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• Gerrit (Gert) van Voorst († 1980)
• (Stillborn) SPOELMA, Warffum Groningen Netherlands († 1939)
• Bindert Sijbren Bosma († 2017)
• Barbara Coli, Rotterdam († 1988)
• Eva van Gelder, Hengelo († 1942)
• Carolina Martina Antonia van den Eijnde, Deurne († 1940)
• Cornelis Maria Pijnenburg, Liempde († 1941)
• Jan HOEGAERTS († 2012)
• Barbara COLI, Den Haag († 1988)
• Candido Henrique de Oliveira Guidon, Jaú, São Paulo, Brasil († 1968)

• Oostveen (0), Eijgelshoven (LI, NLD)
• Albertus Martinus BRUSSE (76), 's-Gravenhage (Z-H)
• Adriana van der Stelt (79), Schoonrewoerd, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Annie Van Barge (75), New Lyme, Ashtabula, Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Maria Wersch van (80), Kerkrade (L
• Anna Gerdina Lucker (82), Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aloyisius Josephus Dupon (71), Ichtegem
• Alice Thompson (85), South Dakota, United States
• Wiekardt (0), Hoedekenskerke
• Arie van Delft (67), Rijnsburg, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1935 » Geoff Braybrooke, English-New Zealand soldier and politician († 2013)
• 1938 » A. Bartlett Giamatti, American businessman and academic († 1989)
• 1939 » Darlene Hooley, American educator and politician
• 1939 » Hugh Masekela, South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer, and singer († 2018)
• 1939 » JoAnne Carner, American golfer
• 1940 » Richard Attwood, English race car driver
• 1940 » Sharon Sheeley, American singer-songwriter († 2002)
• 1942 » Elizabeth Levy, American author
• 1942 » Jim Fregosi, American baseball player and manager († 2014)
• 1942 » Kitty Kelley, American journalist and biographer

• 1923 » John Venn, English mathematician and philosopher, created the Venn diagram (b. 1834)
• 1929 » Karl Benz, German engineer and businessman, founded Mercedes-Benz (b. 1844)
• 1931 » André Michelin, French businessman, co-founded the Michelin Tyre Company (b. 1853)
• 1932 » Wilhelm Ostwald, Latvian-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
• 1933 » Elizabeth Bacon Custer, American author and educator (b. 1842)
• 1941 » Emine Nazikedâ Kadınefendi, the first wife and chief consort of Sultan Mehmed VI (b. 1866)
• 1944 » Morris H. Whitehouse, American architect (b. 1878)
• 1951 » George Albert Smith, American religious leader, 8th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1870)
• 1953 » Carol II of Romania (b. 1893)
• 1957 » E. Herbert Norman, Canadian historian and diplomat (b. 1909)

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.
• April 30 » NBC inaugurates its regularly scheduled television service in New York City, broadcasting President Franklin D. Roosevelt's N.Y. World's Fair opening day ceremonial address.
• July 28 » The Sutton Hoo helmet is discovered.
• August 2 » Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.
• September 21 » Romanian Prime Minister Armand Călinescu is assassinated by the Iron Guard.
• September 30 » World War II: General Władysław Sikorski becomes prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile.
• October 15 » The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed LaGuardia Airport) is dedicated.

The temperature on April 4, 1939 was between 7.6 °C and 13.5 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 15.1 mm of rain during 5.8 hours. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.