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• Jeffrey Wayne Kessell, Honolulu, Honolulu, Hawaii, Verenigde Staten († 2018)
• doodgeboren kind van den Heuvel, Utrecht († 1942)
• Catharina Elisabeth Maria de Visser, De Koog (Texel, NH) († 2022)
• Johan Henry Kloer, Bandung († 2002)
• Frans Eppo Berend Rozema, Groningen, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 2005)
• Claudia Ruth (Dutch) Hoogakker, Paw Paw, Van Buren County, Michigan, VS († 2003)
• Cornelis Pieter (Kees) Harthoorn, Oostdijk (Kruiningen), Zeeland, Nederland († 1968)
• Henricus Marinus Maria Laurensse († 2000)
• Gerrit Bargerbos († 2005)
• Cyriel Dutry, Oostnieuwkerke († 2021)

• Anna Catharina Vreuls (60), Kerkrade (L
• Aalbertus Breedveld (46), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie MEIJER (28), Rotterdam
• Beert van Wijnkoop (79), Nijkerk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Albertje Swart (72), Chicago
• Aldert van der Laan (77), Nieuwolda, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Maria Hollander (76), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Beert van Wijnkoop (79), Nijkerk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anton Henri de JONCHEERE (72), Driebergen Rijsenburg
• Overberg (91), Oude Pekela, Groningen, Netherlands

• 1937 » Una Stubbs, English actress and dancer
• 1939 » Judy Collins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1939 » Victor Davies, Canadian pianist, composer, and conductor
• 1939 » Wilhelmina Cooper, Dutch model († 1980)
• 1943 » Joe Walsh, Irish politician, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine († 2014)
• 1943 » Vassal Gadoengin, Nauruan politician († 2004)
• 1945 » Carson Whitsett, American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer († 2007)
• 1945 » Rita Coolidge, American singer-songwriter
• 1946 » Joanna Lumley, English actress, voice-over artist, author, and activist
• 1946 » John Woo, Hong Kong director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1920 » Princess Margaret of Connaught (b. 1882)
• 1935 » Henri Pélissier, French cyclist (b. 1889)
• 1943 » Johan Oscar Smith, Norwegian religious leader, founded the Brunstad Christian Church (b. 1871)
• 1945 » Joseph Goebbels, German lawyer and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1897)
• 1945 » Magda Goebbels, German wife of Joseph Goebbels (b. 1901)
• 1953 » Everett Shinn, American painter and illustrator (b. 1876)
• 1956 » LeRoy Samse, American pole vaulter (b. 1883)
• 1960 » Charles Holden, English architect, designed the Bristol Central Library (b. 1875)
• 1963 » Lope K. Santos, Filipino lawyer and politician (b. 1879)
• 1965 » Spike Jones, American singer and bandleader (b. 1911)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Willem
5. Hendrik
6. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Petrus
9. Wilhelmus
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Robert
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. Annie

• 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.
• March 12 » The Battle of Java ends with the surrender of the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command to the Japanese Empire in Bandung, West Java, Dutch East Indies.
• May 12 » World War II: The U.S. tanker SS Virginia is torpedoed in the mouth of the Mississippi River by the German submarineU-507.
• June 3 » World War II: Japan begins the Aleutian Islands Campaign by bombing Unalaska Island.
• August 13 » Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the "Development of Substitute Materials" project, better known as the Manhattan Project.
• December 15 » World War II: The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
• December 16 » The Holocaust: Schutzstaffel chief Heinrich Himmler orders that Roma candidates for extermination be deported to Auschwitz.

The temperature on May 1, 1942 was between 3.6 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.