About the day » Wednesday May 13, 1942Calender converter

• Egbertus Johannes Westerveld, Soest, Utrecht, Nederland († 2000)
• Annetje Maria GOUDRIAAN, Boskoop († 2021)
• Jannink († 2009)
• Jan Alberts Boers, Vledder († 2001)
• Alice Abas, Rotterdam († 1942)
• Aaltje Nijboer, Avereest († 2001)
• Cor Keizer, Edam Volendam († 2021)
• Agatha van der Plas, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2020)
• Franciscus Maria van den Beuken, Maasbree (Baarlo) († 2010)
• Ad Taks, Roosendaal,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2015)

• Bareldina ten Hove (62), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Alida Hooijschuur (76), Zaandam
• Anthonius Franciscus van der Meer (35), Wassenaar
• Anna Maria DE GROOT (71), Leiden
• Carl Beckmann (59), Neuenkirchen (D)
• Berendina Boerman (42), Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Barbara Kellar (71), Hartford Twp., Van Buren, Michigan
• Auguste Naschelsky (58), Holocaust
• Alexandrina Umbelina de Oliveira (75)
• Catharina Anna Maria Vervest (52), Etten-Leur, Noord-Brabant, NL

• 1940 » Bruce Chatwin, English author († 1989)
• 1941 » Jody Conradt, American basketball player and coach
• 1941 » Joe Brown, English singer and musician
• 1941 » Ritchie Valens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1959)
• 1941 » Senta Berger, Austrian actress
• 1942 » Leighton Gage, American author († 2013)
• 1942 » Roger Young, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1943 » Anthony Clarke, Baron Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony, English lawyer and judge
• 1943 » Kurt Trampedach, Danish painter and sculptor († 2013)
• 1943 » Mary Wells, American singer-songwriter († 1992)

• 1929 » Arthur Scherbius, German electrical engineer, invented the Enigma machine (b. 1878)
• 1930 » Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian scientist, explorer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1938 » Charles Édouard Guillaume, Swiss-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1941 » Ōnishiki Uichirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 26th Yokozuna (b. 1891)
• 1941 » Frederick Christian, English cricketer (b. 1877)
• 1945 » Tubby Hall, American drummer (b. 1895)
• 1946 » Zara DuPont, American suffragist (b. 1869)
• 1947 » Sukanta Bhattacharya, Indian poet and playwright (b. 1926)
• 1948 » Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington (b. 1920)
• 1957 » Michael Fekete, Hungarian-Israeli mathematician and academic (b. 1886)

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.
• February 19 » World War II: Nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the northern Australian city of Darwin, killing 243 people.
• March 3 » World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid Broome, Western Australia, killing more than 100 people.
• April 19 » World War II: In Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.
• June 21 » World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by Japan against the United States mainland.
• 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.
• October 28 » The Alaska Highway first connects Alaska to the North American railway network at Dawson Creek in Canada.

The temperature on May 13, 1942 was between 9.7 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 8.4 mm of rain during 6.2 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.