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• CORNELIS JOHANNES MAAT, Berkel en Rodenrijs, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2006)
• Gerardus Joannes Aloysius ter Weijden, Blaricum († 2021)
• Dale Nedervelt († 1992)
• Bonner Jean McBride († 1941)
• Johanna Alida Maria Heemskerk, Koudekerk aan den Rijn († 1985)
• JAN MOSTERT, NIJKERK († 2010)
• Hendricus Hoogervorst, Hillegom († 2006)
• Abram Emens († 1991)
• Harry van Eldijk, Maasbommel († 2000)
• Gerdie van Gaal († 2007)

• Adriana Jacoba Montijn (26), Rotterdam
• Anna-Catharina Vanschoonbeek (78), Lovenjoel
• Bernardus Vorspel (88), Groningen
• Arie Buitelaar (80), Rijswijk
• Annigje Cornelia BAK (59), Stolwijk
• Adrianus Petrus Cornelius Anthonius van den Ende (65), Seattle,King Co.,Washington,United States
• Abel Jakobs van der Hulst (87)
• Antonia Catharina van Zeelst (66), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Albert Pol (0), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aaltje Wegloop (38)

• 1938 » Joan Kirner, Australian educator and politician, 42nd Premier of Victoria († 2015)
• 1938 » Mickie Most, English music producer († 2003)
• 1939 » Budge Rogers, English rugby player and manager
• 1939 » Ramakant Desai, Indian cricketer († 1998)
• 1940 » Eugen Drewermann, German priest and theologian
• 1940 » John Mahoney, English actor († 2018)
• 1941 » Stephen Frears, English actor, director, and producer
• 1941 » Ulf Merbold, German physicist and astronaut
• 1942 » Brian Wilson, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1942 » Neil Trudinger, Australian mathematician and theorist

• 1909 » Friedrich Martens, Estonian-Russian historian, lawyer, and diplomat (b. 1845)
• 1925 » Josef Breuer, Austrian physician and psychologist (b. 1842)
• 1929 » Emmanouil Benakis, Greek merchant and politician, 35th Mayor of Athens (b. 1843)
• 1945 » Bruno Frank, German author, poet, and playwright (b. 1878)
• 1947 » Bugsy Siegel, American mobster (b. 1906)
• 1952 » Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (b. 1898)
• 1958 » Kurt Alder, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1963 » Raphaël Salem, Greek-French mathematician and academic (b. 1898)
• 1965 » Bernard Baruch, American financier and politician (b. 1870)
• 1966 » Georges Lemaître, Belgian priest, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1894)

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 5 » 37-year-old pilot Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia, disappears after bailing out of her plane over the River Thames, and is presumed dead.
• March 7 » Günther Prien and the crew of German submarine U-47, one of the most successful U-boats of World War II, disappear without a trace.
• 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.
• July 4 » Nazi crimes against the Polish nation: Nazi troops massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Ukrainian city of Lviv.
• November 26 » World War II: Japan's 1st Air Fleet departs the Kuril Islands to strike Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
• December 24 » World War II: Kuching is conquered by Japanese forces.

The temperature on June 20, 1941 was between 11.6 °C and 25.6 °C and averaged 18.9 °C. There was 14.8 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.