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• Jacob Bram Corstiaan van Wessel, Naarden († 2017)
• Elisabeth van Buchholz, Kaliningrad (Königsberg), Rusland († 2015)
• Beverly Beaver, West Leederville, Western Australia, Australia († 2014)
• Levensloos Raskin, Alken, België († 1942)
• Cornelia Geertruida (Cok) van Kampen, Pijnacker († 2001)
• Cornelia (Cor) Nawijn, Scheveningen († 2008)
• Johannes Leonardus Adrianus (Jan) Braun, Maartensdijk, Utrecht, Nederland († 1997)
• Michael (Jay) NIENHUIS, Holland Ottawa County Michigan U.S.A († 2009)
• Johannes Leonardus Adrianus (Jan) Braun, Maartensdijk, Nederland († 1997)
• Jan Sytema, jatiroto, Indonesië († 1944)

• Baron. NN Bentinck (0), Bracknell, Berkshire
• Abraham Hemmers (35), Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• Betje Weits Barma (62), opende
• antonius bernardus lensen (69), haarlem
• Anna Elisabeth Adrienne SCHERER (73), 's Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Berend Cornelis Rozenbeek (75), Maastricht
• Antonius van Mourik (44), Amersfoort
• Antonetta Cornelia van den EIJNDEN (75), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arnoldus Reins (75), Radewijk, Ambt, Overijssel, Nederland
• Antonie Fransen (69), Deurne

• 1940 » Donald Jackson, Canadian figure skater and coach
• 1940 » Mike Hailwood, English motorcycle racer († 1981)
• 1941 » Dr. Demento, American radio host
• 1941 » Sonny Throckmorton, American country singer-songwriter
• 1942 » Leon Russell, American singer-songwriter and pianist († 2016)
• 1942 » Roshan Seth, Indian-English actor
• 1943 » Antonio Sabàto, Sr., Italian actor
• 1943 » Caterina Bueno, Italian singer († 2007)
• 1943 » Larry Coryell, American jazz guitarist († 2017)
• 1943 » Michael Boyce, Baron Boyce, South African-English admiral and politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports

• 1917 » Bryn Lewis, Welsh international rugby player (b.1891)
• 1923 » Topal Osman, Turkish colonel (b. 1883)
• 1928 » Theodore William Richards, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
• 1930 » Zewditu I of Ethiopia (b. 1876)
• 1933 » Ranjitsinhji, Indian cricketer (b. 1872)
• 1936 » Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general (b. 1860)
• 1942 » Édouard Estaunié, French novelist (b. 1862)
• 1948 » Sabahattin Ali, Turkish journalist, author, and poet (b. 1907)
• 1953 » Hugo Sperrle, German field marshal (b. 1885)
• 1966 » C. S. Forester, English novelist (b. 1899)

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 12 » The Battle of Java ends with the surrender of the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command to the Japanese Empire in Bandung, West Java, Dutch East Indies.
• June 5 » World War II: The United States declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania.
• July 16 » Holocaust: Vel' d'Hiv Roundup (Rafle du Vel' d'Hiv): The government of Vichy France orders the mass arrest of 13,152 Jews who are held at the Vélodrome d'Hiver in Paris before deportation to Auschwitz.
• September 27 » Last day of the Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marines barely escape after being surrounded by Japanese forces.
• November 30 » World War II: Battle of Tassafaronga; A smaller squadron of Japanese destroyers led by Raizō Tanaka defeats a U.S. cruiser force under Carleton H. Wright.
• December 24 » World War II: French monarchist, Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle, assassinates Vichy French Admiral François Darlan in Algiers, Algeria.

The temperature on April 2, 1942 was between 2.7 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west.