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• Hendrikus Johannes de Lorijn, Zevenaar († 1962)
• Infantson Ward [M |||] († 1942)
• Grietje de Vries, Hurdegaryp († 2015)
• Henricus Johannes Joseph Groot de, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands († 1996)
• Harm Jan Siebum, Emmen Drenthe Nederland († 1986)
• José Aranha Campos, Brasil († 1969)
• Koos (Klaas) Bosma, Groningen († 2014)
• Dina van Zwol, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland († 1945)
• Derkina Helledina Knibbe, Abbenes († 1943)
• Ida Glasius, Djember (Indonesie) († 2012)

• Melchert (0), Barger-Compascuum, Gemeente Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Albert Lammert ten Have (81), Bathmen
• Adriana Heijstraten (81), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltjen Rosink (63), Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aart Teunisen de Goede (77), Vollenhove
• Anna Kampschreur (86), Nijmegen
• Adriaan van Tilborg (72), Hank, Altena, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antje Claasdr Hoek (81), Katwijk
• Abraham Joseph Booth (82), Queens, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Aletta Baks (65), Nederhemert

• 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)

• 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 20 » World War II: At the Wannsee Conference held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee, senior Nazi German officials discuss the implementation of the "Final Solution to the Jewish question".
• February 11 » World War II: Second day of the Battle of Bukit Timah is fought in Singapore.
• March 8 » World War II: Imperial Japanese Army forces captured Rangoon, Burma from British.
• April 3 » World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula.
• 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.
• 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 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.