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• Berri Arendshorst († 2019)
• Alida van Buuren, Amsterdam,, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1955)
• Cock Groenewegen, Naaldwijk, Nederland († 2018)
• Cornelis Joost van Balen, Nieuwe-Tonge, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1953)
• Jan Kroezen, Dalerveen, Dalen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2013)
• Cornelia Margaretha Maria Groenewegen, Naaldwijk, Nederland († 2018)
• Hendrik Hubertus Tekelenburg, Medan-Indonesië († 1996)
• Albert Roelofs van Benthem, Ambt Vollenhove († 2015)
• de Vos, Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelia Alblas, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1996)

• Agatha Adriana Bouma (0)
• Christina Catharina Scheele (60), Sommelsdijk
• Branca NEETER (73), Amsterdam,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Maria Anna Van Hall (92), `s-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Agnes Sala (63)
• Anna Geertruida Hoogenberg (61), Nijmegen (Gelderland)
• Anna Maria H Meijers (51), Leunen,, Limburg, Nederland
• Cornelia Bladel, van (74), Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje Kooijman (71), Noordeloos
• Cornelia Van Der Krabben (53), Breda

• 1938 » Serge Nubret, Caribbean-French bodybuilder and actor († 2011)
• 1939 » Jack Cullen, American baseball player
• 1939 » John J. LaFalce, American captain, lawyer, and politician
• 1939 » Melvyn Bragg, English journalist, author, and academic
• 1939 » Richard Delgado, American lawyer and academic
• 1939 » Sheila Greibach, American computer scientist and academic
• 1940 » Ellen Travolta, American actress
• 1940 » Jan Keizer, Dutch footballer and referee
• 1941 » Paul Popham, American soldier and activist, co-founded Gay Men's Health Crisis († 1987)
• 1942 » Dan Christensen, American painter († 2007)

• 1912 » Auguste Beernaert, Belgian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Belgium, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1829)
• 1923 » Damat Ferid Pasha, Ottoman politician, 285th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1853)
• 1942 » Siegmund Glücksmann, German politician (b. 1884)
• 1945 » Leonardo Conti, German SS officer (b. 1900)
• 1947 » Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer and critic (b. 1887)
• 1951 » Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
• 1951 » Will Keith Kellogg, American businessman, founded the Kellogg Company (b. 1860)
• 1959 » Bernard Berenson, American historian and author (b. 1865)
• 1962 » Tod Browning, American actor, director, screenwriter (b. 1880)
• 1968 » Phyllis Nicolson, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1917)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Jacob
9. Robert
10. Adrianus
11. Petrus
12. Jacobus
13. Wilhelmus
14. Gerardus
15. Dirk
16. Johan

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Hendrika
8. Adriana
9. Catharina
10. Petronella
11. Geertruida
12. Margaretha
13. Jacoba
14. Annie
15. Marie
16. Aaltje

• 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 August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 8.8 million citizens.
• January 19 » You Nazty Spy!, the first Hollywood film of any kind to satirize Adolf Hitler and the Nazis premieres, starring The Three Stooges, with Moe Howard as the character "Moe Hailstone" satirizing Hitler.
• May 13 » Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands flees her country to Great Britain after the German invasion. Princess Juliana takes her children to Canada for their safety.
• May 15 » Richard and Maurice McDonald open the first McDonald's restaurant.
• June 26 » World War II: Under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and the northern part of Bukovina.
• August 3 » World War II: Italian forces begin the invasion of British Somaliland.
• October 28 » Second World War: Greece rejects Italy's ultimatum. Italy invades Greece through Albania a few hours later.

The temperature on October 6, 1940 was between 10.4 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 10.5 mm of rain during 6.2 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.