About the day » Saturday July 23, 1938Calender converter

• Jan JONK, Zuidoostbeemster,, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2019)
• Cornelis Koopstra, Wijnjeterp, gem. Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland († 2024)
• G. H. Bruintjes, Genemuiden († 2003)
• DAVID SAMUEL van HUIS († 2006)
• Gerrit Dorman († 1998)
• de Groen, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Geesje Tietia Bunskoek, Gramsbergen († 2023)
• Arie Zeeman, 's-Gravenzande, Nederland († 2020)
• Adrianus van Dijk, Leiden († 2014)
• Emma de Wagemaker, Delft, Nederland († 2021)

• Andries van Guldener (51), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Albert Jan Gezinus Gunnink (0)
• Anna de Goede (80), Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
• de Kok (85), Wateringen
• Brand van den Hoorn (0), Putten
• Bennis, Zwaag
• (76), Zuidwolde, de Wolden, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Adelme Alexandre Buysse (41), Monterey, Monterey County, California, United States of America
• Bernardus Johannes Bervoets ongehuwd (71), Zeist, Utr, Nederland
• Albert Dekker (76)

• 1936 » Anthony Kennedy, American lawyer and jurist
• 1936 » Don Drysdale, American baseball player and sportscaster († 1993)
• 1937 » Dave Webster, American football player and engineer
• 1938 » Bert Newton, Australian actor and television host
• 1938 » Charles Harrelson, American murderer († 2007)
• 1938 » Juliet Anderson, American porn actress and producer († 2010)
• 1938 » Ronny Cox, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1940 » Danielle Collobert, French author, poet, and journalist († 1978)
• 1940 » Don Imus, American radio host († 2019)
• 1940 » Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Italian economist and politician, Italian Minister of Finance († 2010)

• 1926 » Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (b. 1848)
• 1927 » Reginald Dyer, British brigadier general (b. 1864)
• 1930 » Glenn Curtiss, American pilot and engineer (b. 1878)
• 1932 » Tenby Davies, Welsh runner (b. 1884)
• 1936 » Anna Abrikosova, Russian linguist (b. 1882)
• 1941 » George Lyman Kittredge, American scholar and educator (b. 1860)
• 1941 » José Quiñones Gonzales, Peruvian soldier and pilot (b. 1914)
• 1942 » Adam Czerniaków, Polish engineer and politician (b. 1880)
• 1942 » Andy Ducat, English cricketer and footballer (b. 1886)
• 1948 » D. W. Griffith, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1875)

• 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 12 » Anschluss: German troops occupy and absorb Austria.
• 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 7 » The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
• July 31 » Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius the Great in Persepolis.
• September 21 » The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500–700 people.
• December 16 » Adolf Hitler institutes the Cross of Honour of the German Mother.

The temperature on July 23, 1938 was between 10.2 °C and 21.6 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.