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• Annigje Adriana Dekker, Velsen († 2009)
• Gretha Sikma- († 2017)
• Keith Valentine Dye, South Normanton (Derbyshire, VK) († 2008)
• Cornelis Pieter Thomassen, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands († 2004)
• Godelieve M. C. J. Pirlotte, Batsheers, België († 2018)
• Bernard Johannes Wösten, Zwartemeer, Emmen († 2003)
• Henry Alton Todd *****, Columbus, Muscogee, Georgia, Verenigde Staten († 2006)
• Léonus LEPERLIER, L'Étang-Salé,97427,Réunion,Réunion,FRANCE († 1944)
• --kind-- Foppen, Harderwijk, Gelderland, Nederland († 1941)
• Hilde J. Lepping, Schaesberg († 2013)

• Antoon van den Bosch (73), Zaltbommel
• Bernardus Harmannus Bulle (78), Nieuwe Pekela
• Anna Marie Andreas Nelsen (76), Pueblo, CO, St Mary's Hospital
• Anna Maria Peters (55), Delft, Zuid Holland
• (82), Asperen, West Betuwe, Gelderland, Nederland
• Carel Johan Pieter Spruit (86), Gouda, Zuid Holland
• Bernardus Bulle (78)
• August John Carl Fehlberg (82)
• Adriana Overbeeke (90), Gorinchem
• Anna WUBBEN (65)

• 1938 » Jean Garon, Canadian economist, lawyer, and politician († 2014)
• 1939 » Chet Allen, American child actor († 1984)
• 1939 » Eddie C. Campbell, American singer and guitarist († 2018)
• 1942 » Ariel Dorfman, Argentinian author, playwright, and academic
• 1943 » Andreas Baader, German terrorist, co-founded the Red Army Faction († 1977)
• 1943 » James Turrell, American sculptor and illustrator
• 1943 » Milton William Cooper, American theorist and author († 2001)
• 1943 » Wolfgang Reinhardt, German pole vaulter († 2011)
• 1944 » Anton Furst, English-American production designer and art director († 1991)
• 1944 » Masanori Murakami, Japanese baseball player and coach

• 1919 » L. Frank Baum, American novelist (b. 1856)
• 1939 » Konstantin Somov, Russian-French painter and illustrator (b. 1869)
• 1949 » Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian-French poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1951 » Élie Cartan, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1869)
• 1952 » Maria Montessori, Italian-Dutch physician and educator (b. 1870)
• 1959 » Maria Dulęba, Polish actress (b. 1881)
• 1959 » Ragnar Nurkse, Estonian-American economist and academic (b. 1907)
• 1961 » Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (b. 1895)
• 1963 » Ted Weems, American violinist, trombonist, and bandleader (b. 1901)
• 1963 » Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and engineer (b. 1881)

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 29 » Alexandros Koryzis becomes Prime Minister of Greece upon the sudden death of his predecessor, dictator Ioannis Metaxas.
• May 8 » World War II: The German Luftwaffe launches a bombing raid on Nottingham and Derby.
• June 22 » World War II: Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa.
• October 30 » President Roosevelt approves $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations.
• November 14 » World War II: In Slonim, German forces engaged in Operation Barbarossa murder 9,000 Jews in a single day.
• 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.)

The temperature on May 6, 1941 was between 1.1 °C and 11.1 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (15%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.