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• lucy Phagu Ramsaran († 1993)
• Gerardus Marinus HONCOOP, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2021)
• Cornelis Adrianus Adrie Weber, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2007)
• Maria Lenaers, Zichen († 1986)
• Agnes Boucké, Zonnebeke († 2022)
• Hermanus Bernardus Lambers, Nieuw-Schoonebeekerveld, Schoonebeek († 2007)
• Larry Wayne Wisenburg, Rock Island, Illinois, VS († 2021)
• Nicolaas Arie van der Windt, Schipluiden († 2020)
• Clementina Maria Regina Sophie, Geel, België († 1944)
• Bonnie Lee CRAM, Rice, Minnesota († 1957)

• Adolf Melchior Degger (63), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Polleman (77), Weststellingwerf
• Joachim Cornelis Schoenmakers (81), Raamsdonkveer
• Adriaan van den Bout (82), Grand Rapids, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Augustinus Jacobs (72), Alken, België
• Antonie Jacob Opstelten (60), Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna EUVERINK (61), Enschede (Overijssel, The Netherlands)
• Adrianus Baars (71), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Straver (65), Rotterdam
• Adrianus Dirk Lambregts (76), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1940 » Barry Corbin, American actor and producer
• 1940 » Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player and coach († 2003)
• 1940 » Ivan Della Mea, Italian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and journalist († 2009)
• 1941 » Emma Nicholson, Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, English computer programmer and politician
• 1941 » Tim McCarver, American baseball player, sportscaster, and singer
• 1943 » Fred Turner, Canadian singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1944 » Kaizer Motaung, South African footballer and manager
• 1945 » Paul Monette, American author and poet († 1995)
• 1945 » Roger Hawkins, American session drummer
• 1945 » Stefan Buczacki, English horticulturalist, botanist, and television host

• 1936 » Effie Adelaide Rowlands, British writer (b. 1859)
• 1937 » Jean de Brunhoff, French poet and playwright (b. 1899)
• 1946 » Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial:
• 1947 » Anna B. Eckstein, German peace activist (b. 1868)
• 1951 » Liaquat Ali Khan, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan (b 1895)
• 1956 » Jules Rimet, French businessman (b. 1873)
• 1957 » John Anthony Sydney Ritson, English rugby player, mines inspector, engineer and educator (b. 1887)
• 1958 » Robert Redfield, American anthropologist of Mexico (b. 1897)
• 1959 » George Marshall, American general and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Defense, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1880)
• 1959 » Minor Hall, American drummer (b. 1897)

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. 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 8 » World War II: Imperial Japanese Army forces gave ultimatum to Dutch East Indies Governor General Jonkheer Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer and KNIL Commander in Chief Lieutenant General Hein Ter Poorten, to unconditionally surrender.
• 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.
• July 16 » Holocaust: Vel' d'Hiv Roundup (Rafle du Vel' d'Hiv): The government of Vichy France orders the mass arrest of 13,152 Jews who are held at the Vélodrome d'Hiver in Paris before deportation to Auschwitz.
• September 12 » World War II: RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks with a heavy loss of life.
• November 22 » World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th Army is surrounded.
• December 16 » The Holocaust: Schutzstaffel chief Heinrich Himmler orders that Roma candidates for extermination be deported to Auschwitz.

The temperature on October 16, 1942 was between 9.1 °C and 15.0 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.