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• Huberta de Croy, Becov nad Teplou / Petschau, Tchéquie († 1988)
• Egberdientje Stroeve, Emmen,, Overijssel, Nederland († 2022)
• Huberta Maria de Croÿ, Petschau († 1988)
• Bert Nyblad († 2001)
• Arendje van der Bent, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2019)
• Johan Herman Wittendorp, Klazienaveen (Emmen) († 2007)
• Anna Maria Schoof, Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 2012)
• Geertruida Johanna Klaassen († 1993)
• Catharina Frederika Louise van Eijk († 1992)
• Johanna Cornelia (Joke) de Waart, Rotterdam († 2020)

• Anje Pesman (78), Winsum
• Aaltje Koel (50), Zaandam
• Aloijsia Josepha van Oppenraaij (27), Nijmegen
• Antje Dina Stobbelaar (78), Eibergen, Nederland
• Carolina Mathilda Ong Alok (53), Paramaribo, Suriname
• Catharina van Haasteren (80), Heemstede, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bernardus Geessink (75), Apeldoorn
• Antje Oosterhof (71), (FR) Leeuwarden
• Adélaïde Marie Juliette BERNARDEAU (84), Loches, 37132, Indre et Loire, Centre, France
• Antje Dina Stobbelaar (78), Eibergen, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1936 » Michel Aumont, French actor
• 1936 » Robert Baden-Powell, 3rd Baron Baden-Powell, South African-English businessman († 2019)
• 1937 » Linda Lavin, American actress and singer
• 1938 » Brice Marden, American painter
• 1938 » Fela Kuti, Nigerian musician and activist († 1997)
• 1938 » Marv Johnson, American singer-songwriter and pianist († 1993)
• 1938 » Robert Ward, American guitarist and songwriter († 2008)
• 1940 » Peter C. Doherty, Australian surgeon and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1940 » Tommy Bishop, English rugby league player and coach
• 1941 » Roy Masters, Australian rugby league coach, journalist, and author

• 1925 » Dolores Jiménez y Muro, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1848?)
• 1930 » Herbert Henry Dow, Canadian-American businessman, founded the Dow Chemical Company (b. 1866)
• 1934 » Raymond Poincaré, French lawyer and politician, 10th President of France (b. 1860)
• 1940 » Lluís Companys, Catalan lawyer and politician, President of Catalonia (b. 1882)
• 1945 » Pierre Laval, French lawyer and politician, 101st Prime Minister of France (b. 1883)
• 1946 » Hermann Göring, German general and politician (b. 1893)
• 1948 » Edythe Chapman, American actress (b. 1863)
• 1955 » Fumio Hayasaka, Japanese composer (b. 1914)
• 1958 » Asaf Halet Çelebi, Turkish poet and author (b. 1907)
• 1958 » Elizabeth Alexander, British geologist, academic, and physicist (b. 1908)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Adrianus
8. Petrus
9. Gerrit
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.
• February 25 » As part of British air raid precautions, the first of 2.5 million Anderson shelters is constructed in a garden in Islington, north London.
• April 1 » Spanish Civil War: Generalísimo Francisco Franco of the Spanish State announces the end of the Spanish Civil War, when the last of the Republican forces surrender.
• May 23 » The U.S. Navy submarine USS Squalus sinks off the coast of New Hampshire during a test dive, causing the death of 24 sailors and two civilian technicians. The remaining 32 sailors and one civilian naval architect are rescued the following day.
• June 12 » Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.
• August 27 » First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft.
• October 6 » World War II: The Battle of Kock is the final combat of the September Campaign in Poland.

The temperature on October 15, 1939 was between 9.3 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 9.7 mm of rain during 3.8 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.