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• Johannes Petrus Jacobus Jansens, Baarle-Nassau († 1983)
• Cornelia Woutrina Blokland, Noordeloos († 2017)
• Bianor Camargo Pacheco, Lapa, Paraná, Brasil († 2015)
• Jan Kist, Steenwijk († 2020)
• Egbert Zeelte, Leeuwarden († 2021)
• hendrikus matheus leonardus (hein) korsten, helden-panningen († 2011)
• Alma Marie Sheldon, Somerset, Pulaski County, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten († 2014)
• Dale Darius MCCALLISTER, Charleston, Kanawha, West Virginia, Verenigde Staten († 2007)
• Cornelis (2) van den Bos, Amsterdam († 1943)
• Adriana Maria Cornelia van Wijk, Mijdrecht († 2014)

• Alexander Salomon Porcelijn (40)
• Adele Philipse (53), Auschwitz, Poland
• Alexei Alexandrovitsj Vorst Obolensky (58)
• Alida Davidson (33), Auschwitz, Polen
• Adriana Hendrica van den Heuvel (34), Tilburg
• Anna Sophia van Koot (78), Leusden
• Alida Davidson (33), Auschwitz, Polen
• Abraham Herman van Thijn (14), Auschwitz (Oswiecim) e.o., Katowice, Poland
• Anna Adriana Prinsen
• Anna Trompetter (3), Auschwitz (Oswiecim) e.o., Katowice, Poland

• 1939 » Billy Joe Shaver, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1939 » Eric Weissberg, American singer, banjo player, and multi-instrumentalist
• 1939 » Seán Brady, Irish cardinal
• 1939 » Trevor McDonald, Trinidadian-English journalist and academic
• 1940 » Bruce Beresford, Australian director and producer
• 1942 » Barbara George, American R&B singer-songwriter († 2006)
• 1942 » Lesley Turner Bowrey, Australian tennis player
• 1942 » Robert Squirrel Lester, American soul singer († 2010)
• 1943 » Woody Peoples, American football player († 2010)
• 1944 » Kevin Ayers, English singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2013)

• 1938 » Andrej Hlinka, Slovak priest, journalist, and politician (b. 1864)
• 1938 » Robert Johnson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1911)
• 1945 » Takijirō Ōnishi, Japanese admiral (b. 1891)
• 1948 » Babe Ruth, American baseball player and coach (b. 1895)
• 1949 » Margaret Mitchell, American journalist and author (b. 1900)
• 1952 » Lydia Field Emmet, American painter and academic (b. 1866)
• 1956 » Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-American actor (b. 1882)
• 1957 » Irving Langmuir, American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
• 1959 » Wanda Landowska, Polish-French harpsichord player (b. 1879)
• 1959 » William Halsey, Jr., American admiral (b. 1882)

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. Aaltje
13. Geertruida
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.
• June 4 » World War II: The Battle of Midway begins. The Japanese Admiral Chūichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island by much of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
• July 18 » The Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me 262 using its jet engines for the first time.
• August 22 » Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy.
• September 5 » World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, the first major Japanese defeat in land warfare during the Pacific War.
• November 4 » World War II: Disobeying a direct order by Adolf Hitler, General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel begins a retreat of his forces after a costly defeat during the Second Battle of El Alamein. The retreat would ultimately last five months.
• December 10 » World War II: Government of Poland in exile send Raczyński's Note (the first official report on the Holocaust) to 26 governments who signed the Declaration by United Nations.

The temperature on August 16, 1942 was between 15.4 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 12.7 mm of rain during 6.5 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.