About the day » Monday August 5, 1940Calender converter

• Antje van der Veen, Norg, Drenthe, Nederland († 1946)
• Bartholomeus Dominicus de Groen, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2007)
• James (Jim) Lolkus, Chandler Murray Minnesota, Verenigde Staten († 2004)
• Adriana Margaretha Netten, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands († 1982)
• Antonio Sérgio Arruda Stella, Araraquara, São Paulo, Brasil († 1940)
• Antonius Cornelis Joseph Rietveld, deventer (overijssel) († 1941)
• Geraldine Irene Gastelaars, Leiden († 1940)
• Hendrikus Josephus Looijen, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1945)
• Fredrick John Lloyd Minchin († 2010)
• Enrica Brugmans († 2010)

• Baukje Koning (75), Oldemarkt
• Alberdina Catharina de Weerdt (53), Leeuwarden
• Jacob Metselaar (79), Hoogeveen
• Antonia Brinkhof (72), Deventer
• Ana Jochem (64)
• Margje Van Der Weide (81), Elim
• Baukje Koning (75), Oldemarkt
• Barbara Geertruida Maria Scholte (29), Poortugaal
• Catharina Alma (77), Groningen, Nederland
• Bastiaan VISSER (47), De Werken en Sleeuwijk

• 1937 » Herb Brooks, American ice hockey player and coach († 2003)
• 1939 » Carmen Salinas, Mexican actress and politician
• 1939 » Roger Clark, English race car driver († 1998)
• 1940 » Bobby Braddock, American country music songwriter, musician, and producer
• 1940 » Rick Huxley, English bass player († 2013)
• 1940 » Roman Gabriel, American football player, coach, and actor
• 1941 » Airto Moreira, Brazilian-American drummer and composer
• 1941 » Bob Clark, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 2007)
• 1941 » Leonid Kizim, Ukrainian general, pilot, and astronaut († 2010)
• 1942 » Joe Boyd, American record producer, founded Hannibal Records

• 1929 » Millicent Fawcett, English trade union leader and activist (b. 1847)
• 1933 » Charles Harold Davis, American painter and academic (b. 1856)
• 1935 » David Townsend, American art director and set designer (b. 1891)
• 1939 » Béla Jankovich, Hungarian economist and politician, Minister of Education of Hungary (b. 1865)
• 1944 » Maurice Turnbull, Welsh cricketer and rugby player (b. 1906)
• 1946 » Wilhelm Marx, German lawyer and politician, 17th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1863)
• 1948 » Montagu Toller, English cricketer and lawyer (b. 1871)
• 1952 » Sameera Moussa, Egyptian physicist and academic (b. 1917)
• 1955 » Carmen Miranda, Portuguese-Brazilian actress and singer (b. 1909)
• 1957 » Heinrich Otto Wieland, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877)

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. Jacoba
13. Margaretha
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 29 » Finland initiates Winter War peace negotiations.
• May 24 » Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
• May 27 » World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 99 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops; two survive.
• July 3 » World War II: The Royal Navy attacks the French naval squadron in Algeria, to ensure that it will not fall under German control. Of the four French battleships present, one is sunk, two are damaged, and one escapes back to France.
• October 17 » The body of Communist propagandist Willi Münzenberg found in South France, starting a never-resolved mystery.
• November 12 » World War II: Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov arrives in Berlin to discuss the possibility of the Soviet Union joining the Axis Powers.

The temperature on August 5, 1940 was between 13.4 °C and 25.4 °C and averaged 19.3 °C. There was 11.9 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.