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• John Albert BUTWELL († 2003)
• Ferdinandus Hendrikus Adrianus van Dijk, Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland († 1994)
• Annie van Oosten, Naaldwijk (ZH-NLD) († 1963)
• Gerrit Jan Mondria, Vollenhove († 2010)
• John Paul WESTRA, Little Falls, Herkimer Co., NY († 1980)
• Agnes Elisabeth Teunissen, Nijmegen († 1942)
• Hendrik Renkema, Lucaswolde (Marum) († 2019)
• Gerardus Richardus Beekman, Ede († 1959)
• Edmund Vickroy Collins, Oconomowoc, Waukesha County, Wisconsin († 1990)
• Geertje Doppenberg, Putten, Gelderland, Nederland († 1941)

• Andreas van Gelder (65), Waalwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alida Wilhelmina Dubbeldeman (87), Leiden (Zuid-Holland)
• Anna Maria van den BERGH (78), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• * Teunis Hogerwaard (81), Rotterdam
• Gerben van Dijk (86)
• Abraham Hoogendijk (74), Vlaardingen, Nederland
• "Gustav" Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Franz Ulrich Richard Udo Hermann von Castell-Castell (28), Steyning, Sussex, Royaume-Uni
• Antonius Bahnerth, Rotterdam
• Annigje de Gruyter (66), Lemmer
• Adrianus van Bergen (57), Roosendaal

• 1939 » Phil Everly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2014)
• 1940 » Mike Reid, English comedian, actor, and author († 2007)
• 1940 » Paolo Borsellino, Italian lawyer and judge († 1992)
• 1941 » Colin Gunton, English theologian and academic († 2003)
• 1941 » Pat Patterson, Canadian wrestler, trainer, and referee
• 1942 » Michael Crawford, English actor and singer
• 1942 » Paul-Eerik Rummo, Estonian poet and politician
• 1943 » Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter († 1970)
• 1943 » Larry Clark, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1943 » Princess Margriet of the Netherlands

• 1929 » Liang Qichao, Chinese journalist, philosopher, and scholar (b. 1873)
• 1930 » Frank P. Ramsey, British mathematician, philosopher and economist (b. 1903)
• 1938 » Branislav Nušić, Serbian author, playwright, and journalist (b. 1864)
• 1945 » Gustave Mesny, French general (b. 1886)
• 1948 » Tony Garnier, French architect and urban planner, designed the Stade de Gerland (b. 1869)
• 1954 » Theodor Kaluza, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1885)
• 1957 » József Dudás, Romanian-Hungarian activist and politician (b. 1912)
• 1963 » Clement Smoot, American golfer (b. 1884)
• 1964 » Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (b. 1886)
• 1965 » Arnold Luhaäär, Estonian weightlifter (b. 1905)

• 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 5 » 37-year-old pilot Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia, disappears after bailing out of her plane over the River Thames, and is presumed dead.
• February 9 » World War II: The Cathedral of San Lorenzo in Genoa, Italy, is struck by a bomb which fails to detonate.
• May 10 » World War II: Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland to try to negotiate a peace deal between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany.
• June 1 » The Farhud, a massive pogrom in Iraq, starts and as a result, many Iraqi Jews are forced to leave their homes.
• October 30 » Holocaust: Fifteen hundred Jews from Pidhaytsi are sent by Nazis to Bełżec extermination camp.
• December 5 » World War II: In the Battle of Moscow, Georgy Zhukov launches a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German army.

The temperature on January 19, 1941 was between -4.0 °C and 3.3 °C and averaged 0.7 °C. There was 7.9 mm of rain during 10.2 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.