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• Aaltje Oudshoorn († 2002)
• Jan Keuker
• Jan van WENDEL, Vollenhove Ambt († 1941)
• (levenloos) Raats, Doesburg, Netherlands († 1938)
• Antoon Wemaere, Poperinge († 1997)
• Augustina Maria Geertruida Steenman, Amsterdam († 1990)
• Alida (Aal) Bond, Edam Volendam († 2003)
• Jan Hendriks van Wendel, Ambt Vollenhove († 1941)
• Charles Elbert Lovvorn, Rutherford County, Tennessee, Verenigde Staten († 2006)
• Ilda do Rosario Nobre, Vilar, Lisboa, Portugal († 2002)

• Afien Margaretha Nieuwenhuis (0), Harderwijk
• (74), Rijnsburg
• bastiaan dirk de wit (58), kouderkerk aan den rijn
• Hendrik Kats (85), Beilen
• Adriana Elsenaar (82), Arnhem
• Adriana Petronella Tasking (80), Eindhoven
• Andries Eppes Venekamp (53), Beerta, Oldambt, Groningen, Nederland
• Alexander Friedrichs (63), Eygelshoven, Kerkrade, Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Catharina van Oosterhout (79), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Looberts (73), Utrecht,Utrecht,Nederland

• 1936 » Terry Downes, British boxer and former world middle-weight champion († 2017)
• 1937 » Dave Prater, American singer († 1988)
• 1937 » Rafael Moneo, Spanish architect, designed the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels and Valladolid Science Museum
• 1937 » Sonny Curtis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1938 » Charles Simić, Serbian-American poet and editor
• 1939 » Giorgio Zancanaro, Italian baritone
• 1939 » Ion Țiriac, Romanian tennis player and manager
• 1939 » John Ogbu, Nigerian-American anthropologist and professor († 2003)
• 1939 » Ken Warby, Australian motorboat racer
• 1939 » Ralph Boston, American long jumper

• 1931 » Albert Abraham Michelson, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1933 » John Arthur Jarvis, English swimmer (b. 1872)
• 1935 » Ernst Bresslau, German zoologist (b. 1877)
• 1938 » Thomas B. Thrige, Danish businessman (b. 1866)
• 1942 » Józef Cebula, Polish priest and saint (b. 1902)
• 1944 » Han Yong-un, Korean poet and social reformer (b. 1879)
• 1949 » Louis II, Prince of Monaco (b. 1870)
• 1950 » Esteban Terradas i Illa, Spanish mathematician and engineer (b. 1883)
• 1957 » Ernest de Silva, Sri Lankan banker and businessman (b. 1887)
• 1957 » Ezio Pinza, Italian actor and singer (b. 1892)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Adrianus
8. Petrus
9. Gerrit
10. Wilhelmus
11. Gerardus
12. Jacobus
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).
• April 10 » The 1938 German parliamentary election and referendum seeks approval for a single list of Nazi candidates and the recent annexation of Austria.
• June 11 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.
• July 3 » World speed record for a steam locomotive is set in England, by the Mallard, which reaches a speed of 125.88 miles per hour (202.58km/h).
• September 30 » Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, whereby Germany annexes the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
• October 1 » Germany annexes the Sudetenland.

The temperature on May 9, 1938 was between -2.7 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 13.0 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.