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• Dorothy Joan Ann Wright, Cochrane, Ontario, Canada († 2008)
• N.N. Mennen, Helmond († 1942)
• James Whitney, Elsie (Clinton), Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 1944)
• Margaretha Petronella Cornelia Adriana Vermeer, Tilburg (Noord-Brabant) († 2006)
• Marc VROMANT, Kortrijk († 2018)
• Maria Van Dooren, België († 2011)
• Albertus Johannes Koelemaij, Arnhem († 2015)
• nn Bobbink, Zutphen
• van Aalderen, Zuidwolde († 1942)
• Marten van Veen († 2000)

• Aloys Willemsen (28), Lazaret-Jargewo
• Berendina Bellert (84), Epe-Vaassen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltiena Aletta Allegonda Burghgraef (75), Wassenaar (ZH NL)
• Boele Idema (60), Slochteren
• Ary Piedade (39), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
• Aloisius Veltmans (41), Hoboken ( Antwerpen )
• Anna Moser (83), Adams, Indiana
• Adriaan Tiersen (86), Zuidzande
• Adolphus Verheggen (81), Anzegem, West-Vlaanderen, België
• Adrianus Cornelis de Bakker (65), Tilburg

• 1941 » Beau Bridges, American actor, director, and producer
• 1941 » Dan Hicks, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 2016)
• 1941 » Mehmet Ali Birand, Turkish journalist and author († 2013)
• 1942 » Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer and manager († 1997)
• 1942 » Dick Butkus, American football player, sportscaster, and actor
• 1942 » Fred Jones, Australian rugby league player
• 1942 » Germain Gagnon, Canadian ice hockey player († 2014)
• 1942 » Joe McGinniss, American journalist and author († 2014)
• 1942 » William Turnage, American conservationist († 2017)
• 1943 » Pit Martin, Canadian ice hockey player († 2008)

• 1930 » Rube Foster, American baseball player and manager (b. 1879)
• 1932 » Begum Rokeya, Bangladeshi social worker and author (b. 1880)
• 1932 » Karl Blossfeldt, German photographer, sculptor, and educator (b. 1865)
• 1935 » Walter Liggett, American journalist and activist (b. 1886)
• 1937 » Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
• 1937 » Lilias Armstrong, English phonetician (b. 1882)
• 1941 » Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Russian author, poet, and philosopher (b. 1865)
• 1943 » Georges Dufrénoy, French painter (b. 1870)
• 1944 » Laird Cregar, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1945 » Yun Chi-ho, South Korean activist and politician (b. 1864)

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. Cornelia
4. Anna
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Adriana
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Aaltje
13. Geertruida
14. Margaretha
15. Grietje
16. Annie

• 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 1 » Mao Zedong makes a speech on "Reform in Learning, the Party and Literature", which puts into motion the Yan'an Rectification Movement.
• May 8 » World War II: Gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebel in the Cocos Islands Mutiny. Their mutiny is crushed and three of them are executed, the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War.
• June 4 » World War II: The Battle of Midway begins. The Japanese Admiral Chūichi Nagumo orders a strike on Midway Island by much of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
• July 18 » The Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me 262 using its jet engines for the first time.
• September 23 » World War II: The Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins: U.S. Marines attack Japanese units along the Matanikau River.
• September 27 » Last day of the Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marines barely escape after being surrounded by Japanese forces.

The temperature on December 9, 1942 was between 2.8 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.