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• Grietje Courtz († 2004)
• Aaldert Guichelaar, Westerbork († 1986)
• J.G.P.A. Wenting († 2000)
• Lois Ann Hassman († 2023)
• Cornelia Francisca Oomens, Tilburg († 1990)
• Johanna Maria Nix, Waalre († 2002)
• Aaldert Guichelaar, Westerbork, Drenthe, Nederland († 1986)
• Ina Oost, Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland († 2018)
• Hendrik Bernhard Jager († 2023)
• Maria (Mary) Wilbrink († 2001)

• anna hendrika van rumpt (5), haarlem (noord holland)
• van Drunen (0), Rotterdam
• Antonia van Uffelen (71), Den Bosch, N-Br, NL
• Adriana Maria Petronella van Zeijl (9), Delft
• Antonia van Uffelen (71), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Anna Kooima (73), Aduard, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriana Maria Smoorenburg (79), Wijk bij Duurstede, Utrecht, NL
• Abraham Goud (30), Zevenaar,Gemeente Zevenaar, Gelderland, Nederland
• Apolonia van Dijk (77), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Albertha Theodora Mulder (54), Almelo

• 1939 » Hildrun Claus, German long jumper
• 1939 » Peter Frenkel, German race walker and coach
• 1940 » Bruce Chatwin, English author († 1989)
• 1940 » Kōkichi Tsuburaya, Japanese runner († 1968)
• 1941 » Jody Conradt, American basketball player and coach
• 1941 » Joe Brown, English singer and musician
• 1941 » Ritchie Valens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1959)
• 1941 » Senta Berger, Austrian actress
• 1942 » Leighton Gage, American author († 2013)
• 1942 » Roger Young, American director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1926 » Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian-American bishop (b. 1857)
• 1929 » Arthur Scherbius, German electrical engineer, invented the Enigma machine (b. 1878)
• 1930 » Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian scientist, explorer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1938 » Charles Édouard Guillaume, Swiss-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1941 » Ōnishiki Uichirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 26th Yokozuna (b. 1891)
• 1941 » Frederick Christian, English cricketer (b. 1877)
• 1945 » Tubby Hall, American drummer (b. 1895)
• 1946 » Zara DuPont, American suffragist (b. 1869)
• 1947 » Sukanta Bhattacharya, Indian poet and playwright (b. 1926)
• 1948 » Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington (b. 1920)

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.
• February 4 » The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.
• July 31 » World War II: The Battle of Smolensk concludes with Germany capturing about 300,000 Soviet Red Army prisoners.
• September 22 » The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murders 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.
• October 9 » A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
• December 8 » World War II: Japanese forces simultaneously invade Shanghai International Settlement, Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and the Dutch East Indies. (See December 7 for the concurrent attack on Pearl Harbor in the Western Hemisphere.)
• December 10 » World War II: Battle of the Philippines: Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land on Luzon.

The temperature on May 13, 1941 was between -0.4 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 12.0 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.