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• Aaltje Jans Gruis, Vlagtwedde, Groningen, Netherlands († 1987)
• Her van Huijgevoort, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2004)
• Dirkje WILLEGEN, van, Gameren, Gelderland, Nederland († 1941)
• Dirk Zomer, Alteveer, Hoogeveen († 2016)
• Anny Klijn († 2015)
• Frederik Johannes Ferrageau de Saint Amand, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1994)
• Jan Ivits, Eindhoven,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2000)
• bernardus adrianus antonius van rooijen, utrecht († 1943)
• Adrianus Josephus Gerardus Boelen, Vlijmen († 1944)
• Ernest John Schlag-Rowe, Edmonton, AB, Canada († 2019)

• v Hendrika Maria de Vries (56), Tilburg
• Abe Nauta (72), Harkema-Opeinde, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriana Petronella Dimphena Maria Zoontjens (2), Baarle-Nassau
• Arie Molenaar (60), Velsen
• Adriana van der Avoird van der AVOIRT (64), Tilburg,,Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Abe Jacobs Nauta (72), Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Netherlands
• Antje Hendriks (68), Leeuwarden
• Adriaan van den Aarssen (76), Roosendaal en Nispen
• Annie Ellen Zela Perdue (69)
• Anne Rademaker (83), Gronau, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

• 1935 » Barry Cryer, English comedian, actor and screenwriter
• 1936 » Jannis Kounellis, Greek painter and sculptor († 2017)
• 1937 » Craig Breedlove, American race car driver
• 1937 » Robert Gallo, American physician and academic
• 1937 » Tony Burton, American actor, comedian, boxer and football player († 2016)
• 1938 » Jon Finlayson, Australian actor and screenwriter († 2012)
• 1942 » Jimmy Miller, American record producer and musician († 1994)
• 1942 » Michael Haneke, Austrian director, producer and screenwriter
• 1942 » Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian, scholar and activist († 1980)
• 1943 » Andrew Crockett, Scottish-English economist and banker († 2012)

• 1923 » Hovhannes Tumanyan, Armenian poet and author (b. 1869)
• 1927 » Paul César Helleu, French painter and etcher (b. 1859)
• 1931 » Bhagat Singh, Indian activist (b. 1907)
• 1931 » Shivaram Rajguru, Indian activist (b. 1908)
• 1931 » Sukhdev Thapar, Indian activist (b. 1907)
• 1953 » Oskar Luts, Estonian author and playwright (b. 1887)
• 1953 » Raoul Dufy, French painter and illustrator (b. 1877)
• 1955 » Arthur Bernardes, Brazilian politician, 12th President of Brazil (b. 1875)
• 1960 » Franklin Pierce Adams, American journalist and author (b. 1881)
• 1960 » Said Nursî, Turkish theologian and scholar (b. 1878)

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.
• March 30 » The Heinkel He 100 fighter sets a world airspeed record of 463mph (745km/h).
• April 14 » The Grapes of Wrath, by American author John Steinbeck is first published by the Viking Press.
• 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 4 » The Holocaust: The MSSt. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, in the United States, after already being turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, more than 200 of its passengers later die in Nazi concentration camps.
• September 17 » World War II: German submarineU-29 sinks the British aircraft carrier HMSCourageous.
• November 8 » In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes the assassination attempt of Georg Elser while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.

The temperature on March 23, 1939 was between -0.7 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 3.3 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain during 2.8 hours. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.