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• Antonius Quirinus Maria van Hoek, Gilze en Rijen
• Amedee Petrus Heirbaut, ROOSENDAAL (NL) († 2013)
• van Snippenberg, Ede
• Nancy Todd, Honey Grove, Fannin, Texas, Verenigde Staten († 1942)
• hubertus petrus (ber) theelen, helden-beringe
• Bernardus Hoefnagels, Clinge (NL) († 2019)
• Godefridus Lambertus Bremmers, Roermond, Limburg, Nedeland († 2022)
• Georgia E. Longnecker († 2007)
• Donald Gene Smith, East St. Clair Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania († 1991)
• Dannie Roy Reed, Lincoln County, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten († 1944)

• Alphonsus Maria Johannes Stultiens (51), Eindhoven
• Adriana Petronella Quist (78), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham HESSELINK (89), Winterswijk, Gelderland, NEDERLAND
• Aaltje van der Biezen (84), UTRECHT, Utrecht, Nederland
• anna maria catharina hendriks (34), helden-grashoek
• Antonetta Ketelaers (72), Eindhoven
• Adriana Cornelia Hoppenbrouwers (51), Eindhoven
• Adrianus Theodorus van der Voort (32), Eindhoven
• Anna Josephina Maria SEGERS (29), Eindhoven,,PAYS BAS
• Angelina Berendina Becker (34), Bennebroek, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1940 » Lawrence Bergman, Canadian lawyer and politician
• 1940 » Richard Edlund, American visual effects designer and cinematographer
• 1941 » Bill Thomas, American academic and politician
• 1941 » Bruce Nauman, American sculptor and illustrator
• 1941 » Helen Cornelius, American country singer-songwriter and actress
• 1941 » Richard Speck, American murderer († 1991)
• 1942 » Peter Handke, Austrian author and playwright
• 1942 » Robb Royer, American guitarist, keyboard player, and songwriter
• 1943 » Keith West, English rock singer-songwriter and music producer
• 1943 » Mike Smith, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer († 2008)

• 1918 » Alexander Dianin, Russian chemist (b. 1851)
• 1921 » Said Halim Pasha, Ottoman politician, 280th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1865)
• 1924 » Gene Stratton-Porter, American author and screenwriter (b. 1863)
• 1945 » Edmund Dwyer-Gray, Irish-Australian politician, 29th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1870)
• 1951 » Harold Ross, American journalist and publisher, founded The New Yorker (b. 1892)
• 1955 » Honus Wagner, American baseball player and manager (b. 1874)
• 1956 » B. R. Ambedkar, Indian economist and politician, 1st Indian Minister of Justice (b. 1891)
• 1961 » Frantz Fanon, Martinique-French psychiatrist and author (b. 1925)
• 1964 » Evert van Linge, Dutch footballer and architect (b. 1895)
• 1972 » Janet Munro, English actress and singer (b. 1934)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Willem
5. Hendrik
6. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Petrus
9. Wilhelmus
10. Jacobus
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.
• January 1 » The Declaration by United Nations is signed by twenty-six nations.
• January 2 » The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) obtains the conviction of 33 members of a German spy ring headed by Fritz Joubert Duquesne in the largest espionage case in United States history—the Duquesne Spy Ring.
• March 29 » The Bombing of Lübeck in World War II is the first major success for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German city.
• August 11 » Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.
• August 23 » World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.
• November 19 » World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.

The temperature on December 6, 1942 was between 4.6 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.