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• Hendrika Jeanette Vlas, Den Burg (Texel, NH) († 2017)
• Bokxem, Avereest
• Johanna Geertruida Maria van Weerdenburg, IJsselstein († 2014)
• Franciscus Hubertus Jacobus Ackermans, Rotterdam, Nederland († 1992)
• Klaas de Boer, Edam Volendam († 2011)
• Gerardus Theodorus Maria Berghuis, Deventer († 1959)
• Antonius Aloysius HEIJMERIKS († 2003)
• Jenneke Middendorp, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands († 2019)
• Luijten, Luijksgestel
• Jan Willem Wijnholds († 2009)

• Jakob De Groote (8), Emmen
• Aaltjen Pasterkamp (78), Hillegom
• Aaltje PASTERKAMP (42), Hillegom
• Albertus Laurentius van de Graaf (0), Nijmegen
• Johannes Gerardus Van Der Weide (55), Zaandam
• Annie Ophilla Forsyth (44), Caddo, Louisiana, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Clara (Clara) Rolf (84), Bösensell (Duitsland)
• Aaltjen Willems Pasterkamp (78), Hillegom
• Agatha Vermeulen (56), Rosmalen
• Aaltjen Willemsdr Pasterkamp (78), Hillegom

• 1939 » Ruggero Deodato, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1939 » Ruud Lubbers, Dutch economist and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands († 2018)
• 1939 » Sidney Altman, Canadian-American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1940 » Angela Carter, English novelist and short story writer († 1992)
• 1940 » Dave Chambers, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1941 » Lawrence Collins, Baron Collins of Mapesbury, English lawyer and judge
• 1943 » Harvey Andrews, English singer-songwriter and poet
• 1943 » John Bannon, Australian academic and politician, 39th Premier of South Australia († 2015)
• 1943 » Peter Carey, Australian novelist and short story writer
• 1943 » Terry Allen, American singer and painter

• 1925 » William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, English businessman and politician (b. 1851)
• 1937 » Ernst A. Lehmann, German captain and author (b. 1886)
• 1938 » Octavian Goga, Romanian politician, former Prime Minister (b. 1881)
• 1940 » George Lansbury, English journalist and politician (b. 1859)
• 1941 » James George Frazer, Scottish-English anthropologist and academic (b. 1854)
• 1942 » Felix Weingartner, Croatian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1863)
• 1943 » Fethi Okyar, Turkish colonel and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1880)
• 1946 » Herbert Macaulay, Nigerian journalist and politician (b. 1864)
• 1951 » Warner Baxter, American actor (b. 1889)
• 1958 » Mihkel Lüdig, Estonian organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1880)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Willem
5. Hendrik
6. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Petrus
9. Jacobus
10. Wilhelmus
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.
• March 5 » World War II: Japanese forces capture Batavia, capital of Dutch East Indies, which is left undefended after the withdrawal of the KNIL garrison and Australian Blackforce battalion to Buitenzorg and Bandung.
• September 27 » Last day of the Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marines barely escape after being surrounded by Japanese forces.
• October 9 » Australia's Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 receives royal assent.
• October 26 » World War II: In the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands during the Guadalcanal Campaign, one U.S. aircraft carrier is sunk and another carrier is heavily damaged, while two Japanese carriers and one cruiser are heavily damaged.
• November 19 » Mutesa II is crowned the 35th and last Kabaka (king) of Buganda, prior to the restoration of the kingdom in 1993.
• 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 May 7, 1942 was between 5.5 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 11.1 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.