About the day » Wednesday May 11, 1938Calender converter

• Arthur Theodore "Butch" Goodside († 1983)
• Ida Sjane Franses Adema, Leeuwarden († 1998)
• Hannie Vermeulen, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2010)
• Edemundus Beatrix Maria van Bemmelen, Leidschendam († 2016)
• Annelies Vermond, Leiden, ZH, Nederland († 1990)
• Ietje Frans, Usquert, Groningen, Nederland († 2012)
• Gerardus Leonardus Adrianus van Beurden, Vlijmen († 1944)
• Ietje Frans, Usquert Het Hogeland Groningen Nederland († 2012)
• Gerardus Leonardus Adrianus van Beurden, Vlijmen († 1944)
• Douwe Scholte († 1981)

• Aaltje Wermink (79), Hellendoorn
• Christina Banninga (66), Opwierde, Groningen, Nederland
• Aagje Johanna Schreuders (64), Utrecht
• Adriaan Leer (73), Koudekerke
• Adelphina Wilhelmina de Greeff (67), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Arie Koolwijk (67), Stolwijk
• Arie Koolwijk (67), Stolwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cecilia Petronella den Biggelaar (68), Zevenbergen
• Antonia Nuijten (41), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Agnes Rosier (78), Etten-Leur, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1932 » Valentino Garavani, Italian fashion designer
• 1933 » Louis Farrakhan, American religious leader
• 1934 » Jack Twyman, American basketball player († 2012)
• 1934 » Jim Jeffords, American captain, lawyer, and politician († 2014)
• 1935 » Francisco Umbral, Spanish journalist and author († 2007)
• 1937 » Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő, Hungarian Olympic and world champion foil fencer
• 1938 » Narendra Patel, Baron Patel, Tanzanian-English obstetrician, academic, and politician
• 1941 » Eric Burdon, English musician
• 1941 » Ian Redpath, Australian cricketer and coach
• 1943 » Nancy Greene, Canadian skier and politician

• 1916 » Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer and physicist (b. 1873)
• 1918 » George Elmslie, Australian politician, 25th Premier of Victoria (b. 1861)
• 1920 » James Colosimo, Italian-American mob boss (b. 1878)
• 1920 » William Dean Howells, American novelist, literary critic, and playwright (b. 1837)
• 1927 » Juan Gris, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1887)
• 1929 » Jozef Murgaš, Slovak-American priest, architect, botanist, and painter (b. 1864)
• 1938 » George Lyon, Canadian golfer and cricketer (b. 1858)
• 1955 » Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer (b. 1874)
• 1960 » John D. Rockefeller Jr., American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1874)
• 1963 » Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)

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.
• February 4 » Adolf Hitler appoints himself as head of the Armed Forces High Command.
• April 10 » The 1938 German parliamentary election and referendum seeks approval for a single list of Nazi candidates and the recent annexation of Austria.
• 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 12 » Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
• November 14 » The Lions Gate Bridge, connecting Vancouver to the North Shore region, opens to traffic.
• November 16 » LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.

The temperature on May 11, 1938 was between 0.4 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 13.6 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.