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• Bartele Doesburg, Anloo, Drenthe, Nederland († 1961)
• Hendrik Vandenbroucke, Izegem († 2004)
• (Jan) Beukeveld, Coevorden († 1987)
• Johannes Bernardus Borgman, Emmen, Drenthe (NL) († 2000)
• arie den OUDEN († 1974)
• Cornelis Snoeij, Rockanje († 1938)
• Grietje Jantje Huisman († 2003)
• gerardus hubertus marie lommen, helden-grashoek
• Eleanor Ruth Goemaat, Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 2014)
• Aafke Zijlstra, Houwerzijl († 2004)

• Anna Maria Lemsen (84), Hulst
• Anna Margaretha Nollé (86), Maastricht
• Aart van de Beek (55), Zwolle
• Andries Buis (80), Vlaardingen
• Anna Maria Lemsen (84), Hulst, Zeeland, Nederland
• Anna Margaretha Nollé (86), Maastricht
• Aartje Vogelaar (84), Nieuw-Beijerland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Cornelis Joseph van Gorp (61), Goirle
• Adrianus Martinus van Loon (57), Loon op Zand
• Arie Plugge (62), Brake an der Unterweser, Duitsland

• 1937 » Pat Roach, English wrestler († 2004)
• 1938 » Herbie Flowers, English musician
• 1938 » Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, Ukrainian long jumper and coach
• 1938 » Moisés da Costa Amaral, East Timorese politician († 1989)
• 1939 » Dick Scobee, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut († 1986)
• 1939 » Jānis Lūsis, Latvian javelin thrower and coach († 2020)
• 1939 » James Fox, English actor
• 1939 » Livio Berruti, Italian sprinter
• 1939 » Nancy Kwan, Hong Kong-American actress and makeup artist
• 1940 » Jan Janssen, Dutch cyclist

• 1918 » Gervais Raoul Lufbery, French-American soldier and pilot (b. 1885)
• 1935 » T. E. Lawrence, British colonel and archaeologist (b. 1888)
• 1936 » Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall, British Islamic scholar (b. 1875)
• 1939 » Ahmet Ağaoğlu, Azerbaijani-Turkish journalist and publicist (b. 1869)
• 1943 » Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter and illustrator (b. 1865)
• 1945 » Philipp Bouhler, German soldier and politician (b. 1889)
• 1946 » Booth Tarkington, American novelist and dramatist (b. 1869)
• 1950 » Daniel Ciugureanu, Romanian physician and politician, Prime Minister of Moldova (b. 1884)
• 1954 » Charles Ives, American composer and educator (b. 1874)
• 1958 » Jadunath Sarkar, Indian historian (b. 1870)

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.
• May 26 » In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
• June 23 » The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
• July 10 » Howard Hughes begins a 91-hour airplane flight around the world that will set a new record.
• September 12 » Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
• September 21 » The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500–700 people.
• 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 May 19, 1938 was between 3.9 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.