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• van der Wolff, Rotterdam († 1942)
• Gérard Baudry, Le Havre, 76600, FRANCE († 1976)
• Klazien de Bruijn († 2015)
• Adriaan Willem Vreeken, Malang, N.I († 1983)
• Gertrudis Wilhelmina Kathmann, Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands († 1942)
• Willy Edmond Dewilde, Zarren († 2019)
• Derk Westera, Meppel, Drenthe, Nederland († 1993)
• NN van Dommelen, IJsselstein († 1942)
• Held, Epe, Gelderland, Nederland
• Klazien de Bruijn († 2015)

• Beerend Menger (40), Hoogeveen
• Antonia den Ronden- (82), Breda, Nederland
• Berend Kip (39), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Aart Kers (61), Jaarsveld, Gemeente Lopik, Utrecht, Nederland
• Alegonda Elisabeth Scheen (91), Groningen
• Anna Stevens (59), Kosciusko County, Indiana, United States of America
• Anna Gezina Hoezen (61), Vlagtwedde
• Alida Maria Chrlt Sweers (56), Haarlem
• Andrew Jackson Pipes (91)
• Bartha Schievink (79), Groningen, NL-GR

• 1941 » Ambrose Greenway, 4th Baron Greenway, English photographer and politician
• 1941 » Bobby Cox, American baseball player and manager
• 1941 » Martin Carthy, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1941 » Ronald Isley, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1942 » Danny Ongais, American race car driver
• 1942 » David Hunt, Baron Hunt of Wirral, English politician, Secretary of State for Wales
• 1942 » John Konrads, Australian swimmer
• 1943 » Hilton Valentine, English guitarist and songwriter
• 1943 » John Dalton, English bass player
• 1943 » Vincent Crane, English pianist and composer († 1989)

• 1926 » Ronald Firbank, English-Italian author (b. 1886)
• 1929 » Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1847)
• 1932 » Marcel Boulenger, French fencer and author (b. 1873)
• 1935 » Hugo de Vries, Dutch botanist and geneticist (b. 1848)
• 1935 » Jane Addams, American activist and author, co-founded Hull House, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)
• 1940 » Billy Minter, English footballer and manager (b. 1888)
• 1949 » Klaus Mann, German-American novelist, playwright, and critic (b. 1906)
• 1952 » John Garfield, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1956 » Harry Bensley, English businessman and adventurer (b. 1877)
• 1957 » Alexander Vertinsky, Ukrainian-Russian singer-songwriter, actor, and poet (b. 1889)

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

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

• 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 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 9.0 million citizens.
• February 1 » World War II: Josef Terboven, Reichskommissar of German-occupied Norway, appoints Vidkun Quisling the Minister President of the National Government.
• April 19 » World War II: In Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.
• May 9 » Holocaust: The SS executes 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast, Ukraine). The Zoludek Ghetto (in Belarus) is destroyed and all its inhabitants executed or deported.
• July 27 » World War II: Allied forces successfully halt the final Axis advance into Egypt.
• August 23 » World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.
• September 7 » World War II: Japanese marines are forced to withdraw during the Battle of Milne Bay.

The temperature on May 21, 1942 was between 8.0 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.