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• Bobby Rudolph Hendrix, Winokur Bran, Georgia († 2004)
• Catharina Harting, Aalsmeer († 2017)
• Beatrice Joan Snip
• Gaby Sauwens († 1974)
• Albertus Marinus Pots, Wierden († 1941)
• Grietje Hamminga, Smilde, Drenthe, Nederland († 2000)
• Hubertus Gerardus Antonius Smeets, Heerlen († 1941)
• Harry Allegro, Amsterdam (NL) († 1942)
• Frans Lont, Wieringen († 2015)
• Jan Staaks, Nederland († 2021)

• Bastiaantje de Pee (51), Rotterdam
• Abraham Jossef SHERMAN (65)
• Bernhardt Julius Menko (35), Mauthausen, Oberosterreich, Oostenrijk
• Aaltje Kroeze (89), Zuidlaren, Nederland
• - Vijverberg (0), Naaldwijk
• Barendina Carolina Maria Reijn (66), Utrecht
• Anna Cornelia Corten (70), Nieuwstadt (Echt-Susteren), Limburg, Nederland
• Bastiaantje de Pee (51), Rotterdam (Hillegersberg)
• Age Klazes Wijkstra (57), Grouw, Idaarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Alida Maria Peijnenborg (Peijnenburch) (75), Geldrop, NB, Nederland

• 1939 » Jack Cullen, American baseball player
• 1939 » Melvyn Bragg, English journalist, author, and academic
• 1939 » Richard Delgado, American lawyer and academic
• 1939 » Sheila Greibach, American computer scientist and academic
• 1940 » Ellen Travolta, American actress
• 1940 » Jan Keizer, Dutch footballer and referee
• 1941 » Paul Popham, American soldier and activist, co-founded Gay Men's Health Crisis († 1987)
• 1942 » Britt Ekland, Swedish actress and singer
• 1942 » Dan Christensen, American painter († 2007)
• 1942 » Fred Travalena, American comedian and actor († 2009)

• 1923 » Damat Ferid Pasha, Ottoman politician, 285th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1853)
• 1942 » Siegmund Glücksmann, German politician (b. 1884)
• 1945 » Leonardo Conti, German SS officer (b. 1900)
• 1947 » Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer and critic (b. 1887)
• 1951 » Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
• 1951 » Will Keith Kellogg, American businessman, founded the Kellogg Company (b. 1860)
• 1959 » Bernard Berenson, American historian and author (b. 1865)
• 1962 » Tod Browning, American actor, director, screenwriter (b. 1880)
• 1968 » Phyllis Nicolson, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1917)
• 1969 » Walter Hagen, American golfer (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. Petronella
10. Catharina
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 10 » World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.
• January 17 » Franco-Thai War: Vichy French forces inflict a decisive defeat over the Royal Thai Navy.
• 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.
• July 4 » Nazi crimes against the Polish nation: Nazi troops massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Ukrainian city of Lviv.
• September 11 » Charles Lindbergh's Des Moines Speech accusing the British, Jews and FDR's administration of pressing for war with Germany.
• December 9 » World War II: China, Cuba, Guatemala, and the Philippine Commonwealth declare war on Germany and Japan.

The temperature on October 6, 1941 was between 10.6 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.