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• Christina Maria de Leeuw, Hagestein, Utrecht, Nederland
• Lena van Duijn, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2022)
• Bastiaan Jan Ader, Winschoten († 1975)
• Eddy Catharina Noach, Zutphen,Gemeente Zutphen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1944)
• Baby Girl MUMMAW, Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 1942)
• Luktje de Boer († 2006)
• Josephina Jacoba Gertruda Maria van Oudheusden, Breda († 2013)
• Dionisia Serna Serna, Calvillo, Aguascalientes, México († 1942)
• Johanna Cornelia van der Klooster, Rotterdam († 1998)
• Nicolaas Antonius Johannes van den Hurk, Oss († 2000)

• Adriana Maria Breedijk, Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arend Alberts Kattouw (82), Hoogeveen
• Alida Johanna Koene (74), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• (Stillborn) BELGRAVER (0), Amersfoort Utrecht Netheralnds
• Anna Maria Sandmann (64), Horsten (Onstwedde)
• Adriaan Boudewijns (75), Catricum
• Adriaan BOUDEWIJNS (75), Heiloo,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Baby Girl MUMMAW (0), Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• De Keyser Jaak Edward (33)
• Antje Silvius (78), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands

• 1941 » Bobby Russell, American singer-songwriter († 1992)
• 1941 » Clark Dimond, American musician and author
• 1941 » Michel Roux, French-English chef and author († 2020)
• 1941 » Roberto Carlos, Brazilian singer-songwriter
• 1942 » Alan Price, English keyboard player, singer, and composer
• 1942 » Bas Jan Ader, Dutch-American photographer and director († 1975)
• 1942 » Jack Roush, American businessman, founded Roush Fenway Racing
• 1942 » Maarten van den Bergh, American-Dutch businessman
• 1943 » Lorenzo Sanz, Spanish businessman
• 1943 » Margo MacDonald, Scottish journalist and politician († 2014)

• 1926 » Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian-Swiss statistician and theorist (b. 1874)
• 1930 » Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1827)
• 1937 » Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington, English cartographer and politician (b. 1856)
• 1937 » William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist and zoologist (b. 1865)
• 1941 » Johanna Müller-Hermann, Austrian composer (b. 1878)
• 1949 » Ulrich Salchow, Danish-Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)
• 1950 » Ernst Robert Curtius, French-German philologist and scholar (b. 1886)
• 1955 » Jim Corbett, British-Indian colonel, hunter, and author (b. 1875)
• 1960 » Beardsley Ruml, American economist and statistician (b. 1894)
• 1961 » Max Hainle, German swimmer (b. 1882)

• 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 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".
• April 18 » Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France.
• June 11 » Free French Forces retreat from Bir Hakeim after having successfully delayed the Axis advance.
• August 11 » Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.
• September 21 » The Holocaust in Poland: At the end of Yom Kippur, Germans order Jews to permanently move from Konstantynów to Biała Podlaska.
• November 28 » In Boston, Massachusetts, a fire in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub kills 492 people.

The temperature on April 19, 1942 was between 7.3 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.