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• Hermanus Veenboer, Uitgeest († 1984)
• Geneviève Jeanne de Vasselot de Régné († 1966)
• Dina Ponstein, Apeldoorn, Gelderland, The Netherlands († 2003)
• Hubertus Cornelis van de Wiel, Vlijmen, Nederland († 1947)
• Egbert Kikkert († 2010)
• Arend Hoogeveen, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1995)
• Gerrit Egbert Bessels († 1995)
• Hermanus Veenboer, Uitgeest († 1984)
• Schillings, Heerlen († 1942)
• Johanna Johanna Wijnands, Noordwijkerhout († 2005)

• Abraham Baars (61), Rotterdam (Rotterdam), Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Carel Frank van Heelsum (77), Brummen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Cornelia Jacoba Nobbe (86), Amsterdam
• Boudina Hanna Sipkes Woudstra (1), IJlst, Gem. IJlst, Friesland, Nederland
• Schillings (0), Heerlen
• Boudina Hanna Woudstra (1)
• Corstiaan van den Brink (74), Putten
• Aafke Sybrens Weiland (76), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Corstiaan van den Brink (74), Putten
• Cornelia Margaretha Uitermark (66), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1940 » John Havlicek, American basketball player († 2019)
• 1941 » J. J. Jackson, American soul/R&B singer, songwriter, and arranger
• 1941 » Vivienne Westwood, English fashion designer
• 1942 » Douglas Trumbull, American director, producer, and special effects artist
• 1942 » Roger Chapman, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1942 » Tony Banks, Baron Stratford, Northern Irish politician, Minister for Sport and the Olympics († 2006)
• 1943 » Chris Orr, English painter and illustrator
• 1943 » James Herbert, English author and illustrator († 2013)
• 1943 » Michael Bennett, American dancer, choreographer, and director († 1987)
• 1943 » Miller Farr, American football player

• 1931 » Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish poet Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1936 » Božena Benešová, Czech poet and novelist (b. 1873)
• 1936 » Róbert Bárány, Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
• 1941 » Marcel Prévost, French novelist and playwright (b. 1862)
• 1942 » Kostas Skarvelis, Greek guitarist and composer (b. 1880)
• 1947 » Olaf Frydenlund, Norwegian target shooter (b. 1862)
• 1950 » Vaslav Nijinsky, Polish dancer and choreographer (b. 1890)
• 1959 » Marios Makrionitis, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Athens (b. 1913)
• 1961 » Joseph Carrodus, Australian public servant (b. 1885)
• 1962 » Juan Belmonte, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1892)

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. Geertruida
13. Aaltje
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.
• March 17 » Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lvov Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec death camp in what is today eastern Poland.
• March 26 » World War II: The first female prisoners arrive at Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland.
• March 31 » World War II: Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession.
• 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.
• August 27 » First day of the Sarny Massacre.
• December 6 » World War II in villages Stary Ciepielów and Rekówka German Genarmerie massacred 31 Poles for helping the Jews. Also, two Jewish refugees were murdered.

The temperature on April 8, 1942 was between 5.5 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (46%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.