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• Hendrik Brinkhuis († 1992)
• Ilse Sophia Ruitenbach, Soerabaia (Ned. Indië) († 1945)
• Ilse Sophia RUITENBACH Ruitenbach, Surabaja, Ned. Indië († 1945)
• Josephus Saenen, Breda, 4811, Nederland († 2007)
• Jacob Marinus van Mourik, Renswoude, Utrecht, Nederland († 2006)
• Harry James Felix, New Paris, Bedford County, Pennsylvania († 1952)
• Dorothy Jean NN († 2017)
• John Barry Verhoeff, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland († 1996)
• levenloos geboren kind van Jasper WAPPEROM, Alblasserdam († 1942)
• Adrianus Hoek, Nieuw-Lekkerland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2008)

• Alice Adele Hubertine Pirotte (81), Chenee
• Ana de Almeida Corrêa (81)
• Antinus Lambertus Koekoek (27), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Geel (65), Beverwijk, Nederland
• Anna Maria Clippeleir de (74), Hontenisse, Zld, Nederland
• Antona Smith (79), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Antheunis de Bree (79), Middelburg
• Alderk van Deest (71), Ogle County, Illinois
• Aaltje de Bruin (63), Rozenburg
• Apolonia Margareta Marks (63), 's-Gravenhage

• 1941 » Jacques Laperrière, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1941 » Jesse Colin Young, American singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1941 » Ron McClure, American jazz bassist
• 1941 » Terry Stafford, American singer-songwriter († 1996)
• 1941 » Tom Conti, Scottish actor and director
• 1941 » Volker Roemheld, German physiologist and biologist († 2013)
• 1942 » Floyd Sneed, Canadian drummer
• 1942 » Guion Bluford, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
• 1943 » Billie Jean King, American tennis player and sportscaster
• 1943 » Yvan Cournoyer, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

• 1926 » Darvish Khan, Iranian tar player (b. 1872)
• 1932 » William Walker Atkinson, American merchant, lawyer, and author (b. 1862)
• 1941 » Werner Mölders, German colonel and pilot (b. 1915)
• 1943 » Lorenz Hart, American playwright and composer (b. 1895)
• 1944 » Arthur Eddington, English astrophysicist and astronomer (b. 1882)
• 1946 » Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist and politician, German Minister of Justice (b. 1889)
• 1948 » Fakhri Pasha, Turkish general and politician (b. 1868)
• 1954 » Jess McMahon, American wrestling promoter, co-founded Capitol Wrestling Corporation (b. 1882)
• 1955 » Shemp Howard, American actor and comedian (b. 1895)
• 1956 » Theodore Kosloff, Russian-American actor, ballet dancer, and choreographer (b. 1882)

• 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 11 » World War II: Japanese forces attack Tarakan in Borneo, Netherlands Indies (Battle of Tarakan)
• January 12 » World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board.
• January 16 » Crash of TWA Flight 3, killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard.
• February 28 » The heavy cruiser USSHouston is sunk in the Battle of Sunda Strait with 693 crew members killed, along with HMASPerth which lost 375 men.
• October 9 » Australia's Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 receives royal assent.

The temperature on November 22, 1942 was between -1.4 °C and 6.5 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (12%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.