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• Neeltje Marina Verhagen, Rotterdam
• Adriana Bleeker
• N.N. Imminkhuizen, Langbroek, Nederland († 1941)
• Dirk Haasnoot, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2005)
• Monika Mey, Königsberg, Preuszen († 1943)
• George Harry Michael de Boer, Queens (New York City) (Queens County) (New York) († 1993)
• Lucille Ann Skovlund († 1941)
• Doodgeboren kind Kokke, Oudenbosch († 1941)
• Jaap Hulshof († 2015)
• Anna Nafzger, Maastricht († 2021)

• Aarn Symens Hoekstra (68), leeuwarden
• Anna Geertruida van der Hoeven (86), Rotterdam
• Anna Maria SAGER (80)
• Adriaan Meeuwesen (63), Geldrop
• Allegonda Elisabeth Scheen (89), Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Aldert BAKKER (62), Zaandijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Bouwen de Best (47), Katwijk
• Albert Jacobs Bos (93), Groningen, Nederland
• Aaltje Bouwesdr de Best (47), Leiden
• "Maria das Neves" Isabel Eulália Carlota Adelaide Micaela Rafaela Gabriela de Portugal (88), Wien, Autriche

• 1937 » Coen Moulijn, Dutch footballer († 2011)
• 1937 » Gregory Mcdonald, American author († 2008)
• 1940 » İsmail Cem İpekçi, Turkish journalist and politician, 45th Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs († 2007)
• 1940 » Hamzah Haz, Indonesian journalist and politician, 9th Vice President of Indonesia
• 1940 » John Hadl, American football player and coach
• 1940 » Vaino Vahing, Estonian psychiatrist, author, and playwright († 2008)
• 1941 » Brian Holland, American songwriter and producer
• 1941 » Florinda Bolkan, Brazilian actress
• 1944 » Mick Avory, English drummer
• 1945 » Jack Dann, American-Australian author and poet

• 1924 » Lionel Monckton, English composer (b. 1861)
• 1928 » H. H. Asquith, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1852)
• 1932 » Minnie Maddern Fiske, American actress and playwright (b. 1865)
• 1933 » Pat Sullivan, Australian animator and producer, co-created Felix the Cat (b. 1887)
• 1935 » Basil Hall Chamberlain, English-Swiss historian, author, and academic (b. 1850)
• 1939 » Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Russian painter and author (b. 1878)
• 1956 » Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, French lawyer and politician (b. 1878)
• 1959 » Owen Willans Richardson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
• 1961 » Laurence Owen, American figure skater (b. 1944)
• 1965 » Nat King Cole, American singer and pianist (b. 1919)

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.
• 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.
• September 20 » The Holocaust in Lithuania: Lithuanian Nazis and local police murder 403 Jews in Nemenčinė.
• September 27 » The SSPatrick Henry is launched, becoming the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships.
• October 29 » The Holocaust: In the Kaunas Ghetto, over 10,000 Jews are shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the "Great Action".
• December 8 » World War II: Japanese forces simultaneously invade Shanghai International Settlement, Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and the Dutch East Indies. (See December 7 for the concurrent attack on Pearl Harbor in the Western Hemisphere.)
• 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 February 15, 1941 was between 2.0 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (12%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.