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• Klasina Zwaan, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2007)
• Ad van Maasakkers, Veghel,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1996)
• Hendrikus Cornelius (Harrie) HEERINGS, Eindhoven(N-Br.)
• Evelyn Ann Olson, Camrose, Alberta, Canada († 2014)
• Johannes Tiebosch, 's-Hertogenbosch, NB Netherlands († 1999)
• François Leopold Vlassenroot, Lebbeke († 2010)
• Alfred Pieter Henry (Freddy) Booy-, Malang, Indie († 1993)
• Constance Marlene Neely, Mulberry Grove, Illinois († 2005)
• Antje Spel, Amsterdam († 2020)
• Hilda Louisa De Bodt, Heldergem, Oost-Vlaanderen, België († 1972)

• Christina Petronella Meijer (24), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anje Datema (61), Overschild gem. Slochteren
• Cornelis van de Bilt (76), Utrecht
• Arendonk (0), Hagestein, Utrecht, Nederland
• Antje Tjietjes Smink (74), 's-Gravenhage
• Bernard Veeder Plantz (80), unbekannt
• Anthoinetta Maria Petronella van den Bosch (78), ,, Vlissingen, Nederland
• Albert de Groot (0), Meppel (NL)
• Abraham Petiet (55), Nieuwveen, Nieuwkoop, ZH, Netherlands
• Anna Catharina SIEVERS (72), Winterswijk, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1935 » Don Howe, English footballer and manager († 2015)
• 1935 » Sam Moore, American soul singer-songwriter
• 1935 » Shivraj Patil, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Defence
• 1935 » Tony Kubek, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1937 » Paul Hawkins, Australian race car driver († 1969)
• 1937 » Robert Mangold, American painter
• 1941 » Michael Mansfield, English lawyer, academic, and republican
• 1942 » Melvin Franklin, American soul bass singer († 1995)
• 1943 » Kostas Tsakonas, Greek actor († 2015)
• 1944 » Angela Rippon, English journalist and author

• 1923 » Bunny Lucas, English cricketer (b. 1857)
• 1924 » Anatole France, French journalist, novelist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1844)
• 1926 » Edwin Abbott Abbott, English theologian and author (b. 1838)
• 1933 » John Lister, English philanthropist and politician (b. 1847)
• 1940 » Tom Mix, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1880)
• 1946 » Joseph Stilwell, American general (b. 1883)
• 1948 » Susan Sutherland Isaacs, English psychologist and psychoanalyst (b. 1885)
• 1954 » George Welch, American soldier and pilot (b. 1918)
• 1956 » Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer and painter (b. 1872)
• 1957 » Arie de Jong, Indonesian-Dutch linguist and physician (b. 1865)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Jacob
9. Robert
10. Adrianus
11. Petrus
12. Jacobus
13. Wilhelmus
14. Gerardus
15. Dirk
16. Arie

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Hendrika
8. Adriana
9. Catharina
10. Petronella
11. Geertruida
12. Annie
13. Jacoba
14. Margaretha
15. Marie
16. Helena

• 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 August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 8.8 million citizens.
• January 29 » Three trains on the Nishinari Line; present Sakurajima Line, in Osaka, Japan, collide and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi Station. One hundred and eighty-one people are killed.
• June 14 » Seven hundred twenty-eight Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first inmates of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
• June 23 » Adolf Hitler goes on a three-hour tour of the architecture of Paris with architect Albert Speer and sculptor Arno Breker in his only visit to the city.
• June 24 » World War II: Operation Collar, the first British Commando raid on occupied France, by No11 Independent Company.
• July 20 » Denmark leaves the League of Nations.
• November 25 » World War II: First flights of both the de Havilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder.

The temperature on October 12, 1940 was between 4.4 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.