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• Bertus Wilbrink († 2002)
• Hendrikje van Diermen, Bunschoten († 2002)
• Anno Werkman, midwolda († 2021)
• Josephus Maria Moerenhout († 1946)
• Josephus Maria Moerenhout († 1946)
• Johannes Maria Moerenhout
• Hendrikus Johannes Bakker († 2018)
• doodgeboren kind van den Heuvel, Breda († 1942)
• Albertus (Bertus) Wilbrink, Apeldoorn († 2021)
• Aleida Wilhelmina Elisabeth Geurts, Didam († 2015)

• Johanna de Krom (73), Halsteren
• Anne Cornel (71), almelo
• Cândida de Azevedo Sodré (84), Maricá, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
• Aaltje Stokvis (56), De Wijk
• Adriaan Pouli (35), amsterdam, Nederland
• Alfred Willi Petri (30), Gusternhain, Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Hessen, Germany
• Bastianus Hoonhout (87), Amsterdam
• Alexander Hermanus van den Berg (26)
• Anna Maria Koegler (62), den haag
• Auke Hesse (24), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland

• 1940 » Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa, Cameroonian filmmaker
• 1940 » Kathy Kirby, English singer († 2011)
• 1940 » Robert Pinsky, American poet and critic
• 1941 » Anneke Wills, English actress
• 1942 » Bart Zoet, Dutch cyclist († 1992)
• 1942 » Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, German biologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1942 » Earl Hindman, American actor († 2003)
• 1943 » Dunja Vejzović, Croatian soprano and actress
• 1944 » David Mancuso, American party planner, created The Loft († 2016)
• 1944 » Nalin de Silva, Sri Lankan physicist and philosopher

• 1926 » Eugene V. Debs, American union leader and politician (b. 1855)
• 1928 » Jack Peddie, Scottish footballer (b. 1876)
• 1935 » Arthur Henderson, Scottish-English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1863)
• 1936 » Anne Sullivan, American educator (b. 1866)
• 1940 » Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect and academic, co-designed Skogskyrkogården (b. 1885)
• 1941 » Ken Farnes, English cricketer and soldier (b. 1911)
• 1950 » Henry L. Stimson, American colonel, lawyer, and politician, 46th United States Secretary of State (b. 1867)
• 1953 » Werner Baumbach, German colonel and pilot (b. 1916)
• 1956 » Lawrence Dale Bell, American industrialist and founder of Bell Aircraft Corporation (b. 1894)
• 1957 » Michalis Dorizas, Greek-American javelin thrower and football player (b. 1890)

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 2 » The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) obtains the conviction of 33 members of a German spy ring headed by Fritz Joubert Duquesne in the largest espionage case in United States history—the Duquesne Spy Ring.
• January 25 » World War II: Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom.
• March 18 » The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.
• March 20 » World War II: General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return".
• August 9 » World War II: Battle of Savo Island: Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force.
• November 10 » World War II: Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan's agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa.

The temperature on October 20, 1942 was between 11.1 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.