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• Frank Beekhuis († 2011)
• Carol Lee WALLACE, California († 1989)
• Marjorie Louise Mayer, Mecosta, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 1983)
• Martina de Bruijn, St Maartensdijk († 2000)
• Joseph Jenkins († 1991)
• Suzanne Juliette Auguste WITHOFS, Hasselt, 3500, Limburg, Belgique († 1992)
• Phillip Franklin Niles, Baraboo, Sauk, Wisconsin, United States († 2014)
• Susan Georgina Croydon, Islington, London, England († 1981)
• M. (Martina) de Bruijn († 2000)
• Johannes Matheijs van Geloof († 1961)

• Catharina Wilhelmina Butselaar (47), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Augustus Vancoillie (74), Oostende
• Abraham van Splunter (67), Amsterdam
• Clasina van VLIET (64), Utrecht
• Cornelia Maria Foks (85), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bertha Hendrika van der Nat (52), Leiden
• Adrianus van Vlijmen (66)
• Anna Maria Lombard (65), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alida van der Linden (61), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Bauke Koster (1), Wieringen

• 1938 » Harvey Smith, English horse rider and sportscaster
• 1938 » Jon Voight, American actor and producer
• 1939 » Ed Bruce, American country music singer-songwriter
• 1941 » Ray Thomas, English singer-songwriter and flute player († 2018)
• 1942 » Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, Honduran cardinal
• 1942 » Rajesh Khanna, Indian actor († 2012)
• 1943 » Bill Aucoin, American talent manager († 2010)
• 1943 » Molly Bang, American author and illustrator
• 1943 » Rick Danko, Canadian singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer († 1999)
• 1944 » Rodney Redmond, New Zealand cricketer

• 1924 » Carl Spitteler, Swiss poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
• 1925 » Félix Vallotton, Swiss/French painter (b. 1865)
• 1926 » Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet and author (b. 1875)
• 1929 » Wilhelm Maybach, German engineer and businessman, founded Maybach (b. 1846)
• 1937 » Don Marquis, American journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1878)
• 1941 » Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician and scholar (b. 1873)
• 1944 » Khasan Israilov, Chechen rebel (b. 1910)
• 1949 » Tyler Dennett, American historian and author (b. 1883)
• 1952 » Fletcher Henderson, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1897)
• 1959 » Robin Milford, English soldier and composer (b. 1903)

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.
• March 4 » World War II: The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands; the first large scale British Commando raid.
• March 11 » World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.
• July 31 » The Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring, orders SS General Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired Final Solution of the Jewish question."
• August 22 » World War II: German troops begin the Siege of Leningrad.
• November 1 » American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.

The temperature on December 29, 1941 was between -8.3 °C and 2.3 °C and averaged -1.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (12%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.