About the day » Saturday January 10, 1942Calender converter

• Jorke Post, Veendam († 1942)
• Clair James Reich, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 2006)
• Greta Louise van DIJK, Nieuw Nickerie, Suriname († 2018)
• Hubert Jozef Antoon Vanheeswijck, Neeroeteren (B) († 2013)
• Arno Musters, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2007)
• Antonia Wilhelmina Alberta van Amelsvoort († 1997)
• ? van der Bijl, Uitgeest († 1942)
• Elsiena Petina Moesker, Stadskanaal (Onstwedde) († 2024)
• Christina van der Molen, Uithuizermeeden, Nederland († 1998)
• Carol Antoine Vanthuyne († 1942)

• Andries VAN OPBERGEN (15), Velsen(Noord Holland)
• Aagje Stoffels Leeuw (81), Vollenhove
• ? van der Bijl (0), Uitgeest
• Aagje Leeuw (81), Stad Vollenhove, Steenwijkerland
• Adriana Magdalena Snel (64), Rotterdam
• Aagje Leeuw (81), Vollenhove, Stad
• Alida Wessels (87), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Magdalena Snel (64)
• Anna Barbara van de Laar (65), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Antonia Maria Spijkers- (68), Hilversum, Nederland

• 1939 » David Horowitz, American activist and author
• 1939 » Jared Carter, American poet and author
• 1939 » William Levy, American-Dutch journalist, author, and poet
• 1940 » Godfrey Hewitt, English geneticist and academic († 2013)
• 1940 » K. J. Yesudas, Indian singer and music director
• 1941 » Tom Clarke, Scottish politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland
• 1942 » Graeme Gahan, Australian footballer and coach
• 1943 » Jim Croce, American singer-songwriter († 1973)
• 1944 » Frank Sinatra, Jr., American singer and actor († 2016)
• 1944 » Jeffrey Catherine Jones, American comics and fantasy artist († 2011)

• 1935 » Charlie McGahey, English cricketer and footballer (b. 1871)
• 1935 » Edwin Flack, Australian tennis player and runner (b. 1873)
• 1941 » Frank Bridge, English viola player and composer (b. 1879)
• 1941 » Issai Schur, Belarusian-German mathematician and academic (b. 1875)
• 1941 » Joe Penner, Hungarian-American actor (b. 1904)
• 1941 » John Lavery, Irish painter and academic (b. 1856)
• 1949 » Erich von Drygalski, German geographer and geophysicist (b. 1865)
• 1951 » Sinclair Lewis, American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
• 1951 » Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist and academic (b. 1890)
• 1954 » Chester Wilmot, American journalist and historian (b. 1911)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Willem
5. Hendrik
6. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Petrus
9. Jacobus
10. Wilhelmus
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.
• March 9 » World War II: Dutch East Indies unconditionally surrendered to the Japanese forces in Kalijati, Subang, West Java, and the Japanese completed their Dutch East Indies campaign.
• March 17 » Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lvov Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec death camp in what is today eastern Poland.
• July 4 » World War II: The 250-day Siege of Sevastopol in the Crimea ends when the city falls to Axis forces.
• August 16 » World War II: A naval L-class blimp drifts in from the Pacific and eventually crashes in Daly City, California. The two-man crew cannot be found.
• December 4 » World War II: Carlson's patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign ends.
• December 24 » World War II: French monarchist, Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle, assassinates Vichy French Admiral François Darlan in Algiers, Algeria.

The temperature on January 10, 1942 was between -8.0 °C and -2.4 °C and averaged -4.9 °C. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.