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• Joannes Henricus de Goey († 1980)
• Izaak van der Veen, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• Craig John Dwight Cottle, Montreal, Canada († 1995)
• Linda Knippenberg († 1977)
• Gerhard KROON, Amsterdam († 2012)
• Marc VLERICK († 2004)
• Gerhard Kroon, Amsterdam († 2012)
• (Levenloos) van Drielen, Bleiswijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1942)
• Hendrika Aloysius Gijsbertha van der Venne, Heerlen, Nederland († 1942)
• Bouke (alberts) Terpstra († 2003)

• Aafje Schavemaker (67), Bergen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham Vuisje (64), Auschwitz
• André Thevelein (0), Merkem
• Adrianus Cornelis Pruijt (50), avenhoorn (noord holland)
• Aaltje van der Glas (35), Auschwitz (Oswiecim) e.o., Katowice, Poland
• Abraham Ossendrijver (51), Auschwitz,Concentratiekamp,Polen
• Johanna Sophia Adriana Diemer (85), Utrecht
• Adrianus Johannes Pruijt (50), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes Tolido (0), Voorburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Huisman (14)

• 1938 » Michael Bogdanov, Welsh director and screenwriter († 2017)
• 1939 » Cindy Birdsong, American singer-songwriter
• 1940 » Nick Buoniconti, American football player and sportscaster († 2019)
• 1942 » Dave Clark, English drummer, songwriter, and producer
• 1942 » Kathleen Blanco, American educator and politician, 54th Governor of Louisiana († 2019)
• 1943 » Lucien den Arend, Dutch sculptor
• 1944 » Chico Mendes, Brazilian trade union leader and activist († 1988)
• 1944 » Jim Leyland, American baseball player and manager
• 1945 » Heather Booth, American civil rights activist, feminist, and political strategist
• 1945 » Ivor Crewe, English political scientist and academic

• 1943 » Fats Waller, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1904)
• 1944 » Glenn Miller, American bandleader and composer (b. 1904)
• 1947 » Arthur Machen, Welsh journalist and author (b. 1863)
• 1947 » Crawford Vaughan, Australian politician, 27th Premier of South Australia (b. 1874)
• 1950 » Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Deputy Prime Minister of India (b. 1875)
• 1958 » Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1962 » Charles Laughton, English-American actor, director, and producer (b. 1899)
• 1965 » M. Balasundaram, Sri Lankan journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1903)
• 1966 » Keith Arbuthnott, 15th Viscount of Arbuthnott, Indian-Scottish general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire (b. 1897)
• 1966 » Walt Disney, American animator, director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded The Walt Disney Company (b. 1901)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Willem
5. Hendrik
6. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Petrus
9. Jacobus
10. Wilhelmus
11. Robert
12. Adrianus
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. 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 2 » The Osvald Group is responsible for the first, active event of anti-Nazi resistance in Norway, to protest the inauguration of Vidkun Quisling.
• February 19 » World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese Americans to internment camps.
• May 8 » World War II: The German 11th Army begins Operation Trappenjagd (Bustard Hunt) and destroys the bridgehead of the three Soviet armies defending the Kerch Peninsula.
• June 7 » World War II: The Battle of Midway ends in American victory.
• June 21 » World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by Japan against the United States mainland.
• August 17 » World War II: U.S. Marines raid the Japanese-held Pacific island of Makin.

The temperature on December 15, 1942 was between 4.9 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.