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• Andries van Duijvenbode, Katwijk aan Zee, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2023)
• Barry Lee BOENS († 1941)
• Edith Judith Cornelia PYLISER, Veurne († 2018)
• David Charles Hendricks, Missouri († 1999)
• Béla Godó, Budapest, Hungary († 2004)
• Jean Henri Schrooten, Rotem († 2007)
• Luurt Schipper († 2002)
• Eldina Henderika Hulst, Beilen († 1944)
• Celia Frances Todd, Wellington († 2014)
• Harmanna Huijgen († 2003)

• Berendina Harkema (89), Groningen, NL-GR
• Anne Ottema (91), Het Bildt, Friesland, Netherlands
• Adrianus van Hezik (46), Maasdriel
• Anna Wilhelmina Veraart (84), Schiedam
• Arij Boender (31), Zuid-Beijerland
• Arnoldus de Win (70), Tilburg
• Abraham Jas (23), Mauthausen, Oberosterreich, Oostenrijk
• Aperahama Tupahu Tahuna Horomona (70), Kaiapoi, Canterbury, New Zealand
• Adolph Henry ROHDE (71), Verwood,South Central,Sakatchewan,Canada
• Abraham Vermeer (0)

• 1938 » Ernie Sigley, Australian television host
• 1938 » Jimmy Clanton, American pop singer-songwriter
• 1938 » Leonard Appleyard, English diplomat, British Ambassador to China
• 1941 » John Thompson, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1941 » Jyrki Otila, Finnish economist and politician († 2003)
• 1941 » Sadhana Shivdasani, Indian actress († 2015)
• 1943 » Glen Sather, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
• 1943 » Joe Simon, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1943 » Rosalind Ashford, American singer
• 1944 » Janet Simpson, English sprinter († 2010)

• 1934 » Alcide Nunez, American clarinet player (Original Dixieland Jass Band) (b. 1884)
• 1934 » James Allan, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1860)
• 1934 » Russ Columbo, American singer, violinist, and actor (b. 1908)
• 1937 » Pierre de Coubertin, French historian and educator, founded the International Olympic Committee (b. 1863)
• 1941 » Lloyd Seay, American race car driver (b. 1919)
• 1942 » James Juvenal, American rower (b. 1874)
• 1943 » Marsden Hartley, American painter and poet (b. 1877)
• 1944 » Bella Rosenfeld, Russian-American model and author (b. 1895)
• 1945 » Mason Phelps, American golfer (b. 1885)
• 1948 » Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and spy (b. 1883)

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. Petronella
10. Catharina
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.
• March 25 » The Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers with the signing of the Tripartite Pact.
• March 28 » World War II: Britain's Mediterranean Fleet sinks three heavy cruisers and two destroyers of Italy's Regia Marina.
• May 9 » World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
• June 1 » World War II: The Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany.
• August 24 » Adolf Hitler orders the cessation of Nazi Germany's systematic T4 euthanasia program of the mentally ill and the handicapped due to protests, although killings continue for the remainder of the war.
• December 26 » U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the United States.

The temperature on September 2, 1941 was between 10.2 °C and 21.9 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (68%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.