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• Catharina Hulzebos († 2015)
• Greta Jonker, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2011)
• Hilda Florencia Gaens, Wellen, België († 1965)
• Elisabeth Vethman, Nieuwe-Niedorp, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2019)
• Freddy Roger Segaert, Zedelgem († 1986)
• Adriana Hendrika Konings, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1961)
• Hendrik Pieter Evert van de Burg, Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands († 2013)
• Aaltje Zondag, Odoorn, Drenthe, Nederland († 2017)
• Erwin Glen van Beek, Carmel, Sioux County Iowa († 2023)
• Eduard Rosa Lafertin, Gent (belgië) († 2016)

• Cuinera de Wit (78), Alphen a.d.Rijn
• Bernardus Hendrikus Marks (39), Doetinchem, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Abraham Peper (74), Haarlem
• Amalia KEUNEN (52), Amsterdam, 1000, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Annechiena Jansen (35), Castricum,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bartus van Beek, Nijkerk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Betje Hofmann (61), Almelo
• Andries Cremer (62), Den Haag, Nederland
• Abraham Hanewinkel (77)
• Berendina Hendrika Groothuis (54), Goor, Nederland

• 1936 » Benjamin Bathurst, English admiral
• 1936 » Louis Gossett, Jr., American actor and producer
• 1936 » Marcel Masse, Canadian educator and politician, 29th Canadian Minister of National Defence († 2014)
• 1937 » Allan Carr, American playwright and producer († 1999)
• 1939 » Don Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2017)
• 1939 » Gerald Ronson, English businessman and philanthropist
• 1939 » Lionel Sosa, Mexican-American advertising and marketing executive
• 1939 » Simon Cairns, 6th Earl Cairns, English courtier and businessman
• 1939 » Sokratis Kokkalis, Greek businessman
• 1939 » Yves Duhaime, Canadian captain and politician

• 1933 » Achille Paroche, French target shooter (b. 1868)
• 1939 » Joseph Roth, Austrian-French journalist and author (b. 1894)
• 1941 » Ernst Lindemann, German captain (b. 1894)
• 1941 » Günther Lütjens, German admiral (b. 1889)
• 1942 » Muhammed Hamdi Yazır, Turkish theologian, logician, and translator (b. 1878)
• 1943 » Gordon Coates, New Zealand soldier and politician, 21st Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1878)
• 1945 » Enno Lolling, German physician (b. 1888)
• 1947 » Ed Konetchy, American baseball player and manager (b. 1885)
• 1949 » Robert Ripley, American cartoonist, publisher, and businessman, founded Ripley's Believe It or Not! (b. 1890)
• 1953 » Jesse Burkett, American baseball player and manager (b. 1868)

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.
• March 3 » Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
• March 27 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang begins, resulting several weeks later in the war's first major Chinese victory over Japan.
• July 31 » Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius the Great in Persepolis.
• September 5 » Chile: A group of youths affiliated with the fascist National Socialist Movement of Chile are executed after surrendering during a failed coup.
• September 30 » Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, whereby Germany annexes the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
• 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 27, 1938 was between 9.0 °C and 23.8 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 11.4 hours of sunshine (70%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.