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• Frank Leroy Harvey († 1940)
• Jacobus van Dijk, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2007)
• Johanna Petronella Catharina Graumans, Teteringen († 1948)
• James Marlyn Highsmith, Hanlontown, Worth County, Iowa († 1940)
• A.G. Visser († 2006)
• Jan Niks, Vriezenveen, Overijssel, Nederland († 1992)
• Henk Kamman, Noordscheschut († 2009)
• Camiel Braet, Maldegem († 1940)
• Johanna Dina VAN HUIZEN, Soesterberg Utrecht Netherlands († 1942)
• Dinie Muijsers, Merselo († 2017)

• Calvin Edward Smock (74), Los Angeles County, California, United States
• Charles Theodore Leijen (72), Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan (USA)
• Belisário Augusto de Oliveira Penna (70), Sacra Família do Tinguá, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
• Antonius Willemse (62), Zevenbergen
• Attje Johannes de Boer (80), Deersum, gem. Rauwerderhem, Friesland, Nederland
• Albert Koster (90), Heemstede
• Bertus Klomp (68), Geervliet, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Willemse (62), Zevenbergen,Noord-Brabant,Nederland
• Aaltje Jochems (77), Barneveld
• Adriana Antonia de Bruijn (16)

• 1937 » Mary Daheim, American journalist and author
• 1938 » Barry Newman, American actor
• 1938 » Dee Clark, American singer-songwriter († 1990)
• 1938 » Jake Gibbs, American baseball player and coach
• 1938 » Jim Kaat, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1939 » Barbara Liskov, American computer scientist and academic
• 1940 » Antonio Skármeta, Chilean author and academic
• 1940 » Dakin Matthews, American actor, director, and playwright
• 1941 » Angelo Scola, Italian cardinal and philosopher
• 1941 » Madeline Gins, American poet and architect († 2014)

• 1919 » Hugo Haase, German lawyer, jurist, and politician (b. 1863)
• 1922 » Sam Thompson, American baseball player (b. 1860)
• 1923 » Ashwini Kumar Dutta, Indian educator and philanthropist (b. 1856)
• 1930 » Ōkido Moriemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 23rd Yokozuna (b. 1878)
• 1933 » Harold Weber, American golfer and architect (b. 1882)
• 1941 » Frank Pick, English lawyer and businessman (b. 1878)
• 1944 » Hannah Szenes, Hungarian-Israeli soldier and poet (b. 1921)
• 1944 » Richard Sorge, Azerbaijani-German journalist and spy (b. 1895)
• 1947 » K. Natesa Iyer, Indian-Sri Lankan journalist and politician (b. 1887)
• 1959 » Victor McLaglen, English-American boxer and actor (b. 1883)

• 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.
• March 28 » Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid after a three-year siege.
• July 4 » Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, informs a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considers himself "The luckiest man on the face of the earth", then announces his retirement from major league baseball.
• July 6 » Anti-Jewish legislation in prewar Nazi Germany closes the last remaining Jewish enterprises.
• September 3 » World War II: The United Kingdom and France begin a naval blockade of Germany that lasts until the end of the war. This also marks the beginning of the Battle of the Atlantic.
• September 30 » NBC broadcasts the first televised American football game.
• November 23 » World War II: HMSRawalpindi is sunk by the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.

The temperature on November 7, 1939 was between 4.8 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 3.6 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.