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• Hendrica Vuijk, Delft († 1942)
• Anna Maria Tijssen, Opheusden († 1999)
• Adriana Maria Johanna Bouwmans, Eindhoven († 2019)
• Maria Willemina Hagen, Eefde († 2011)
• Geert de Blouw, Emmer-Compascuum, Emmen († 2016)
• Catharina Arnolda Tallina Luchtenberg, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands († 1999)
• James Arndell SEARL, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia († 1995)
• Elly Goris († 2015)
• Antonius (Benny) van der Linde, Wilp Achterhoek († 2013)
• Johannes Gerardus Schellekens, Boxtel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1984)

• Jager (0), Giethoorn, Overijssel, Nederland
• Aleida Hulter (0), Zwolle
• Adriaan Mohr (77), Walker (Kent), Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Adrianus Neijman (91), Amsterdam
• Adriana Helena Vonk (83), utrecht
• Donders (81), Udenhout
• (Stillborn) ROETERS (0), Zeeland Ottawa County Michigan U.S.A
• Annanias Verleng (78), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
• Adrianus Willem de Jager (81), Barneveld
• Angela Augusta Malfait (49), Gent, 9000, Oost Vlaanderen

• 1936 » Jim Brown, American football player and actor
• 1937 » Mary Ann Mobley, American model and actress, Miss America 1959 († 2014)
• 1940 » Vicente Fernández, Mexican singer-songwriter, actor, and producer
• 1941 » Gene Pitney, American singer-songwriter († 2006)
• 1941 » Julia McKenzie, English actress, singer, and director
• 1942 » Huey P. Newton, American activist, co-founded the Black Panther Party († 1989)
• 1944 » Karl Jenkins, Welsh saxophonist, keyboard player, and composer (Soft Machine)
• 1945 » Brenda Fricker, Irish actress
• 1945 » Zina Bethune, American actress, dancer, and choreographer († 2012)
• 1946 » Shahrnush Parsipur, Iranian-American author and academic

• 1919 » Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1841)
• 1934 » Albert I of Belgium (b. 1875)
• 1934 » Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player and theoretician (b. 1862)
• 1939 » Willy Hess, German violinist and educator (b. 1859)
• 1946 » Dorothy Gibson, American actress and singer (b. 1889)
• 1961 » Lütfi Kırdar, Turkish physician and politician, Turkish Minister of Health (b. 1887)
• 1961 » Nita Naldi, American actress (b. 1894)
• 1962 » Bruno Walter, German-American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1876)
• 1962 » Joseph Kearns, American actor (b. 1907)
• 1966 » Hans Hofmann, German-American painter (b. 1880)

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.
• April 23 » World War II: Baedeker Blitz: German bombers hit Exeter, Bath and York in retaliation for the British raid on Lübeck.
• May 12 » World War II: The U.S. tanker SS Virginia is torpedoed in the mouth of the Mississippi River by the German submarineU-507.
• 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.
• July 22 » Grossaktion Warsaw: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto begins.
• August 27 » First day of the Sarny Massacre.
• November 11 » World War II: France's zone libre is occupied by German forces in Case Anton.

The temperature on February 17, 1942 was between -3.9 °C and -1.7 °C and averaged -2.7 °C. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.