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• Everdina Harmina Booij, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2005)
• Christiaan Bastiaan Beeke, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 1944)
• Beatrice Sandahl, Washington, District of Columbia, Verenigde Staten († 2011)
• Adrianus de Rooij, Dinteloord († 2015)
• Jack STONE, Warragul, Victoria, Australia († 2001)
• Anna Rudolphusdr. van der Kooy, Dijken, Doniawerstal, Friesland, Nederland († 2014)
• van den Broek, Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1942)
• Guus Leo Roozemond, Doorn, Utrecht, Nederland († 2001)
• David Owen Straub, Darlington, Beaver, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 2018)
• Christien Wielders, Nieuwstadt, Nederland († 2003)

• van den Broek (0), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Francesca Anthonia Mayer (90), Tegernsee, Oberbayern, Beieren
• Agnes Elizabeth Teunissen (1), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna de Leeuw (77), Baarn
• Anna von Mayer (90), Tegernsee, Miesbach, Bayern, Deutschland
• Aletta Lieselotte Jacobs (27), Auschwitz,Concentratiekamp,Polen
• Aagje Wiering (72), De Rijp, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana, Wilhelmina, Francina Van Geel (29), Zevenbergen
• Anna J.M. de Winter (6), Medemblik
• Andreas Wilhelmus Nillesen (87), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1939 » Alan Ayckbourn, English director and playwright
• 1940 » Herbie Hancock, American pianist, composer, and bandleader
• 1940 » Woodie Fryman, American baseball player († 2011)
• 1941 » Bobby Moore, English footballer and manager († 1993)
• 1942 » Bill Bryden, Scottish actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1942 » Carlos Reutemann, Argentinian race car driver and politician
• 1942 » Jacob Zuma, South African politician, 4th President of South Africa
• 1943 » Sumitra Mahajan, Indian politician, 16th Speaker of the Lok Sabha
• 1944 » John Kay, German-Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1944 » Lisa Jardine, English historian, author, and academic († 2015)

• 1933 » Adelbert Ames, American general and politician, 30th Governor of Mississippi (b. 1835)
• 1937 » Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan, Turkish playwright and poet (b. 1852)
• 1938 » Feodor Chaliapin, Russian opera singer (b. 1873)
• 1943 » Viktor Puskar, Estonian colonel (b. 1889)
• 1945 » Franklin D. Roosevelt, American lawyer and politician, 32nd President of the United States (b. 1882)
• 1953 » Lionel Logue, Australian actor and therapist (b. 1880)
• 1962 » Ron Flockhart, Scottish racing driver (b. 1923)
• 1966 » Sydney Allard, English racing driver and founder of the Allard car company (b. 1910)
• 1968 » Heinrich Nordhoff, German engineer (b. 1899)
• 1971 » Ed Lafitte, American baseball player and dentist (b. 1886)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Willem
5. Hendrik
6. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Petrus
9. Wilhelmus
10. Jacobus
11. Robert
12. Adrianus
13. Jacob
14. Gerardus
15. Johan
16. Antonius

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Cornelia
4. Anna
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Adriana
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Aaltje
14. Margaretha
15. Grietje
16. Helena

• 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 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 9.0 million citizens.
• February 2 » The Osvald Group is responsible for the first, active event of anti-Nazi resistance in Norway, to protest the inauguration of Vidkun Quisling.
• February 19 » World War II: Nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin, killing 243 people.
• March 29 » The Bombing of Lübeck in World War II is the first major success for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German city.
• May 8 » World War II: Gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebel in the Cocos Islands Mutiny. Their mutiny is crushed and three of them are executed, the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War.
• June 20 » The Holocaust: Kazimierz Piechowski and three others, dressed as members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, steal an SS staff car and escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp.
• October 30 » World War II: Lt. Tony Fasson and Able Seaman Colin Grazier drown while taking code books from the sinking German submarine U-559.

The temperature on April 12, 1942 was between 2.0 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 12.5 hours of sunshine (91%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.