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• Barbara S Roush ****, Mason, Mason, West Virginia, Verenigde Staten († 2006)
• Aurel Carlos Oswald Vanoverschelde, Wingene († 1989)
• Marie Louise Eulalie DECRÊME, Quenast, Waals-Brabant, België († 2022)
• Jannetje Krijgsman, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1999)
• Droog († 2006)
• Joke Donders, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1957)
• Jan Steenbergen, Zwartsluis, Overijssel, Nederland († 2014)
• Anna Petrus Theresia Engels, Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
• kind van de Meulenreek, Nuland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1940)
• Macy Naomi Brown, Harrisburg, Poinsett County, Arkansas, Verenigde Staten († 2013)

• Anna van Boerum (55), Ogden, Weber County, Utah, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Hartgers (76), Rheden, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Margaretha Heidotting (78), Emmen
• Alida Henderika Brouwers (67), Groningen
• Akke Luik (81), Veenoord / Sleen
• Alida Henderike Brouwers (67), Groningen
• Ada McDonald (84), Jackson, Hinds, Mississippi, United States
• Abraham van Oosten (41), Leiden
• Adrianus Marinus Verschuren (32), Tilburg, Nederland
• Adriana Cassee (32), Zandvoort

• 1935 » John G. Avildsen, American director, producer, and cinematographer († 2017)
• 1937 » Jane Fonda, American actress, producer, and activist
• 1939 » Lloyd Axworthy, Canadian academic and politician, 2nd Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1939 » Wafic Saïd, Syrian-Saudi Arabian financier, businessman and philanthropist
• 1940 » Frank Zappa, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer († 1993)
• 1942 » Hu Jintao, Chinese engineer and politician, 5th Paramount leader of China
• 1943 » Albert Lee, English guitarist and songwriter
• 1943 » Walter Spanghero, French rugby player
• 1944 » Michael Tilson Thomas, American pianist, composer, and conductor
• 1944 » Zheng Xiaoyu, Chinese diplomat († 2007)

• 1929 » I. L. Patterson, American politician, 18th Governor of Oregon (b. 1859)
• 1933 » Knud Rasmussen, Greenlandic anthropologist and explorer (b. 1879)
• 1935 » Kurt Tucholsky, German-Swedish journalist and author (b. 1890)
• 1935 » Ted Birnie, English footballer and manager (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Frank B. Kellogg, American lawyer and politician, 45th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
• 1937 » Ted Healy, American comedian and actor (b. 1896)
• 1937 » Violette Neatley Anderson, American judge (b. 1882)
• 1940 » F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1896)
• 1945 » George S. Patton, American general (b. 1885)
• 1948 » Władysław Witwicki, Polish psychologist, philosopher, translator, historian (of philosophy and art) and artist (b. 1878)

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.
• May 15 » Richard and Maurice McDonald open the first McDonald's restaurant.
• May 20 » The Holocaust: The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz.
• May 24 » Acting on the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, NKVD agent Iosif Grigulevich orchestrates an unsuccessful assassination attempt on exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Coyoacán, Mexico.
• June 7 » King Haakon VII, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Tromsø and go into exile in London. They return exactly five years later.
• June 28 » Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union after facing an ultimatum.
• November 16 » World War II: In response to the leveling of Coventry by the German Luftwaffe two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg.

The temperature on December 21, 1940 was between -7.3 °C and -1.4 °C and averaged -5.3 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.