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• Cornelia J van der Meij, Lisse († 2022)
• Fredrika Mouw, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Carl Louis Schilling, Galveston, Galveston, TX († 2009)
• Elisabeth Maria (Els) van Gorp († 2006)
• Cornelia Jacoba Zieltjens, Haarlem († 2013)
• Adriana Maria Wilhelmina Donders, Tilburg († 1944)
• Doodgeboren dochter Versantvoort, Sint-Oedenrode († 1939)
• Catharina Cornelia (Tiny) van den Berg, Monnickendam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1990)
• Geertruida Brongers, Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland († 2020)
• Geertruida (Truus) Brongers, Almelo († 2020)

• Aaltien KEEP (89), Sleen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aalf Tuin (77), Midwolda, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Amelia Peelaerts (82), Herentals, België
• Allegonda Elisabeth van Ringh (74), Groningen, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriana Hendrika Bulten (78), Zelhem
• Anthonia Ram (81), Alphen aan den Rijn
• Jan Van Es (58), Enschede
• "Anton" Joseph Aloysius Nepomuk Stanislaus Maria von Salis-Soglio (78), Bonn-Bad Godesberg, Allemagne
• Albert Hillen (91), Schagen
• "Elsée" Stéphanie Charlotte Marie Ghislaine de Kerchove de Denterghem (65), Gand, Belgique

• 1938 » Anna Home, English screenwriter and producer
• 1938 » Cabu, French cartoonist († 2015)
• 1938 » Daevid Allen, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2015)
• 1938 » Dave Edwards, American captain and politician († 2013)
• 1938 » Richard Anthony, Egyptian-French singer-songwriter († 2015)
• 1938 » Tord Grip, Swedish footballer and manager
• 1939 » Cesare Maniago, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1939 » Edgardo Cozarinsky, Argentinian author, screenwriter, and director
• 1939 » Jacek Gmoch, Polish footballer and coach
• 1940 » Edmund White, American novelist, memoirist, and essayist

• 1923 » Alexandre Ribot, French academic and politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1842)
• 1924 » Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist and academic (b. 1834)
• 1929 » H. B. Higgins, Irish-Australian judge and politician, 3rd Attorney-General for Australia (b. 1851)
• 1929 » Wyatt Earp, American police officer (b. 1848)
• 1934 » Paul Ulrich Villard, French physicist and chemist (b. 1860)
• 1941 » James Joyce, Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet (b. 1882)
• 1943 » Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1889)
• 1956 » Lyonel Feininger, German-American painter and illustrator (b. 1871)
• 1957 » A. E. Coppard English poet and short story writer (b. 1878)
• 1958 » Jesse L. Lasky, American film producer, co-founded Paramount Pictures (b. 1880)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Adrianus
8. Gerrit
9. Petrus
10. Robert
11. Jacobus
12. Jacob
13. Gerardus
14. Wilhelmus
15. Antonius
16. Arie

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Hendrika
8. Catharina
9. Adriana
10. Petronella
11. Geertruida
12. Jacoba
13. Margaretha
14. Trijntje
15. Aaltje
16. Mary

• 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 25, 1939 to August 10, 1939 the cabinet Colijn V, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 8.7 million citizens.
• January 27 » First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
• February 5 » Generalísimo Francisco Franco becomes the 68th "Caudillo de España", or Leader of Spain.
• February 27 » United States labor law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules in NLRB v. Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. that the National Labor Relations Board has no authority to force an employer to rehire workers who engage in sit-down strikes.
• August 27 » First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft.
• September 18 » World War II: The Polish government of Ignacy Mościcki flees to Romania.
• November 23 » World War II: HMSRawalpindi is sunk by the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.

The temperature on January 13, 1939 was between -1.0 °C and 3.5 °C and averaged 1.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.