About the day » Tuesday April 28, 1942Calender converter

• Denise St.Héléne, St. Lucia ( caribiën) († 2009)
• Cornelis Dick (Dikkie) Groen († 2018)
• Cornelis van Hasenbroek, 's-Gravenzande († 2017)
• Helmut Novottny († 1943)
• Bart Wim Ubbels, Gemeente Beemster, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2008)
• Plasmans, Tilburg († 1942)
• Barbara Bertha Bertha Reynolds, Brakpan, TVL, Zuid-Afrika († 2017)
• Dorothy Louise Peters, Sikeston, Scott, Missouri, Verenigde Staten († 2000)
• Annemarie Monchen († 2011)
• Cornelis Adrianus Planken, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands († 2020)

• Berend Prijs (44), Almelo
• Antonet Panhuizen, Gemert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alfred A. Haag (75), Sheboygan Falls
• Abigail Ella Jones (81), Biltmore, Buncombe County, North Carolina
• Antje Smeding (72), Goutum, gem. Leeuwarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltje Jans Nijboer (75), Twijzel, Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• berendina kwekkeboom, losser
• Barend Hagens (73), Zeist, Nederland
• Berend van den Brink (69)
• Arnoldus Adrianus Janssen (0), Veldhoven

• 1941 » Ann-Margret, Swedish-American actress, singer, and dancer
• 1941 » Iryna Zhylenko, Ukrainian poet and author († 2013)
• 1941 » John Madejski, English businessman and academic
• 1941 » Karl Barry Sharpless, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1941 » Lucien Aimar, French cyclist
• 1942 » Mike Brearley, English cricketer and psychoanalyst
• 1943 » Aryeh Bibi, Iraqi-born Israeli politician
• 1944 » Alice Waters, American chef and author
• 1944 » Elizabeth LeCompte, American director and producer
• 1944 » Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe, Belgian politician, 10th Minister-President of the Walloon Region

• 1928 » May Jordan McConnel, Australian trade unionist and suffragist (b. 1860)
• 1929 » Hendrik van Heuckelum, Dutch footballer (b. 1879)
• 1936 » Fuad I of Egypt (b. 1868)
• 1944 » Frank Knox, American journalist and politician, 46th United States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1874)
• 1944 » Mohammed Alim Khan, Manghud ruler (b. 1880)
• 1945 » Benito Mussolini, Italian journalist and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1883)
• 1945 » Hermann Fegelein, German general (b. 1906)
• 1945 » Roberto Farinacci, Italian soldier and politician (b. 1892)
• 1946 » Louis Bachelier, French mathematician and academic (b. 1870)
• 1954 » Léon Jouhaux, French union leader, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)

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 » Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.
• February 24 » The Battle of Los Angeles: A false alarm led to an anti-aircraft barrage that lasted into the early hours of February 25.
• May 7 » World War II: During the Battle of the Coral Sea, United States Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attack and sink the Imperial Japanese Navy light aircraft carrier Shōhō; the battle marks the first time in naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.
• July 18 » World War II: During the Beisfjord massacre in Norway, 15 Norwegian paramilitary guards help members of the SS to kill 288 political prisoners from Yugoslavia.
• September 26 » Holocaust: Senior SS official August Frank issues a memorandum detailing how Jews should be "evacuated".
• 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 April 28, 1942 was between 3.7 °C and 13.3 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 12.8 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.