About the day » Wednesday April 15, 1942Calender converter

• Abraham Koster, Pernis, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2019)
• Rox Thompson, Coronada, San Diego Co, California, Verenigde Staten († 2002)
• Jan Rune Isaksen, Bergen, Hordaland, Norway († 2005)
• N.N. (levenloos) Verhoeven, Goes, Zeeland, Nederland († 1942)
• Jo Sterken, Sint-Truiden, België († 2023)
• NN Ikink, Nijmegen († 1942)
• Gaar Schilder, Edam Volendam († 2024)
• Jan Harm Heijink, Sibculo († 2019)
• Pieter Jellema, Birdaard, Ferwerderadiel, Friesland, Netherlands († 1999)
• Pieter Jellema, Birdaard, Dantumadeel, Friesland, Nederland († 1999)

• Adrianus Grootenboer (68), 's-Gravenhage
• Antje Catharina Versloot (83), Woerden, Nederland
• Alfred Carel Willem graaf van Bylandt (66), Feldafing,Regierungsbezirk Oberbayern,Bavaria,Germany
• Albert TE KULVE (72)
• Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Padgett (63), Alabama, United States
• Berendina Martina Gianotten (81), Nijmegen
• Aart Antonie Zwijnenburg (60), Rotterdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Gilles (90), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriana Jacoba Versluis (72), Rotterdam
• Antonia Faber (74), Wagenborgen, Groningen, Netherlands

• 1940 » Jeffrey Archer, English author, playwright, and politician
• 1941 » Howard Berman, American lawyer and politician
• 1942 » Francis X. DiLorenzo, American bishop († 2017)
• 1942 » Kenneth Lay, American businessman († 2006)
• 1942 » Tim Lankester, English economist and academic
• 1942 » Walt Hazzard, American basketball player and coach († 2011)
• 1943 » Hugh Thompson, Jr., American soldier and pilot († 2006)
• 1943 » Pınar Kür, Turkish author, playwright, and academic
• 1943 » Robert Lefkowitz, American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1943 » Veronica Linklater, Baroness Linklater, English politician

• 1927 » Gaston Leroux, French journalist and author (b. 1868)
• 1938 » César Vallejo, Peruvian journalist, poet, and playwright (b. 1892)
• 1942 » Robert Musil, Austrian-Swiss author and playwright (b. 1880)
• 1943 » Aristarkh Lentulov, Russian painter and set designer (b. 1882)
• 1944 » Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin, Russian general (b. 1901)
• 1945 » Hermann Florstedt, German SS officer (b. 1895)
• 1948 » Radola Gajda, Montenegrin-Czech general and politician (b. 1892)
• 1949 » Wallace Beery, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1885)
• 1962 » Arsenio Lacson, Filipino journalist and politician, Mayor of Manila (b. 1912)
• 1962 » Clara Blandick, American actress (b. 1880)

• 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 30 » World War II: Battle of Ambon. Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies. Some 300 captured Allied troops are massacred at Laha airfield. Three-fourths of remaining POWs will not have survived by the end of the war, including 250 men who will be shipped to Hainan Island in South China Sea and never returned.
• March 9 » World War II: Dutch East Indies unconditionally surrendered to the Japanese forces in Kalijati, Subang, West Java, and the Japanese completed their Dutch East Indies campaign.
• July 10 » World War II: An American pilot spots a downed, intact Mitsubishi A6M Zero on Akutan Island (the "Akutan Zero") that the US Navy uses to learn the aircraft's flight characteristics.
• August 8 » Quit India Movement is launched in India against the British rule in response to Mohandas Gandhi's call for swaraj or complete independence.
• 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.
• November 15 » World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory.

The temperature on April 15, 1942 was between 1.1 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 12.9 hours of sunshine (93%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.