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• Jacoba Hendrika van Schuppen († 2002)
• gayle elizabeth Paquette bertzyk, Sault Sainte Marie, Chippewa County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 2011)
• Anthonius Theodorus van den Heuvel, Hoogeloon, Hapert en Casteren († 2004)
• Jan Peter Hubert Meels, Geleen, Sittard-Geleen, Limburg, Nederland († 1943)
• Aurèle MESTDAGH († 1985)
• Berend Klaas (Ben) Eikenaar, Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland († 2011)
• Martha Margaretha Louise van Krogten, Schiedam, Nederland († 1945)
• Cornelia Petronella Tecla Entius, Zwaag, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland († 1944)
• Goverdina Antonia van der Miessen, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Johannes Jacobus Mur, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 2014)

• Albertus van der Loo (89), Driel
• Beitske Fennema (80), Rotterdam
• Adriana Jacoba Laurijssen (32), Breda
• Andries Wiegersma (30), Leeuwarden
• "Francisco de Paula" María Trinidad Enrique Gabriel Miguel Rafael Edmundo Buenaventura de Borbón (88), Madrid
• Abraham Altenberg (50), Auschwitz
• Bernhard Engelbert Jan Hendrik Becking (52), Utrecht
• Andries Pronker (64), Amsterdam
• Anthonie Marinus Tolhoek (55), Wolphaartsdijk
• Abel Gaston Etienne VANDAMME (59), Coudekerque Branche... Hauts de France

• 1940 » Tony Barber, English-Australian television host
• 1942 » Conrad Schumann, East German border guard († 1998)
• 1942 » Daniel Dennett, American philosopher and academic
• 1942 » Jerry Sloan, American basketball player and coach
• 1942 » Kitanofuji Katsuaki, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 52nd Yokozuna
• 1942 » Mike Newell, English director and producer
• 1942 » Neil Kinnock, Welsh politician, Vice-President of the European Commission
• 1942 » Samuel Ramey, American opera singer
• 1943 » Conchata Ferrell, American actress
• 1943 » Richard Eyre, English director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1934 » Mahmoud Mokhtar, Egyptian sculptor and educator (b. 1891)
• 1941 » Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian police officer (b. 1877)
• 1941 » Marcus Hurley, American basketball player and cyclist (b. 1883)
• 1941 » Virginia Woolf, English novelist, essayist, short story writer, and critic (b. 1882)
• 1942 » Miguel Hernández, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1910)
• 1943 » Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1873)
• 1944 » Stephen Leacock, English-Canadian political scientist and author (b. 1869)
• 1947 » Karol Świerczewski, Polish general (b. 1897)
• 1949 » Grigoraș Dinicu, Romanian violinist and composer (b. 1889)
• 1953 » Jim Thorpe, American football player and coach (b. 1887)

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.
• February 2 » The Osvald Group is responsible for the first, active event of anti-Nazi resistance in Norway, to protest the inauguration of Vidkun Quisling.
• February 10 » World War II: Imperial Japanese Army capture Banjarmasin, capital of Borneo in Dutch East Indies.
• 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 4 » World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea begins with an attack by aircraft from the United States aircraft carrier USSYorktown on Japanese naval forces at Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands. The Japanese forces had invaded Tulagi the day before.
• November 13 » World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal: U.S. and Japanese ships engage in an intense, close-quarters surface naval engagement during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
• November 21 » The completion of the Alaska Highway (also known as the Alcan Highway) is celebrated (however, the highway is not usable by standard road vehicles until 1943).

The temperature on March 28, 1942 was between 0.4 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (72%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.