About the day » Saturday March 22, 1941Calender converter

• Henrica Alberta Josefina Reinerink, Geesteren († 2014)
• Berend Booij, Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland († 1942)
• Hendrika Koster, Dedemsvaart, Overijssel, Nederland († 1941)
• Erika Elfferich, Arnhem († 1941)
• Bernhard Leopold Otto Blankendaal, Alkmaar († 2013)
• Diederica ten Hove, Oosterhesselen, Nederland († 1941)
• Jaap Advocaat, 's-Gravenhage († 2023)
• Erwin WESTENBROEK († 1999)
• Hubertina Maria VOPICSKA, Genk (Limburg) (B) († 1996)
• Arend Booij, Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland († 1942)

• Anna Maria Petronella Gimmenich (84), Eijgelshoven, Limburg, Nederland
• Cecilia Jacoba Kruger (40), Groot Perdekloof, Carnarvon, South Africa
• Anton Karel Uldrik (43)
• Cato Weemhof (73), hedel
• Bastiaan Beuzekom (73), Gorinchem
• Albert Moraal (65), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Dictus (88), Zundert
• Charles PABST (56), Malang
• Adriana Diderica Koek (90), Ouddorp, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Angelina Hubertina Savelkoul (86), Grevenbicht, Provincie Limburg, Nederland

• 1940 » Dave Keon, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1940 » George Edward Alcorn, Jr. American physicist and inventor
• 1940 » Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian-American physician and author († 1996)
• 1941 » Billy Collins, American poet
• 1941 » Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor († 2019)
• 1941 » Cassam Uteem, Mauritian politician, 2nd President of Mauritius
• 1941 » Jeremy Clyde, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1942 » Dick Pound, Canadian lawyer and academic
• 1942 » Jorge Ben Jor, Brazilian singer-songwriter
• 1943 » George Benson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1924 » William Macewen, Scottish surgeon and neuroscientist (b. 1848)
• 1931 » James Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy, Irish lawyer and politician (b. 1851)
• 1942 » Frederick Cuming, English cricketer (b. 1875)
• 1942 » William Donne, English captain and cricketer (b. 1875)
• 1945 » John Hessin Clarke, American lawyer and judge (b. 1857)
• 1952 » D. S. Senanayake, 1st Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1883)
• 1955 » Ivan Šubašić, Croatian lawyer and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1892)
• 1958 » Mike Todd, American film producer (b. 1909)
• 1960 » José Antonio Aguirre, Spanish lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Basque Country (b. 1904)
• 1966 » John Harlin, American mountaineer and pilot (b. 1935)

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

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

• 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 September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 8.9 million citizens.
• January 6 » United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms speech in the State of the Union address.
• April 13 » A pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed.
• May 15 » Joe DiMaggio begins a 56-game hitting streak.
• June 27 » Romanian authorities launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iași, resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews.
• December 7 » World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Japanese Navy carries out a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (For Japan's near-simultaneous attacks on Eastern Hemisphere targets, see December 8.)
• December 17 » World War II: Japanese forces land in Northern Borneo.

The temperature on March 22, 1941 was between 1.6 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 4.2 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain during 5.5 hours. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.