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• Gerarda Maria Aloijza Nagel, Zundert († 1942)
• Carel Johannes Hoksbergen, Amersfoort († 1995)
• Johannes van de Kamp, Nijkerk, province of Gelderland († 2016)
• Lei van Eeghem († 2001)
• Jan van Eerten, Zuidveen († 2022)
• Elisabeth Wilhelmina (Miny) Spilleman, Eibergen († 2018)
• Josina Neeltje Heemskerk († 1994)
• Herman Jozef Marie van Mierlo, Padang († 1945)
• Herman Joseph Marie van Mierlo († 1945)
• Elaine Swint, Glascock County,Ga († 2010)

• Baby Boy McCabe (0), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Antje Guurtje Bakker (0), Alkmaar
• Andries Hoogterp (70), Het Bildt, Fr, The Netherlands
• Bernharda Ida Nauta (84), 's-Gravenhage
• Montauban (0), Amersfoort
• Albertje Baas (76), Dedemsvaart
• Anne Kraaijinga (28), Doezum
• Aaltje van Buren (64), Het Bildt
• Adriana Wesdijk (78), Rotterdam
• Alice Maud Pashley BURBEARY

• 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)

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. Anna
4. Cornelia
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.
• May 7 » World War II: During the Battle of the Coral Sea, United States Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attack and sink the Imperial Japanese Navy light aircraft carrier Shōhō; the battle marks the first time in naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.
• May 31 » World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia.
• July 22 » Grossaktion Warsaw: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto begins.
• August 21 » World War II: The Guadalcanal Campaign: American forces defeat an attack by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Battle of the Tenaru.
• November 26 » World War II: Yugoslav Partisans convene the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia at Bihać in northwestern Bosnia.
• December 16 » The Holocaust: Schutzstaffel chief Heinrich Himmler orders that Roma candidates for extermination be deported to Auschwitz.

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.