About the day » Monday January 12, 1942Calender converter

• Loonstra, Tietjerksteradeel († 1942)
• Barbara Sue Fagan († 2007)
• Harmina Martha, Harma Scholte († 2017)
• NN Lebbink, Hengelo († 1942)
• Hanna Sanders, Rotterdam († 1943)
• Joan Marion Haas, Hull, South Yorkshire, England, Verenigd Koninkrijk († 2005)
• Maria Hendrika Antonia (Marie) Perik, Wierden, 7642, Nederland († 2012)
• Jacob Martin Goossens, Neeroeteren, Provincie Limburg, België († 2015)
• Dennis Gilbert, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, VS († 2005)
• Helena Hendrica Clazina van Heijningen, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2022)

• Adriaan Nicolaas van Hassel (76), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anne Baniers Kuipers (71), Gorredijk, Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Loonstra (0), Tietjerksteradeel
• Aleida Enna Wennink (80), Apeldoorn {GE}
• Antje Bonnes Dijkstra (79), Smallingerland
• Adèle Reine Céline 'Della' BIART (64), Rural Lynch township Texas County,, France
• Anne Kuiper (71), Gorredijk (Opsterland)
• Adriana Dam (49), Delft
• Anna de Heij (0), Heerenveen
• Anne Noordenbos (62), Holwerd

• 1940 » Bob Hewitt, Australian-South African tennis player
• 1940 » Dick Motz, New Zealand cricketer († 2007)
• 1940 » Ronald Shannon Jackson, American drummer and composer († 2013)
• 1941 » Chet Jastremski, American swimmer and physician († 2014)
• 1941 » Fiona Caldicott, English psychiatrist and psychotherapist
• 1941 » Long John Baldry, English-Canadian singer-songwriter and voice actor († 2005)
• 1942 » Bernardine Dohrn, American domestic terrorist, political activist and academic
• 1944 » Cynthia Robinson, American R&B trumpet player and singer (d 2015)
• 1944 » Hans Henning Atrott, German author and theorist
• 1944 » Joe Frazier, American boxer († 2011)

• 1926 » Austin Chapman, Australian businessman and politician, 4th Australian Minister for Defence (b. 1864)
• 1934 » Paul Kochanski, Polish violinist and composer (b. 1887)
• 1938 » Oscar Florianus Bluemner, German-American painter and illustrator (b. 1867)
• 1940 » Edward Smith, English lieutenant, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1898)
• 1940 » Ralph Hitz, Austrian-American hotelier (b. 1891)
• 1943 » Jan Campert, Dutch journalist and critic (b. 1902)
• 1944 » Lance C. Wade, American commander and pilot (b. 1915)
• 1958 » Charles Hatfield, American meteorologist (b. 1875)
• 1960 » Nevil Shute, English engineer and author (b. 1899)
• 1962 » Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, Russian journalist and activist (b. 1869)

• 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 31 » World War II: Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession.
• June 5 » World War II: The United States declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania.
• September 21 » The Boeing B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight.
• September 21 » The Holocaust in Ukraine: In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2,588 Jews.
• November 22 » World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th Army is surrounded.
• November 30 » World War II: Battle of Tassafaronga; A smaller squadron of Japanese destroyers led by Raizō Tanaka defeats a U.S. cruiser force under Carleton H. Wright.

The temperature on January 12, 1942 was between -9.9 °C and -4.4 °C and averaged -7.9 °C. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (64%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.