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• Evertje Gerbrigje Laasdr. Bonnema, Hidaard, Hennaarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1987)
• Joanne G Fagundes, Modesto,Stanislaus County,California,United States († 2015)
• Annemarie de Roos, Oudenbosch († 2015)
• Bertus Luchies, Oosterhesselen († 1989)
• Frederik Haselhoff, Den Ham († 1990)
• Johan Lubbers († 1997)
• Cornelius Maria Stuijts, Woensdrecht († 1942)
• David Visjager, Amsterdam, Nederland († 1943)
• Antonie Willem Paulus, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1997)
• Jan Stehouwer, Hendrik Ido Ambacht († 1950)

• Abigaël Da Cunha (40), Auschwitz (Oswiecim) e.o., Katowice, Poland
• (47), AUSCHWITZ (Oświęcim), KLEIN POLEN, PL
• Abraham Jakob KATS (50), Auschwitz (Oswiecim), Poland
• Park (71), Auschwitz, Polen
• van Straten (50), Auschwitz
• Aaltje Koopman (54), Concentr. Kamp Auschwitz, Polen
• Aaltje Jelsma (61), Enschede Ov. Nederland
• Adolphe Okker (55), Auschwitz, Polen
• Aart Johannes Peter Versluis (2), Culemborg, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Aaltje de Vries (24), Auschwitz, Poland

• 1940 » Larry Chance, American singer-songwriter
• 1940 » Michael Gambon, Irish-British actor
• 1940 » Rosny Smarth, Haitian lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Haiti
• 1941 » Peter Thornley, English professional wrestler best known for the ring character Kendo Nagasaki
• 1941 » Simon Ward, English actor († 2012)
• 1942 » Andrew Vachss, American lawyer and author
• 1943 » L. E. Modesitt, Jr., American author and poet
• 1943 » Robin Holloway, English composer and academic
• 1943 » Takis Ikonomopoulos, Greek footballer and coach
• 1944 » George McCrae, American singer

• 1924 » Louis Zborowski, English race car driver and engineer (b. 1895)
• 1936 » Lu Xun, Chinese author and critic (b. 1881)
• 1937 » Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-English physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)
• 1943 » Camille Claudel, French sculptor and illustrator (b. 1864)
• 1944 » Dénes Kőnig, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1884)
• 1945 » N. C. Wyeth, American painter and illustrator (b. 1882)
• 1945 » Plutarco Elías Calles, Mexican general and politician, 40th President of Mexico (b. 1877)
• 1950 » Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet and playwright (b. 1892)
• 1952 » Edward S. Curtis, American ethnologist and photographer (b. 1868)
• 1956 » Isham Jones, American saxophonist, songwriter, and bandleader (b. 1894)

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.
• February 20 » Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America's first World War II flying ace.
• June 11 » Free French Forces retreat from Bir Hakeim after having successfully delayed the Axis advance.
• June 11 » World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
• November 19 » World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.
• December 2 » World War II: During the Manhattan Project, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
• December 16 » The Holocaust: Schutzstaffel chief Heinrich Himmler orders that Roma candidates for extermination be deported to Auschwitz.

The temperature on October 19, 1942 was between 8.7 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain during 5.2 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.