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• Jacob ( Joop ) Roossien, Groningen († 2011)
• Clasina Elisabeth Wilhelmina van Duin, Sassenheim († 2002)
• Hans Jacobus Viëtor († 2015)
• Adrianus Johannes Leemans, Rotterdam († 1941)
• Aafke van der Poel, Arnhem († 2015)
• Geneva Frederick († 2002)
• E.J. Verbruggen, Schijndel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2000)
• Catherina Aleida Vos, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2019)
• Edda Göring († 2018)
• Gretha Penina Sluijser, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1943)

• Bernardus Uijthof (74), Utrecht
• Aartje Daatzelaar (70), Baarn
• Beertje van Dorp (56), Maarssen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Antje Oostveen (89), Utrecht
• Albert van de Garskamp (44), Nijkerk
• Catharina Johanna Fransen (67), Noordwijkerhout
• Bartholomeus Ruigrok (80), De Zilk, Noordwijkerhout
• Arie Gerrit Verhoeff (25), Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Antoon Ursinus (56), Rheden, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adrianus van den Broek (50), Bussum

• 1936 » Volodymyr Holubnychy, Ukrainian race walker
• 1937 » Deric Washburn, American screenwriter and playwright
• 1937 » Jimmy Jones, American singer-songwriter († 2012)
• 1937 » Robert Paul, Canadian figure skater and choreographer
• 1937 » Rosalyn Higgins, English lawyer and judge
• 1937 » Sally Kellerman, American actress
• 1938 » George William Penrose, Lord Penrose, Scottish lawyer and judge
• 1938 » Kevin Brownlow, English historian and author
• 1939 » Charles Miller, American musician († 1980)
• 1939 » John Schlee, American golfer († 2000)

• 1929 » Enrique Gorostieta, Mexican general (b. 1889)
• 1933 » Frank Jarvis, American runner and triple jumper (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Louis Vierne, French organist and composer (b. 1870)
• 1941 » Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (b. 1903)
• 1942 » Bunny Berigan, American singer and trumpet player (b. 1908)
• 1947 » John Gretton, 1st Baron Gretton, English sailor and politician (b. 1867)
• 1948 » Karl Brandt, German SS officer (b. 1904)
• 1948 » Karl Gebhardt, German physician (b. 1897)
• 1948 » Viktor Brack, German physician (b. 1904)
• 1948 » Waldemar Hoven, German physician (b. 1903)

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.
• June 7 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. Five hundred to nine hundred thousand civilians are killed.
• June 25 » Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland.
• July 28 » Hawaii Clipper disappears between Guam and Manila as the first loss of an airliner in trans-Pacific China Clipper service.
• September 27 » The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth is launched in Glasgow.
• October 10 » Abiding by the Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakia completes its withdrawal from the Sudetenland.
• December 13 » The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany.

The temperature on June 2, 1938 was between 7.8 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.