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• Beverly STRATING, Morrison Whiteside County Illinois U.S.A († 2013)
• Gabrielle de Salm-Reifferscheidt-Krautheim-Dick († 1985)
• Wilhelmus Willibrordus van Aken, Voorschoten, Zuid Holland, Nederland († 2010)
• Dood Geboren Kind van Lokven, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Piet Dronrijp, Rotterdam († 2020)
• Jacobus Jumelet, Rotterdam Zhl. NL († 1942)
• Albert Willems, Luik, België († 2025)
• Mayna Johnston († 1988)
• Nicholas Charles CAVENDISH († 2009)
• Wander van Leeuwen, Enkhuizen

• Aleida Maria Catrina Wilhelmina Heesen (71), Hilversum
• Catharina Maria Rademakers (71), Valkenswaard, Nederland
• Anthonius Johannes Vonk (68), Princenhage
• Antje de Jong (70), Heerenveen, Friesland, Nederland
• Bernardus Bervoets (67), Hoorn
• Anna Adriaantje Roetman (71), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Cornelis Johanna Cornelia Sanders (65), Nijmegen
• Bastiana Gerardina Barendrecht (81), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Blaine E Scott (46), Ypsilanti, Washtenaw County, Michigan, United States of America
• Adrianus Kerpels (0), Rotterdam, Nederland

• 1939 » Barbara Liskov, American computer scientist and academic
• 1940 » Antonio Skármeta, Chilean author and academic
• 1940 » Dakin Matthews, American actor, director, and playwright
• 1941 » Angelo Scola, Italian cardinal and philosopher
• 1941 » Madeline Gins, American poet and architect († 2014)
• 1942 » Jean Shrimpton, English model and actress
• 1942 » Johnny Rivers, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1942 » Tom Peters, American businessman and author
• 1943 » Silvia Cartwright, New Zealand lawyer, judge, and politician, 18th Governor-General of New Zealand
• 1943 » Stephen Greenblatt, American theorist, scholar, and critic

• 1922 » Sam Thompson, American baseball player (b. 1860)
• 1923 » Ashwini Kumar Dutta, Indian educator and philanthropist (b. 1856)
• 1930 » Ōkido Moriemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 23rd Yokozuna (b. 1878)
• 1933 » Harold Weber, American golfer and architect (b. 1882)
• 1941 » Frank Pick, English lawyer and businessman (b. 1878)
• 1944 » Hannah Szenes, Hungarian-Israeli soldier and poet (b. 1921)
• 1944 » Richard Sorge, Azerbaijani-German journalist and spy (b. 1895)
• 1947 » K. Natesa Iyer, Indian-Sri Lankan journalist and politician (b. 1887)
• 1959 » Victor McLaglen, English-American boxer and actor (b. 1883)
• 1962 » Eleanor Roosevelt, American humanitarian and politician, 39th First Lady of the United States (b. 1884)

• 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.
• March 29 » The North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement goes into effect at 03:00 local time.
• 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 27 » Romanian authorities launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iași, resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews.
• August 29 » World War II: Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, is occupied by Nazi Germany following an occupation by the Soviet Union.
• October 29 » The Holocaust: In the Kaunas Ghetto, over 10,000 Jews are shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the "Great Action".
• December 12 » World War II: Fifty-four Japanese A6M Zero fighters raid Batangas Field, Philippines. Jesús Villamor and four Filipino fighter pilots fend them off; César Basa is killed.

The temperature on November 7, 1941 was between 3.1 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 3.2 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (79%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.