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• Johannes Antonius van den Akker, Deurne († 1998)
• Jannig Kemper († 2022)
• Jacobus van Andel, Haarlem († 2011)
• Jos van der Ham († 1994)
• Christianus Cornelius (Christ) ROOSEN, Zeelst/Eindhoven (NL/NB) († 2010)
• Schuurman, Wijnaldum († 1940)
• Ariënne van Hoof, Eindhoven, Nederland († 2002)
• Hedzer Lambertus Hooijenga, Ermelo, Ermelo, Gldlnd, Nthr († 1944)
• Jan Hoegee, Rotterdam († 1944)
• Bouwinus Takens, Bellingwolde († 2019)

• Charles Hammond Todd **** (64), Chicago, Cook, Illinois
• Antonetta Jacoba LAGEMAN (82), Utrecht
• Anton Willem Jan Lambert Bondowosicus de Vries (43), Batavia
• Antonij Vos (84), Hilvarenbeek
• Anna Marij Hendriks (85), Arnhem, Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adolf Frans Petrus De Boey (53), Berchem-Antwerpen
• Cent Quist (86), Gemeente Tholen, Zeeland, Nederland
• August Anton Bernard Biermann (73), Heemstede
• Catharina Cecilia Fluks (77), Franeker,Gemeente Franekeradeel,Friesland,Nederland
• Anna Hermina EUWE (68)

• 1937 » Rob Houwer, Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1937 » Ulf G. Lindén, Swedish businessman († 2009)
• 1938 » Gus Johnson, American basketball player († 1987)
• 1938 » Tom Shaw, American golfer
• 1940 » Sanjaya Lall, Indian economist and academic († 2005)
• 1941 » John Davidson, American actor and game show host
• 1942 » Anna Eshoo, American lawyer and politician
• 1942 » Howard Brenton, English playwright and screenwriter
• 1943 » Ferguson Jenkins, Canadian baseball and basketball player
• 1943 » Marti Webb, British actress and singer

• 1932 » Georgios Jakobides, Greek painter and sculptor (b. 1853)
• 1935 » Victor Grignard, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)
• 1942 » Robert Robinson Taylor, American architect (b. 1868)
• 1942 » Wlodimir Ledóchowski, Austrian-Polish religious leader, 26th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1866)
• 1944 » Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-French painter and theorist (b. 1866)
• 1945 » Elisabeth Volkenrath, Polish-German concentration camp supervisor (b. 1919)
• 1945 » Irma Grese, German concentration camp guard (b. 1923)
• 1945 » Josef Kramer, German concentration camp commandant (b. 1906)
• 1947 » Henry James, American lawyer and author (b. 1879)
• 1947 » Nicholas Roerich, Russian archaeologist, painter, and philosopher (b. 1874)

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.
• March 3 » Five people are killed in an arson attack on the offices of the communist newspaper Flamman in Luleå, Sweden.
• March 5 » Six high-ranking members of Soviet politburo, including Joseph Stalin, sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, in what will become known as the Katyn massacre.
• May 5 » World War II: Norwegian Campaign: Norwegian squads in Hegra Fortress and Vinjesvingen capitulate to German forces after all other Norwegian forces in southern Norway had laid down their arms.
• May 24 » Acting on the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, NKVD agent Iosif Grigulevich orchestrates an unsuccessful assassination attempt on exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Coyoacán, Mexico.
• September 9 » George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.
• November 9 » Warsaw is awarded the Virtuti Militari.

The temperature on December 13, 1940 was between -3.3 °C and 4.2 °C and averaged 1.0 °C. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.