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• Duinhouwer, Brouwershaven, Zeeland, Netherlands († 1938)
• Alberta Joan Bowser, Montgomery County, Ohio († 2008)
• Gerhard Heinrich Gerard (2k) Manning, Vlagtwedde Sellingerbeetse († 2009)
• Elias Hijman GOBETZ, Amsterdam († 1943)
• Adriana Johanna de Jongh († 1997)
• Adrianus (Jos) van Hal, Klundert († 2007)
• Annie Elvira Marie Buijsse, Biervliet († 1949)
• Alie Brink, Almelo († 2003)
• Angela Marie Arinoldo († 2015)
• Andries Hendrik Hekkema († 2000)

• Anna Catharina Meuwissen (Meeuwissen)(Mevissen) (82), Roermond
• Christiaan SCHUURBIERS (63), Bergen Op Zoom (Borgvliet)
• Cornelis de Graaf (73), Terheijden
• Berend Harmens (60), Schoorl
• Ada McSwain Yelton [Bu] (33)
• Bernardus Rosenkamp (86), Deventer
• Duinhouwer (0), Brouwershaven, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Cornelis Franciscus Winkelaar (51), West-Java, Nederlands-Indië
• Barend Hendrik Bijderwellen (89), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus van Ginneken (39), Breda

• 1935 » Hillar Kärner, Estonian chess player
• 1936 » J. Robert Hooper, American businessman and politician († 2008)
• 1937 » Anna Dawson, English actress and singer
• 1937 » Don Galloway, American actor († 2009)
• 1937 » Robert Holmes à Court, South African-Australian businessman and lawyer († 1990)
• 1938 » Gary Gygax, American game designer, co-created Dungeons & Dragons († 2008)
• 1939 » Michael Longley, Northern Irish poet and academic
• 1939 » Paulo Silvino, Brazilian comedian, composer and actor († 2017)
• 1939 » William Eggleston, American photographer and academic
• 1940 » Pina Bausch, German dancer and choreographer († 2009)

• 1924 » Ferruccio Busoni, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1866)
• 1931 » Auguste Forel, Swiss neuroanatomist and psychiatrist (b. 1848)
• 1938 » Tom Crean, Irish seaman and explorer (b. 1877)
• 1941 » Alfred Henry O'Keeffe, New Zealand painter and educator (b. 1858)
• 1942 » Karl Pärsimägi, Estonian painter (b. 1902)
• 1946 » Gertrude Stein, American novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1874)
• 1948 » Dorothea Bleek, South African anthropologist and philologist (b. 1873)
• 1948 » Joe Tinker, American baseball player and manager (b. 1880)
• 1948 » Woolf Barnato, English race car driver and businessman (b. 1898)
• 1951 » Paul Kogerman, Estonian chemist and politician, 22nd Estonian Minister of Education (b. 1891)

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.
• April 10 » The 1938 German parliamentary election and referendum seeks approval for a single list of Nazi candidates and the recent annexation of Austria.
• May 25 » Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante kills 313 people.
• July 10 » Howard Hughes begins a 91-hour airplane flight around the world that will set a new record.
• 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.
• November 1 » Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century" in horse racing.

The temperature on July 27, 1938 was between 12.4 °C and 22.0 °C and averaged 17.0 °C. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (51%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.