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• Eddie van Walderveen, Tienhoven, UT Netherlands († 1945)
• Arie Masmeijer, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2000)
• Evert ( Eddie) van Walderveen, Tienhoven († 1945)
• Leijten († 1994)
• Erwin KRÜGER, Antwerpen,, Antwerpen, België († 1987)
• Francis Alexander Shields, New York City († 2003)
• Erwin Kruger, Hoboken, Antw-Kmp, Be († 1987)
• Jan Otto Schonewille, Hollandscheveld, Hoogeveen († 2014)
• Erwin Maria August Krüger, Hoboken, België († 1987)
• Godelieve Gaethofs, Meeuwen Gruitrode († 2006)

• Anna Maria Claassen (80), Bemmel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltje Heijboer (76), Oosterland, Zeeland, Nederland
• Bernardus Lambertus Harbers (77), Heerlen
• Abraham Teijsse (82), Amsterdam,Amsterdam,Noord-Holland,Nederland
• Adam Plessius (86), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Agatha Alexandrina Slok (70), Leiden
• Almoed Rebecca Zwart (60), zaandam
• Annechien, Annegien Ballast (79), Den Hool (Sleen)
• Anton KRIER (83), Techny, Cook, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Aaltje Heijboer (76), Oosterland gem. Schouwen Duiveland Zld. NL

• 1938 » Stuart Bell, English lawyer and politician († 2012)
• 1939 » Mario Segni, Italian professor and politician
• 1941 » Denis Hart, Australian archbishop
• 1942 » David Penry-Davey, English lawyer and judge († 2015)
• 1943 » Dan Coats, American politician and diplomat, 29th United States Ambassador to Germany
• 1943 » Kay Andrews, Baroness Andrews, English politician
• 1943 » Wieteke van Dort, Dutch actress, comedian, singer, writer and artist
• 1944 » Antal Nagy, Hungarian footballer
• 1944 » Billy Cobham, Panamanian-American drummer, composer, and bandleader
• 1944 » Danny Trejo, American actor

• 1936 » Leonidas Paraskevopoulos, Greek general and politician (b. 1860)
• 1938 » Joseph Strauss, American engineer, co designed The Golden Gate Bridge (b. 1870)
• 1943 » Alfred Hoche, German psychiatrist and academic (b. 1865)
• 1944 » George Ade, American journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1866)
• 1946 » Bruno Tesch, German chemist and businessman (b. 1890)
• 1947 » Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1947 » Zhang Lingfu, Chinese general (b. 1903)
• 1953 » Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist and composer (b. 1910)
• 1954 » Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor and manager (b. 1893)
• 1955 » James Agee, American novelist, screenwriter, and critic(b. 1909)

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. Anna
4. Cornelia
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 30 » World War II: Battle of Ambon. Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies. Some 300 captured Allied troops are massacred at Laha airfield. Three-fourths of remaining POWs will not have survived by the end of the war, including 250 men who will be shipped to Hainan Island in South China Sea and never returned.
• March 8 » World War II: Imperial Japanese Army forces gave ultimatum to Dutch East Indies Governor General Jonkheer Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer and KNIL Commander in Chief Lieutenant General Hein Ter Poorten, to unconditionally surrender.
• 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.
• May 12 » World War II: Second Battle of Kharkov: In eastern Ukraine, Red Army forces under Marshal Semyon Timoshenko launch a major offensive from the Izium bridgehead, only to be encircled and destroyed by the troops of Army Group South two weeks later.
• May 12 » World War II: The U.S. tanker SS Virginia is torpedoed in the mouth of the Mississippi River by the German submarineU-507.
• October 29 » The Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews.

The temperature on May 16, 1942 was between 7.9 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.