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• Johanna Maria E. Focke, Amsterdam († 2018)
• Edith Ann BROOMHALL, Latrobe, Tasmania, Australia († 2010)
• Johanna Hendrika Vos, Hilversum († 2009)
• Edeltraud Kober († 1974)
• Anje Doornbos, Delfzijl, Farmsum († 2017)
• Jacob Johannes Cornelis Zoet, Leiden († 2018)
• Hilda Jane Patterson († 1987)
• Donald Keith WITZIG, Peoria, IL († 2016)
• Otten, Hoogeveen nederland († 1939)
• Grégoire Just LEPERLIER, Saint-Louis,97421,Réunion,Réunion,FRANCE († 1939)

• Anna Hulzebos (77), Groningen, Nederland
• AALTJE DE JONG (71), ROTTERDAM
• Adriana Sweep (63), Princenhage, Gemeente Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriaantje Goudappel (87), de Lier, Nederland
• Aaltje Klaasdr Rab (62), Terschelling,, Friesland, Nederland
• Amanda J Canter (63), Drummond, Garfield, Oklahoma, Verenigde Staten
• Albertina Seraphina DE VIDTS (81), Pamel
• Berendina Keijzer (54), Oldehove, NL-GR
• Andrew Robert Forbes (77), Melbourne, Victoria,Australia
• Aaltje Rab (62), Terschelling (Frl.)

• 1934 » Gergely Kulcsár, Hungarian javelin thrower
• 1935 » Graham Farmer, Australian footballer and coach († 2019)
• 1936 » Sepp Blatter, Swiss businessman
• 1938 » Norman Blake, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1939 » Asghar Ali Engineer, Indian activist and author († 2013)
• 1939 » Irina Press, Ukrainian-Russian hurdler and pentathlete († 2004)
• 1940 » Chuck Norris, American actor, producer, and martial artist
• 1940 » David Rabe, American playwright and screenwriter
• 1943 » Peter Berresford Ellis, English historian and author
• 1945 » Katharine Houghton, American actress and playwright

• 1913 » Harriet Tubman, American nurse and activist (b. c.1820)
• 1925 » Myer Prinstein, Polish-American jumper (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian journalist and author (b. 1884)
• 1940 » Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian novelist and playwright (b. 1891)
• 1942 » Wilbur Scoville, American pharmacist and chemist (b. 1865)
• 1948 » Jan Masaryk, Czech soldier and politician (b. 1886)
• 1948 » Zelda Fitzgerald, American author, poet, and dancer (b. 1900)
• 1951 » Kijūrō Shidehara, Japanese lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1872)
• 1966 » Frank O'Connor, Irish short story writer, novelist, and poet (b. 1903)
• 1966 » Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)

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. Adriana
9. Catharina
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.
• March 3 » In Bombay, Mohandas Gandhi begins a hunger strike in protest at the autocratic rule in British India.
• March 28 » Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid after a three-year siege.
• April 20 » Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday's celebrations in Germany
• 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.
• September 4 » World War II: William J. Murphy commands the first Royal Air Force attack on Germany.
• December 15 » Gone with the Wind (highest inflation adjusted grossing film) receives its premiere at Loew's Grand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

The temperature on March 10, 1939 was between 0.9 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.