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• Joseph Bromet, Amsterdam († 1941)
• Kathryn Georgia Leimer, Los Angeles, California († 1997)
• Jan Frederik van der Garde, Baarn († 1968)
• Henricus Nuij, Brunssum, Limburg, Nederland († 1994)
• Hendrika Petronella Philipsen, Helden,, Limburg, Nederland († 2009)
• Cornelia Hendrica Maria Leonia Zanders, Schaesberg, Limburg, Nederland († 1943)
• Jacobus Petrus Henricus (Koos) Bol († 2018)
• Frederike Marchien van Kleef, Amsterdam, The Netherlands († 1942)
• Doris Ann Bartley, Larue County, Kentucky († 2000)
• Antonius Isidorus (Ton) Hofste op Bruinink, Haaksbergen († 2013)

• Abram Lodder (76), middelharnis (goeree overflakkee)
• Alida Zwart (74), Haarlem
• Adrianus Vermeeren (86), Princenhage
• Aart Meuldijk (64), Egmond aan Zee
• Adrianus Mulder (42), Almelo
• Anna Geertruida Leebeek (51), Baarn
• Aaltje van Osnabrugge (76), Weesp, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Margaretha Johanna ten Brink (87), Amsterdam
• Anna Margaretha Johanna ten Brink (87), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aafke Helwerda (87), Wehe

• 1940 » Phil Ochs, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1976)
• 1941 » Lee Myung-bak, South Korean businessman and politician, 10th President of South Korea
• 1941 » Maurice White, American singer-songwriter and producer († 2016)
• 1942 » Cornell Dupree, American guitarist († 2011)
• 1942 » "Mean Gene" Okerlund, American sports announcer († 2019)
• 1943 » James L. Jones, American general and politician, 22nd United States National Security Advisor
• 1943 » Ross M. Lence, American political scientist and academic († 2006)
• 1944 » Martin Hume Johnson, English physiologist and academic
• 1944 » Mitchell Feigenbaum, American physicist and mathematician († 2019)
• 1944 » William Christie, American-French harpsichord player and conductor

• 1916 » Thibaw Min, Burmese king (b. 1859)
• 1927 » Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian activist (b. 1900)
• 1927 » Ram Prasad Bismil, Indian poet and activist (b. 1897)
• 1932 » Yun Bong-gil, South Korean activist (b. 1908)
• 1933 » George Jackson Churchward, English engineer and businessman (b. 1857)
• 1938 » Stephen Warfield Gambrill, American lawyer and politician (b. 1873)
• 1944 » Abbas II of Egypt (b. 1874)
• 1944 » Rudolph Karstadt, German businessman (b. 1856)
• 1946 » Paul Langevin, French physicist and academic (b. 1872)
• 1953 » Robert Andrews Millikan, American physicist and eugenicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)

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 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.
• 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 23 » The Lithuanian Activist Front declares independence from the Soviet Union and forms the Provisional Government of Lithuania; it lasts only briefly as the Nazis will occupy Lithuania a few weeks later.
• July 7 » The US occupation of Iceland replaces the UK's occupation.
• August 22 » World War II: German troops begin the Siege of Leningrad.
• November 12 » World War II: Temperatures around Moscow drop to -12°C as the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city.

The temperature on December 19, 1941 was between 2.9 °C and 5.4 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.