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• Hermanus Bernardus Lambers, Nieuw-Schoonebeekerveld, Schoonebeek († 2007)
• Jakobus van Peene, Westkapelle, Walcheren, Netherlands († 1944)
• Johannes Langevoort, Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland († 2017)
• Cornelis Adrianus Adrie Weber, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2007)
• Marinus Antonius Maria van Hest, Tilburg († 1943)
• Larry Wayne Wisenburg, Rock Island, Illinois, VS († 2021)
• Josephus Hubertus Sliepen († 1992)
• Geer Bruynaers, Weert († 1994)
• Jacobus Nuijten, Halsteren, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1942)
• Charles Owen Swaine, Kingston, Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica († 1966)

• Groot (90), Delft
• Anna Metselaar (53), Aerdenhout
• Augustinus Jacobs (72), Alken, België
• Adriana Petronella van Spronsen (75), Monster
• Antonie Jacob Opstelten (60), Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Marie Jacqueline Willemine Vogelenzang (81), Soerabaja N.I
• Antonie Bakx (van Gool) (61), Oosterhout
• Albert Smit (82), Groningen,Groningen,Niederlande
• Arthur Paul Lutjens (38), Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa
• Alida Martina Kors (69), Steenwijkerwold

• 1940 » Barry Corbin, American actor and producer
• 1940 » Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player and coach († 2003)
• 1940 » Ivan Della Mea, Italian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and journalist († 2009)
• 1941 » Emma Nicholson, Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, English computer programmer and politician
• 1941 » Tim McCarver, American baseball player, sportscaster, and singer
• 1943 » Fred Turner, Canadian singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1944 » Kaizer Motaung, South African footballer and manager
• 1945 » Paul Monette, American author and poet († 1995)
• 1945 » Roger Hawkins, American session drummer
• 1945 » Stefan Buczacki, English horticulturalist, botanist, and television host

• 1936 » Effie Adelaide Rowlands, British writer (b. 1859)
• 1937 » Jean de Brunhoff, French poet and playwright (b. 1899)
• 1946 » Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial:
• 1947 » Anna B. Eckstein, German peace activist (b. 1868)
• 1951 » Liaquat Ali Khan, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan (b 1895)
• 1956 » Jules Rimet, French businessman (b. 1873)
• 1957 » John Anthony Sydney Ritson, English rugby player, mines inspector, engineer and educator (b. 1887)
• 1958 » Robert Redfield, American anthropologist of Mexico (b. 1897)
• 1959 » George Marshall, American general and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Defense, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1880)
• 1959 » Minor Hall, American drummer (b. 1897)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Willem
5. Hendrik
6. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Petrus
9. Jacobus
10. Wilhelmus
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. Geertruida
13. Aaltje
14. Margaretha
15. Grietje
16. Helena

• 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 2 » The Osvald Group is responsible for the first, active event of anti-Nazi resistance in Norway, to protest the inauguration of Vidkun Quisling.
• March 8 » World War II: Imperial Japanese Army forces gave ultimatum to Dutch East Indies Governor General Jonkheer Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer and KNIL Commander in Chief Lieutenant General Hein Ter Poorten, to unconditionally surrender.
• 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.
• August 6 » Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
• August 15 » World War II: Operation Pedestal: The oil tanker SSOhio reaches the island of Malta barely afloat carrying vital fuel supplies for the island's defenses.
• September 12 » World War II: RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks with a heavy loss of life.

The temperature on October 16, 1942 was between 9.1 °C and 15.0 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.