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Born on Saturday December 6, 1941
Died on Saturday December 6, 1941

Source: Delpher (KB | national library) Newspapers from December 6, 1941 at Delpher


Born on December 6
  • 1939 » Franco Carraro, Italian politician and sports administrator
  • 1940 » Lawrence Bergman, Canadian lawyer and politician
  • 1940 » Richard Edlund, American visual effects designer and cinematographer
  • 1941 » Bill Thomas, American academic and politician
  • 1941 » Bruce Nauman, American sculptor and illustrator
  • 1941 » Helen Cornelius, American country singer-songwriter and actress
  • 1941 » Richard Speck, American murderer († 1991)
  • 1942 » Peter Handke, Austrian author and playwright
  • 1942 » Robb Royer, American guitarist, keyboard player, and songwriter
  • 1943 » Mike Smith, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer († 2008)

Died on December 6

Names that were popular for boys in 1941
  1. Johannes
  2. Jan
  3. Cornelis
  4. Maria
  5. Hendrik
  6. Willem
  7. Gerardus
  8. Antonius
  9. Wilhelmus
  10. Petrus
  11. Jacobus
  12. Adrianus
  13. Pieter
  14. Hendrikus
  15. Gerrit
  16. Joseph
Names that were popular for girls in 1941
  1. Maria
  2. Johanna
  3. Cornelia
  4. Wilhelmina
  5. Elisabeth
  6. Anna
  7. Catharina
  8. Hendrika
  9. Adriana
  10. Petronella
  11. Jacoba
  12. Marie
  13. Helena
  14. Margaretha
  15. Antonia
  16. Geertruida

Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1941
  • 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 21 » Sparked by the murder of a German officer in Bucharest, Romania the day before, members of the Iron Guard engaged in a rebellion and pogrom killing 125 Jews.
  • March 29 » World War II: British Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy forces defeat those of the Italian Regia Marina off the Peloponnesian coast of Greece in the Battle of Cape Matapan.
  • June 8 » World War II: The Allies commence the Syria-Lebanon Campaign against the possessions of Vichy France in the Levant.
  • June 14 » June deportation: the first major wave of Soviet mass deportations and murder of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, begins.
  • September 22 » The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murders 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.
  • 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 weather on Saturday December 6, 1941
The temperature on December 6, 1941 was between 4.0 °C and 7.5 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 5.3 mm of rain during 7.5 hours. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.

Source: KNMI