About the day » Tuesday July 15, 1941Calender converter

• Margaretha Josephina Brouwers, 's-Hertogenbosch († 1999)
• Jacob Groenteman, Amsterdam, Nederland († 1943)
• Albertje Homminga, Bolsward († 2017)
• Doodgeboren kind Verhoeven, Tilburg († 1941)
• Gertruda Francisca Maria (Truusje) Mestrom, Lindenheuvel, Gemeente Sittard-Geleen, Limburg, Nederland († 1944)
• Hendrik Verveen, Wonosobo (Midden-Java) († 1942)
• Maria Barbara Agatha van 't Hoog, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1941)
• Claus Wilfried Kathmann, Beckedorf, Kreis Osterholz, Germany († 2010)
• Schalkoord, Nieuw Beijerland († 1941)
• Grommen, Hasselt († 1941)

• Akke van Dijk (60), nijkerk
• Baron Paul Arnold Jacques de SMETH (84), Lausanne, Vaud, Zwitserland
• Albert Brickwedde ongehuwd (23), Wevel, Rusland gesneuveld
• Berendina Louisa Satter (68), Arnhem
• Barend Duis (62), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Maria Westerlaken, Nuland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Calla Belle Cushman (64), Chehalis, Lewis County, Washington, Verenigde Staten
• Aaltje Nijhuis (68), Oudega, Smallingerland (Frl)
• Aaltje Jacobus Nijhuis (68), Oudega
• Berend Schoemaker (56), Enschede

• 1938 » Bill Alsup, American racing driver († 2016)
• 1938 » Carmen Callil, Australian publisher, founded Virago Press
• 1938 » Ernie Barnes, American football player, actor, and painter († 2009)
• 1939 » Aníbal Cavaco Silva, Portuguese economist and politician, 19th President of the Portuguese Republic
• 1940 » Chris Cord, American racing driver
• 1940 » Denis Héroux, Canadian director and producer († 2015)
• 1940 » Robert Winston, English surgeon, academic, and politician
• 1940 » Ronald Gene Simmons, American sergeant and convicted murderer († 1990)
• 1942 » Vivian Malone Jones, American civil rights activist († 2005)
• 1943 » Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Northern Irish astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic

• 1932 » Bahíyyih Khánum, Iranian writer and leader in the Baha'i faith (b. 1846)
• 1933 » Freddie Keppard, American cornet player (b. 1890)
• 1933 » Irving Babbitt, American scholar, critic, and academic (b. 1865)
• 1940 » Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist and physician (b. 1857)
• 1940 » Robert Wadlow, American giant, 8"11' 271 cm (b.1918)
• 1942 » Wenceslao Vinzons, Filipino lawyer and politician (b. 1910)
• 1944 » Marie-Victorin Kirouac, Canadian botanist and academic (b. 1885)
• 1946 » Razor Smith, English cricketer and coach (b. 1877)
• 1947 » Walter Donaldson, American soldier and songwriter (b. 1893)
• 1948 » John J. Pershing, American general (b. 1860)

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 11 » World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.
• June 27 » World War II: German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa.
• July 4 » World War II: The Burning of the Riga synagogues: The Great Choral Synagogue in German occupied Riga is burnt with 300 Jews locked in the basement.
• October 31 » World War II: The destroyer USSReuben James is torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland, killing more than 100 U.S. Navy sailors. It is the first U.S. Navy vessel sunk by enemy action in WWII.
• 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 14 » World War II: Japan signs a treaty of alliance with Thailand.

The temperature on July 15, 1941 was between 14.1 °C and 22.9 °C and averaged 17.9 °C. There was 3.6 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.