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• Carolus Rosalia Van Gucht, Bornem († 1942)
• Elisa G Barrientos († 2005)
• Linda Kreuger, V.S († 2017)
• Ben vd Zandt († 1990)
• Alida 'Isak' van SPIER, Hilversum, North Holland, NETHERLANDS († 1943)
• Manuel Calderon, San Buenaventura, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Mexico († 2004)
• Ernst Ettema, Ureterp gem. Opsterland
• Joseph Albert Screurs, Wellen, België († 1941)
• Herman Steeghs, Deurne,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1992)
• Johana de Klerk, Leiden, Nederland († 1941)

• Adrianus Maarschalkerweerd- (63), Schalkwijk, Nederland
• Anna Maria Gerrits (63), Groesbeek, Arnhem-Nijmegen
• Adrianus Vredebregt (48), Schiedam,-
• Adriana de Beus (80), Culemborg, Gelderland, NL
• Antonetta Cornelia Verhulst (82), 's-Hertogenbosch, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Adolf Abraham Translateur (75), Holocaust
• Anthonij van Zoeren (12), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Adrianus Vredenbregt (48), Schiedam
• Ada Christina Mathilda Adriana Ilcken (83), Groningen
• Adrianus KIL (83), Woensdrecht, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1938 » Billy Shaw, American football player
• 1938 » Bob Foster, American boxer and police officer († 2015)
• 1938 » Michael Bogdanov, Welsh director and screenwriter († 2017)
• 1939 » Cindy Birdsong, American singer-songwriter
• 1940 » Nick Buoniconti, American football player and sportscaster († 2019)
• 1942 » Dave Clark, English drummer, songwriter, and producer
• 1942 » Kathleen Blanco, American educator and politician, 54th Governor of Louisiana († 2019)
• 1943 » Lucien den Arend, Dutch sculptor
• 1944 » Chico Mendes, Brazilian trade union leader and activist († 1988)
• 1944 » Jim Leyland, American baseball player and manager

• 1943 » Fats Waller, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1904)
• 1944 » Glenn Miller, American bandleader and composer (b. 1904)
• 1947 » Arthur Machen, Welsh journalist and author (b. 1863)
• 1947 » Crawford Vaughan, Australian politician, 27th Premier of South Australia (b. 1874)
• 1950 » Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Deputy Prime Minister of India (b. 1875)
• 1958 » Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1962 » Charles Laughton, English-American actor, director, and producer (b. 1899)
• 1965 » M. Balasundaram, Sri Lankan journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1903)
• 1966 » Keith Arbuthnott, 15th Viscount of Arbuthnott, Indian-Scottish general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire (b. 1897)
• 1966 » Walt Disney, American animator, director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded The Walt Disney Company (b. 1901)

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.
• March 28 » World War II: Britain's Mediterranean Fleet sinks three heavy cruisers and two destroyers of Italy's Regia Marina.
• April 15 » In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Luftwaffe attack Belfast, killing around one thousand people.
• May 15 » First flight of the Gloster E.28/39 the first British and Allied jet aircraft.
• 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.
• July 10 » Jedwabne pogrom: Massacre of Polish Jews living in and near the village of Jedwabne.
• July 26 » World War II: In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indochina, the United States, Britain and the Netherlands freeze all Japanese assets and cut off oil shipments.

The temperature on December 15, 1941 was between 7.6 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 5.0 mm of rain during 5.8 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.