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• Lucas Gerhardus Groeneveld, Hellevoetsluis († 2016)
• Catharina Bakker, Den Helder († 2013)
• James Nathaniel Hamrick Jr. [Bu], North Carolina († 1995)
• Andreas Alphonsus Josephus van de Sande (Dré), Tilburg († 2015)
• Roelof van Heusden († 2020)
• Lorraine Laporte († 1999)
• Mia Nevelstein, Bocholtz († 1999)
• Gertruda Gerarda (Gerry) Manders († 2023)
• Donald Sentif († 1985)
• Mia Hana Furth, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1943)

• Angus McLeod (82), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
• Anna Maria Josephina Startz (80), Maastricht
• Bartholomeus Hanselaar (51), Leiden
• Bartholomeus Hanselaar (53), Leiden,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Theodorus van der Geest (60), Beverwijk
• Adrianus Mensen (60), Breda
• Berendina Strijker (46), Hoogeveen, prov. Drenthe
• Arie Buis (73), Rotterdam, ZH, Nederland
• Arie Spigt (86), Haarlemmerliede
• Bastiaan Christiaan Rebergen (53), Ede, Nederland

• 1938 » Norman Blake, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1939 » Asghar Ali Engineer, Indian activist and author († 2013)
• 1939 » Irina Press, Ukrainian-Russian hurdler and pentathlete († 2004)
• 1940 » Chuck Norris, American actor, producer, and martial artist
• 1940 » David Rabe, American playwright and screenwriter
• 1943 » Peter Berresford Ellis, English historian and author
• 1945 » Katharine Houghton, American actress and playwright
• 1945 » Madhavrao Scindia, Indian politician, Indian Minister of Railways († 2001)
• 1946 » Gérard Garouste, French contemporary artist
• 1946 » Jim Valvano, American basketball player and coach († 1993)

• 1913 » Harriet Tubman, American nurse and activist (b. c.1820)
• 1925 » Myer Prinstein, Polish-American jumper (b. 1878)
• 1937 » Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian journalist and author (b. 1884)
• 1940 » Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian novelist and playwright (b. 1891)
• 1942 » Wilbur Scoville, American pharmacist and chemist (b. 1865)
• 1948 » Jan Masaryk, Czech soldier and politician (b. 1886)
• 1948 » Zelda Fitzgerald, American author, poet, and dancer (b. 1900)
• 1951 » Kijūrō Shidehara, Japanese lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1872)
• 1966 » Frank O'Connor, Irish short story writer, novelist, and poet (b. 1903)
• 1966 » Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)

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.
• March 5 » World War II: Japanese forces capture Batavia, capital of Dutch East Indies, which is left undefended after the withdrawal of the KNIL garrison and Australian Blackforce battalion to Buitenzorg and Bandung.
• May 8 » World War II: The German 11th Army begins Operation Trappenjagd (Bustard Hunt) and destroys the bridgehead of the three Soviet armies defending the Kerch Peninsula.
• May 10 » World War II: The Thai Phayap Army invades the Shan States during the Burma Campaign.
• 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.
• September 12 » World War II: First day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge during the Guadalcanal Campaign. U.S. Marines protecting Henderson Field are attacked by Japanese troops.
• October 30 » World War II: Lt. Tony Fasson and Able Seaman Colin Grazier drown while taking code books from the sinking German submarine U-559.

The temperature on March 10, 1942 was between -3.1 °C and 6.5 °C and averaged 0.8 °C. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.