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• Herman Reijven, Wormer († 2017)
• Donald Pranger
• Gerrit Goudriaan, Krimpen aan de Lek, Nederlek, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1940)
• Leonardus Laurentius KORTE, Apeldoorn († 1983)
• Hendrik Wendt, Hattem, Nederland († 2010)
• Levenloos Geboren KRAMER, Urk, Flevoland, Nederland († 1940)
• Gerardus Bernardus Waterlander, Beverwijk († 1941)
• Johannes Jacobus Hubertus Butter, Lisse († 1995)
• Jacob Zaagmans, Achlum († 1948)
• Elsje Maria Langelaan, Noordwijk († 2002)

• Arie Slingerland (48), Rotterdam
• Antonetta Vroon (75), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Beertien (Beertje) Strijk (75), Westerbork
• Angele Elisa Armande PACQUAY (59), Gent
• Beertien Strijk (75), Westerbork, Drenthe, Nederland
• Antonius Gerardus Cornelis van Scheijndel (0), Delft
• Antje Lagerwey (69), Kalamazoo Michican (USA)
• Bertus VERMEER (1), Eindhoven
• Barbara Brouwer (90), Rhenen
• Kramer

• 1938 » Bill Withers, American singer-songwriter and producer († 2020)
• 1938 » Steven Rose, English biologist and academic
• 1940 » Pat Stapleton, Canadian ice hockey player († 2020)
• 1941 » Brian Willson, American soldier, lawyer, and activist
• 1941 » Pavel Sedláček, Czech singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1941 » Sam Farr, American politician
• 1941 » Tomaž Šalamun, Croatian-Slovenian poet and academic († 2014)
• 1942 » Floyd Little, American football player and coach
• 1942 » Hal Lanier, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1942 » Stefan Meller, French-Polish academic and politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs († 2008)

• 1922 » Lothar von Richthofen, German lieutenant and pilot (b. 1894)
• 1926 » Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian activist and saint (b. 1901)
• 1934 » Marie Curie, French-Polish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1938 » Otto Bauer, Austrian philosopher and politician, Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1881)
• 1938 » Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player (b. 1899)
• 1941 » Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician and academic (b. 1881)
• 1943 » Władysław Sikorski, Polish general and politician, 9th Prime Minister of the Second Republic of Poland (b. 1881)
• 1946 » Taffy O'Callaghan, Welsh footballer and coach (b. 1906)
• 1948 » Monteiro Lobato, Brazilian journalist and author (b. 1882)
• 1949 » François Brandt, Dutch rower and engineer (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. Annie
14. Jacoba
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.
• April 9 » Vidkun Quisling seizes power in Norway.
• June 10 » World War II: Military resistance to the German occupation of Norway ends.
• June 21 » World War II: Italy begins an unsuccessful invasion of France.
• July 10 » World War II: Six days before Adolf Hitler issues his Directive 16 to the combined Wehrmacht armed forces for Operation Sea Lion, the Kanalkampf shipping attacks against British maritime convoys begin, in the leadup to initiating the Battle of Britain.
• September 12 » Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France.
• September 19 » World War II: Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz to smuggle out information and start a resistance movement.

The temperature on July 4, 1940 was between 10.9 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.