About the day » Wednesday August 3, 1938Calender converter

• Franciscus Cornelis Rumoldus Castelijn, Rucphen, Noord Brabant, Nederland († 1993)
• Claude Jules Marie Marcel JEANNIN, Vuillecin,25,F († 1948)
• Barbara J. Ralston
• Franciscus Kramer, Enschede († 1938)
• Elisabeth Deutschenbaur, Rieden (Duitsland) († 2004)
• Achille Hairemans, Nijlen, Antwerpen, Belgium († 1947)
• Isobel Jean PALMER, Ottawa Ontario Canada († 1997)
• Corrie Henriëtte Varkevisser, Soekaboemi
• Jacobus Gijsbertus van Egdom, Hilversum, Gemeente Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1938)
• Harold Dwaine Gidcumb [K], Floydada, Floyd, Texas († 1997)

• Alexander Dirk Peter Valentijn van Löben-Sels (90), Arnhem (Gd)
• Bernardus Johannes Leuvering (75), Doetinchem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Cornelis Adrianus Holtkamp (67), Schipluiden (Z-H)
• Dientje Maria Bakker, meerkerk,nederland
• Adriaantje Aalts Kos (76), Huizen
• Antonia BREDIUS (30), Poortugaal, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Hermanus Koek (4), Wormerveer
• Alexander Dirk Peter Valentijn van Löben-Sels (90), Arnhem, Pays-Bas
• Arnoldus Jacobus de Haan (65), Amsterdam
• Aaltje ENGELS (67), Noordbroek, Groningen, Nederland

• 1936 » Edward Petherbridge, English actor
• 1936 » Jerry G. Bishop, American radio and television host († 2013)
• 1937 » Duncan Sharpe, Pakistani-Australian cricketer
• 1937 » Roland Burris, American lawyer and politician, 39th Illinois Attorney General
• 1937 » Steven Berkoff, English actor, director, and playwright
• 1937 » Tom Georgeson, English actor
• 1938 » Terry Wogan, Irish-English radio and television host († 2016)
• 1939 » Apoorva Sengupta, Indian general and cricketer († 2013)
• 1939 » Jimmie Nicol, English drummer
• 1940 » Lance Alworth, American football player

• 1922 » Ture Malmgren, Swedish journalist and politician (b. 1851)
• 1924 » Joseph Conrad, Polish-born British novelist (b. 1857)
• 1925 » William Bruce, Australian cricketer (b. 1864)
• 1929 » Emile Berliner, German-American inventor and businessman, invented the phonograph (b. 1851)
• 1929 » Thorstein Veblen, American economist and sociologist (b. 1857)
• 1936 » Konstantin Konik, Estonian surgeon and politician, 19th Estonian Minister of Education (b. 1873)
• 1942 » Richard Willstätter, German-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1872)
• 1943 » Frumka Płotnicka, Polish resistance fighter during World War II (b. 1914)
• 1949 » Ignotus, Hungarian poet and author (b. 1869)
• 1954 » Colette, French novelist and journalist (b. 1873)

• 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.
• May 26 » In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
• June 7 » The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
• July 10 » Howard Hughes begins a 91-hour airplane flight around the world that will set a new record.
• July 31 » Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia).
• August 18 » The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York, United States with Ontario, Canada over the Saint Lawrence River, is dedicated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
• October 10 » Abiding by the Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakia completes its withdrawal from the Sudetenland.

The temperature on August 3, 1938 was between 15.8 °C and 24.4 °C and averaged 19.6 °C. There was 13.3 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.