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• Lambertus Hermannus Bernardus Wibier, Avereest († 1946)
• Eke Hiemstra, Hitzum († 2005)
• Huig Ouwehand, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2013)
• François van Hilten, Tiel († 1970)
• Hendrika Haak, Valthermond (Odoorn) († 1997)
• Johannes Bernardus Maria Kruse, Noordwijkerhout († 2021)
• Dick Zonneveld, Alkmaar († 1943)
• Lammertje Antonia de Maat, Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2002)
• Jerry Richard De Vries († 2010)
• levenloos kind Kranendonk, Weststellingwerf († 1942)

• Aaltje Fresco (64)
• Aaron Waagenaar (70), Auschwitz,Concentratiekamp,Polen
• Abraham Meljado (65), Auschwitz (Oswiecim) e.o., Katowice, Poland
• Hol (0), Beesd West Betuwe (GL)
• Abraham Kreveld (74), Auschwitz,Concentratiekamp,Polen
• Aaltje (Hartog) Nijstad (69), Oswiecim, Oświęcim County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
• Abraham Allemans (67), Oswiecim Polen
• Aaltje Regina Koopman (49), Oswiecim (Polen)
• Aagje Jacobs (48), Auschwitz (Oswiecim) e.o., Katowice, Poland
• Aaltje NIJSTAD (68), Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland

• 1940 » David Gates, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1940 » Donna Mills, American actress and producer
• 1941 » J. Frank Wilson, American singer-songwriter († 1991)
• 1941 » J. P. Parisé, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager († 2015)
• 1941 » Max Baucus, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 11th United States Ambassador to China
• 1941 » Rogier van Otterloo, Dutch conductor and composer († 1988)
• 1942 » Anna Carteret, English actress
• 1943 » John Kerry, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 68th United States Secretary of State
• 1944 » Jon Garrison, American tenor and educator
• 1944 » Lynda Day George, American actress

• 1936 » Myron Grimshaw, American baseball player (b. 1875)
• 1937 » Hugh Thackeray Turner, English architect and painter (b. 1853)
• 1937 » Jaan Anvelt, Estonian theorist and politician (b. 1884)
• 1938 » Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian historian and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
• 1941 » Émile Picard, French mathematician and academic (b. 1856)
• 1941 » John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American pilot and poet (b. 1922)
• 1945 » Charles Fabry, French physicist and academic (b. 1867)
• 1950 » Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and author (b. 1893)
• 1951 » Hijri Dede, Iraqi Turkmen poet and writer (b. 1881)
• 1951 » Mustafa Muğlalı, Turkish general (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.
• February 8 » World War II: Japan invades Singapore.
• February 9 » World War II: Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war.
• June 22 » The Pledge of Allegiance is formally adopted by US Congress.
• September 3 » World War II: In response to news of its coming liquidation, Dov Lopatyn leads an uprising in the Ghetto of Lakhva (present-day Belarus).
• September 23 » World War II: The Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins: U.S. Marines attack Japanese units along the Matanikau River.
• December 2 » World War II: During the Manhattan Project, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.

The temperature on December 11, 1942 was between 3.4 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south.