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• Schreuder, Bellingwolde, Groningen, Nederland († 1940)
• Gijsbertha Schimmel († 2018)
• Adrianus Nicolaas Maria (Aad) Kester, Naaldwijk, 2671, Nederland († 2021)
• Geertruida Jozefina Kokhuis, Geesteren († 2021)
• Adriana Kuiper, 's Gravenhage († 2002)
• Freerk Leffers, Mussel († 1989)
• Alberdina Klinge, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1941)
• Alberdina Klinge, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Netherlands († 1941)
• Gerardus Hendrikus Meekel, Edam († 1945)
• Aartje Pater, Lunteren, Gelderland, Nederland († 2021)

• Arie GRAVENDEEL (52), Heemstede,Noord Holland,Netherlands
• Antonia Francina Braad (51), Rotterdam
• Alphonsus Mols (67), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arie Ariesz. Dekkers (93), Klundert (NB Nederland)
• Adriana van der Linden (78), Leiden
• Anthonij de Lange (27), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Elisabeth Maria Steentjes (0), 's-Gravenhage
• Barbara Vossenaar (89), Roermond, Limburg, Nederland
• Albert Hendrik Pieters (63), Mr. Cornelis (NOI)
• Berendina Johanna Bielderman (73), Deventer (Z)

• 1937 » Rudi Altig, German cyclist and sportscaster († 2016)
• 1938 » Carl Gottlieb, American actor and screenwriter
• 1938 » Kenny Lynch, English singer-songwriter and actor († 2019)
• 1938 » Machiko Soga, Japanese actress († 2006)
• 1938 » Shashi Kapoor, Indian actor and producer († 2017)
• 1938 » Timo Mäkinen, Finnish race car driver († 2017)
• 1939 » Jean-Pierre Wallez, French violinist and conductor
• 1939 » Ron Atkinson, English footballer and manager
• 1941 » Wilson Pickett, American singer-songwriter († 2006)
• 1942 » Kathleen Collins, African-American filmmaker and playwright († 1988)

• 1918 » Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, American architect, designed the Plaza Hotel (b. 1847)
• 1930 » Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, American painter (b. 1863)
• 1936 » Eleftherios Venizelos, Greek journalist, lawyer, and politician, 93rd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1864)
• 1939 » Henry Simpson Lunn, English businessman, founded Lunn Poly (b. 1859)
• 1941 » Henri Cornet, French cyclist (b. 1884)
• 1947 » William C. Durant, American businessman, co-founded General Motors and Chevrolet (b. 1861)
• 1954 » Walter Mead, English cricketer (b. 1868)
• 1956 » Louis Bromfield, American environmentalist and author (b. 1896)
• 1962 » Walter W. Bacon, American accountant and politician, 60th Governor of Delaware (b. 1880)
• 1964 » Sigfrid Edström, Swedish businessman, 4th President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1870)

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. Arie

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.
• February 10 » The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia.
• May 7 » World War II: The Norway Debate in the British House of Commons begins, and leads to the replacement of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain with Winston Churchill three days later.
• May 28 » World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik in Norway. This is the first allied infantry victory of the War.
• June 22 » World War II: France is forced to sign the Second Compiègne armistice with Germany, in the same railroad car in which the Germans signed the Armistice in 1918.
• August 20 » World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes the fourth of his famous wartime speeches, containing the line "Never was so much owed by so many to so few".
• August 25 » World War II: The first Bombing of Berlin by the British Royal Air Force.

The temperature on March 18, 1940 was between 5.1 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 10.2 mm of rain during 6.2 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.