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• Dirk Betsema, Texel († 2009)
• Emma Wilhelmina Wassink († 1990)
• Georges Hubert Viktor Feytons, Sint-Lambrechts-Herk, België († 2009)
• H.G.M(Rikie) oude Middendorp, Weerselo († 1975)
• Gerrit Lugtigheid, Rotterdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1945)
• Hendrik Cornelis van den Bos, Malang, Oost-Java, Nederlands-Indië († 2007)
• Derk Betsema, Texel († 2009)
• Carol Jean Raugh, Roaring Spring, Blair County, Pennsylvania († 2002)
• Cornelia Catharina Maria Duivenvoorden, Leiden († 2009)
• Geertrui Annigje van Leenen († 2017)

• Abraham Nicolaas Lussenburg (73), Rotterdam
• * Petrus Jacobus Raaijmakers (75), Rotterdam
• Anna Geertruida Hendrika Burgers (83), Amsterdam
• Albert Charles Auguste Plasschaert (67), ‘s-Gravenhage,Gemeente ’s-Gravenhage,South Holland,Netherlands
• Aaron Roos (67), Amsterdam,Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Jacobus Felix Marie Nicolaas Dorbeck (78), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• "Adolphe" Albert Joseph de Borchgrave d'Altena (72), Ixelles, Bruxelles, Belgique
• Anna Maria Helena Berkhout (76), Bergen
• Adele Dehouck (67)
• Alida Marie Piscaer (81), Leiden

• 1939 » Giorgio Zancanaro, Italian baritone
• 1939 » Ion Țiriac, Romanian tennis player and manager
• 1939 » John Ogbu, Nigerian-American anthropologist and professor († 2003)
• 1939 » Ken Warby, Australian motorboat racer
• 1939 » Ralph Boston, American long jumper
• 1940 » James L. Brooks, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1941 » Danny Rapp, American musician († 1983)
• 1941 » Dorothy Hyman, English sprinter
• 1942 » John Ashcroft, American lawyer and politician, 79th United States Attorney General
• 1942 » Tommy Roe, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1931 » Albert Abraham Michelson, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1933 » John Arthur Jarvis, English swimmer (b. 1872)
• 1935 » Ernst Bresslau, German zoologist (b. 1877)
• 1938 » Thomas B. Thrige, Danish businessman (b. 1866)
• 1942 » Józef Cebula, Polish priest and saint (b. 1902)
• 1944 » Han Yong-un, Korean poet and social reformer (b. 1879)
• 1949 » Louis II, Prince of Monaco (b. 1870)
• 1950 » Esteban Terradas i Illa, Spanish mathematician and engineer (b. 1883)
• 1957 » Ernest de Silva, Sri Lankan banker and businessman (b. 1887)
• 1957 » Ezio Pinza, Italian actor and singer (b. 1892)

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

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

• 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 September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• 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 8.9 million citizens.
• January 18 » World War II: British troops launch a general counter-offensive against Italian East Africa.
• May 27 » World War II: The German battleshipBismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing almost 2,100 men.
• June 3 » World War II: The Wehrmacht razes the Greek village of Kandanos to the ground and murders 180 of its inhabitants.
• August 14 » World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims.
• September 8 » World War II: German forces begin the Siege of Leningrad.
• December 21 » World War II: A formal treaty of alliance between Thailand and Japan is signed in the presence of the Emerald Buddha in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.

The temperature on May 9, 1941 was between -0.8 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (46%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.