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• Helena Maria Corsiena Waasdijk, Amsterdam († 2014)
• Orva Jane Wynings, Bloomsburg, Columbia Co.Pennsylvania († 2015)
• Antonia Catharina Elisabeth Maria Spooren, Hapert († 1942)
• Johannes Levines (Jan) de Jonge, Kwadendamme († 2009)
• Alfons Mortelmans, Edegem († 1998)
• Gerrit Hulleman, Arnhem († 1970)
• Marijnia Saarloos († 2017)
• Petronella Arnolda Wilhelmina van Es, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1987)
• Maria Alberdina Taheij, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Paul Verheggen, Vlodrop, Limburg, Nederland († 2004)

• Aafje Bruijn (36), Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Anna Jannes (71), Amsterdam
• Bertha Roosje WEST (20), Auschwitz Concentratiekamp, Poland
• Aris Pijper (60), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bernard Stegeman (76), Ruurlo
• Albert DU BOIS (51), Chicago Cook County Illinois U.S.A
• Andries Takke (60), Driebergen-Rijsenburg
• Aaldrik Evenhuis (71), Luddeweer (Slochteren)
• Augustinus van Bastelaar (84), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andries Bernardus Bernard (86), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1939 » Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, Finnish physician and parapsychologist († 2015)
• 1939 » Terry Bradbury, English footballer and manager
• 1940 » Hank Wangford, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and physician
• 1940 » Roberto Cavalli, Italian fashion designer
• 1940 » Sam Waterston, American actor
• 1940 » Tony Mendez, American CIA technical operations officer († 2019)
• 1940 » Ulf Pilgaard, Danish actor and screenwriter
• 1941 » Daniel Pinkwater, American author and illustrator
• 1941 » Rick Kemp, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
• 1942 » Daniel Barenboim, Argentinian-Israeli pianist and conductor

• 1941 » Wal Handley, English motorcycle racer (b. 1902)
• 1945 » Frank Chapman, American ornithologist and photographer (b. 1864)
• 1949 » Narayan Apte, Indian activist, assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1911)
• 1949 » Nathuram Godse, Indian assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1910)
• 1951 » Frank Weston Benson, American painter and educator (b. 1862)
• 1954 » Lionel Barrymore, American actor, singer, director, and screenwriter (b. 1878)
• 1956 » Emma Richter, German paleontologist (b. 1888)
• 1958 » Tyrone Power, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1914)
• 1959 » Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist and meteorologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
• 1960 » Robert Raymond Cook, Canadian murderer (b. 1937)

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 19 » World War II: The Japanese conquest of Burma begins.
• January 23 » World War II: The Battle of Rabaul commences Japan's invasion of Australia's Territory of New Guinea.
• May 6 » World War II: On Corregidor, the last American forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese.
• 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 27 » World War II: Allied forces successfully halt the final Axis advance into Egypt.
• November 19 » Mutesa II is crowned the 35th and last Kabaka (king) of Buganda, prior to the restoration of the kingdom in 1993.

The temperature on November 15, 1942 was between 1.5 °C and 7.5 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.