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• Julienne Sebregts, Nijlen, Antwerpen, Belgium († 1994)
• Doodgeboren kind Pistorius, Dongen († 1942)
• Anjenetta Mellema, Wildervank († 2007)
• Gerald Arthur Kohrman, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 1945)
• Julienne Constantia Sebregts, Nijlen (Antwerpen) (België) († 1994)
• Cornelis Lodewijk Heijboer, Kattendijke († 1982)
• Jan Johan Keppels, Hengelo, Overijssel, Netherlands († 1995)
• Helena Adriana Maria Musters, Blaricum († 1997)
• Lambertus Borsboom, Vlaardingen († 1998)
• Jelle de Jong († 2009)

• Arnoldus Johannes Maria Hartmann (9), Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aukje Joustra (89), Harlingen (Harlingen) (Friesland)
• Bartje Voet (82), Bunnik (Utrecht)
• Alice Lecoq Dykins, Kaitaia, Awanui, New Zealand
• Abram Friesen (79)
• Adriana Broekhoven (74), Sprang-Capelle
• Anna Maria Hubertina Bleijlevens (54), Simpelveld, Nederland
• Agnes Sophia van der Riet (80), St James, Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa
• Benedictus Antonius Franciscus van Orden (22), Wageningen
• De Wit (26), Oude Pekela, Nederland

• 1941 » Anne Evans, English soprano and actress
• 1941 » Dave Brock, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1941 » Jo Ramírez, Mexican race car driver and manager
• 1941 » Rich Brooks, American football player and coach
• 1941 » Robin Oakley, English journalist and author
• 1941 » Slobodan Milošević, Serbian lawyer and politician, 1st President of Serbia († 2006)
• 1941 » William H. Gray, American lawyer and politician († 2013)
• 1942 » Fred Norman, American baseball player
• 1942 » Isaac Hayes, American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor († 2008)
• 1943 » Roger Gale, English journalist and politician

• 1919 » Greg MacGregor, Scottish cricketer and rugby player (b. 1869)
• 1930 » Charles Bannerman, Australian cricketer and umpire (b. 1851)
• 1936 » Edward Weston, English-American chemist (b. 1850)
• 1939 » Agnes Giberne, Indian-English astronomer and author (b. 1845)
• 1942 » István Horthy, Hungarian admiral and pilot (b. 1904)
• 1943 » William Irvine, Irish-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Victoria (b. 1858)
• 1951 » İzzettin Çalışlar, Turkish general (b. 1882)
• 1961 » Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
• 1963 » Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer (b. 1879)
• 1965 » Jonathan Daniels, American seminarian and civil rights activist (b. 1939)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Willem
5. Hendrik
6. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Petrus
9. Wilhelmus
10. Jacobus
11. Robert
12. Adrianus
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.
• April 8 » World War II: The Japanese take Bataan in the Philippines.
• June 4 » World War II: The Battle of Midway begins. The Japanese Admiral Chūichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island by much of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
• September 10 » World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.
• November 28 » In Boston, Massachusetts, a fire in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub kills 492 people.
• November 30 » World War II: Battle of Tassafaronga; A smaller squadron of Japanese destroyers led by Raizō Tanaka defeats a U.S. cruiser force under Carleton H. Wright.
• December 22 » World War II: Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon.

The temperature on August 20, 1942 was between 11.3 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was 18.6 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.