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• Jantje Oostenbrink, Enschede († 1947)
• Anna Lydia Brugman, amsterdam, Nederland († 2012)
• Henriëtta Maria Helene Beaujean, Heerlerheide, Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland († 2011)
• Albert Dunning († 2002)
• Cornelia Johanna van Engeldorp Gastelaars, Doesburg, Gelderland, NL († 2009)
• Gerard Tienesen, Millingen, Gelderland, Nederland († 2013)
• Christianus Theodorus Manders 12AFW, Escharen, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1994)
• Cornelia Johanna (Corry) van Engeldorp Gastelaars, Doesburg († 2009)
• Frans Voogt († 2008)
• Jean Albert Severijns, Meeswijk, Provincie Limburg, België († 1941)

• Aafke ter Horst (65), Enschede
• Bernardus Antonius Nijenkamp (42), Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland
• Alfons OBERHOFF (28), Sstorossjelje WW2 (RUS)
• Antonie Johannes Zijlmans (72), Utrecht
• Alijda van Ruitenbeek (61), 's Gravenhage
• Bernardus Antonius Nijenkamp (42), Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland
• Constantinus Franciscus Augusteyns (68), Ranst (Oelegem), Antwerpen, Vlaanderen, België
• Bernadina Geurts (61), Maashees Overloon, NL
• Cornelia Catharina `t Lam (79), Gorinchem
• Anne Andrae (56), Ferwerd, Ferwerderadeel, Friesland, Netherlands

• 1939 » Brian Auger, English rock and jazz keyboard player
• 1939 » Dion DiMucci, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1939 » Jerry Moore, American football player and coach
• 1940 » James Brolin, American actor
• 1940 » Joe Torre, American baseball player and manager
• 1941 » Frank Farian, German songwriter and producer
• 1941 » Lonnie Mack, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2016)
• 1941 » Martha Reeves, American singer and politician
• 1942 » Adolf Ogi, Swiss politician, 84th President of the Swiss Confederation
• 1942 » Giacinto Facchetti, Italian footballer († 2006)

• 1932 » Jean Jules Jusserand, French author and diplomat, French Ambassador to the United States (b. 1855)
• 1937 » Julian Bell, English poet and academic (b. 1908)
• 1938 » Marie of Romania (b. 1875)
• 1944 » Thomas Sturge Moore, English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1870)
• 1947 » Evald Tipner, Estonian footballer and ice hockey player (b. 1906)
• 1948 » Herman Gummerus, Finnish historian, academic, and politician (b. 1877)
• 1949 » Francisco Javier Arana, Guatemalan Army colonel and briefly Guatemalan head of state (b.1905)
• 1949 » Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer and educator (b. 1870)
• 1950 » Carl Clinton Van Doren, American critic and biographer (b. 1885)
• 1952 » Paul Saintenoy, Belgian architect and historian (b. 1862)

• 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: The Communist Party of Slovenia, the Slovene Christian Socialists, the left-wing Slovene Sokols (also known as "National Democrats") and a group of progressive intellectuals establish the Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation.
• August 15 » Corporal Josef Jakobs is executed by firing squad at the Tower of London at 07:12, making him the last person to be executed at the Tower for espionage.
• September 3 » The Holocaust: Karl Fritzsch, deputy camp commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, experiments with the use of Zyklon B in the gassing of Soviet POWs.
• September 4 » World War II: A German submarine makes the first attack of the war against a United States warship, the USSGreer.
• 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".
• November 14 » World War II: The aircraft carrier HMSArk Royal sinks due to torpedo damage from the German submarineU-81 sustained on November 13.

The temperature on July 18, 1941 was between 8.2 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.