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• Roelofje Josina Hoff, Den Haag
• N.n. van Helvoort, Boxtel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1941)
• Jan Cornelis Schrijver, Krabbendijke, ZL, NL († 2011)
• Carol Lee WALLACE, California († 1989)
• Frank Beekhuis († 2011)
• Doodgeboren zoon Etienne, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1941)
• Piet Algera, Huzum († 2008)
• Johannes Matheijs van Geloof († 1961)
• Divera Adriana SNIP († 2020)
• Phillip Franklin Niles, Baraboo, Sauk, Wisconsin, United States († 2014)

• Adrianus Mooij (68), Rijswijk, Gemeente Altena, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Adriana Petronella Theodora Damen (21), Heel &, Panheel
• Bauke Koster (1), Wieringen
• Cornelia Maria Foks (85), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catharina Sloos (85), Leiden
• Anna Maria Lombard (65), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Schroevers (54), Arnemuiden, Middelburg, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Alidia van der Linden (61), Utrecht,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Catharina Sloos (85), Leiden
• Cornelia Arnoldina Maria Agatha Vos (54), Blaricum, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 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)

• 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 19 » World War II: HMSGreyhound and other escorts of convoy AS-12 sink Italian submarine Neghelli with all hands 40 miles (64km) northeast of Falkonera.
• May 10 » World War II: The House of Commons in London is damaged by the Luftwaffe in an air raid.
• May 20 » World War II: Battle of Crete: German paratroops invade Crete.
• May 27 » World War II: The German battleshipBismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing almost 2,100 men.
• September 17 » World War II: Soviet forces enter Tehran during the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran.
• October 30 » Holocaust: Fifteen hundred Jews from Pidhaytsi are sent by Nazis to Bełżec extermination camp.

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.