About the day » Thursday March 19, 1942Calender converter

• Hendrika Don, Vlaardingen († 2019)
• Anneke Manny Ezendam, Soerabaja, Nederlands Indië († 1994)
• Pier Prins, Kollum († 2006)
• Arendje Post († 2017)
• Hannie Buijtels, Bladel en Netersel († 2004)
• Aike Velthuis († 2017)
• Glenna Jeannee Denning ****, Piqua, Miami, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 2012)
• Timmer, Siddeburen, Groningen, Nederland († 1942)
• Jacob Beets († 1995)
• Josefina Wilhelmina ter Woord, Winterswijk-Meddo († 1986)

• Alberdina Voormeulen (86), Winterswijk
• Agatha de Groot (77), Anna Paulowna
• Anna Pieters Zorgdrager (47), Terschelling
• Aaltje Oskam (56), Veldhuizen
• Alberdina Petronella SMEEMAN (48), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arendje DIJKHUIZEN (93), Scheveningen, gemeente 's-Gravenhage (Z-H)
• Andrea Ewelina ten Oever (80), Den Haag
• Charles Ferdinand Pahud de Mortanges (20), Besançon, Doubs, Franche-Comté, France
• Christiaan Runaldus Schut (38), Zwolle
• Ann White Earl (79)

• 1937 » Clarence "Frogman" Henry, American R&B singer and pianist
• 1938 » Joe Kapp, American football player, coach, and actor
• 1942 » Heather Robertson, Canadian journalist and author († 2014)
• 1943 » Mario J. Molina, Mexican chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1943 » Mario Monti, Italian economist and politician, Prime Minister of Italy
• 1943 » Vern Schuppan, Australian race car driver
• 1944 » Said Musa, Belizean lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Belize
• 1945 » John Holder, English cricketer and umpire
• 1945 » Modestas Paulauskas, Lithuanian basketball player and coach
• 1946 » Ruth Pointer, American musician

• 1919 » Emma Bell Miles, American writer, poet, and artist of Appalachia (b. 1879)
• 1930 » Arthur Balfour, Scottish-English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1848)
• 1930 » Henry Lefroy, Australian politician, 11th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1854)
• 1942 » Clinton Hart Merriam, American zoologist, ornithologist, and entomologist (b. 1855)
• 1944 » William Hale Thompson, American rancher and politician, 41st Mayor of Chicago (b. 1869)
• 1949 » James Newland, Australian soldier and policeman (b. 1881)
• 1949 » James Somerville, English admiral and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Somerset (b. 1882)
• 1950 » Edgar Rice Burroughs, American soldier and author (b. 1875)
• 1950 » Norman Haworth, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)
• 1951 » Dmytro Doroshenko, Ukrainian historian and politician, Prime Minister of Ukraine (b. 1882)

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. 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.
• January 13 » World War II: First use of an aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
• 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 19 » World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese Americans to internment camps.
• March 31 » World War II: Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession.
• July 1 » The Australian Federal Government becomes the sole collector of income tax in Australia as State Income Tax is abolished.
• July 4 » World War II: The 250-day Siege of Sevastopol in the Crimea ends when the city falls to Axis forces.

The temperature on March 19, 1942 was between 1.1 °C and 7.3 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain during 4.2 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.