About the day » Tuesday July 28, 1942Calender converter

• Helena WITVLIET, Den Burg, Texel († 1989)
• Cornelis de PATER, Bergambacht († 1945)
• Grietje Boes, Drachten († 2005)
• Johannes Wilhelmus Theodulus Maria Boere, Bussum († 2003)
• Dirk Arend Hus, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1947)
• Louise Bertha Gerarda de Bruijn, Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland († 1942)
• Kornelis Adrianus Gerardus Maria van Loenhout, Steenbergen, Nederland († 2002)
• Jacques Jules Borstrock, Amsterdam († 1943)
• Anthonus Theodorus Zuidewind, Kerkeplaats (Texel) († 1942)
• Cornelis Rovers, Hillegom, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2010)

• Anna Krul (87), Barsingerhorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• David Richard Tuckenhagen (0), Wright County-Iowa (USA)
• Clara Assenheimer (71), Minsk Ghetto
• Adriana Pijnenburg (81), Amersfoort
• Albertus Dingerink (79), Zwolle
• Andries van der Linden (29), Eindhoven
• Anna Clasina Ebling (65), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Catharina Belmer (71), Amsterdam
• Agatha Jacoba de Jong (62), Papendrecht
• Christina Catharina Vermin (102), Noordwijkerhout

• 1939 » Richard Johns, English air marshal
• 1940 » Philip Proctor, American voice actor and screenwriter
• 1941 » Riccardo Muti, Italian conductor and educator
• 1941 » Susan Roces, Filipino actress and producer
• 1942 » Marty Brennaman, American sportscaster
• 1942 » Tonia Marketaki, Greek director and screenwriter († 1994)
• 1943 » Bill Bradley, American basketball player and politician
• 1943 » Mike Bloomfield, American guitarist and songwriter († 1981)
• 1943 » Richard Wright, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player († 2008)
• 1945 » Jim Davis, American cartoonist, created Garfield

• 1930 » Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist and optician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1930 » John DeWitt, American hammer thrower (b. 1881)
• 1933 » Nishinoumi Kajirō III, Japanese sumo wrestler, 30th yokozuna (b. 1890)
• 1934 » Louis Tancred, South African cricketer and pilot (b. 1876)
• 1934 » Marie Dressler, Canadian-American actress and singer (b. 1868)
• 1935 » Meletius IV of Constantinople (b. 1871)
• 1942 » Flinders Petrie, English archaeologist and academic (b. 1853)
• 1946 » Saint Alphonsa, first woman of Indian origin to be canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church (b. 1910)
• 1957 » Edith Abbott, American economist, social worker, and educator (b. 1876)
• 1957 » Isaac Heinemann, German-Israeli scholar and academic (b. 1876)

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. 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.
• February 9 » World War II: Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war.
• February 22 » World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.
• May 30 » World War II: One thousand British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.
• June 11 » World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
• 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 7 » World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal begins as the United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.

The temperature on July 28, 1942 was between 9.4 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 11.1 hours of sunshine (71%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.