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• Leslie Rust, Waverly, Bremer County, Iowa († 2004)
• Jacob Paauwe, De Lier, Nederland († 2020)
• Joke Velthuis, Losser († 2017)
• Hendrik Kerremans, Boom († 2011)
• Hinke Heidstra († 1943)
• (Stillborn) DE GROOT, Warfhuizen Groningen Netherlands († 1942)
• Johannes Riphagen, Epe-Oene, Gelderland, Nederland († 2011)
• Jerzy Andrzej Dominik Radziwill, Cape Town, Afrique du Sud († 2001)
• Johannes Hendrikus Foppen, Harderwijk († 1944)
• Jerzy Radziwill, Le Cap,, Afrique du Sud († 2001)

• Arie Johannes den Hoed (81), Schoonhoven
• Adriana Rooij van (81), Drunen
• "Charles" Gustave Henri de Lenzbourg (79), Paris
• Bajla Kuperberg (37), Auschwitz
• Anna Maria Smeets (50), Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland
• Anneke Kamerman (55), Gorinchem, Nederland
• Anneke Kamerman van Tiel (55), Gorinchem,Gemeente Gorinchem,South Holland,Pays-Bas
• Balthazar van den Noort (89), Oosterhout
• (Stillborn) DE GROOT (0), Warfhuizen Groningen Netherlands
• Anneke van Tiel Kamerman (55), Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1939 » Gail E. Haley, American author and illustrator
• 1939 » Michael Meacher, English academic and politician, Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions († 2015)
• 1940 » Delbert McClinton, American singer-songwriter
• 1940 » Marlène Jobert, French actress, singer, and author
• 1941 » Kafi Benz, American conservationist, environmentalist, historic preservationist, author, artist, community leader
• 1941 » Lyndall Gordon, South African-English author and academic
• 1942 » Patricia Bath, American ophthalmologist and academic († 2019)
• 1943 » Bob Wollek, French race car driver and skier († 2001)
• 1943 » Clark Graebner, American tennis player
• 1946 » Laura Bush, American educator and librarian, 45th First Lady of the United States

• 1930 » Akiyama Yoshifuru, Japanese general (b. 1859)
• 1930 » Buddy Bolden, American cornet player and bandleader (b. 1877)
• 1931 » Luigi Galleani, Italian theorist and activist (b. 1861)
• 1940 » Arthur Rostron, English captain (b. 1869)
• 1946 » Rüdiger von der Goltz, German general (b. 1865)
• 1948 » Albert Stanley, 1st Baron Ashfield, English businessman and politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (b. 1874)
• 1950 » Grover Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player and coach (b. 1887)
• 1954 » Stig Dagerman, Swedish journalist and writer (b. 1923)
• 1955 » Cy Young, American baseball player and manager (b. 1867)
• 1955 » Robert E. Sherwood, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1896)

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.
• February 8 » World War II: Japan invades Singapore.
• February 19 » World War II: Nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin, killing 243 people.
• March 31 » World War II: Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession.
• June 12 » Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
• 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.
• October 30 » World War II: Lt. Tony Fasson and Able Seaman Colin Grazier drown while taking code books from the sinking German submarine U-559.

The temperature on November 4, 1942 was between 3.5 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.