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• Danielle PEPERSTRAETE, Ploegsteert,7782,Hainaut,Wallonie,Belgique († 2008)
• Johanna Maria G. Jansen, Made-Drimmelen († 2010)
• Agada Meijvogel, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1939)
• Aloijsia Dorothea Maria (Wies) Kleene, Roermond († 1939)
• DOODGEBOREN KIND WILLEMSEN, PUTTEN († 1939)
• Johanna Sturk, Den Helder († 2003)
• Laanen, Halsteren
• Angela Karoline Lagoni, Kiel, Duitsland († 2016)
• Henrica Maria Elisabeth Voskens, Tilburg († 2012)
• Jannetje Johanna Griffioen, Woerden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2012)

• Abram Albertus Celliers (65), Robertson, Cape Province, South Africa
• Antonia Stoppels (87), Delfzijl (gem. Eemsdelta)
• Annetje Kammeraad (90), Holland (Ottawa County) (Michigan)
• Celina Miranda e Castro (50), Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
• Cécile Rose BERNARD (73), Ixelles Belgie
• Alma Retta Hazelrigg (66), Carrizo Springs, Dimmit, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Albert BOERSMA (71), Workum, Friesland, Nederland
• Antonia Antoons Stoppels (87), Delfzijl
• Aloijsia Dorothea Maria (Wies) Kleene (0)
• Albert van de Belt (36), Hoogeveen {DR}

• 1937 » Fernand Labrie, Canadian endocrinologist and academic
• 1937 » George Knudson, Canadian golfer († 1989)
• 1937 » Ron Luciano, American baseball player and umpire († 1995)
• 1938 » John Byner, American actor and comedian
• 1938 » Leon Panetta, American lawyer and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of Defense
• 1938 » S. Sivamaharajah, Sri Lankan Tamil newspaper publisher and politician († 2006)
• 1938 » Simon Douglas-Pennant, 7th Baron Penrhyn, British baron
• 1939 » Klaus Schmiegel, German chemist
• 1940 » Karpal Singh, Malaysian lawyer and politician († 2014)
• 1940 » Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

• 1917 » Ștefan Luchian, Romanian painter and educator (b. 1868)
• 1922 » Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1885)
• 1929 » Edward Carpenter, English poet and philosopher (b. 1844)
• 1936 » Alexander Berkman, American author and activist († 1870)
• 1939 » Douglas H. Johnston, governor of the Chickasaw Nation (b. 1856)
• 1940 » Italo Balbo, Italian air marshal and politician (b. 1896)
• 1944 » Friedrich Dollmann, German general (b. 1882)
• 1945 » Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu, Turkish journalist (b. 1879)
• 1947 » Stanislav Kostka Neumann, Czech writer, poet and journalist (b. 1875)
• 1960 » Jake Swirbul, American businessman, co-founded the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation (b. 1898)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Adrianus
8. Gerrit
9. Petrus
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.
• 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 1 » General George C. Marshall becomes Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
• September 10 » World War II: The submarine HMSOxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMSTriton near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss of a submarine in the war.
• November 15 » In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.
• November 30 » Winter War: Soviet forces cross the Finnish border in several places and bomb Helsinki and several other Finnish cities, starting the war.
• December 27 » The 7.8 M_w  Erzincan earthquake shakes eastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). At least 32,700 people were killed.

The temperature on June 28, 1939 was between 11.6 °C and 23.7 °C and averaged 16.8 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.