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• Dina Elisabeth Weststrate, Rilland-Bath († 2007)
• Avis Laurine Schultz, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan († 2009)
• Geertruida Gusta AUKES († 1976)
• Doodgeboren kind Vermunt, Standdaarbuiten († 1941)
• Elly Kaemingk, Zwolle († 1993)
• Janna Adriana van Schijndel, Rotterdam († 1991)
• Dirk Anton van Hunnik, Klatten Java), Indonesie († 1943)
• Jacobus van den Bosch, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Hendrika BAMBACHT, Hellouw (gemeente Haaften) (Gld.) († 2004)
• Janke Ketelaar, Emmer-Compascuum, Emmen († 2018)

• Immenga (0), Beerta, Groningen, Nederland
• Annie Munro (76), New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts
• Anna Myrtle Jones Huffman (64)
• Anna Mietje Schotte (68), Rotterdam
• Visser, Soest
• Ana de Oliveira (28)
• Antonius Petrus AUKES (0), Weesp(Noord Holland)
• Adrianus Willemsz. Schilder (65), Vlaardingen
• Anna Markies (64), Bergen op Zoom, N-Br, NL
• Aaltje Slijkhuis (81), Apeldoorn

• 1939 » Jim Bouton, American baseball player and journalist († 2019)
• 1939 » Lidiya Skoblikova, Russian speed skater and coach
• 1939 » Lynn Seymour, Canadian ballerina and choreographer
• 1939 » Robert Tear, Welsh tenor and conductor († 2011)
• 1941 » Norman Stone, Scottish-English historian, author, and academic († 2019)
• 1942 » Ann Packer, English sprinter, hurdler, and long jumper
• 1942 » Dick Allen, American baseball player and tenor
• 1943 » Lynn Redgrave, English-American actress and singer († 2010)
• 1943 » Michael Grade, English businessman
• 1943 » Susan Clark, Canadian actress and producer

• 1930 » Edward Terry Sanford, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, United States Assistant Attorney General (b. 1865)
• 1930 » William Howard Taft, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 27th President of the United States (b. 1857)
• 1935 » Hachikō, Japanese dog (b. 1923)
• 1937 » Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1902)
• 1941 » Sherwood Anderson, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1876)
• 1942 » José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player and theoretician (b. 1888)
• 1944 » Fredy Hirsch, German Jewish athlete who helped thousands of Jewish children in the Holocaust (b. 1916)
• 1945 » Frederick Bligh Bond, English archaeologist and architect (b. 1864)
• 1948 » Hulusi Behçet, Turkish dermatologist and scientist (b. 1889)
• 1957 » Othmar Schoeck, Swiss composer and conductor (b. 1886)

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 6 » United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms speech in the State of the Union address.
• March 29 » The North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement goes into effect at 03:00 local time.
• July 31 » World War II: The Battle of Smolensk concludes with Germany capturing about 300,000 Soviet Red Army prisoners.
• December 5 » World War II: In the Battle of Moscow, Georgy Zhukov launches a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German army.
• December 12 » World War II: Fifty-four Japanese A6M Zero fighters raid Batangas Field, Philippines. Jesús Villamor and four Filipino fighter pilots fend them off; César Basa is killed.
• December 28 » World War II: Operation Anthropoid, the plot to assassinate high-ranking Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich, commences.

The temperature on March 8, 1941 was between 5.9 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was 5.3 mm of rain during 4.3 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.