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• Harmen Hermanus Bredero, Amsterdam († 2000)
• Johanna Jannie Maria Bronk († 2003)
• N N de Haan, Meppel († 1941)
• Allegonda Geertruida Hermina Rietbergen, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 2006)
• Frida Van Gestel, Herenthout († 1999)
• Arie Joosse, Oostkapelle, Zeeland, NL († 2000)
• Noël Lambert Joseph Verbois, Sint-Truiden, België († 1942)
• Allegonda Geertruida Hermina Rietbergen, Utrecht Utrecht Nederland († 2006)
• Didier Marthe Yves Barbe Ghislain van de WERVE de SCHILDE, Vosselaar, 2350, Antwerpen, Belgique
• Derk Schonewille, Emmen († 2004)

• Anna Geertruida Mencke (50), Odoorn
• Agina Frederica Wilhelmina Höhle (67), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Andrina NEDERVEEN (63)
• Anna Cornelia Stichter (81), Amersfoort, Nederland
• Aart van Ravenhorst (60), Ede
• Anna Maria Jorna- (67), Wijchen, Nederland
• Alexander Koloman Maria Markgraaf Pallavicino (51), Boedapest
• Andrina Nederveen (63), Dordrecht
• Andries Piso (81), 's Gravenhage
• Anna Catharina Hendrika te Broek (72), Valburg, Gelderland, Netherlands

• 1938 » Bahram Beyzai, Iranian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1938 » Robert Hamerton-Kelly, South African-American pastor, scholar, and author († 2013)
• 1939 » Fred Schepisi, Australian director and screenwriter
• 1939 » Phil Spector, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1940 » Edward C. Prescott, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1940 » Ray Sadecki, American baseball player († 2014)
• 1941 » Daniel Schmid, Swiss actor, director, and screenwriter († 2006)
• 1942 » Catherine Coulter, American author
• 1942 » Gray Davis, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 37th Governor of California
• 1942 » Vinicio Cerezo, Guatemalan politician, 28th President of Guatemala

• 1923 » Dietrich Eckart, German journalist, poet, and politician (b. 1868)
• 1925 » Jan Letzel, Czech architect, designed the Hiroshima Peace Memorial (b. 1880)
• 1929 » Albert Giraud, Belgian poet (b. 1860)
• 1931 » Melvil Dewey, American librarian and educator, created the Dewey Decimal Classification (b. 1851)
• 1933 » Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian journalist and politician (b. 1875)
• 1933 » Henry Watson Fowler, English lexicographer and educator (b. 1858)
• 1959 » Jack Tresadern, English footballer and manager (b. 1890)
• 1960 » Tetsuro Watsuji, Japanese historian and philosopher (b. 1889)
• 1963 » Gorgeous George, American wrestler (b. 1915)
• 1966 » Ina Boudier-Bakker, Dutch author (b. 1875)

• 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 27 » World War II: Yugoslav Air Force officers topple the pro-Axis government in a bloodless coup.
• April 1 » A military coup in Iraq overthrows the regime of 'Abd al-Ilah and installs Rashid Ali al-Gaylani as Prime Minister.
• September 29 » World War II: German forces, with the aid of local Ukrainian collaborators, begin the two-day Babi Yar massacre.
• 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.
• December 1 » World War II: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives the final approval to initiate war against the United States.
• December 8 » World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares December 7 to be "a date which will live in infamy", after which the U.S. declares war on Japan.

The temperature on December 26, 1941 was between -4.1 °C and 3.5 °C and averaged 0.4 °C. There was 5.3 mm of rain during 5.6 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.