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• Franciscus Cornelis Johannes Wilhelmus (Frans) BEKX, Asten (NL/NB) Lived Nederweert (NL/LI) († 2016)
• Schalkwijk, Wieringermeer (NH, NLD) († 1942)
• Henry James Roskam, Lunteren, Gelderland, Nederland († 1942)
• Bernd Schoeneweis († 2009)
• Barbara Briska, University City, MO († 1991)
• Jacobje Koffeman († 2022)
• Hendrik Ligtenberg, Brucht († 2022)
• Brigitte HOUYET, Casteau, 7061, Hainaut, Belgique († 2014)
• Beverly Ann NIENHUIS († 1983)
• Gerardus Johannes Kuipers, Wolvega, Friesland, Netherlands († 1996)

• Anne Mary Thurston (69), Lindsay, Ontario, Canada
• Antonia COLLEWIJN (72), Amsterdam
• Anna Hannchen Kroh (72), Treblinka Extermination Camp, Treblinka, Silesia, Poland
• Adelheid Foss (51), Treblinka Extermination Camp, Treblinka, Silesia, Poland
• Alberts Brontsema (90), Uithuizen
• Alfred Ernest Wood (70), Granville, NSW, Aust
• Aleida Ruitenberg (78), Ede, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Anna Freundlich (71), Treblinka Extermination Camp, Treblinka, Silesia, Poland
• Ariaantje Muijs (73), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Diepeveen (79), Kampen, Ov, The Netherlands

• 1940 » Dick Thornett, Australian rugby player and water polo player († 2011)
• 1940 » Michel Temer, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 25th Vice President of Brazil
• 1941 » George Jackson, American activist and author, co-founded the Black Guerrilla Family († 1971)
• 1941 » Norma Winstone, English singer-songwriter
• 1941 » Simon Nolet, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1942 » Colin Low, Baron Low of Dalston, Scottish scholar and politician
• 1942 » David Renneberg, Australian cricketer
• 1942 » Sila María Calderón, Puerto Rican-American businesswoman and politician, 12th Secretary of State of Puerto Rico
• 1943 » Julio Iglesias, Spanish singer-songwriter
• 1943 » Marty Schottenheimer, American football player and coach

• 1917 » Werner Voss, German lieutenant and pilot (b. 1897)
• 1929 » Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-German chemist, physicist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
• 1939 » Francisco León de la Barra, Mexican politician and diplomat, interim president, 1911 (b. 1863)
• 1939 » Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (b. 1856)
• 1940 » Hale Holden, American businessman (b. 1869)
• 1943 » Elinor Glyn, English author, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1864)
• 1944 » Jakob Schaffner, Swiss author and critic (b. 1875)
• 1950 » Sam Barry, American basketball player and coach (b. 1892)
• 1958 » Jacob Nicol, Canadian publisher, lawyer, and politician (b. 1876)
• 1967 » Stanislaus Zbyszko, Polish wrestler and strongman (b. 1879)

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.
• January 26 » World War II: The first United States forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland.
• January 30 » World War II: Battle of Ambon. Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies. Some 300 captured Allied troops are massacred at Laha airfield. Three-fourths of remaining POWs will not have survived by the end of the war, including 250 men who will be shipped to Hainan Island in South China Sea and never returned.
• January 31 » World War II: Allied forces are defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreat to Singapore.
• 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.
• June 5 » World War II: The United States declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania.
• 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 September 23, 1942 was between 10.3 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (39%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.