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• Antonetta Heeren, Etten-Leur († 1938)
• Beerens, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Hendrikus Cornelis Trommel, Aalsmeer, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2004)
• Arnoldus Hermanus Diepman († 1998)
• >Jean DE LAET, Willebroek, BELGIE († 2006)
• Hendrik Tromp, Alphen aan den Rijn, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2013)
• Hendrikus Johannes Bouwman, 's Gravenhage († 1999)
• Antoine Alphonse (Toine) Philippaerts, Sint-Lambrechts-Herk, België († 2011)
• Anna de ROO, Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2019)
• Arlene M Swanson, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 2006)

• Annie Osborne (50), Ruston, Lincoln, Louisiana, United States
• Albertus Wilhelmus Josephus Huisman (1)
• Carolus Eligius Nelissen (72), Sint-Truiden, België
• Antje Jacobina Leutscher (76), 't Zandt
• Antonius Sutonius Braam (71), Ubbergen, Nederland
• Albert van der Sluis (75), Raalte
• Claude STANDLEY (52), Coloma, Carroll, Missouri, United States of America
• Adrianus Jonkers (35), Oud en Nieuw Gastel, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianna SMORENBURG (78)
• 'Willy' Guillaume Ferdinand Léopold Ildefonse van EECKHOUT (60), Stavelot, 63073, Liège, Belgique

• 1934 » Edward D. DiPrete, American politician
• 1934 » Marty Feldman, English actor and screenwriter († 1982)
• 1934 » Raquel Correa, Chilean journalist († 2012)
• 1935 » John David Crow, American football player and coach († 2015)
• 1935 » Steve Lawrence, American actor and singer
• 1935 » Vitaly Sevastyanov, Russian engineer and astronaut († 2010)
• 1938 » Diane Clare, English actress († 2013)
• 1939 » Ed Lumley, Canadian businessman and politician, 8th Canadian Minister of Communications
• 1940 » Joe B. Mauldin, American bass player and songwriter († 2015)
• 1941 » Dario Gradi, Italian-English footballer, coach, and manager

• 1930 » Joseph Ward, Australian-New Zealand businessman and politician, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1856)
• 1933 » Anthony Hope, English author and playwright (b. 1863)
• 1934 » Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer and academic (b. 1848)
• 1939 » Havelock Ellis, English psychologist and author (b. 1859)
• 1941 » Moses Schorr, Polish rabbi, historian, and politician (b. 1874)
• 1942 » Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, Algerian-French general (b. 1856)
• 1942 » Refik Saydam, Turkish physician and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1881)
• 1943 » Jean Moulin, French soldier (b. 1899)
• 1950 » Othmar Spann, Austrian sociologist, economist, and philosopher (b. 1878)
• 1952 » August Alle, Estonian lawyer, author, and poet (b. 1890)

• 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.
• February 11 » BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television programme, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".
• 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 7 » The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
• August 20 » Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam, a record that stood for 75 years until it was broken by Alex Rodriguez.
• September 30 » Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, whereby Germany annexes the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
• December 13 » The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany.

The temperature on July 8, 1938 was between 10.9 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.