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• Albert KEUTER, Urk, Flevoland, Nederland († 1999)
• Abraham de Korver, Papendrecht († 2013)
• Jacobus Boeren, Sint Willebrord († 2002)
• Gerard Glansbeek († 1941)
• Alida Veenema, Den Burg (Texel, NH) († 2015)
• Cornelis Johannes Maria van Oosterwijk, Gilze en Rijen († 1941)
• Fokke Schievink, Harkema, Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland († 1971)
• * Jan de Hoogt, Utrecht († 2004)
• Geertje Rodenhuis († 1991)
• francina johanna (francien) noijen, baarlo

• Constant Marie Joseph Hijacinth Tilman (77), 's-Hertogenbosch, NB, Nederland
• Anna Pieternella de Heer (80), Papendrecht
• Constant Marie Joseph Hyacinth Tilman (77), ‘s-Hertogenbosch,Gemeente 'S-Hertogenbosch,North Brabant,Netherlands
• Aaltje ten Hove (43), Gemeente Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Angela Zaan, Emmen
• Catholina Francina Contant (74), Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Nederland
• Albertus Van Dormolen (47), Medan, Indonesië
• Alma Taylor Manning (63), Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, Verenigde Staten
• Constant Marie Joseph Hyacinth Tilman (77), 's Hertogenbosch
• Abraham Kaas (26), Mauthausen, Oberosterreich, Oostenrijk

• 1940 » Galen Hall, American football player and coach
• 1940 » Darrell "Dash" Crofts, American singer-songwriter and musician
• 1941 » Connie Smith, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1941 » David Crosby, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1942 » Lionel Morton, English singer-songwriter, guitarist and television presenter
• 1942 » Willie Dunn, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer († 2013)
• 1943 » Ben Sidran, American jazz and rock keyboardist, producer, label owner, and music writer
• 1943 » Ronnie Campbell, English miner and politician
• 1944 » John Dunt, English admiral
• 1945 » Steve Martin, American actor, comedian, musician, producer, and screenwriter

• 1928 » Klabund, German author and poet (b. 1890)
• 1938 » Hugh Trumble, Australian cricketer and accountant (b. 1876)
• 1941 » Maximilian Kolbe, Polish martyr and saint (b. 1894)
• 1941 » Paul Sabatier, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854)
• 1943 » Joe Kelley, American baseball player and manager (b. 1871)
• 1943 » Lore Berger, Swiss author and translator (b. 1921)
• 1951 » William Randolph Hearst, American publisher and politician, founded the Hearst Corporation (b. 1863)
• 1954 » Hugo Eckener, German pilot and designer (b. 1868)
• 1954 » Nikos Ploumpidis, Greek activist (b. 1901)
• 1955 » Herbert Putnam, American lawyer and publisher, Librarian of Congress (b. 1861)

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 25 » The outlawed Communist Party of the Netherlands organises a general strike in German-occupied Amsterdam to protest against Nazi persecution of Dutch Jews.
• March 11 » World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.
• May 5 » Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa; the country commemorates the date as Liberation Day or Patriots' Victory Day.
• June 5 » World War II: Four thousand Chongqing residents are asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing.
• June 26 » World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day.
• July 20 » Soviet leader Joseph Stalin consolidates the Commissariats of Home Affairs and National Security to form the NKVD and names Lavrentiy Beria its chief.

The temperature on August 14, 1941 was between 9.2 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (28%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.