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• Hilligje (Hillie) Muggen, Wapserveen († 2007)
• Carmen Aïda Salazar, venezuela (zuid-amerika) († 1997)
• Jantje KOENEN, Sneek († 1998)
• Jacoba van der Heijden († 2017)
• Helena Johanna Maria Petronella van Laerhoven, Tilburg († 1969)
• Fokke (Lammerts) Alma († 2002)
• Hermann Liese, Erlangen († 2018)
• Louis Hendrikx, Bladel,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1995)
• Fokke Alma († 2002)
• Hendrik Antoni Nobbe, Liverpool, United Kingdom († 2001)

• Adriana Cornelia de Vos (67), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arthur Voisin (66), Marcq en Baroeul (Nord)
• Alexsander Marsh Riheldaffer (68), Fairmont, Marion County, West Virginia, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana Cornelia de Vos (67), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje van Heerwaarden (81), Driehuizen (Texel)
• Andries van Dam (56), Mauthausen, Perg District, Upper Austria, Austria
• Alexander Toncman (34), Mauthausen,Conc. kamp Mauthausen,Oostenrijk
• Alida Noorlander (78), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Archibald John HANSCOMBE (25), Pirton, Hitchin, Hertfordshire
• Anna Sophia Wöhler (72), Osterwieck (Landkrs. Harz, Sachsen-Anhalt)

• 1939 » Clive James, Australian television host, author, and critic († 2019)
• 1939 » Harry Kroto, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 2016)
• 1939 » John Hopcroft, American computer scientist and author
• 1939 » Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Congolese cardinal
• 1940 » Bruce Vento, American educator and politician († 2000)
• 1942 » Joy Behar, American talk show host, comedian and television personality
• 1943 » José Cardenal, Cuban baseball player and coach
• 1943 » Oliver North, American colonel, journalist, and author
• 1944 » Donald Tsang, Chinese civil servant and politician, 2nd Chief Executive of Hong Kong
• 1944 » Judee Sill, American singer-songwriter and musician († 1979)

• 1925 » Christy Mathewson, American baseball player and manager (b. 1880)
• 1926 » Emil Kraepelin, German psychologist and academic (b. 1856)
• 1933 » Alexander Peacock, Australian politician, 20th Premier of Victoria (b. 1861)
• 1939 » Harvey Williams Cushing, American neurosurgeon and academic (b. 1869)
• 1943 » Radclyffe Hall, English author and poet (b. 1880)
• 1944 » Helmut Lent, German colonel and pilot (b. 1918)
• 1950 » Willis Haviland Carrier, American engineer (b. 1876)
• 1951 » Anton Philips, Dutch businessman, co-founded Philips (b. 1874)
• 1956 » Clarence Birdseye, American businessman, founded Birds Eye (b. 1886)
• 1959 » Mario Lanza, American tenor and actor (b. 1921)

• 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.
• May 8 » World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea comes to an end with Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attacking and sinking the United States Navy aircraft carrier USSLexington.
• June 22 » The Pledge of Allegiance is formally adopted by US Congress.
• July 23 » World War II: The German offensives Operation Edelweiss and Operation Braunschweig begin.
• August 6 » Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.
• August 19 » World War II: Operation Jubilee: The 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an amphibious assault by allied forces on Dieppe, France and fails, many Canadians are killed or captured. The operation was intended to develop and try new amphibious landing tactics for the coming full invasion in Normandy.
• September 5 » World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, the first major Japanese defeat in land warfare during the Pacific War.

The temperature on October 7, 1942 was between 9.6 °C and 21.1 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.