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• Dirk Hageman († 2005)
• Margie Mae Manley, Ohio († 1978)
• Lammert Heethuis, Woldendorp († 1942)
• Lodewijk "Lodie" Bierma, Harlingen († 1978)
• Harmen de Leeuw, Tijnje, Friesland, Nederland († 1943)
• Maria Eleonora Theresia Raat, Medemblik, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1950)
• Cornelia Johanna Stam, Achttienhoven, Utrecht, NL († 2001)
• David Earl Hamberg, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, The United States of America († 2006)
• Johannes Albertus Oosterveen, Deurne, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2011)
• Jozef Gerardus Maria (Jozef) Linders, Ysselstein, Venray, Limburg, Nederland († 1998)

• Aaltje LUSSE (70), Auschwitz, Polen
• Aäron Salomons (58), Auschwitz (Oswiecim) e.o., Katowice, Poland
• Aaron de Liever (57), Auschwitz
• Abraham Hamburger (65), Monowitz
• Droomer (66), Auschwitz, Gmina Oświęcim, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
• Abraham Stad (3), Auschwitz
• Aaron Tokkie (60), Auschwitz
• Abelia Roodfelt (58), Auschwitz (Oswiecim) e.o., Katowice, Poland
• Abraham Mug (67), Sobibor (Polen)
• Abraham Cohen Rodrigues (58), Auschwitz (Polen)

• 1940 » Peter C. Doherty, Australian surgeon and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1940 » Tommy Bishop, English rugby league player and coach
• 1941 » Roy Masters, Australian rugby league coach, journalist, and author
• 1942 » Don Stevenson, American singer-songwriter and drummer
• 1942 » Harold W. Gehman, Jr., American admiral
• 1942 » Hilo Chen, Taiwanese-American painter
• 1943 » Penny Marshall, American actress, director, and producer († 2018)
• 1944 » A. Chandranehru, Sri Lankan Tamil merchant seaman and politician († 2005)
• 1944 » Haim Saban, Israeli-American businessman, co-founded Saban Entertainment
• 1944 » Sali Berisha, Albanian cardiologist and politician, 2nd President of Albania

• 1925 » Dolores Jiménez y Muro, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1848?)
• 1930 » Herbert Henry Dow, Canadian-American businessman, founded the Dow Chemical Company (b. 1866)
• 1934 » Raymond Poincaré, French lawyer and politician, 10th President of France (b. 1860)
• 1940 » Lluís Companys, Catalan lawyer and politician, President of Catalonia (b. 1882)
• 1945 » Pierre Laval, French lawyer and politician, 101st Prime Minister of France (b. 1883)
• 1946 » Hermann Göring, German general and politician (b. 1893)
• 1948 » Edythe Chapman, American actress (b. 1863)
• 1955 » Fumio Hayasaka, Japanese composer (b. 1914)
• 1958 » Asaf Halet Çelebi, Turkish poet and author (b. 1907)
• 1958 » Elizabeth Alexander, British geologist, academic, and physicist (b. 1908)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
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.
• January 13 » Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.
• February 27 » World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an Allied strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies.
• March 3 » World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid Broome, Western Australia, killing more than 100 people.
• June 10 » World War II: The Lidice massacre is perpetrated as a reprisal for the assassination of Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich.
• July 19 » World War II: The Second Happy Time of Hitler's submarines comes to an end, as the increasingly effective American convoy system compels them to return to the central Atlantic.
• July 22 » Grossaktion Warsaw: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto begins.

The temperature on October 15, 1942 was between 9.1 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.