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• Baby Boy McCabe, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 1942)
• Gesina Niesje Boxem, Rotterdam († 1988)
• Cornelis Dirk van Dijk, Langerak († 1944)
• Elisabeth Charlotta Smits, amsterdam, Nederland († 2009)
• Helena Jacqueline Manders, Deurne, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1999)
• Adrianus Johannes Franciscus van der Louw, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1988)
• Herman Jozef Marie van Mierlo, Padang († 1945)
• Elisabeth Wilhelmina (Miny) Spilleman, Eibergen († 2018)
• Herman Joseph Marie van Mierlo († 1945)
• Hendricus Emanuel Manders, Ravenstein, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1945)

• Aaltje van Buren (64), Het Bildt
• Antje Bloemendaal (82), Haarlem NH, NL
• Bernharda Ida Nauta (84), 's Gravenhage
• Aaltje Klases van Buren (64), St. Annaparochie
• Albert Schendel (69), Theresienstadt Ghetto
• Arie Schoonbrood (52), Den Haag
• Andries Hoogterp (70), Het Bildt, Fr, The Netherlands
• Alewijnus Wilhelmus Cazander (62), Utrecht
• Albertje Baas (76), Avereest, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adriana Johanna de Vries (66), Rotterdam

• 1940 » Luis Francisco Cuéllar, Colombian rancher and politician († 2009)
• 1940 » Mike Molloy, English journalist, author, and illustrator
• 1942 » Dick Parry, English saxophonist
• 1942 » Jerry Koosman, American baseball player
• 1943 » Paul Wolfowitz, American banker and politician, 25th United States Deputy Secretary of Defense
• 1943 » Stefan Janos, Slovak-Swiss physicist and academic
• 1944 » Barry Jenkins, English drummer
• 1944 » Mary Archer, English chemist and academic
• 1944 » Steve Carlton, American baseball player
• 1945 » Frances Lannon, English historian and academic

• 1925 » Amelie Beese, German pilot and engineer (b. 1886)
• 1939 » Ma Rainey, American singer (b. 1886)
• 1940 » Nathanael West, American author and screenwriter (b. 1903)
• 1941 » Karel Hašler, Czech actor, director, composer, and screenwriter (b. 1879)
• 1942 » Franz Boas, German-American anthropologist and linguist (b. 1858)
• 1943 » Beatrix Potter, English children's book writer and illustrator (b. 1866)
• 1944 » Harry Langdon, American actor, comedian, and vaudevillian (b. 1884)
• 1950 » Frederick Freake, English polo player (b. 1876)
• 1957 » Frank George Woollard, English engineer (b. 1883)
• 1959 » Gilda Gray, Polish-American actress and dancer (b. 1901)

• 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.
• March 20 » World War II: General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return".
• April 8 » World War II: The Japanese take Bataan in the Philippines.
• May 12 » World War II: Second Battle of Kharkov: In eastern Ukraine, Red Army forces under Marshal Semyon Timoshenko launch a major offensive from the Izium bridgehead, only to be encircled and destroyed by the troops of Army Group South two weeks later.
• 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.
• November 13 » World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal: U.S. and Japanese ships engage in an intense, close-quarters surface naval engagement during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
• November 28 » In Boston, Massachusetts, a fire in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub kills 492 people.

The temperature on December 22, 1942 was between 5.0 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.