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• N.N. Hummelink, Lichtenvoorde († 1942)
• Derkina Helledina Knibbe, Abbenes († 1943)
• Catharina Henrica Maria Josephina Blous, Alphen en Riel († 1943)
• Michiel Adriaan Belinfante Abas, Katwijk († 1944)
• Michiel Adriaan Belinfante, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1944)
• DERKINA HILLEDINA KNIBBE, Abbenes († 1943)
• Alain Armand Andre de Rafélis de Saint Sauveur, Boulogne-Billaincourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France († 1996)
• Louis Hendrik Van den Wyngaert, Kapellen, Provincie Antwerpen († 1944)
• Harm Jan Siebum, Emmen Drenthe Nederland († 1986)
• Anna Wilhelmina Stolze († 2019)

• Adriana Heijstraten (81), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Claasdr Hoek (81), Katwijk
• Anna Maria Kosman (72), Groesbeek
• 'André' Louis Charles CONVENT (35), Grimbergen, 1850, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgique
• Aalderikus Ottens (21), walsum dld
• Aletta Baks (65), Nederhemert
• Antje Jans VEENSTRA (79), Surhuisterveen, Achtkarspelen, Fryslân, Nederland
• Adrianus Franciscus Antonius Boogaard (56), Doesburg
• Antje Minzes Wijnjeterp (71), Kollum, Kollumerland en Nieuwkruisland, Friesland, Nederland
• Amelie Sophie De Deurwaerder (86), Brugge

• 1940 » İsmail Cem İpekçi, Turkish journalist and politician, 45th Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs († 2007)
• 1940 » Hamzah Haz, Indonesian journalist and politician, 9th Vice President of Indonesia
• 1940 » John Hadl, American football player and coach
• 1940 » Vaino Vahing, Estonian psychiatrist, author, and playwright († 2008)
• 1941 » Brian Holland, American songwriter and producer
• 1941 » Florinda Bolkan, Brazilian actress
• 1944 » Mick Avory, English drummer
• 1945 » Douglas Hofstadter, American author and academic
• 1945 » Jack Dann, American-Australian author and poet
• 1945 » John Helliwell, English saxophonist and keyboard player

• 1924 » Lionel Monckton, English composer (b. 1861)
• 1928 » H. H. Asquith, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1852)
• 1932 » Minnie Maddern Fiske, American actress and playwright (b. 1865)
• 1933 » Pat Sullivan, Australian animator and producer, co-created Felix the Cat (b. 1887)
• 1935 » Basil Hall Chamberlain, English-Swiss historian, author, and academic (b. 1850)
• 1939 » Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Russian painter and author (b. 1878)
• 1956 » Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, French lawyer and politician (b. 1878)
• 1959 » Owen Willans Richardson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
• 1961 » Laurence Owen, American figure skater (b. 1944)
• 1965 » Nat King Cole, American singer and pianist (b. 1919)

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. 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.
• January 11 » World War II: Japanese forces attack Tarakan in Borneo, Netherlands Indies (Battle of Tarakan)
• March 31 » World War II: Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession.
• May 22 » Mexico enters the Second World War on the side of the Allies.
• June 20 » The Holocaust: Kazimierz Piechowski and three others, dressed as members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, steal an SS staff car and escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp.
• August 26 » At Chortkiv, the Ukrainian police and German Schutzpolizei deport two thousand Jews to Bełżec extermination camp. Five hundred of the sick and children are murdered on the spot. This continued until the next day.
• December 6 » World War II in villages Stary Ciepielów and Rekówka German Genarmerie massacred 31 Poles for helping the Jews. Also, two Jewish refugees were murdered.

The temperature on February 15, 1942 was between -4.0 °C and -0.3 °C and averaged -1.6 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.