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• Nijman, Aalten, NL († 1942)
• Jan van Hintum, Nistelrode, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2000)
• Doodgeboren kind de Coo, Zaltbommel († 1942)
• Harry Forster Chapin, New York, New York County (Manhattan), New York, Verenigde Staten († 1981)
• Johanna Maria Wilhelmina Theijs, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• E.G. Telman († 2023)
• Gijsbertus Franciscus Middelman, Breda
• Thersia Bus († 1943)
• Marvis Jeanette Simmons, district Stad, Curaçao, Ned. Antillen († 1942)
• Lucien WERNER, Blodelsheim (68740, Haut-Rhin, France) († 2004)

• Aaltje Roodveldt (76), Auschwitz
• Aaltje Rijkens (83), Groningen
• Aaltje de Leeuw (55), Auschwitz
• Abraham Sacksioni (64), auschwitz, Polen
• Adolf Rosenwald (76), Theresienstadt CC, Czech Republic
• Aaltje Kopee (63), Auschwitz (PL)
• Aaltje Altia Kopee Kofi (63), Auschwitz, Polen
• Abraham de Jong (13), Auschwitz (Oswiecim) e.o., Katowice, Poland
• Adriaan Vermeulen (79), Breda
• Abraham Elias Schaap (50), Auschwitz, Katowice, Poland

• 1940 » Gerry Cheevers, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1941 » Melba Pattillo Beals, American journalist and activist
• 1942 » Alex Johnson, American baseball player († 2015)
• 1942 » Harry Chapin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1981)
• 1942 » Peter Tomarken, American game show host and producer († 2006)
• 1943 » Bernard C. Parks, American police officer and politician
• 1943 » John Bennett Ramsey, American businessman and pilot
• 1943 » Nick Katz, American mathematician and academic
• 1943 » Susan Isaacs, American author and screenwriter
• 1944 » Daniel Chorzempa, American organist and composer

• 1917 » Ludwig Minkus, Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1826)
• 1918 » Frank Wilson, English-Australian politician, 9th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1859)
• 1941 » Attack on Pearl Harbor:
• 1947 » Nicholas Murray Butler, American philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1947 » Tristan Bernard, French author and playwright (b. 1866)
• 1949 » Rex Beach, American author, playwright, and water polo player (b. 1877)
• 1956 » Huntley Gordon, Canadian-American actor (b. 1887)
• 1956 » Reşat Nuri Güntekin, Turkish author and playwright (b. 1889)
• 1960 » Ioannis Demestichas, Greek admiral and politician (b. 1882)
• 1962 » Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian opera singer (b. 1895)

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 1 » World War II: Josef Terboven, Reichskommissar of German-occupied Norway, appoints Vidkun Quisling the Minister President of the National Government.
• 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 9 » World War II: The Battle of Bataan ends. An Indian Ocean raid by Japan's 1st Air Fleet sinks the British aircraft carrier HMSHermes and the Australian destroyer HMASVampire.
• April 15 » The George Cross is awarded "to the island fortress of Malta" by King George VI.
• May 9 » Holocaust: The SS executes 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast, Ukraine). The Zoludek Ghetto (in Belarus) is destroyed and all its inhabitants executed or deported.
• October 9 » Australia's Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 receives royal assent.

The temperature on December 7, 1942 was between 4.3 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.