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• Aaltje Jantje Fidder, Enschede († 1942)
• Johannes Bernardus (Joop) Tappel, Erica († 2008)
• Arend (Aad) Booij, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1999)
• H.J. Kramer, Zutphen (Gelderland) († 2006)
• Cor van Leent, Terheijden,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1982)
• Alois COOLS, Essen († 1988)
• Jan Cornelis Ippel, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1977)
• Cornelis Hendricus Joannes van den Brekel, Boxtel († 2004)
• Johannes Thomas Bernard Bais, den Helder († 1979)
• Fimke van der Meulen, Den Velde († 2019)

• Adriana van der Wel (33), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arnoldus van der Looij (70), Hoogeloon
• Alexander van den Bovenkamp (72), Enschede
• Bernard Polak (70), Steenwijk
• Anna Maria Bloks, Dinther
• Arie VALK (79), Rotterdam
• adriaantje van der LINDEN (69), mijnsheerenland
• Armilda Ashcraft (79), Kokomo, Howard Cnty, Indiana, Verenigde Staten
• Adriaan Brokx (87), Mill en Sint Hubert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adolphus Gerardus Elisabeth Gummarus Fioole (71), Lier, België

• 1941 » Christopher Allsopp, English economist and academic
• 1941 » Don Prudhomme, American race car driver and manager
• 1941 » Gheorghe Zamfir, Romanian flute player and composer
• 1941 » Hans W. Geißendörfer, German director and producer
• 1941 » Phil Austin, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter († 2015)
• 1942 » Anita Pallenberg, Italian-English model, actress, and fashion designer († 2017)
• 1942 » Barry Levinson, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1943 » Ian MacRae, New Zealand rugby player
• 1943 » Max Clifford, English journalist and publicist († 2017)
• 1943 » Roger Cook, New Zealand-English journalist and academic

• 1923 » Kabalega, King of Bunyoro (b.1853)
• 1927 » Florence Earle Coates, American poet (b. 1850)
• 1935 » Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet and playwright (b. 1869)
• 1944 » Rose O'Neill, American cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer (b. 1874)
• 1947 » Herbert Backe, German agronomist and politician (b. 1896)
• 1950 » Louis Wilkins, American pole vaulter (b. 1882)
• 1953 » Idris Davies, Welsh poet and author (b. 1905)
• 1959 » Leo Aryeh Mayer, Polish-Israeli scholar and academic (b. 1895)
• 1961 » Jules Bordet, Belgian microbiologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
• 1963 » Otto Struve, Ukrainian-American astronomer and academic (b. 1897)

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 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".
• 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 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.
• May 9 » Holocaust: The SS executes 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast, Ukraine). The Zoludek Ghetto (in Belarus) is destroyed and all its inhabitants executed or deported.
• June 26 » The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat.
• October 28 » The Alaska Highway first connects Alaska to the North American railway network at Dawson Creek in Canada.

The temperature on April 6, 1942 was between 6.5 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.