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• Derk van Dijken, Stedum († 1942)
• Antonie Spanhaak, .......... († 2010)
• Georges Konings, Zonhoven, België († 2000)
• Dorcas Hope Lloyd, Pennsylvania, United States († 2017)
• Aaltinus Johannes Arends, Dalen,, Drenthe, Nederland († 2013)
• Janett L. Gaddis Coomer, Casey County, Kentucky († 1991)
• Ben Jansen († 2010)
• Anneke Eisenga, Anjum († 2021)
• Alie Snijder, Bergentheim († 2020)
• Aaltinus Johannes (Tinus) Arends, Dalen Coevorden Drenthe Nederland († 2013)

• Aalze Tammes Hansma (71), Achtkarspelen
• Aalze Tammes Hansma (71), Drogeham, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Gerritse (74), Haarlem
• Andries Gjalts de Vries (42), Garijp
• Altje Apol (82), Spijk (Delfzijl), Groningen, Nederland
• (3) Hendrica Maria Jansen (79), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Aalze Hansma (71)
• Adolph Schenkel (67), Groningen
• Adrianus Johannes van Broekhoven (1), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Adrianus Hermanus Koks (68), Eindhoven

• 1938 » Frank J. Dodd, American businessman and politician, president of the New Jersey Senate († 2010)
• 1939 » Stan Lundine, American lawyer and politician, Lieutenant Governor of New York
• 1940 » George A. Romero, American director and producer († 2017)
• 1941 » Jiří Raška, Czech skier and coach († 2012)
• 1941 » Ron Rangi, New Zealand rugby player († 1988)
• 1941 » Russell Cooper, Australian politician, 33rd Premier of Queensland
• 1943 » Alberto João Jardim, Portuguese journalist and politician, 2nd President of the Regional Government of Madeira
• 1943 » Ken Thompson, American computer scientist and programmer, co-developed the B programming language
• 1943 » Wanda Rutkiewicz, Lithuanian-Polish mountaineer († 1992)
• 1944 » Florence LaRue, American singer and actress

• 1926 » İskilipli Âtıf Hodja, Turkish author and scholar (b. 1875)
• 1928 » Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
• 1933 » Archibald Sayce, English linguist and educator (b. 1846)
• 1940 » Nikolai Yezhov, Russian police officer and politician (b. 1895)
• 1943 » Frank Calder, English-Canadian ice hockey player and journalist (b. 1877)
• 1944 » Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian author and translator (b. 1872)
• 1956 » Savielly Tartakower, Russian-French chess player, journalist, and author (b. 1887)
• 1958 » Henry Kuttner, American author and screenwriter (b. 1915)
• 1959 » Una O'Connor, Irish-American actress (b. 1880)
• 1968 » Neal Cassady, American novelist and poet (b. 1926)

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.
• January 13 » Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.
• January 25 » World War II: Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom.
• March 18 » The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.
• May 12 » World War II: The U.S. tanker SS Virginia is torpedoed in the mouth of the Mississippi River by the German submarineU-507.
• June 23 » World War II: Germany's latest fighter aircraft, a Focke-Wulf Fw 190, is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales.
• August 11 » Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.

The temperature on February 4, 1942 was between -5.4 °C and -3.9 °C and averaged -4.8 °C. There was 5.3 mm of rain during 4.6 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.