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• Jacqueline Phyllis Mayer, New York City,, New York, Verenigde Staten († 2012)
• Emiel Depauw, Vilvoorde († 1997)
• Antonia Jacoba Karlas- († 2008)
• Larry Glen Duininck, Kandiyohi, MN
• Leslie Neil OLDFIELD, Paddington, New South Wales, Australia († 2002)
• Elisabeth Margaretha Maria van der Heide, Harlingen, Friesland, Nederland († 2021)
• Karen B. Lindly († 1992)
• Francina Maria Ineke Vork, Ter Aar († 2012)
• Gerrit van der Molen († 2022)
• Hendrikje Roke, Gemeente Heerde, Gelderland, Nederland († 1999)

• Anna Cornelia Maria DONS (50), Berendrecht, Antwerpen, Belgie
• Alvie Charles Fortenberry (20), Pearl Harbor, Oahu, HI
• Antonia Maria Smans (64), Borgerhout
• Antonia Petronella Hardeman (71), Bandoeng
• Agada Hoek (68), Katwijk
• Anna Maria Ardts (77), Neilsville (US)
• Andries Kiel (38), Zeist
• Arie de Hoog (78), Zuidland
• Arthur C Manlove (40), Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
• Adele Gans (68), Holocaust

• 1940 » Gerry Cheevers, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1941 » Melba Pattillo Beals, American journalist and activist
• 1942 » Alex Johnson, American baseball player († 2015)
• 1942 » Harry Chapin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1981)
• 1942 » Peter Tomarken, American game show host and producer († 2006)
• 1943 » Bernard C. Parks, American police officer and politician
• 1943 » John Bennett Ramsey, American businessman and pilot
• 1943 » Nick Katz, American mathematician and academic
• 1943 » Susan Isaacs, American author and screenwriter
• 1944 » Daniel Chorzempa, American organist and composer

• 1917 » Ludwig Minkus, Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1826)
• 1918 » Frank Wilson, English-Australian politician, 9th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1859)
• 1941 » Attack on Pearl Harbor:
• 1947 » Nicholas Murray Butler, American philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1947 » Tristan Bernard, French author and playwright (b. 1866)
• 1949 » Rex Beach, American author, playwright, and water polo player (b. 1877)
• 1956 » Huntley Gordon, Canadian-American actor (b. 1887)
• 1956 » Reşat Nuri Güntekin, Turkish author and playwright (b. 1889)
• 1960 » Ioannis Demestichas, Greek admiral and politician (b. 1882)
• 1962 » Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian opera singer (b. 1895)

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.
• April 27 » World War II: German troops enter Athens.
• May 12 » Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
• May 30 » World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb the Athenian Acropolis and tear down the German flag.
• June 26 » World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day.
• September 27 » The Greek National Liberation Front is established with Georgios Siantos as acting leader.
• November 14 » World War II: In Slonim, German forces engaged in Operation Barbarossa murder 9,000 Jews in a single day.

The temperature on December 7, 1941 was between 0.5 °C and 6.1 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 17.3 mm of rain during 9.8 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.