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• Antonia H. (Toos) Angenent, Dinxperlo († 1996)
• Cornelia Martina Maria Braun, Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1943)
• NN Kiers, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Josepha Johanna Maria Geboers, Tilburg (17:00 uur) († 1943)
• Jopie Hermans, Best († 1942)
• Noël Alberic VYNCKIER, Oostnieuwkerke († 2017)
• Dirk Bauke Zwik, Drachten, Friesland, Nederland († 1996)
• levenloos geboren kind († 1942)
• Josepha Johanna Maria Geboers, Tilburg (17:00 uur) († 1943)
• Anneke Schulten († 2018)

• Anton Mons (1), Den Haag
• Andreas Johannes Kienhuis (52), Oisterwijk,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• andreas johannes kienhuis (52), oisterwijk
• Aletta Alletta Avelingh (80), Haarlem
• Adriana Schouten (45), Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Auke Albada (78), Balk, Friesland, Nederland
• Annechien van Bruggen (73), Arnhem (Gd)
• Aaltje Uilkes Jager (73), Den Haag
• Anna Maria Adriana Weijters (0), Tilburg
• Aäron de Metz (20), Mauthausen (Oostenrijk)

• 1939 » Gordon Miller, English high jumper
• 1939 » Philip Langridge, English tenor († 2010)
• 1941 » Lesley Stahl, American journalist and actress
• 1941 » Roger Neil Wheeler, English general
• 1942 » Donald Carcieri, American educator and politician, 73rd Governor of Rhode Island
• 1943 » Steven Bochco, American television writer and producer († 2018)
• 1944 » Don Meyer, American basketball player and coach († 2014)
• 1944 » Jeff Kanew, American director and screenwriter
• 1945 » Patti Deutsch, American actress and comedian († 2017)
• 1945 » Tony Hicks, English singer and guitarist

• 1935 » Thelma Todd, American actress and comedian (b. 1905)
• 1936 » Frank Eugene, American-German photographer and educator (b. 1865)
• 1940 » Billy Hamilton, American baseball player and manager (b. 1866)
• 1940 » Eugène Dubois, Dutch paleoanthropologist (b. 1858)
• 1943 » George Bambridge, English diplomat (b. 1892)
• 1944 » Betsie ten Boom, Dutch Holocaust victim (b. 1885)
• 1945 » Fumimaro Konoe, Japanese lawyer and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1891)
• 1945 » Giovanni Agnelli, Italian businessman, founded Fiat (b. 1866)
• 1949 » Sidney Olcott, Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1873)
• 1952 » Robert Henry Best, American journalist (b. 1896)

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 10 » World War II: Imperial Japanese Army capture Banjarmasin, capital of Borneo in Dutch East Indies.
• June 10 » World War II: The Lidice massacre is perpetrated as a reprisal for the assassination of Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich.
• July 16 » Holocaust: Vel' d'Hiv Roundup (Rafle du Vel' d'Hiv): The government of Vichy France orders the mass arrest of 13,152 Jews who are held at the Vélodrome d'Hiver in Paris before deportation to Auschwitz.
• August 25 » World War II: Second day of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons; a Japanese naval transport convoy headed towards Guadalcanal is turned back by an Allied air attack.
• September 21 » The Holocaust in Ukraine: In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2,588 Jews.
• November 27 » World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.

The temperature on December 16, 1942 was between 3.4 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.