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• Guido Leo Lintermans, Heist op den Berg
• Josph Louis De Buyst († 1945)
• Jacobus van Broekhoven, Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1980)
• Jos van der Krabben, 's-Hertogenbosch († 1999)
• Albertus François Beerten, Belgie († 2015)
• Ben Jansen († 2010)
• Anneke Eisenga, Anjum († 2021)
• Aaltinus Johannes Arends, Dalen,, Drenthe, Nederland († 2013)
• Antonie Spanhaak, .......... († 2010)
• Antonia Johanna Jacoba (Ton) Beeks, Helden,, Limburg, Nederland († 2005)

• Adriaan Boonders (91), Broek In Waterland,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana van den Berg (63), Utrecht
• Antje Geerts van der Veen (80), Suawoude, gem. Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Adrianus Kostense (79), Rotterdam Zhl. NL
• Andrina Hendrika Schifflers (75), Soest
• Adriana Saartje Ada van Peenen (59), Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
• Adrianus Hermanus Koks (68), Eindhoven
• Angel Omta (0), Yakima County,, Washington, Verenigde Staten
• Adolph Schenkel (67), Groningen
• (3) Hendrica Maria Jansen (79), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland

• 1938 » Frank J. Dodd, American businessman and politician, president of the New Jersey Senate († 2010)
• 1939 » Stan Lundine, American lawyer and politician, Lieutenant Governor of New York
• 1940 » George A. Romero, American director and producer († 2017)
• 1941 » Jiří Raška, Czech skier and coach († 2012)
• 1941 » Ron Rangi, New Zealand rugby player († 1988)
• 1941 » Russell Cooper, Australian politician, 33rd Premier of Queensland
• 1943 » Alberto João Jardim, Portuguese journalist and politician, 2nd President of the Regional Government of Madeira
• 1943 » Ken Thompson, American computer scientist and programmer, co-developed the B programming language
• 1943 » Wanda Rutkiewicz, Lithuanian-Polish mountaineer († 1992)
• 1944 » Florence LaRue, American singer and actress

• 1926 » İskilipli Âtıf Hodja, Turkish author and scholar (b. 1875)
• 1928 » Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
• 1933 » Archibald Sayce, English linguist and educator (b. 1846)
• 1940 » Nikolai Yezhov, Russian police officer and politician (b. 1895)
• 1943 » Frank Calder, English-Canadian ice hockey player and journalist (b. 1877)
• 1944 » Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian author and translator (b. 1872)
• 1956 » Savielly Tartakower, Russian-French chess player, journalist, and author (b. 1887)
• 1958 » Henry Kuttner, American author and screenwriter (b. 1915)
• 1959 » Una O'Connor, Irish-American actress (b. 1880)
• 1968 » Neal Cassady, American novelist and poet (b. 1926)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Cornelis
4. Willem
5. Hendrik
6. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Petrus
9. Jacobus
10. Wilhelmus
11. Adrianus
12. Robert
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.
• 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.
• May 27 » World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in Prague; he dies of his injuries eight days later.
• July 25 » The Norwegian Manifesto calls for nonviolent resistance to the German occupation.
• August 17 » World War II: U.S. Marines raid the Japanese-held Pacific island of Makin.
• November 3 » World War II: The Koli Point action begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on November 12.
• December 20 » World War II: Japanese air forces bomb Calcutta, India.

The temperature on February 4, 1942 was between -5.4 °C and -3.9 °C and averaged -4.8 °C. There was 5.3 mm of rain during 4.6 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.