen
• Anna Maria Hubertina Moors (80), Roermond
• Anna Schipper (70), Loppersum, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Becker Hof (79), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Gertrudis Tummers (78), Sittard (Sittard-Geleen), Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Christina Poot (70), ,, Delft, Nederland
• Adriana Maria Mechelina Roovers (38), Gemeente Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1935 » Oscar Zeta Acosta, American lawyer and politician († 1974)
• 1937 » Momo Kapor, Serbian author and painter († 2010)
• 1937 » Seymour Hersh, American journalist and author
• 1937 » Tony Barton, English footballer, outside right and manager († 1993)
• 1938 » John Hamm, Canadian physician and politician, 25th Premier of Nova Scotia
• 1938 » Kofi Annan, Ghanaian economist and diplomat, 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations († 2018)
• 1938 » Mary W. Gray, American mathematician, statistician, and lawyer
• 1939 » John Arbuthnott, Scottish microbiologist and academic
• 1939 » Trina Schart Hyman, American author and illustrator († 2004)
• 1940 » John Havlicek, American basketball player († 2019)

• 1919 » Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist, academic, and politician, Hungarian Minister of Education (b. 1848)
• 1920 » Charles Griffes, American pianist and composer (b. 1884)
• 1931 » Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish poet Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1936 » Božena Benešová, Czech poet and novelist (b. 1873)
• 1936 » Róbert Bárány, Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
• 1941 » Marcel Prévost, French novelist and playwright (b. 1862)
• 1942 » Kostas Skarvelis, Greek guitarist and composer (b. 1880)
• 1947 » Olaf Frydenlund, Norwegian target shooter (b. 1862)
• 1950 » Vaslav Nijinsky, Polish dancer and choreographer (b. 1890)
• 1959 » Marios Makrionitis, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Athens (b. 1913)

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. Mary
16. Grietje

• 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.
• 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.
• September 21 » The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500–700 people.
• September 30 » Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, whereby Germany annexes the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.

The temperature on April 8, 1938 was between 3.7 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.